The following list of 100 individuals represents those that had significant impact in the realm of business ethics over the course of the year. Although many listed here are deserving of a lifetime achievement award, this list recognizes those that have made a significant impact specifically during 2010. These individuals represent eight distinct categories; Government [...]

Second City Communications, the corporate services division of the comedy theater company The Second City, recently announced the launch of a new compliance and ethics training and communication tool called RealBiz Shorts. The following is an excerpt of an interview between Ethisphere and Tom Yorton, President at Second City Communications. Second City is widely known [...]

Written by Max Bazerman and Ann Tenbrunsel How would you rate your ethics in comparison to your peers? Rate yourself relative to the other readers on a scale of 0 to 100. If you believe you are the most ethical reader out there, give yourself a score of 100. If you are the least ethical, [...]

Written by Gregory Unruh and Fernanda Arreola The Arab Republic of Egypt is thought of by many executives as an exotic business destination. It is a country built on literally thousands of years of recorded history, with the most famed period belonging to the Pharaonic Dynasties of the Nile River valley that produced the monumental [...]

How to Protect Your Company’s Data in an Increasingly Online World Written by Victor Vital, Robert Failla and Chuki Obiyo Unexpected volatility of stock prices, reputational damage, and director and offi cer liability associated with the massive data loss underscore the need to bring information security to the top levels of the company. WikiLeaks has [...]

By Mark J. Ohringer–Executive Vice President, Global General Counsel and Corporate Secretary, Jones Lang LaSalle Incorporated Why does the government do such a bad job? Whether you are a liberal or a conservative, or for that matter a communist or a libertarian, I will bet you don’t think the government does a GREAT job of [...]

This past summer the head of the audit and investigations division of the United Nations Secretariat in New York ended her five year appointment with a scathing exit memorandum excoriating the UN Secretariat and the Secretary General, Ban Ki-moon specifically, for a lack of dedication to accountability and transparency. Two months later, at the opening [...]

By Alexandra Wrage It is possible to be too anxious about compliance. The convergence of the new UK Bribery Act, the Dodd-Frank whistleblower bounty provisions, the growing number of enforcement actions in more countries and the apparent contest for the largest fines and longest prison sentences leave the business community anxious. Understandably so. But I [...]

By Alan Brudner, Palmina Fava, and Mor Wetzler The financial crisis increased regulatory scrutiny both from an investigative and a legislative perspective. The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the Department of Justice (DOJ) are investigating financial institutions for violations of securities laws, the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA), anti-money laundering rules, and similar regulations. [...]

Can a company claim to have a best-in-class compliance program if it doesn’t offer anti-bribery training to its intermediaries, agents, consultants and business partners? In a word, no. It is now routine for companies to train employees on anti-bribery policies. However, properly training third-party intermediaries – sales agents, distributors, consultants, suppliers and the like – [...]

What trends will we see over the next few years in the field of due diligence? Among other things, a greater understanding that due diligence is not a guarantee. Anti-bribery due diligence is both tedious and treacherous. Elaborate programs have evolved to “prove the negative”. That is, no serious red flags have been uncovered and [...]

By Beth Anne Whalen Shannon Schuyler, Global Head of Corporate Responsibility for PwC, is one of the company’s top senior leaders, and launched the firm’s corporate responsibility efforts in 2007. After working in various client service, HR and marketing roles, Ms. Schuyler realized that PwC employees wanted a more formalized CR effort. She presented a [...]

By Amy Fliegelman Olli As part of a successful remediation of a Deferred Prosecution Agreement, the Company brought in a leading authority on compliance and ethics, Pat Gnazzo, to set up the original program. Pat provided the Company clear tenants to help us through to a successful remediation. When Pat retired from this role and [...]

The Bribery Act Implementation Team Ministry of Justice, 7.42 102 Petty France London SW1H 9AJ Re: Response to Consultation on Guidance about Commercial Organizations Preventing Bribery (section 9 of the Bribery Act 2010) On behalf of the Ethisphere Institute, we submit the following comments on the proposed Guidance promulgated by the Ministry of Justice (the [...]