Month: May 2014

Global Anti-Corruption Center Launched to Support Practitioners Understanding of Leading Practices and Corporate Risk Management

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Online resource center will offer global practitioners, government executives, NGOs and thought leaders access to updated content, tools and resources and a forum for enhancing anti-corruption, bribery and fraud programs.

New York, NY – May 20, 2014 – The Ethisphere® Institute, an independent center for research, best practices and thought leadership in corporate ethics and anti-corruption, and designator of the World’s Most Ethical Companies®, announced today the launch of the Global Anti-Corruption Center, an online resource center that contains sourced and original content from industry thought leaders and subject matter experts.

Content included on the Global Anti-Corruption Center will include Best Practices, Data & Trends, News & Alerts and Laws & Regulations. The center will also feature an Anti-Corruption Program of the Month and risk management tools including guides, infographics and more.

“Corruption impacts the global economy in profound ways. I am delighted that Ethisphere has pulled together leading experts and resources in this critically important area,” said Michael Hershman, Co-Founder, Transparency International and President & CEO, The Fairfax Group.

“The Global Anti-Corruption Center will focus on the most current matters companies are facing related to anti-bribery and corruption,” said Martin Biegelman, EVP, U.S. Operations and Practice Chair, Litigation Support for IPSA International, Inc. (IPSA), an international investigative and risk advisory firm. “We are excited to contribute to the conversation.”

“Corporations today understand the importance of taking proactive steps to mitigate the legal, financial and reputational risks posed by bribery and corruption,” said Pamela Passman, Chief Executive Officer for The Center for Responsible Enterprise and Trade (CREATe.org), a non-profit organization dedicated to helping companies and their suppliers and business partners reduce corruption and IP theft. “The Global Anti-Corruption Center offers companies relevant expertise, best practices and guidance that can be tremendously beneficial for putting anti-corruption programs in place.

About Ethisphere
The Ethisphere® Institute is an independent center of research, best practices and thought leadership that promotes best practices in corporate ethics and compliance and enables organizations to improve governance, mitigate risk, and enhance relationships with employees, business partners, investors and the broad regulatory community. Ethisphere evaluates and benchmarks compliance and governance programs, honors superior achievement through its World’s Most Ethical Companies® recognition program, and publishes Ethisphere Magazine. Ethisphere is also the leading provider of independent verification of corporate ethics and compliance programs that include: Ethics Inside® Certification, Compliance Leader Verification™ and Anti-Corruption Program Verification™.

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Media Contacts

Clea Nabozny
Ethisphere
[email protected]
480.397.2658

Ethisphere Confirms Speakers from 3M, Cementos Progreso, Dell, Google, PepsiCo and More for the 2014 Latin America Ethics Summit

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Second annual event, titled “Global Issues, Local Perspectives”, will take place in São Paulo on July 16th and 17th.

New York, NY – May 14, 2014 – Ethisphere, an independent center for research, best practices and thought leadership in corporate ethics and compliance and designator of the World’s Most Ethical Companies, announced today key confirmed speakers for the second annual Latin America Ethics Summit.

Speakers will present on the topics of leadership, anti-corruption, ethics and governance programs, compliance, data privacy and intellectual property, reputation management and more, and include:

  • Camila von Acken, Regional Compliance Counsel, Latin America, Google
  • Luis Canuto, Global Ethics Investigations Co-Leader, Latin America Ethics Compliance Director, Dell
  • Kathryn Ditmars, Global Litigation Director, Jones Lang LaSalle
  • Wager Giovanini, Compliance Director, Siemens
  • José Raúl González, CEO, Cementos Progreso
  • Renata Moreti, Director of Compliance, LATAM, Carlson Wagonlit Travel
  • Daniel Sibille, Latin America Compliance Counsel, Oracle
  • Jorge Ureña, Compliance & Ethics Officer, Latin America, PepsiCo
  • Gary Zaugg, Senior Counsel, Compliance & Business Conduct, Latin America, 3M

“We are excited to build on the momentum from the 2014 Global Ethics Summit and bring together expert panelists to present on global hot topic issues,” said Ethisphere’s Editor in Chief, Stefan Linssen. “The ethics and governance landscape is becoming more complex and many practitioners are looking to us to facilitate the discussions and opportunities to learn from their peers.”

Delegates can expect an update on implications of Brazil’s Clean Company Act, insight into tailoring ethics programs for Latin America and networking opportunities with leading practitioners.

“We are impressed with members of the Business Ethics Leadership Alliance like PepsiCo and Jones Lang LaSalle who see tremendous value in bringing practitioners together to drive these conversations,” said Ethisphere’s General Counsel and SVP of Thought Leadership, Michael Byrne. “We continue to receive interest from them on ways to get involved and further enhance the ethics and governance community.”

Members of the Business Ethics Leadership Alliance (BELA) receive a complimentary delegate pass for a member of their local executive, ethics or governance teams complimentary. To learn more about the Business Ethics Leadership Alliance (BELA), visit: https://ethisphere.com/bela/.

To Learn More and Register

See the full agenda and get the latest updates on new speakers and sponsors by visiting: http://latinamericaethicssummit.com.

