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2023 (19)

09/16/2023 - Compliance incentives, risk assessment and moral hazard
08/10/2023 - Clarence Thomas: Res Ipsa Loquitur?
08/07/2023 - Does your compliance program assessment do this?
07/14/2023 - “Goldilocks compliance”
06/26/2023 - Risk assessment for small companies
04/26/2023 - Conflicts of interest in our Gilded Age
04/19/2023 - The Fox News case: defamation as a compliance risk
04/11/2023 - Compliance Officers as “ministers for the future”
04/01/2023 - What are the ethical pitfalls of being a parent?
03/27/2023 - Asking a good question as a path to ethical conduct
03/20/2023 - More on reverse conflicts of interest
03/09/2023 - A “moral hazard” moment for the Department of Justice?
02/12/2023 - Are best practices good for compliance ?
02/06/2023 - The full promise of compliance programs
02/02/2023 - A terrific alliance in the C&E space
01/23/2023 - Waiving conflicts of interest: whether, when, how
01/15/2023 - Conflict of interest program assessments
01/08/2023 - Compliance Incentives, Risk Assessment and Moral Hazard
01/02/2023 - 2023 behavioral ethics and compliance index

2022 (33)

12/20/2022 - Mitigating Project Risks – The Under-Discovered Country
12/12/2022 - Hiring ethical employees
12/04/2022 - Behavioral ethics: expanding notions of risk
11/08/2022 - Ethics Slobs: the opposite of “ethics champions”
08/16/2022 - Ethics slobs
07/30/2022 - A very big day
07/16/2022 - Does your C&E program do this?
07/01/2022 - The Spirit of Liberty – and Ethics and Compliance
06/26/2022 - The full promise of compliance and ethics programs
05/31/2022 - Ethical standards for Caesar’s children
05/18/2022 - Ethical standards for Caesar’s spouse
05/03/2022 - What is a page of compliance worth?
04/25/2022 - Conflicts of interest and the dark side of professionalism
04/11/2022 - Board oversight of C&E programs: how much is enough?
04/07/2022 - Rebecca Walker on the progression of compliance
04/05/2022 - What does the “E” in your C&E program stand for?
03/31/2022 - I was recently interviewed as part of the Pioneers in Business Ethics project.
03/26/2022 - An important ethics warning for corporate counsel
03/20/2022 - Analyzing conflicts of interest – where to start
03/14/2022 - Compliance “moot courts” for CEOs?
03/08/2022 - Handling undue pressure: the role of the compliance and ethics office
03/05/2022 - A free podcast on the history and future of compliance
03/03/2022 - The third rail in American compliance
02/28/2022 - Loyalty as an ethics risk
02/21/2022 - Compliance officers as “ministers for the future.”
02/14/2022 - Behavioral Ethics and Whistleblowing
02/09/2022 - Ethics questions in employment interviews
02/03/2022 - Auditing the auditors
01/31/2022 - Effective communications: notes from the field
01/25/2022 - Behavioral ethics and “middle-aged” compliance programs
01/15/2022 - Climate Change Compliance and Ethical Habits of Mind
01/13/2022 - Compliance program assessments: the basics
01/03/2022 - 2022 behavioral ethics and compliance index

2021 (46)

12/20/2021 - More compliance monitoring, please
12/11/2021 - Directors, fiduciary duties and climate change
12/04/2021 - Who is the client?
11/20/2021 - The Marx Brothers and Risk Assessment
11/14/2021 - Moral hazard – the latest
11/04/2021 - Redefining compliance recidivism
10/29/2021 - Happy anniversary, Corporate Sentencing Guidelines
10/09/2021 - The oldest conflict
10/06/2021 - Conflict of interest expertise
10/03/2021 - Conflicts of interest: getting it wrong
09/20/2021 - Making the most of your risk assessment (part 2)
09/19/2021 - Combining COI program and risk assessments
09/14/2021 - The Spirit of Liberty – and Ethics
09/07/2021 - Measuring compliance measurement
08/15/2021 - Trust and the compliance officer’s remit
08/08/2021 - The $5800 bottle of booze
08/02/2021 - Risk assessment and attorney-client privilege: when and how
07/27/2021 - Asking a good question
07/20/2021 - The risk of good intentions
07/13/2021 - Training managers in conflicts of interest
06/28/2021 - A 30-year experiment in ethics and compliance
06/20/2021 - Self assessing your conflict of interest compliance program
06/17/2021 - Should the fight against conflicts of interest be treated as a national priority?
06/13/2021 - New data on whistleblower incentives
06/06/2021 - Caremark and caring about carelessness
05/29/2021 - Drafting and reviewing conflict of interest policies
05/26/2021 - Behavioral ethics in an age of ESG
05/17/2021 - The spirit of liberty – and the spirit of ethics
05/12/2021 - Something new regarding gifts and entertainment
05/10/2021 - Conflict of interest’s cousin moral hazard
05/02/2021 - “Third prize is you’re fired”
04/25/2021 - Executive Misconduct and Employment Contracts
04/18/2021 - Can the government make us more ethical?
04/11/2021 - Compliance program standards of proof
04/06/2021 - A behavioral ethics and compliance primer
04/01/2021 - In praise of Goldilocks compliance
03/28/2021 - Defamation as a compliance risk area
03/22/2021 - Moral hazard and ethical habits of mind
03/15/2021 - Conflicts of interest: the role of norms
03/08/2021 - Assessing your conflict of interest compliance program
02/24/2021 - Liability of corporate officers: new developments
02/03/2021 - Compliance thought experiments
02/01/2021 - “Maginot Line” compliance
01/19/2021 - President Biden and behavioral ethics
01/10/2021 - Another Way to Prevent Corporate Crime?
01/04/2021 - 2021 behavioral ethics and compliance index

