Effective C&E Programs: The Justice Department Speaks
[This essay was originally posted on the Conflict of Interest Blog]Last week, together with David Wilkins of SNC-Lavalin, I chaired the Practising Law Institute’s Advanced Compliance & Ethics...
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[This essay was originally posted on the Conflict of Interest Blog]Many years ago a client who was in the compliance department of a pharma company told me his strategy for conducting risk assessments....
View ArticleIs Wall Street a bad ethical neighborhood?
[This essay was originally posted on the Conflict of Interest Blog]For many years I taught ethics in the executive MBA program of a New York area business school. Because of the school’s location, the...
View ArticleConflicts of interest, corruption and fraud: what are the connections?
[This essay was originally posted on the Conflict of Interest Blog]Whether one is drafting a code of conduct or other C&E policy documents, developing training, designing audit protocols,...
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Point-of-Risk Compliance
This piece is cross posted from ES collaborator Jeffrey Kaplan's "Conflicts of Interest" blog with permission.Marketers have long known that “point-of-sale” display of products can be a powerful...
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Is Political Ideology a Compliance and Ethics Risk?
Cross posted with permission from ES Collaborator Jeffrey Kaplan'sConflict of Interest blogIn a post last week on the Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance and Financial Regulation, Danling...
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Featured Collaborator for April: Jeffrey Kaplan
Interview with Jeffrey Kaplan, partner in the Kaplan & Walker LLP law firm in Princeton, New Jersey What are your main areas of research /writing? I am principally a practitioner - in the...
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Socialism and Conflicts of Interest
There was a time in my life when I might have embraced the cause of socialism, but that was many years ago, and today I proudly march under the banner of centrism. And the current flirtation with...
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Being a Parent as a Source of Ethics Risk
In 1973, in speaking to colleagues on the Cook County Democratic Committee, Mayor Richard Daley of Chicago defended his having directed a million dollars of insurance business to an agency on behalf of...
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Understanding Behavioral Ethics Can Strengthen Your Compliance Program
Behavioral ethics is a well known field of social science which shows—due to various cognitive biases—“how we are not as ethical as we think.” Practitioners of behavioral compliance and ethics...
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