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The Ideal Compliance Team
3.13.2012
I have previously written about The School for Ethics and Global Leadership (SEGL) in Washington, DC, a high school semester boarding program that I co-founded in 2009 whose mission is to prepare our country’s future leaders to be ethically strong and internationally aware. I recently attended one of the school’s signature classroom lessons. The topic […]
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“Bad Press is the Worst Sanction”
3.09.2012
In Latin America, a company’s reputation matters. At least that is what a recent survey concluded after gauging factors that motivate businesses to counter corruption. The survey, conducted by Germany’s Humboldt-Viadrina School of Governance, reached out to business people, government officials, and civil society workers throughout the world to assess how incentives and sanctions affect […]
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A Five-Part Answer to the Question “Isn’t the FCPA Bad for U.S. Business?”
1.31.2012
This weekend I attended a bachelor party near Yuma, Arizona. We canoed 40 miles down the Colorado River, the section of the river south of the Grand Canyon that separates California from Arizona. The group consisted of several young guys working in a variety of industries. One was back from two tours in Iraq. We […]
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Three Lessons from Jack Abramoff for FCPA Counsel
12.29.2011
Jack Abramoff was convicted in 2006 of fraud, tax evasion, and conspiracy to bribe public officials and served three and a half years in prison. He is the lobbyist notoriously known as the face of corruption in Washington, DC. Now released from prison, he was recently interviewed by Harvard’s Edmond Safra Center for Ethics (watch the […]
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No “Tone From the Top”? What’s Compliance to Do?
11.17.2011
The job of a general counsel or anti-corruption compliance officer in managing a company’s compliance efforts is hard enough. It gets even harder when he or she lacks the “tone from the top” support from senior management. In these situations, what is an officer to do? What lessons on ethical leadership can he or she […]