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Professors Guido Palazzo and Ulrich Hoffrage are skeptical. When they hear that there was a bad apple at the core of a scandal, they are hesitant to accept that explanation. Instead, they argue in this podcast and in their...more
This season, they take a deep dive into their favorite episodes of Deep Space 9. In this exploration, Tom and Megan are joined by Star Trek maven Alex Murphy (Murphy) from Montreal, a local historian, and a cinema and TV fan...more
Raytheon’s criminal conduct cut across a variety of topics — it is difficult to imagine but Raytheon’s misconduct occurred in separate parts of the company, involving violations of different laws. Like most cases, I always...more
Boeing is not the first company to find itself amid a massive scandal. You can think of Siemens’ bribery and corruption scandal, the VW emissions-testing scandal, the Wells Fargo fraudulent accounts scandal, or any other...more
The 2022 Monaco Memo emphasized the basic point that the key to every company is culture. The bottom line is that corporate culture matters and corporate culture that fails to hold individuals accountable, or fails to invest...more
I recently had the opportunity to sit down with Adam Balfour, author of Ethics and Compliance for Humans. We had a great conversation about his book and the importance of ethics, compliance, and leadership in organizations....more
In-person is back! Join us in Amsterdam for the 2023 European Compliance & Ethics Institute! Strengthen your compliance and ethics program by attending our 11th annual European Compliance and Ethics Institute, 20-22 March...more
It is perhaps fitting that we are coming up on the one-year anniversary of the Business Roundtable’s Restatement of Corporate Purposes, which was signed by 181 corporate leaders and widely-praised for its expansion of...more
Companies do not operate in a vacuum. Political and social forces have a dramatic impact on individuals who in turn constitute a company’s workforce. ...more
Was Unternehmen aus einem der größten Baseball-Skandale lernen können - Selten hatte die juristische Aufarbeitung sportlicher Verfehlungen einen so großen Nachhall wie zuletzt beim „Sign Stealing“ in der Major League...more
This spring, two major sports teams were caught cheating. Both are consistent championship contenders in recent years. In the United States, hardly any sports fan could have missed the report released by Major League...more
We all know that economic incentives are critical to promoting performance. Going back to the days of Adam Smith, the U.S. economic growth is the result of a basic motivation – hard work can result in significant...more
Chief compliance officers are heroes. They labor every day to advance a company’s ethics and compliance program without much recognition, with few resources, and with well-known gaps in their programs....more
Businesses have to evolve in order to respond to the market, consumer demands, societal pressures and stakeholder expectations. Companies grow and pivot in two ways – organically or through acquisition or sales of parts....more
The Houston Astros sign-stealing scandal is only going to get worse and worse. In addition to the report by Wall Street Journal (WSJ) of the “Dark Arts” program by the Astros front office to steal signs in a program called...more
The Houston Astros sign-stealing scandal filled out quite a bit last week with two significant new items. The first was an interview on the MLB Network by Tom Verducci, of disgraced Astros manager A.J. Hinch (Hinch...more
Today, I conclude the topic of judgment for compliance professionals. I recently read a Harvard Business Review (HBR) article on the topic by Sir Andrew Likierman, entitled “The Elements of Good Judgment: How to Improve Your...more
Breaking the rules is breaking the rules no matter where it occurs. And for those of us in compliance there is much to learn from scandals of all sorts. Chris Rose, the co-host of Intentional Talk on the MLB Network and...more
I am nearing the end of a multi-part exploration of the Major League Baseball (MLB) investigation into allegations that the Houston Astros engaged in a multi-year scheme to steal signs and signals from opposing teams. ...more
Today, I wanted to consider some of the ethical issues involved, why do we have ethics, more specifically, why do we have ethics in sports. At its most basic, ethics is knowing right from wrong. There is no question the...more
I am in the midst of a multipart exploration of the Major League Baseball (MLB) investigation into allegations that the Houston Astros engaged in a multi-year scheme to steal signs and signals from opposing teams. MLB issued...more
As a Chief Compliance Officer (CCO) one of the most powerful tools you have is persuasion. Jenny O’Brien, CCO at UnitedHealthcare, has talked about the techniques that a CCO can use to influence decision making in a company...more
We all know the phrase – “A fish rots from its head.” A perfectly accurate statement as to how corporate culture can suffer from leadership failures or C-Suite misconduct. But there is much more to corporate culture than...more
Many compliance professionals in the corporate world work long and it is hard to rise to the senior management level in their organizations. It takes SME, hard work and sometime propitious good fortune to get to the C-Suite...more
Company managers are the lynchpin of a corporate compliance program. Without belaboring the Tinkers to Evers to Chance baseball analogy, a corporate culture of compliance requires an important information and accountability...more