About Ethisphere
The Ethisphere® Institute is an independent center of research, best practices and thought leadership that promotes best practices in corporate ethics and compliance and enables organizations to improve governance, mitigate risk, and enhance relationships with employees, business partners, investors and the broad regulatory community.  Ethisphere evaluates and benchmarks compliance and governance programs, honors superior achievement through its World’s Most Ethical Companies® recognition program, and publishes Ethisphere Magazine. Ethisphere is also the leading provider of independent verification of corporate ethics and compliance programs that include: Ethics Inside® Certification, Compliance Leader Verification™ and Anti-Corruption Program Verification™.

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Media Contacts

Clea Nabozny
Ethisphere
[email protected]
480.397.2658

Ethisphere publishes 2014 Ethics Communications Best Practices Report

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Report captures key findings from second-annual Best Practices in Ethics Communications Workshop.

NEW YORK, NY — May 7, 2014 — Ethisphere, which annually selects the World’s Most Ethical (WME) Companies, announced today that it has released the 2014 Ethics Communications Best Practices Report.  The report is available on Ethisphere’s website at https://ethisphere.com/worlds-most-ethical/2013-best-practices-in-ethics-communications-workshop.

The 2014 Ethics Communications Best Practices Report highlights strategies and tactics for leveraging ethics and integrity as differentiating brand attributes, citing key takeaways from the second-annual Best Practices in Ethics Communications Workshop, which was held at the New York Stock Exchange on October 24.

Both the report and the workshop were produced by Ethisphere’s Communications Advisory Board, which is comprised of recognized leaders in corporate communications.

According to Tim Erblich, chief executive officer of Ethisphere, the 2014 report captures new and impactful insights from the global business community.  “This publication builds on the thought leadership conveyed in our first report by emphasizing the important need for organizations to work across the C-suite to create an ethical business culture.”

The report features insights and perspectives from several recognized leaders in communications, academia, and legal and compliance, including Paul Argenti, professor of Corporate Communication and Corporate Responsibility, The Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth; Roger Bolton, president of the Arthur W. Page Society, the leading global professional association for senior public relations and corporate communications executives; Gary Sheffer, vice president of corporate communications and public affairs at General Electric and chairman of the Arthur W. Page Society; and Dr. Edward Queen, director of the Ethics and Servant Leadership Program, The Center for Ethics, Emory University.

“We are excited to build on the momentum and energy coming out of our second-annual Best Practices in Ethics Communications Workshop by publishing the expert perspectives and successful strategies that were shared at the New York Stock Exchange in October,” said Paul Gennaro, AECOM’s senior vice president and chief communications officer, who also chairs the Communications Advisory Board.

Best practices that enabled companies to attain WME recognition are included in the report, with highlights from Becton, Dickinson and Company; Cleveland Clinic; and Wipro Limited.  The report also captures data from public relations firms Edelman and Hill+Knowlton Strategies, including examples of how companies have used ethics to positively position the business community with external stakeholder audiences.

Additional workshop takeaways cited in the report come from experts such as Jean-Marc Levy, senior vice president, head of global issuer services, NYSE Euronext; Vic Beck, rear admiral, U.S. Navy (retired), managing director at Burson-Marsteller and former vice chief of information for the Department of the Navy; Holly Gregory, partner, Sidley Austin LLP; and Dana Perino, former White House press secretary, president of Dana Perino Communications and a co-host of The Five on Fox News.

In addition to Argenti, Bolton and Sheffer, Ethisphere’s Communications Advisory Board includes the following corporate communications executives from companies that have earned WME recognition: Barry Caldwell, senior vice president of Public Affairs and Communications for Waste Management, Inc.; Ray Day, group vice president of communications for Ford Motor Company; Paul Gennaro, senior vice president and chief communications officer for AECOM Technology Corp.; Laura Kane, vice president of Corporate Communications for Aflac, Inc.; Eileen Sheil, executive director of corporate communications for the Cleveland Clinic; and Dawn Werry, vice president of marketing for Milliken & Company.  Ben Boyd, global chair of the Corporate Practice for Edelman, the world’s largest public relations firm, is also a member of the Communications Advisory Board.

About Ethisphere

The Ethisphere® Institute is an independent center of research, best practices and thought leadership that promotes best practices in corporate ethics and compliance and enables organizations to improve governance, mitigate risk, and enhance relationships with employees, business partners, investors and the broad regulatory community.  Ethisphere evaluates and benchmarks compliance and governance programs, honors superior achievement through its World’s Most Ethical Companies’™ recognition program, and publishes Ethisphere Magazine. Ethisphere is also the leading provider of independent verification of corporate ethics and compliance programs that include: Ethics Inside® Certification, Compliance Leader Verification™ and Anti-Corruption Program Verification™.