2020 (46)

12/19/2020 - Have you checked your behavioral externalities?
12/17/2020 - An SCCE podcast on assessing corporate culture
12/13/2020 - Behavioral ethics and the road ahead
12/04/2020 - Compliance certifications: an under-used mitigation tool
11/28/2020 - Robots and conflicts of interest
11/22/2020 - A (partial) conflict of interest agenda for Biden
11/15/2020 - Do honesty pledges work?
10/01/2020 - Effective Discipline According to the DOJ.
09/20/2020 - Do compliance officers have an inherent conflict of interest?
09/07/2020 - Behavioral ethics and compliance to the rescue?
08/31/2020 - Is a weak compliance program worse than no program?
08/20/2020 - How to assess the efficacy of codes of conduct
08/16/2020 - Lessons learned from lessons learned
08/09/2020 - “To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.”
08/01/2020 - Insider trading and “inner controls”
07/28/2020 - Conflicts of interest in a post-Trump era
07/21/2020 - Answers to tough questions on conflicts of interest
07/19/2020 - Approvals of conflicts of interest: what is the appropriate standard?
07/14/2020 - PLI briefing on revised DOJ compliance program standards
07/05/2020 - Are you a member of the “compliance elite”?
06/28/2020 - Nearly 1500 C&E professionals have downloaded the free risk assessment e-book
06/23/2020 - Making the most of risk assessment
06/19/2020 - Moral hazard and the revised DOJ compliance standards
06/13/2020 - Revised DOJ compliance program standards: what is new
06/04/2020 - Assessing conflict of interest compliance programs
06/02/2020 - Beyond the attorney-client privilege
06/01/2020 - Mapping the field of “”behavioral business ethics”
05/25/2020 - More on “reverse conflicts of interest”
05/18/2020 - Assessing conflicts of interest risks
05/09/2020 - Come to the Navex Global master class on conflicts of interest
05/05/2020 - Why it is important to know who the victims of corruption are
05/04/2020 - Insider trading and conflicts of interest
04/24/2020 - The gut as accomplice
04/03/2020 - Investigation manuals
03/29/2020 - This is a test
03/25/2020 - Assessing compliance incentives
03/19/2020 - Will working at home make us more ethical?
03/15/2020 - Revisiting inherent conflicts of interest
03/07/2020 - The oldest conflict of interest
02/09/2020 - The moral hazard moment
02/03/2020 - Risk assessment made easy
01/30/2020 - The many harms from conflicts of interest
01/27/2020 - Program assessments and moral hazard
01/20/2020 - “Corporate Law for Good People”
01/12/2020 - Marginalization of counsel … and compliance officers
01/04/2020 - The 2020 behavioral ethics and compliance index

2019 (48)

12/27/2019 - Does compliance have a dark side?
12/15/2019 - Is ethics being short-changed by compliance?
12/08/2019 - Sweating the small stuff
11/30/2019 - Does ethics training actually affect business conduct?
11/17/2019 - Conflicts of interest and nonprofit organizations
11/05/2019 - Behavioral ethics, the board and C&E officers
10/21/2019 - Strengthening your C&E program through behavioral ethics
10/16/2019 - More on conflicts of interest disclosure
10/08/2019 - Expanding Compliance Liability for Directors?
10/03/2019 - The big compliance news of 2019
09/27/2019 - CECO reporting relationships
09/21/2019 - Come to the Advanced Compliance & Ethics Workshop
09/08/2019 - Conflicts of interest: why we fight
09/02/2019 - See you at SCCE?
08/30/2019 - Free webinar on risk assessment
08/25/2019 - How deep is the ocean? The latest on Trump’s conflicts of interest
08/18/2019 - What is in a name?
08/14/2019 - Expert product reviews
08/08/2019 - 20 best practices in conducting risk assessment
08/02/2019 - DOJ Issues New Compliance Program Evaluation Standards
07/21/2019 - Extra compliance for high-risk-potential employees
07/15/2019 - Summer compliance reading for boards of directors
06/29/2019 - Lawyers as compliance officers: a behavioral ethics perspective
06/17/2019 - Ethics made easy
06/10/2019 - Trump’s hotel
06/01/2019 - Point-of-risk compliance
05/28/2019 - The toll at the top
05/22/2019 - Behavioral ethics program assessments
05/16/2019 - E-book on compliance & ethics risk assessment
05/09/2019 - Risk assessment expectations under DOJ C&E program evaluation criteria
05/01/2019 - Preventing investigative failures
04/22/2019 - False allegations of conflicts of interest
04/09/2019 - A webcast on effective COI compliance programs
04/06/2019 - Designing compliance incentives
04/04/2019 - Shifting Perspectives on COI in the Modern Workforce
04/01/2019 - Behavioral ethics training for managers
03/28/2019 - Essential ingredients of an effective conflict of interest policy
03/24/2019 - Conflicts of interest for “the little people”
03/17/2019 - Being a parent as a source of ethics risk
03/09/2019 - “Just-in-time” risk assessment
02/21/2019 - Behavioral ethics and compliance assessments
02/17/2019 - Socialism and conflicts of interest
02/12/2019 - Conflict-of-interest policies and procedures
02/09/2019 - Loyalty on the decline?
01/24/2019 - Deadly – and small – gifts and entertainment
01/19/2019 - Behavioral ethics and compliance index 2019
01/08/2019 - Compliance culture assessments – the why and the how
01/04/2019 - Inherent anti-conflicts of interest

