Detecting and preventing insider threats
Business leaders have for many years been focused on outside threats, but recent revelations about high-profile insiders have...
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Proactive fraud risk assessment is lacking, recent survey finds
Many companies are not well positioned to prevent corporate fraud, nor conduct investigations, creating a significant potential...
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Do tax inversions contradict firms' commitment to CSR?
Johnson Controls’ recent news of plans to merge with Tyco International puts the automotive batteries and internal systems...
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Periscopes up for potential fraud
If it wasn’t already clear how deadly serious the SEC is about increasing its enforcement actions, the $700,000 award to an...
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A new angle on crisis management
It’s an unfortunate sign of the times that a new year often brings more trepidation about an unknown future than excitement about...
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Europe's new data protection monkey wrench
US firms knew in October that doing business in Europe was going to get tougher when the European Court of Justice (ECJ)...
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Seven key issues for chief risk officers to address in 2016
Last week KPMG outlined seven risk management issues that chief risk officers (CRO) need to focus on in 2016. The issues represent...
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Improving communication with proxy advisers
As companies prepare for the upcoming proxy season, there is little that triggers anxiety like anticipation of the voting...
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Expanding the ranks of governance ambassadors
Despite the passage of time between the Victorian era and our own, Charles Dickens’ cautionary tale, A Christmas Carol, continues...
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Billy Wilder's governance lesson
One of my favorite films, which I try to watch every December, is a comedy-drama directed by Billy Wilder called The Apartment. It...
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