My focus on ethical management reminds me that I still own a box full of business cards with my name from a company that no longer exists.
My first job out of college was with Arthur Andersen. At the time, it was a single organization and I worked in a division that became Andersen Consulting, and [...]

Thomas Werlen – General Counsel, Novartis
Thoughts And Ideas From The Front Lines
CEOs may set the tone from the top, but they need a capable supporting cast to tend to the day-to-day implementation of the company’s compliance and ethics programs. What are these leaders on the front lines talking about and doing these days?
E: What best [...]

Earl Devaney, who was appointed Chairman of the Recovery Act Transparency and Accountability Board by President Obama, speaks on transparency, accountability, Recovery.gov 2.0 and the future of Citizen Inspectors General
E: How did you become involved in the Recovery Act Transparency and Accountability Board?
ED: I’ve written a lot of scathing reports, and each of those, [...]

Ethisphere recently caught up with Ben W. Heineman, Jr., former General Counsel for General Electric, currently senior counsel at Wilmerhale Law and author of the recent book, High Performance with High Integrity, to discuss his background and experience as General Counsel for one of the largest corporations in the world.
E: Your most recent book, High [...]

CEOs may set the ethical tone from the top, but they need a capable supporting cast to tend to the day-to-day implementation of the company’s compliance and ethics programs. What are these leaders on the front lines talking about and doing these days?
01 // WHAT IS YOUR OVERALL ROLE IN SEMPRA’S ETHICS AND COMPLIANCE PROGRAM?
Values [...]

// By Anne M. Simmons
The financial crisis has created significant chaos in the markets, the workplace, and in the personal lives of millions of people worldwide. This is a time of enormous stress. The long-standing, familiar rules of the game no longer seem to apply. As a result, equities are plunging and [...]

Alex Dimitrief - Vice President and Senior Counsel, Litigation and Legal Policy – General Electric

// By Dorn C. McGrath and Sean M. Connoly
The FAR Requirements for Government Contractors
For many years, the U.S. policy has been that defense contractors “should” have a written code of ethics. Effective December 24, 2007, the government-wide Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) implemented a new requirement. Now, all government contractors “shall” have a written code of [...]

CEOs may set the ethical tone from the top, but they need a capable supporting cast to tend to the day-to-day implementation of the company’s compliance and ethics programs. What are these leaders on the front lines talking about and doing these days?
01 // TELL US WHAT YOUR GROUP IS FOCUSED ON THESE DAYS.
Freescale began [...]

CEOs may set the ethical tone from the top, but they need a capable supporting cast to tend to the day-to-day implementation of the company’s compliance and ethics programs. What are these leaders on the front lines talking about and doing these days?
01 // TELL US WHAT YOUR GROUP IS FOCUSED ON THESE DAYS.
We are [...]

CEOs may set the ethical tone from the top, but they need a capable supporting cast to tend to the day-to-day implementation of the company’s compliance and ethics programs. What are these leaders on the front lines talking about and doing these days?
01 // TELL US WHAT YOUR GROUP IS FOCUSED ON THESE DAYS.
Our focus [...]

CEOs may set the ethical tone from the top, but they need a capable supporting cast to tend to the day-to-day implementation of the company’s compliance and ethics programs. What are these leaders on the front lines talking about and doing these days?
01 // TELL US WHAT YOUR GROUP IS FOCUSED ON THESE DAYS.
We focus [...]

CEOs may set the ethical tone from the top, but they need a capable supporting cast to tend to the day-to-day implementation of the company’s compliance and ethics programs. What are these leaders on the front lines talking about and doing these days?
01 // TELL US WHAT YOUR GROUP IS FOCUSED ON THESE DAYS.
We are [...]

CEOs may set the ethical tone from the top, but they need a capable supporting cast to tend to the day-to-day implementation of the company’s compliance and ethics programs. What are these leaders on the front lines talking about and doing these days?

01 // TELL US WHAT YOUR GROUP IS FOCUSED ON THESE DAYS.
Globalization of [...]

// By David H. Laufman
Introduction
The government’s aggressive enforcement approach to government contracting fraud is now reaching directly into the internal policies and operations of contracting companies. Earlier this month, the Civilian Agency Acquisition Council and the Defense Acquisition Regulations Council issued a proposed rule to amend the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) to establish new ethics [...]

//By Ira A. Jackson. Mr. Jackson is the Dean of the Peter F. Drucker and Masatoshi Ito Graduate School of Management at Claremont Graduate University. The Drucker School was recently named one of the top ten business schools in the United States by The Princeton Review.
Peter Drucker said “the best way to predict the future [...]

Integrated Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) & Crisis Risk Analysis (CRA)
//by Rachel Zedeck
Introduction
Corporate social responsibility (CSR) promotes the vision of a commercial organization’s business accountability to a wide range of stakeholders, in addition to shareholders and investors. The original drivers behind CSR initiatives focused on environmental protection and the well-being of employees. Concern for domestic communities [...]

Dave Heller – Chief Compliance Officer & Vice President Risk Management – Qwest

Dan Swanson – President and CEO – Dan Swanson and Associates

Mark Snyderman – Chief Ethics and Compliance Office – Coca-Cola

Rick Chapman – Senior Counsel – Halliburton Law Department

Dan Swanson – President and CEO – Dan Swanson and Associates