We cannot avoid risk. Nor should we want to. It is a part of our daily lives. Without it, there is no reward. But what we can do is learn to understand it, manage it, benefit from it and prepare ourselves better for the inevitable, unexpected risks that come our way. Let’s explore the concept …
How can companies keep outperforming their peers and competitors time after time? What makes a company perform to the very best of its potential? And what is the right mix of short-term and long-term management? Joe Forehand takes a look at the characteristics that make – and keep – companies great What makes a company …
I’m Kirk Hanson executive director of the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics at Santa Clara University. This is one of a series of short videos on the core ideas of ethics and business ethics. This is on what is ethics and what really is business ethics. First of all, ethics in general is the study …
While it was not a formal theme of the Conference, one of the key things that almost every speaker I heard at the SCCE Conference emphasized was that the compliance practitioner had to get out of the office and into the field. Online training is certainly a useful tool for large multi-national organizations but nothing …
One of my favorite lawyer songs is the Warren Zevon classic “Lawyers, Guns and Money”. I was reminded of that song when I sat on a panel on Wednesday with Dan Chapman and Mike Volkov, where we discussed recent enforcement actions and due diligence under the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA). Dan is the Chief …
Business ethics is a subject which has been with us for a long time, with the 18th century economist Adam Smith noting the dangers of business people getting together and hatching plans to raise prices or otherwise cause damage to the end consumer. Both good and bad business ethics examples can be easily found be …
Companies that fall under the umbrella of the FDA need to consider compliance and how their marketing and social media messages adhere to any new regulations. With the explosion of social media platforms, some questions that may come up include, how can companies follow the regulations using real time communications or tools with space limitations …