2018 (40)

12/22/2018 - International Chamber of Commerce publishes conflict of interest guidelines
12/13/2018 - Conflict of interest? Who decides?
12/01/2018 - A short post on directors’ compliance duties
11/10/2018 - Hire the guilt prone
11/04/2018 - Compliance officers as entrepreneurs?
11/03/2018 - I’ll be speaking on behavioral ethics with
10/23/2018 - New on the Compliance Program Assessment Blog
10/18/2018 - New on the Compliance Program Assessment Blog
10/14/2018 - Moot compliance court for corporate directors?
10/07/2018 - Imagine the real
09/30/2018 - The parade of horribles
09/21/2018 - A free SCCE podcast on conflicts of interest
09/18/2018 - Webinar on C&E program assessment
09/15/2018 - Our fiduciary future?
09/04/2018 - Conflict of interest self assessments
08/24/2018 - Assessing compliance incentives
08/18/2018 - Disclosure’s two-edged sword
08/07/2018 - How to assess compliance investigations
08/01/2018 - Conflict of interest risk assessment (part 2)
07/25/2018 - Loyalty and conflicts of interest
07/11/2018 - Assessing compliance training
07/07/2018 - Frequently asked questions about conflicts of interest
06/29/2018 - The spirit of liberty and the spirit of ethics
06/25/2018 - A new blog for compliance professionals
06/21/2018 - Building an ethical culture: where to begin
06/12/2018 - Nonmonetary conflicts of interest
06/02/2018 - A valuable behavioral ethics and compliance resource
05/23/2018 - The latest on compliance programs from the Department of Justice
05/08/2018 - Does your conflict of interest risk assessment do this?
04/01/2018 - Directors and compliance programs: a look at the law
03/25/2018 - Should compliance officers be optimists?
03/15/2018 - Accurately categorizing conflicts of interest
03/13/2018 - Five topics for compliance and ethics culture assessments
02/24/2018 - Compliance risk – and mitigation – at the top
02/17/2018 - Expiration dates for conflicts of interest?
02/03/2018 - Managers’ C&E program duties: some drafting tips
01/28/2018 - Learning from Wells Fargo
01/20/2018 - An ethical obscenity
01/06/2018 - Synergy – or conflict of interest?
01/03/2018 - Charitable contributions and behavioral ethics

2017 (35)

12/16/2017 - Comey, Mueller and conflicts of interest: a thought experiment
12/09/2017 - Compliance & ethics officers in the realm of bias
12/02/2017 - Discipline for C&E violations: four components of program efficacy
11/28/2017 - A free web cast on compliance and ethics program assessments
11/24/2017 - Should we have double ethical standards?
11/05/2017 - A conflict of interest on the grandest of scales
10/22/2017 - Was the Grand Inquisitor right (about compliance)?
10/03/2017 - As if you didn’t already have enough to worry about
09/22/2017 - Free web cast on behavioral ethics
09/07/2017 - Come to the Advanced Compliance & Ethics Workshop
08/10/2017 - The lawyer as whistleblower
07/25/2017 - Get the new behavioral ethics and compliance e-book
07/18/2017 - What Can We Learn from the Latest “Open Payments” Data?
07/10/2017 - Why avoiding conflicts of interest matters in the investment business
07/04/2017 - The harm from conflicts you often can’t see
06/20/2017 - Join the Citizens’ Climate Lobby
06/11/2017 - Behavioral Ethics and Compliance Index – 2017 Edition
05/31/2017 - Risk assessment for the little guy
05/20/2017 - A core value for our behavioral age
05/12/2017 - Moral hazard: the final compliance frontier?
04/29/2017 - Compliance stays in the game
04/17/2017 - Treating suppliers ethically
04/09/2017 - Mozart’s timeless question
04/05/2017 - Welcome to Conflict of Interest World!
04/02/2017 - Do stock options discourage whistleblowing?
03/18/2017 - Other people’s risks
03/11/2017 - What is the opposite of right?
03/05/2017 - Recusal on my mind
02/25/2017 - When NOT lobbying suggests a conflict of interest
02/18/2017 - Compliance in the service of ethics
02/08/2017 - When do you really need best practices?
02/04/2017 - Relaxing ethical standards
01/27/2017 - A Nobel Prize in Compliance & Ethics?
01/14/2017 - The Trump Conflict-of-Interest Mess
01/07/2017 - Ethics advance…or decoy?