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Clea Nabozny

Director of Marketing

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Ethisphere CEO and Jones Lang LaSalle ’s EVP, Chief Legal Officer to Discuss Ethics, Measurement and the Supply Chain

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On Tuesday, May 6, 2014 Ethisphere’s Chief Executive Officer, Tim Erblich, and Jones Lang LaSalle’s (JLL) Chief Legal Officer will present a case study on JLL and share leading insights and best practices in managing a global supply chain while ensuring that compliance and ethics-based issues are aligned at ISM2014 in Las Vegas.  Jones Lang LaSalle, one of the world’s largest commercial real estate services and investment management companies with 48,00 people across 1,000 locations in 70 countries brings unrivaled perspective when dealing with local, regional and global needs.  Ethisphere, a leading center of research, best practices and thought leadership, offers a unique evaluation and benchmarking process to assess supply chain management and third party risk.  This session will offer practical guidance on issues of increasing importance to the C-suite and leading professionals set on achieving supply chain improvements.

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Institute for Supply Management and Ethisphere Join Forces to Launch the Supplier Risk Index

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Index will allow companies to measure beyond first tier suppliers and determine practices in risk, ethics and sustainability.

Las Vegas, NV – May 5, 2014 – Ethisphere, an independent center for research, best practices and thought leadership in corporate ethics and compliance, and the Institute for Supply Management® (ISM®), a professional association for procurement and supply chain management practitioners and their organizations worldwide, have partnered to develop the Supplier Risk Index, an online resource for organizations to survey the practices among their suppliers and their supplier’s suppliers.

“The Supplier Risk Index will enable companies, and specifically our membership organizations, to be more proactive in their approach to supplier due diligence,” said ISM Services President, Bill Michels, CPSM, C.P.M., MCIPS. “ISM Services will be able to equip companies with a comprehensive survey of risk, ethics, and sustainability indices, providing unprecedented insight into their supply chains and enable companies to determine a risk profile that can better align supply chain practices with key business strategies.”

Capable of surveying an organization’s entire supply chain, the Supplier Risk Index identifies risks and grades organizations based on self-reported practices to help companies mitigate key risks and protect their reputations in a cost-effective and measurable way. The data gathered is comparable by the host organization and can be a useful tool for suppliers when shared during new business opportunities.

“As the global market continues to expand, organizations are increasingly putting their reputations in the hands of their suppliers,” said Ethisphere CEO, Timothy Erblich. “As a recognized thought leader in the space with 100 years of experience and insight, ISM is the ideal partner to develop a resource to further support supply chain practitioners in aligning their suppliers with their business practices.”

“Shire Pharmaceuticals is committed to best practices in supply chain and adding further clarity around the practices of our suppliers below the first tier,” said Shire Pharmaceuticals’ VP Global Procurement, Bill Dempsey. “We applaud an initiative like the Supplier Risk Index.”

“As a global leader in real estate services operating in more than 75 countries, we engage thousands of vendors around the globe on behalf of our clients, who count on us to take a leadership role analyzing our partner and supplier relationships,” said Jones Lang LaSalle’s Global General Counsel, Mark Ohringer. “We are proud to be an early adopter of the Supplier Risk Index, which we believe is reducing enterprise risk and differentiating us from our competition.”

To learn more about the Supplier Risk Index, visit: http://www.ism.ws/education/SupplierRiskIndex.cfm.

Demo and Webcast
The Supplier Risk Index will be available to demo at the ISM2014 conference in Las Vegas on May 5 and 6.

We invite you to join us on Wednesday, May 28 at 1:00 p.m. ET for a demo: “Managing Ethics, Sustainability and Risk in the Supply Chain”. ISM and Ethisphere will review the online tool and present the business case for host and supplier organizations. Learn more or register here: https://cc.readytalk.com/r/uq0irvpo20cl&eom.

Supply Chain Issue of “Ethisphere Magazine”
ISM CEO, Tom Derry will be the Guest Editor of the Q3 edition of Ethisphere Magazine focused on Supply Chain Issues due out in September.

About ISM
Institute for Supply Management® (ISM®) is the first supply management institute in the world. Founded in 1915, ISM’s mission is to enhance the value and performance of procurement and supply chain management practitioners and their organizations worldwide. By executing and extending its mission through education, research, standards of excellence and information dissemination — including the renowned monthly ISM Report On Business® — ISM maintains a strong global influence among individuals and organizations. ISM is a not-for-profit educational association that serves professionals with an interest in supply management who live and work in more than 90 countries. ISM offers the Certified Professional in Supply Management® (CPSM®) and Certified Professional in Supplier Diversity® (CPSD®) qualifications.

About Ethisphere
The Ethisphere® Institute is an independent center of research, best practices and thought leadership that promotes best practices in corporate ethics and compliance and enables organizations to improve governance, mitigate risk, and enhance relationships with employees, business partners, investors and the broad regulatory community.  Ethisphere evaluates and benchmarks compliance and governance programs, honors superior achievement through its World’s Most Ethical Companies’™ recognition program, and publishes Ethisphere Magazine. Ethisphere is also the leading provider of independent verification of corporate ethics and compliance programs that include: Ethics Inside® Certification, Compliance Leader Verification™ and Anti-Corruption Program Verification™.

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Linda Michels
Vice President, Research and Analysis
Institute for Supply Management®
480.752.6276, extension 3048
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Clea Nabozny
Ethisphere
[email protected]
480.397.2658