Following a year that saw VF Corporation streamline its portfolio of brands and move its headquarters, Ethisphere Magazine took the chance to ask a few questions to the company’s General Counsel Laura Meagher about leading the legal function through these shifts. In this conversation, she discusses preserving culture, new regulations and cross-company collaboration at ...
When it comes to compliance issues and trends, organizations are expected to keep abreast of the latest regulations and monitor their own activities to stay compliant. However, changes and uncertainties in the market are adding further pressure on the compliance efforts of organizations, making it more and more challenging to simply maintain the status ...
CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield, the largest health insurance provider in the Mid-Atlantic region of the United States, is a member of the Business Ethics Leadership Alliance and a seven-time World’s Most Ethical Companies® honoree. CareFirst’s President and CEO, Brian D. Pieninck, is particularly engaged with matters of ethics and compliance—a trait not common among chief ...
If you read a certain genre of business journalism, you might be forgiven for thinking that the most important factors governing your happiness as an employee revolve around amenities. Does this office have nap pods? How many different kinds of non-dairy milk are the break rooms stocked with? Can I bring my corgi to ...
When Hurricane Maria struck Puerto Rico in 2017, five members of the Intel Employee Service Corps—our flagship skills-based volunteer program—ventured to the island’s Mayagüez region, determined to help. They visited 161 schools in just nine days to assess the impact of the worst natural disaster in the US territory’s recorded history. After developing an assistance ...
Ethics and compliance has shifted rapidly from simple concerns about regulatory compliance to wide-ranging conversations about company culture, reputation, and risk. The tools that ethics and compliance teams use—program assessments, culture surveys, and the like—have largely remained either high-level or very intensive, making it difficult to pinpoint problem areas or identify solutions, or requiring ...
U.S. Bank’s Chief Human Resources Officer Ismat Aziz is on a mission to blend the art of personalization and the science of data to provide a best-in-class employee experience at U.S. Bank—both for current employees and for the workforce of the future. She knows well the importance of providing a customized experience for employees’ ...
We’ve worked to address inequality in the workplace, but not enough is changing. We still see harassment, misconduct, unequal pay, a dearth of female role models in C-suite and board positions, and an unclear path to success. Despite more research and public discussion, the chasm remains. We need to Move The Needle (MTN). ...
Many of Ethisphere’s readers have probably seen a post floating around LinkedIn announcing the Diversity and Inclusion Statement of Support, signed primarily by the general counsel of large European multinational firms. One of the animating forces behind this Statement is Ritva Sotamaa, the Chief Legal Officer of Unilever. Ethisphere’s Tyler Lawrence chatted with her ...
The best employees are those who feel secure and balanced in their lives, and employers are finding more and more ways they can help employees attain that security. For Sun Life Financial, that has meant supporting employee financial literacy and wellness, as well as supporting the health of the communities where its employees live ...