2016 (41)

12/17/2016 - Asking a good question
12/11/2016 - Domestic bribery and code of conduct waivers
11/29/2016 - Why conflicts of interest matter – it is both the incentives and disincentives
11/21/2016 - Trump Princelings?
11/16/2016 - A conflict of interest monitor for President Trump?
11/12/2016 - Conflict of interest certification best practices
11/04/2016 - A silver anniversary for a golden rule
10/30/2016 - Reverse behavioral ethics
10/19/2016 - ECI publishes COI benchmarking report
10/06/2016 - Free webcast on new conflicts of interest research
09/22/2016 - Conflict of Interest at Harvard and the Need for Deterrence
09/18/2016 - Would a Trump presidency spell the end of ethics and compliance?
09/11/2016 - The Wells Fargo Bank case and behavioral ethics
08/28/2016 - “Tailoring” the duty of loyalty
08/21/2016 - Behavioral compliance: back to school edition
08/07/2016 - CEOs’ ethics: what’s new
07/25/2016 - Should there be an “Open Payments” Database for Healthcare Executives?
07/17/2016 - If Trump becomes President
07/11/2016 - Specialty bias
07/07/2016 - Compliance officer pay: the government speaks
07/04/2016 - Ethics on the spot: the Clinton/Lynch encounter
06/20/2016 - The shockingly low price of virtue
06/15/2016 - Behavioral ethics as a driver of compliance
06/05/2016 - Behavioral ethics and compliance: strong and specific medicine
05/30/2016 - A 25-year experiment in ethics and compliance
05/10/2016 - The role of the Board
04/23/2016 - The Behavioral Ethics and Compliance Index
04/10/2016 - A big step forward for compliance & ethics officers
03/30/2016 - A compliance biography – with a dash of early compliance history
03/27/2016 - Like “Car Talk” for C&E
03/18/2016 - Assessing compliance programs
03/09/2016 - Does your risk assessment touch all the bases?
03/03/2016 - The Ethics Exchange
02/27/2016 - A useful and underutilized tool for enhancing tone at the top
02/20/2016 - Referees and conflicts of interest
02/13/2016 - Must we choose between ethics and compliance?
01/24/2016 - Is political ideology a compliance and ethics risk?
01/16/2016 - Behavioral anti-corruption compliance and its limits
01/10/2016 - Pitfalls in rewarding compliance performance
01/06/2016 - The Yates Memo – and what you can do about it
01/03/2016 - What’s new in managing conflicts of interest

2015 (45)

12/13/2015 - A code of conduct for Caesar’s wife
12/04/2015 - Conflict of interest TV?
11/28/2015 - “Point-of-risk” compliance
11/22/2015 - Ethical “have-nots”
11/15/2015 - Tending to personal matters on company time
11/08/2015 - Too big for ethical failure?
11/03/2015 - Making the most of managers’ C&E duties
10/30/2015 - Compliance certifications and the law
10/26/2015 - “Behavioral compliance”: the will and the way
10/20/2015 - ECI forms benchmarking group for conflicts of interest
10/15/2015 - C&E program assessments – a “teachers’ guide”
10/08/2015 - Conflicts of interest presentation from SCCE conference
09/27/2015 - Glory as a conflict of interest?
09/22/2015 - Curbing compliance waste
09/16/2015 - Compliance program assessments: legal mandates and moral hazard
09/12/2015 - Come to the PLI Advanced C&E Workshop
09/08/2015 - Board conflicts of interest in an age of behavioral ethics
08/23/2015 - How ethically confident should we be?
08/06/2015 - A dream remit for the new DOJ compliance counsel
08/01/2015 - Are conflicts of interest policies a violation of labor law?
07/15/2015 - More on conflicts of interest and corporate boards
07/09/2015 - The Magna Carta, compliance and ethics
07/05/2015 - Behavioral ethics and compliance – what to do about “framing” risks
06/28/2015 - General counsel as chief ethics and compliance officer
06/10/2015 - Inherent conflicts of interest and behavioral ethics
06/05/2015 - The compliance officer as spy (among other unusual roles)
05/29/2015 - What should your risk assessment do for your compliance program?
05/25/2015 - The ethics of “backscratching”
05/17/2015 - A recent judicial decision helps make compliance a little less risky
05/09/2015 - “Advanced tone at the top” and the role of behavioral ethics and compliance
04/21/2015 - Compliance program assessments: a “teacher’s guide”
04/18/2015 - Can ethics be “unbundled” from business?
04/05/2015 - Is compliance still just “putting on its shoes”?
03/23/2015 - Compliance programs for the “big people”
03/14/2015 - A behavioral ethics and compliance index
03/08/2015 - Is corruption a harmless foul?
02/27/2015 - Compliance law and compliance culture
02/21/2015 - Future conflicts of interest
02/08/2015 - The most interesting conflict of interest case of the (still young) year
02/01/2015 - Referral fees and conflicts of interest
01/25/2015 - Does your company need a stand-alone conflicts of interest policy?
01/17/2015 - The complicated and consequential world of compliance “checking”
01/11/2015 - Just friends? Chris Christie and Jerry Jones
01/08/2015 - Scoping out your C&E program/risk assessment
01/04/2015 - Behavioral ethics and reality-based law

