At Best Buy—a 10-time World’s Most Ethical Companies® honoree—the Code of Ethics is a marquis piece of content within the organization’s larger ethics and compliance strategy. Bill Underwood, Best Buy’s Senior Director, Global Compliance & Ethics, plays a key role in the Code’s ongoing development and re-development, and offers his insights on how he gets Best Buy’s Code where it needs to be.
Speak-up culture is at the heart of every great culture of integrity. Which is why so many organizations put forth such robust efforts to build a strong whistleblower program. But where to begin? And how to establish the foundation on which later efforts will stand? BELA Chair Erica Salmon Byrne has the answers as she tackles the question: How do I create a whistleblower charter?
In our BELA Asks series, we address questions posed by members of the Business Ethics Leadership Alliance (BELA) about wider issues facing the ethics and compliance community. BELA members who have any questions at all about ethics and compliance can send them to us, and then our internal experts will provide an answer and/or direct them to a helpful resource for more information.
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As one of the world’s top telecom providers, Verizon inhabits some very complicated and high-stakes compliance territory. This makes risk assessments a crucial part of their larger E&C strategy. David Kass, Chief Compliance Officer at Verizon, explains how risk assessments drive a compliance strategy that hasn’t just built value and delivered internal results, it has also yielded the company both World’s Most Ethical Companies® honors as well as a 2024-2026 Compliance Leader Verification™ recognition.
Explore how Pillarstone, a KKR portfolio company, partners with Ethisphere to strengthen compliance programs for its investments in diverse industries across Europe. Ethisphere’s Craig Moss sat down with Pillarstone’s General Counsel & Chief Compliance Officer Silvio Cavallo—named to Legal Community magazine’s list of top Italian general counsels under the age of 40—to discuss:
As the Global Chief Compliance Officer for investment firm KKR, Bruce Karpati faces an interesting challenge: making sure KKR’s own practices remain best-in-class in a highly regulated industry, while simultaneously keeping the companies in which KKR invests up to snuff. Karpati spoke with Ethisphere Magazine on how innovation, and his work with Ethisphere, helps him keep up.
