Ethisphere to recognize exceptional ethical leadership at the Global Ethics Summit and World’s Most Ethical Companies Honoree Dinner in New York NEW YORK, NY – February 6, 2012 –The Ethisphere Institute, a leading international think-tank dedicated to the creation, advancement and sharing of best practices in business ethics, corporate social responsibility, anti-corruption and sustainability, announced [...]

Online database makes it simple to review and compare corporate conduct rules. Download the article by clicking the thumb below. Reproduced with permission from InsideCounsel magazine (February 2012) www.insidecounsel.com

2011 Winners Recognized for Significantly Affecting, Furthering and Elevating Business Ethics Dialogue  NEW YORK, NY – January 19, 2012 – The Ethisphere Institute, a leading international think-tank dedicated to the creation, advancement and sharing of best practices in business ethics, corporate social responsibility, anti-corruption and sustainability, today unveiled the “100 Most Influential People in Business [...]

Reproduced with permission from Prevention of Corporate Liability: Current Report, 19 Prev. Corp. Liability 144 (Dec. 19, 2011). Copyright 2011 by The Bureau of National Affairs, Inc. (800-372-1033) <http://www.bna.com>. A Texas attorney has gathered 489 publicly available corporate codes of conduct, and they are now searchable through the website of the Ethisphere Institute, a compliance and [...]

Looking for a sample code of conduct? Or want to see how provisions of your code of conduct stack up against your peer companies? Check out the Ethisphere Institute’s new Code of Conduct Dataset (free registration required):

Recent studies show that up to 75 percent of the value of an organization is based upon its intangible assets — the most significant being ethics. St. Paul, MN, December 6, 2011 – H.B. Fuller (NYSE: FUL), a leading global adhesives provider, has earned the coveted Ethics Inside® Certification from the Ethisphere Institute, a leading [...]

A company’s code of conduct sends a strong message to employees and federal investigators, alike—whether it’s clear and instructive, full of ambiguities, or altogether void of certain policies. And when in-house counsel, typically tasked with compliance matters, have to write and update those polices, they often want to know: What’s everyone else doing? So a [...]

Say you’re an in-house lawyer developing a compliance policy on gifts and hospitality for an oil and gas company. Or maybe you’re in private practice and helping a telecommunications company implement a whistleblower hotline. Where do you turn for a benchmark? The Ethisphere Institute has got you covered. On Tuesday, the business ethics think tank [...]

New online tool provides compliance officers with complimentary, detailed information on peer practices in code of conduct content. NEW YORK – November 29, 2011 – The Ethisphere Institute, in partnership with attorneys Ryan D. McConnell, Katharine Southard and Charlotte Simon, is pleased to announce the launch of its new Code of Conduct Dataset, a searchable, [...]

Recent studies show that up to 75 percent of the value of an organization is based upon its intangible assets — the most significant being ethics. Irving, TX November 8, 2011 – Novation has earned the coveted Ethics Inside® Certification from the Ethisphere Institute, a leading international

Compliance Leader Verification recognizes companies with outstanding ethics and compliance programs and training Northbrook, IL November 1, 2011 – The Allstate Corporation (NYSE: ALL) earned the coveted Compliance Leader Verification™ from the Ethisphere® Institute, a leading international think-tank dedicated to the research and promotion of best practices in corporate ethics and compliance. Ethisphere, the provider [...]

Ethisphere is accepting nominations for the 2012 World’s Most Ethical Companies Designation. To nominate your organization (or another), please fill out the form below. A representative from the nominated company will

Washington, D.C., Sept. 14, 2011 – CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield (CareFirst) has earned Compliance Leader Verification™ from the Ethisphere® Institute, a leading international think-tank dedicated to the research and promotion of best practices in corporate ethics and compliance.

Bill Marriott, Chairman and CEO of Marriott International, recently commented on the value of the World’s Most Ethical Companies designation on his blog, Marriott on the Move. Click here to view the blog posting. NEW YORK – The Ethisphere Institute will ring The Opening Bell℠ at the New York Stock Exchange with select NYSE-listed 2011 [...]

Sixty-four percent of companies utilizing open work plans had no visible ethical violations, according to new Ethisphere/Jones Lang LaSalle survey CHICAGO, Aug. 17, 2011 —Companies that employ open office layouts and work-from-home strategies are achieving not only increases in space utilization, employee engagement, and retention, but decreases in employee misconduct, according to a new Survey [...]

A comprehensive and continually growing collection of articles, whitepapers, events, videos, online databases and other useful tools in the global fight against corruption, launched in partnership with leading anti-corruption experts worldwide NEW YORK, July 26, 2011 – The Ethisphere Institute today announced the launch of its Anti-Corruption Resource Center, a collection of online tools and [...]

Ethisphere’s Compliance Leader™ Verification recognizes and rewards organizations with outstanding compliance programs and training NEW YORK, June 23, 2011 – Pfizer (NYSE: PFE) has earned the coveted Compliance Leader Verification from the Ethisphere Institute, a leading international think-tank dedicated to the research and promotion of best practices in corporate ethics and compliance and the only [...]

WME Recognizes Exceptional Ethical Leadership Actively Upheld within Various Industries Announcement to Coincide with Third Annual Global Ethics Summit March 15-16 in New York City NEW YORK–(February24, 2011)–The Ethisphere Institute, a leading international think-tank dedicated to the creation, advancement and sharing of best practices in business ethics, corporate social responsibility, anti-corruption and sustainability, announced the [...]

Juniper Networks today announced that it has earned the Ethics Inside Certification from the Ethisphere Institute, a leading international think-tank dedicated to the research and promotion of best practices in corporate ethics and compliance. “Trust is the reason why customers want to do business with us, investors hold our shares and employees choose to work [...]

L&T Group of Companies, the largest employer of manufacturers in Saipan, will pay $1.7 million as part of a series of discrimination suits brought by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC). The discrimination was both blatant and

Paul Revere Transportation, LLC, a Boston-based bus company agreed to pay $650,000 in fines after the company was found liable of leaving its vehicles idle for long periods of time. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency brought charges against the company in June for violating the federal Clean Air Act and local Massachusetts laws against idling [...]

President Obama today signed into law the Fraud Enforcement and Recovery Act of 2009 (FERA), a bill that extensively ramps up anti-fraud measures, including authorizing new funding to fight fraud, adding protections to federal whistle-blowers and expanding the power of

The Veterans Affairs Department agreed to a $20 million settlement yesterday, after concerns of identity theft arose from a 2006 case of a lost laptop and external hard drive. A VA analyst admitted to losing the laptop, which contained the names, birth dates and social security numbers of over 26 million veterans and

A federal appellate court ruled today that Taco Bell, and not its ad agency TBWA, is responsible for the $42 million payment to the original creators of the now famous Taco Bell Chihuahua mascot.

Earlier this month, Governor Bill Richardson decided to withdraw his nomination for commerce secretary in order to, in his explanation, avoid making a spectacle out of the confirmation process. The unnecessary distraction, he feared, would come about