2014 (77)

12/29/2014 - Risk assessments for office romances
12/17/2014 - Business ethics research of interest to your whole company
12/12/2014 - With a little help from my friends – the why and the how of C&E program liaisons
12/07/2014 - The cost of director and officer conflicts of interest just went up
11/30/2014 - Operational transparency and internal selling of C&E programs
11/22/2014 - Is Wall Street a bad ethical neighborhood?
11/15/2014 - Conflicts of interest, corruption and fraud: what are the connections?
11/09/2014 - Risk assessment: law, economics, morality science…and liquor
11/02/2014 - Internal auditors as compliance program helpers: opportunities and independence challenges
10/25/2014 - The modern era of compliance and ethics at ten years old
10/22/2014 - Episode 100
10/11/2014 - Effective C&E Programs: The Justice Department Speaks
10/06/2014 - Risk assessment: frequently asked questions
09/28/2014 - C&E officer reporting relationships: a tale of two recent surveys
09/25/2014 - Come to the Advanced C&E Workshop
09/23/2014 - How friendly should the E&C officer be?
09/18/2014 - Compliance programs and the culture of care
09/10/2014 - Conflicts of interest, compliance programs and “magical thinking”
09/07/2014 - The conflict of interest case of the year
09/01/2014 - Prosecutors, massive fines and moral hazard
08/27/2014 - “The inner voice that warns us somebody may be looking”
08/19/2014 - Liability for faking compliance – a new-fashioned type of deterrence?
08/10/2014 - New proof that good ethics is good business
08/05/2014 - Is compliance anti-capitalistic?
08/01/2014 - How to “sell” a C&E program or risk assessment internally
07/27/2014 - Conflicts of interest and “the social nature of humans”
07/21/2014 - The Caterpillar criminal investigation: culture, risk and “informal” duties of trust
07/07/2014 - Compliance risk assessments for the little guy
07/03/2014 - Summer C&E movies for the holiday weekend
07/01/2014 - Friendship – and the ties that blind (directors to conflicts of interest)
06/23/2014 - Dead peasants, conflicts of interest and Immanuel Kant
06/18/2014 - More on board oversight of compliance & ethics programs, or….
06/15/2014 - Values, structural compliance, behavioral ethics and…Dilbert
06/09/2014 - Fathers and children
06/04/2014 - Reporting to the board on your C&E program
06/01/2014 - Behavioral ethics and compliance: an index
05/29/2014 - From hall monitors to embedded compliance: C&E checking in real time
05/26/2014 - Gamblers, strippers, loss aversion and conflicts of interest
05/16/2014 - C&E auditing and monitoring
05/11/2014 - Hiring, promotions and other personnel measures for ethical organizations
05/08/2014 - Strong ethics medicine: best practice COI policies for academic medical centers
05/04/2014 - Is the SEC putting a hurt on compliance programs?
04/30/2014 - Assessing compliance & ethics programs
04/27/2014 - Behavioral ethics and compliance: what the board of directors should ask
04/20/2014 - Global compliance law: recent developments, and what to watch for
04/13/2014 - Is being ethical in business a patriotic duty?
04/06/2014 - A ray of sunshine at the end of an ethically dreary week
03/26/2014 - Risk assessment – by the book
03/23/2014 - Conflicts of interest disclosures, waivers, recusals … and fig leaves
03/19/2014 - Do you know your biggest C&E risk?
03/16/2014 - Spanking bankers for conflicts of interest. Again.
03/14/2014 - Teaching compliance in ethics class
03/13/2014 - Do you know what you need to know about global C&E law?
03/09/2014 - Meet “Homo Duplex” – a new ethics super-hero?
03/06/2014 - Two dubious ethical achievements
03/02/2014 - Exemplary ethical recoveries
02/27/2014 - Compliance for the whole family
02/24/2014 - CEOs’ ethical standards and the limits of compliance
02/22/2014 - Ethics, compliance and human nature
02/19/2014 - When it comes to compliance, does father know best?
02/16/2014 - Too close to the line: a convergence of culture, law and behavioral ethics
02/13/2014 - Are you keeping track of your compliance costs?
02/10/2014 - Should there be more criminalization of conflicts of interest?
02/06/2014 - Supervising spouses and other family members in the workplace
02/03/2014 - Are private companies more ethical than public ones?
02/01/2014 - More on whether the C&E officer should report to the general counsel
01/30/2014 - A way to learn global compliance law without leaving your office
01/26/2014 - Culture, integrity and profitability: results of an important new study
01/23/2014 - Apparent and potential conflicts of interest: what’s the difference and why it matters
01/21/2014 - A new pod cast on independence and compliance programs
01/19/2014 - An outline for core employee training on conflicts of interest
01/16/2014 - Tones at the top – the Governor and the Pope
01/14/2014 - The promise of “Ethical Systems” for C&E professionals — and others
01/12/2014 - The science of disclosure gets more interesting – and useful for C&E programs
01/09/2014 - A recent win for compliance programs
01/06/2014 - Conflicts of interest and experts
01/02/2014 - A complimentary e-Book on compliance & ethics risk assessment

