Risk & Reputation

Rather than seeing ethical and legal hurdles as impediments to operations separate from doing business, more and more companies are integrating legal and reputational challenges into a broad conception of the risks facing their organizations. Ethical problems damage a company’s perception among consumers and ultimately, its performance in the market. Learn how our contributors address this challenge.

Baker McKenzie: ESG as New Risk Frontier

By |2020-01-15T23:54:40+00:00January 15th, 2020|Boards & Governance, Risk & Reputation|

Baker McKenzie partners Peter Tomczak and William "Widge" Devaney both have extensive experience in corporate anti-corruption matters, and often interface with boards on compliance related topics. As such, they've seen how ESG concerns have trickled up to the board, and how overlaps with anti-corruption mean ethics and compliance professionals in particular are well-suited to ...

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Northern Trust: ESG Transparency & Metrics

By |2020-01-21T15:57:37+00:00December 30th, 2019|Boards & Governance, Risk & Reputation|

Chicago-based financial services firm Northern Trust has three values at the core of its operations: service, expertise, and integrity. These values serve the firm well in its role as both a publicly traded company trying to walk the walk on ESG issues and as an investor trying to hold other companies to those same ...

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Commit to Community: Peñoles Succeeds by Building Up Mexico

By |2020-01-01T00:12:43+00:00November 3rd, 2018|Latin America, Risk & Reputation, Sustainability|

Industrias Peñoles, a Mexican mining company, hasn’t survived for 131 years without forging deep ties to Mexico and its communities, and nobody is more acutely aware of that fact than Director General S. Fernando Alanís Ortega, who took the time to talk with Ethisphere Magazine about how his company thinks about its stakeholders and ...

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Lost in a Cyber Second: Protecting Information and Mitigating Cyber Risk

By |2020-01-01T00:14:02+00:00March 14th, 2018|Compliance & Ethics, Cyber Security, Digital Innovation, Legal & Regulatory, Risk & Reputation|

Imagine this scenario: A Wall Street Journal reporter is on the phone and wants to know how a trove of your company’s confidential data—including customer credit card information, employee social security numbers, confidential emails, and future product plans—ended up on the dark web. What steps do you take? What notifications need to be made? ...

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Control Risks: Speaking to a New Generation about Corruption

By |2020-01-01T00:17:17+00:00March 14th, 2018|Compliance & Ethics, Legal & Regulatory, Risk & Reputation|

Empowering the newest generation of workers to fight corruption could be an overlooked key to creating a compliant organization. Significant progress has been made in moving many compliance programs beyond a one-size-fits-all approach to one that factors into compliance a company’s strategy, route-to-market and geographical challenges. However, in our ...

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Risk Management: Balancing Needs in Non-Operated International Joint Ventures

By |2020-01-01T00:15:37+00:00November 4th, 2017|Risk & Reputation|

Enterprises seeking to expand their brand or their access in previously untapped foreign markets or industries often take a non-controlling, non-majority position in a joint venture that will operate in the foreign locale. The strategy is to engage with other business partners with more localized expertise, and contribute capital and some assets in exchange ...

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Managing International Subsidiaries: Combining Legal and Cultural Know-How to Set Up a Plan

By |2019-12-30T23:57:47+00:00November 4th, 2017|Risk & Reputation|

With nearly two-thirds of in-house lawyers worldwide reporting that they have cross-border work responsibilities, many corporate legal departments will be involved in setting up or managing a new international subsidiary. This is especially true for in-house lawyers in Europe, Asia, and the Middle East, with the Association of Corporate Counsel finding that 86, 82, ...

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U.S. Bancorp: Manage, Protect and MEASURE Your Reputation

By |2019-10-29T02:43:37+00:00March 24th, 2017|***Featured Expert, Risk & Reputation|

Katherine B. Quinn is Chief Strategy and Reputation Officer of U.S. Bancorp. Ms. Quinn has served in this position since joining U.S. Bancorp in September 2013 and has served on U.S. Bancorp’s Managing Committee since January 2015. More on Ms. Quinn below.  Reputation is one of the greatest assets for any organization. A strong reputation ...

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RepRisk: Oil & Gas Sector

By |2017-08-03T16:21:31+00:00March 10th, 2017|Risk & Reputation, Special Reports|

June 2017 marks the seventh month since the Paris Climate Agreement came into force on November 4, 2016. The Agreement, which has been ratified by 148 member states of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), was drafted in 2015 as a global effort to combat climate change by limiting the rise in ...

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RepRisk Special Report: Human Trafficking

By |2017-01-15T20:42:58+00:00September 13th, 2016|Risk & Reputation, Special Reports|

The United Nations Trafficking in Persons Protocol broadly defines Human Trafficking as the “recruitment, transportation, and harboring of persons by means of abduction, coercion, or deception for the purpose of exploitation.” According to the Human Rights Law Network, human trafficking is the third largest form of global organized crime, after firearms and drugs. The International ...

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