Compliance Communications Blog

 

Conflicts of Interest Disclosure

10/21/19: Jeff Kaplan’s Conflicts of Interest Blog routinely provides short, well thought out articles that provide access to longer, in-depth pieces that tackle the subjects of each of his articles.  In a post published on October 16 under the headline “More on Conflicts of Interest Disclosure,” Kaplan reminds readers that “Culture Trumps Compliance.”  

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Behavioral Ethics Training for Managers

4/8/19: A post on the Conflict of Interest Blog entitled “Behavioral Ethics Training for Managers” references an article published in the Harvard Business Review about “… everyday unethical behavior.”  According to the referenced article, “Numerous studies have documented the prevalence of practices such as stealing office supplies, inflating business expenditures reports, and engaging in behaviors that raise conflicts of interest.

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Government Contracts and OCI

2/25/19:  Organizational conflict of interest (OCI) became a company challenged the adequacy of a Department of Education investigation into a competitor’s possible conflict of interest. OCI is a serious issue for government agencies in awarding contracts... 

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What is an Inherent Anti-Conflict of Interest?

1/31/19:  In a recent post, Kaplan references a column in Wired UK by Dan Ariely, a respected behavior ethicist, who describes an approach he developed to tackle inherent conflicts of interest. In the column, Ariely compares the inherent conflicts of interest in a traditional insurance company with “anti-conflict of interest” in an alternative model. 

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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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