2013 (91)

12/29/2013 - Catching up on backdating
12/20/2013 - Know thy culture
12/17/2013 - Moral intuitionism and ethics training
12/13/2013 - Conflicts of interest and constitutional rights
12/08/2013 - An important real-world conflict of interest experiment
12/06/2013 - Mitigating holiday cheer: what’s new in gifts and entertainment compliance
12/04/2013 - Characteristics of ethical organizational cultures
12/01/2013 - When blowing the whistle is a conflict of interest
11/24/2013 - Thanksgiving edition: conflicts of interest and cholesterol
11/20/2013 - Three lines of defense – and two C&E “fronts”
11/17/2013 - Insider trading, private corruption and behavioral ethics
11/15/2013 - Ethical corporate cultures – and the role of the government
11/10/2013 - Two conflicts of the apocalypse
11/06/2013 - Legal ethics for compliance lawyers
11/03/2013 - Behavioral ethics teaching and training
11/01/2013 - Happy Birthday, Federal Sentencing Guidelines for Organizations
10/30/2013 - What’s new and what matters in Conflict of Interest World
10/27/2013 - How not to get your next job
10/23/2013 - Should companies reward employees for good behavior?
10/20/2013 - The monstrous offspring of two conflict-of-interest titans?
10/17/2013 - Come to the Advanced C&E Workshop
10/14/2013 - What counts as a conflict of interest policy?
10/09/2013 - “Parental controls” – compliance programs for joint ventures and subsidiaries
10/06/2013 - Behavioral ethics and C-suite behavior
10/02/2013 - The problem with apparent conflicts of interest
09/29/2013 - Professionalism and conflicts of interest
09/22/2013 - Risk assessment, program assessment and conflicts of interest
09/18/2013 - “Is this a hill worth dying on?”
09/15/2013 - Dangerously narrow views of public – and self – interest
09/08/2013 - Using behavioral ethics means to reduce legal ethics risks
09/05/2013 - “Those are my principles, and if you don’t like them… well, I have others,…”
09/02/2013 - Conflicts of interest in the press
08/28/2013 - Opposite Day at the COI Blog
08/22/2013 - The interplay of C&E art and science
08/18/2013 - Is your C&E program ready for a behavioral ethics upgrade?
08/11/2013 - Include me out: whistleblowing and a “larger loyalty”
08/08/2013 - The new fall line up
08/04/2013 - Massive but (mostly) harmless conflicts of interest
07/29/2013 - A bad week for weak compliance programs
07/24/2013 - Are ethics and compliance only for the “little people”?
07/21/2013 - Gifts, entertainment and “soft-core” corruption
07/18/2013 - Avoiding compliance overkill
07/14/2013 - Making “moral hazard” more moral
07/09/2013 - Self-assessment: does working in the E&C field make us better people?
07/07/2013 - Redrawing corporate fault lines using behavioral ethics
07/01/2013 - What is the direction of C&E law and how fast is it moving?
06/23/2013 - Money and morals: Can behavioral ethics help “Mister Green” behave himself?
06/16/2013 - Drafting or revising conflict of interest policies
06/12/2013 - Is there room for ethics at the tax table?
06/09/2013 - Spanning the globe: conflicts of interest in India
06/02/2013 - Nepotism – the most powerful conflict of all?
05/31/2013 - Assessing compliance and ethics programs
05/27/2013 - A comparative approach to conflicts of interest
05/23/2013 - Is ethics and compliance a good career choice?
05/19/2013 - Encouraging reports of violations: good policies, procedures and practices
05/12/2013 - Conflicts of interest based on prior employment: law, ethics and some interesting cases
05/09/2013 - C&E risk action plans for mitigating COIs
05/05/2013 - How does your compliance and ethics program deal with “conformity bias”?
05/01/2013 - Compliance and ethics programs for joint ventures and subsidiaries
04/28/2013 - When ethics is more than parsley on the legal plate
04/24/2013 - Complimentary web cast on assessing C&E programs
04/21/2013 - C&E programs, attorney-client privilege and a “virtuous circle”
04/17/2013 - Ethics training – making it real: part two of our interview with Steve Priest
04/15/2013 - Ethics and compliance should be friends – part one of an interview with Steve Priest
04/11/2013 - More on compliance programs for corporate-lawyer risks
04/07/2013 - A pharma cure for moral hazard?
04/04/2013 - A new player in the conflicts of interest pageant
04/01/2013 - Moonlighting – legal violations, ethical breaches and good compliance practices
03/27/2013 - Preventing bill padding by lawyers: a case for compliance programs?
03/24/2013 - Assessing private sector bribery risks
03/21/2013 - Complying with customers’ conflict of interest requirements
03/17/2013 - Insider trading, behavioral ethics and effective “inner controls”
03/14/2013 - Our conflict of interest with the future
03/10/2013 - What does the government “teach” about conflicts of interest?
03/07/2013 - Does your compliance and ethics program have a “constitution”?
03/03/2013 - Values, culture and effective compliance communications – the role of behavioral ethics
02/28/2013 - Moral hazard, executives and corporate boards – fixing the mix
02/26/2013 - Facing up to COI Sunshine
02/20/2013 - Catching up on CEO COIs
02/16/2013 - Law as a branch of morality
02/10/2013 - The S&P conflicts debacle: questions for the board of directors
02/05/2013 - How many ways can “behavioral ethics” help improve compliance programs?
02/03/2013 - Which college majors are best at promoting honesty… and some C&E career-related news and views
01/31/2013 - An ethical duty of open-mindedness
01/27/2013 - Product liability, moral hazard and compliance and ethics officers
01/23/2013 - Mapping a territory of ethical impairment
01/19/2013 - Breaking news: just-published study shows that COI policies can…work!
01/16/2013 - Catching up on directors’ conflicts of interest
01/13/2013 - Do dogs have conflicts of interest?
01/09/2013 - Is your company ethical, or merely compliant?
01/02/2013 - A record year for corporate criminal fines

