This article was originally posted on LinkedIn. Please visit this page to view or comment on the original article.  Dear Colleague, It is perhaps most fitting for me to begin by saying that this letter was written by a human being. Who would have thought that the day would come that such an opening The post An Open Letter to Business Leaders from Dr. Pat Harned appeared first on Ethics & Compliance Initiative ..read more

The Organizational Sentencing Guidelines: The Rearview Mirror and the Road Ahead This year marks 30 years since the release of The Federal Sentencing Guidelines for Organizations (FSGO) by the US Sentencing Commission (USSC). The FSGO marked the transition from a period of relatively few government regulations and discretionary enforcement to the modern era of organizational The post The Organizational Sentencing Guidelines appeared first on Ethics and Compliance Initiative ..read more

Tomorrow (Saturday, July 30) marks the 20th anniversary of the enactment of Pub.L. 107-204; also known as the Sarbanes-Oxley Act or SOX. Introduced as the broadest-sweeping legislation to affect corporations and public accounting since the 1933 securities act, SOX made a significant impact on audit, accounting, and financial reporting practices in public corporations, worldwide. The post Happy 20th Anniversary, Sarbanes-Oxley Act appeared first on Ethics and Compliance Initiative ..read more

ECI recently convened a small group of ECI members to discuss how their organizations are responding to the War in Ukraine. The war in  Ukraine put culture and values at the forefront of strategic business discussions and decisions being made at companies of all types and sizes. In a recent discussion with a small group The post The ‘World is Watching’: Role of Ethics & Compliance in the War in Ukraine appeared first on Ethics and Compliance Initiative ..read more

2021 ECI Working Group Today’s business environment continues to be fast-paced and driven by the exponentially increasing speed of information. That, along with evolving technology, remote work and other factors, has created a constant state of change for almost all of us. Often, change is more sweeping and includes organizational restructuring, refocused business strategy, mergers The post A Strong, Mature E&C Culture is Imperative during Times of Stress or Crisis appeared first on Ethics and Compliance Initiative ..read more

Contributed by Kristy Grant-Hart, founder and CEO of Spark Compliance; Kirsten Liston, founder and principal of Rethink Compliance; and Joe Murphy, the Godfather of Compliance So many people dream of being their own boss. They want to choose their own hours, pick the projects they want to work on and even abandon their steady paycheck The post The Top Ten Tips for Becoming a Compliance Entrepreneur appeared first on Ethics and Compliance Initiative ..read more

I teach a course on creating ethical cultures at the Wharton School. Early in my experience teaching it, I was stunned by a comment made by a student near the end of the course. Asked what she might do differently about observed wrongdoing now that she had completed the class, she replied: “To be honest, The post Guest Post: Creating an Ethical Culture: The Role of Personality appeared first on Ethics and Compliance Initiative ..read more

The 10th recipient of the ECI Carol R. Marshall Award for Innovation in Corporate Ethics is Blair C. Marks, Vice President of Ethics and Business Conduct for Lockheed Martin. Established in 2010 to recognize role models in ethics and compliance (E&C), the Carol Marshall Award is designed to recognize leaders who exhibit outstanding innovation and The post 2021 Carol R. Marshall Award for Innovation in Corporate Ethics appeared first on Ethics and Compliance Initiative ..read more

As so many around the globe have acknowledged over the past year, the marginalization of people of color and indigenous people must stop. Last year, in an effort to honor the memory of George Floyd and to address the deep issues in our societies, the Ethics & Compliance Initiative (ECI) expressed our hope that the The post A Message to our Members and Stakeholders about the Chauvin Verdict appeared first on Ethics and Compliance Initiative ..read more

The Ethics & Compliance Initiative and Ethics Resource Center communities are saddened to learn about the loss of Brent Scowcroft. Scowcroft, a foreign policy expert and former Ethics Resource Center board member died today at the age of 95. Scowcroft served in the United States Air Force before continuing his career  in international relations, eventually [...] The post In Memoriam: Brent Scowcroft, Foreign Policy Expert and Former ECI Board Member appeared first on Ethics and Compliance Initiative ..read more