AB InBev: Anti-Corruption as a Public-Private Partnership
The COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated changes in how businesses approach corporate social responsibility. COVID has accelerated many processes, and corruption is not immune to its influence. Underneath the constant reporting on the virus and ...
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Boards and Governance
From PwC: Governance Insights Audit Committee Briefs
Inside this edition: Confirmation of SEC nominees unclear after Democrats block vote Four Democratic senators withheld their support for two SEC nominees because the nominees had not pledged to back ...
Calendar Alert: PwC Webcast – The 2016 ProxyPulse
On this webcast, Catherine Bromilow, Partner, PwC's Governance Insights Center, Paul DeNicola, Managing Director, PwC's Governance Insights Center, and Chuck Callan, Senior Vice President, Regulatory Affairs, Broadridge Financial Solutions, will ...
PwC: Is Cash Burning A Hole in Your Pocket?
Cash is king, right? Maybe. But it could put your company at risk of being targeted by an activist investor. Significant cash on your balance sheet can also be a ...
Editor’s Picks: Top News Around the Web
Here’s our latest look at what’s new and interesting in the world of ethics, compliance and corporate governance around the web. SEC Commissioner Mary Jo White faced intense criticism from Congressional ...
ProxyPulse: 2016 Proxy Season Preview
A Broadridge and PwC initiative: This first edition of ProxyPulse summarizes shareholder voting trends at 1,053 U.S. public company shareholder meetings that occurred in the July 1 to December 31, 2015 “mini-season.” We ...
PwC’s Audit Committee Resources
The audit committee’s role in ensuring accurate and transparent disclosure as it pertains to financial reporting and risk management is more important today than it has ever been. Clearly, the ...
The Audit Committee and Third Party Risks
Companies frequently offer a value proposition to their customers that encompasses an increasingly integrated value chain of suppliers, distributors or other providers. Many people don’t differentiate one provider to the ...
Harvard: Maintaining Confidentiality in the Boardroom
There is a common perception that boardroom confidentiality cannot be easily compromised. Directors rely on confidentiality to make the right decisions and help advance a company’s operations. But external factors ...
Exposing FIFA’s Culture of Corruption
In a 60 Minutes interview titled, “Not Playing By the Rules? FIFA Scandal Unfolds,” Michael Hershman, President, The Fairfax Group and Ethisphere's Strategic Advisory Board member recounts his experience working to ...
A Strong Compliance Program Leverages Diversity
Conformity is a compliance officer’s worst nightmare. Often, when compliance practitioners encounter the “I did it because everybody else did it this way,” or, “that's the way things are done around ...
Lessons Learned: A GC’s View on Leadership
Looking back, Mark Roellig, Executive Vice President and General Counsel, MassMutual Financial Group found that creating a list of lessons learned throughout his career can inspire and support the next ...
Cybersecurity Among the Top Risks Confronting Boards
The main drivers behind reputational risks are cybersecurity and social media but it seems that directors are not taking much action to prepare and manage these risks, according to a ...
Report: CEOs ‘Extremely Concerned’ About Over-Regulation
For the fourth consecutive year, CEOs are increasingly worried about over-regulation as their confidence in the global economy continues to decrease, according to PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) 19th annual “Global CEO Survey”. ...
Future-Proofing Your Boardroom: Engagement and Ethics
Boards of directors have encountered a myriad of challenges and opportunities within the past year. With an ever-changing regulatory landscape and a volatile global economy, directors are starting to zero-in on more ...
Actionable Insights from the 2015 World’s Most Ethical Companies Whitepaper
It’s clear that just as regulatory oversight has never been more complex, public expectations about transparency, corporate culture and business behavior are part of everyday conversation. These factors, among others, have led to ...
The Case for a Gender Diverse Board
How the Inclusion of Women at the Upper Echelons Can Foster More Effective Ethical Leadership By Mini VandePol and Joanna Ludlam As two of the four female leaders of Baker ...