2012 (105)

12/31/2012 - A telling tale to end the year
12/26/2012 - Ethics@home
12/16/2012 - Being your own Socrates
12/10/2012 - Checking in on auditor conflicts of interest
12/05/2012 - Webcasts to ring out the old and ring in the new
12/03/2012 - An introduction to behavioral ethics
11/29/2012 - The Ford case
11/26/2012 - Corporate charitable giving and conflicts of interest
11/23/2012 - Top SEC official speaks on how to mitigate conflicts of interest
11/17/2012 - A new (and free) behavioral ethics resource – videos from the U of T
11/11/2012 - A never-ending story? Conflicts of interest in the financial services sector (Part One)
11/07/2012 - A presentation on C&E programs for joint ventures
11/02/2012 - A law map for the C&E world
10/24/2012 - Is it a conflict of interest for a C&E officer to receive incentive compensation?
10/23/2012 - Conflicts of interest and trimmed fiduciary duties
10/17/2012 - What behavioral ethics means for C&E programs
10/10/2012 - COIs: What’s New, What Matters, What Works
10/06/2012 - RAND C&E symposium report now available
10/01/2012 - Piling on: where antitrust and conflicts of interest meet
09/27/2012 - Board oversight of C&E programs
09/25/2012 - Conflicts of interest monitoring
09/20/2012 - Auditing for Conflicts of Interest
09/16/2012 - SMEs for COIs: should your organization have one?
09/11/2012 - A world of anti-corruption law
09/09/2012 - Conflicts of interest and industry culture
09/04/2012 - Political contributions, bribes – and a barrel of worms
08/29/2012 - Bringing a conflict of interest to justice – at $35,000/hour
08/27/2012 - “History doesn’t repeat itself, but it does rhyme”: more on Facebook
08/23/2012 - A world of risk
08/20/2012 - What is the opposite of a conflict of interest?
08/15/2012 - Here’s the new fall lineup
08/13/2012 - Beyond the revolving door: misalignment of interests in enforcement decisions
08/08/2012 - Fracking, conflicts of interest and adverse inferences
08/06/2012 - Is your company ready for a conflict of interest close up?
08/02/2012 - Should dentists and lawyers be rotated, like auditors?
07/30/2012 - Gifts between employees
07/27/2012 - Conflict of interview review processes
07/23/2012 - The ethical pitfalls of certainty
07/13/2012 - Conflicts of Interest: A governance challenge or a moral maze?
07/08/2012 - A successful compliance experiment by the UK government’s Behavioural Insights Team
07/01/2012 - False claims of ethicality can lead to legal liability
06/28/2012 - Other people’s conflict of interest standards
06/23/2012 - Frisky executives and the extra cookie
06/16/2012 - Compliance programs and the law – an unfinished history
06/11/2012 - Behavioral Ethics and Compliance: The Pitfalls of Slippery Slopes
06/06/2012 - Compensation consultants and conflicts of interest
06/02/2012 - Conflicts of interest in the Facebook IPO?
05/29/2012 - Informal fiduciary duties and criminal liability
05/23/2012 - Training Directors on Conflicts of Interest: Six Pillars of Awareness
05/21/2012 - Corporate Opportunities – a distinct and important type of conflict of interest
05/17/2012 - The costliest conflict-of-interest cases ever?
05/14/2012 - “Type 2” Conflicts of Interest, Risk Assessment and “Inner Controls”
05/09/2012 - What the Justice Department can learn about promoting compliance programs from a noted Marxist (meaning Chico – not Karl)
05/06/2012 - Sarbanes-Oxley Section 307: Attention Must Be Paid
05/02/2012 - Independent Investigations (Part Four): Motivated Blindness
04/29/2012 - CEOs’ COIs
04/25/2012 - Conflicts of Interest – a matter of perception?
04/22/2012 - Independence and internal investigations (Part Three): Wal-Mart
04/20/2012 - Some C&E presentations in the coming weeks
04/17/2012 - What makes a conflict of interest a crime?
04/15/2012 - Independent Investigations (Part Two): Board Conflicts
04/12/2012 - Conflicts of Interest and Internal Investigations (Part One)
04/10/2012 - The Two Types of Conflict of Interest Dilemmas
