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"Harassment, Cyberbullying and Corporate Risk"


10/7/15: Imagine a world without smartphones, social media or texts. Good luck. For anyone who still thinks those technologies haven’t bled from the personal lives of employees into the workplace, think again. These days, what employees say on social media is one more legal and compliance risk for employers. An article...

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"FCPA and Pandora's Box"


10/7/15: Not so long ago, FCPA compliance focused on a global company’s sales policies and practices involving foreign government officials. These days, FCPA compliance is far more complicated and far-reaching, extending into virtually all operational functions of an organization. PwC has developed a series of short videos...

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"Welcome to Our Company...Maybe"


10/7/15: Hiring personnel is an HR responsibility but, as with so many other business functions, it can easily become an FCPA risk for the company. Recent actions by the SEC against financial institutions for their hiring practices should heighten every company’s awareness of the potential risks involved in hiring foreign...

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"Taking Conflict of Interest Knowledge to the Board"

 

9/15/15: An article by Jeffrey Kaplan and Rebecca Walker takes on the idea that instruction on conflicts of interest issues primarily moves from the compliance office to the troops. In the article, they make an unassailable case that “Board members have a particular need to understand...

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"Self-Cleaning" Corruption

 

9/15/15: If you commit a crime once, is it inevitable that you’ll continue with the same behavior? In the world of public procurement in the European Union, the answer has been “yes” and the solution has been to ban a company guilty of bribery and corruption from participation in any public contract...

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