04/06/2012 - A terrific (and short) video on the challenges of
04/05/2012 - The ECOA “law school” for compliance and ethics officers begins later this month
04/02/2012 - “Organizational Justice” and Conflicts of Interest
03/31/2012 - COIs in the News (033112): the Cost of Conflicts
03/28/2012 - Of the 8 million stories in the Big City, here are the ones about conflicts of interest
03/26/2012 - Conflict of interest compliance quizzes
03/24/2012 - Conflicts of Interest in the News (032412): Domain Names, Wall Street, Government and Tennis
03/14/2012 - The Story to Date – and What’s on the Horizon
03/12/2012 - Assessing Conflict of Interest Risks: the Sixth and Final Post in this Series
03/10/2012 - Conflicts of interest and behavioral ethics in the news: 031012
03/07/2012 - Book Preview – Evolution and the Six Core Values of Humankind
03/06/2012 - How Well Does Disclosure Really Mitigate Conflicts of Interest? (continued)
03/03/2012 - Conflicts of Interest in the News: A transaction “tainted by disloyalty”?
02/29/2012 - Conflict of Interest Risk Assessments – Part Five: Impact
02/27/2012 - Conflict of Interest Risk Assessments – Part 4: Capacities
02/25/2012 - Conflicts of Interest in the News: Private Equity
02/23/2012 - Conflicts of Interest in Joint Ventures – the Rights of “Consenting Adults”
02/22/2012 - Conflict of Interest Policies for Non-Profit Organizations
02/19/2012 - Is There Too Much Worry About Conflicts of Interest?
02/16/2012 - Global Challenges in Addressing Conflicts of Interest (Part Two)
02/15/2012 - Is the Road to Risk Paved with Good Intentions?
02/13/2012 - Global Challenges in Addressing Conflicts of Interest (Part One)
02/11/2012 - Conflicts in the News – Wall Street Edition
02/09/2012 - Ben Franklin – Behavioral Ethicist?
02/07/2012 - Happy Birthday, Charles Dickens
02/06/2012 - Behavioral Ethics, Risk Assessment and “Inner Controls”
02/03/2012 - Special Super Bowl Edition of the Conflict of Interest Blog
02/01/2012 - Behavioral Ethics and Management Accountability for Compliance and Ethics Failures
01/29/2012 - Behavioral Ethics and Just-in-Time Compliance Communications
01/25/2012 - Does disclosure really mitigate conflicts of interest?
01/23/2012 - Cognitive Bias and the Need for “Behavioral Ethics and Compliance”
01/21/2012 - Conflicts of Interest in the News – 012112 edition: Did Al Gore Have a COI at Apple?
01/18/2012 - Moral Hazard – Part Three: Intangible Interests, Monitoring By Boards
01/16/2012 - Conflict of Interest Risk Assessments – Part Three
01/14/2012 - Conflicts of Interest in the News: 011412 Edition
01/12/2012 - Effective Communications Strategies for Mitigating Conflict of Interest Risks (Part Two)
01/11/2012 - Effective Communications Strategies for Mitigating Conflict of Interest Risks (Part One)
01/09/2012 - Conflict of Interest Risk Assessments: Part Two
01/07/2012 - Conflicts of Interest in the News: 010712 Edition
01/05/2012 - Conflicts of Interest: The Murky Legal Landscape
01/04/2012 - Conflict of Interest Risk Assessments – Part One
01/02/2012 - Conflicts of interest in serving on another company’s board of directors

2011 (13)

12/30/2011 - Conflicts of Interest in the News: 123011 Edition
12/28/2011 - Coming to the Conflict of Interest Blog in Early 2012
12/21/2011 - Conflicts of Interest – What Lies Ahead?
12/18/2011 - Conflict of Interest Certifications – Part Two: Content
12/17/2011 - Weekend News Round-Up: How Conflicts of Interest Can Hurt
12/15/2011 - Conflict of Interest Certifications
12/13/2011 - Moral Hazard – Part Two: Risk Assessment and Incentives
12/11/2011 - Moral Hazard, Conflicts of Interest and Compliance Programs
12/08/2011 - Why Do Conflicts Matter? Lessons from the Classroom
12/06/2011 - Training Managers on Conflicts of Interest
12/04/2011 - “Reverse Conflicts of Interest”
12/01/2011 - Other People’s Conflicts
11/28/2011 - Welcome to the Conflict of Interest Blog

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