Intact Financial: Guardrails for AI? Collaborating to Set New Principles
Maryann Besharat VP, Legal Affairs & Compliance Services, Intact Financial Corporation With advances in machine learning and other forms of big data and artificial intelligence, more and more corporations are using ...
The Corporate Purpose Issue
“The Corporate Purpose Issue” of Ethisphere Magazine dives into the question of the purpose of a 21st century corporation. Beyond profits, what are they for? How can defining your company’s more clearly help you to inspire and retain employees?
Risk and Reputation
A Q&A With Pamela Passman
In the coming month, Ethisphere Vice Chair Pamela Passman will be leaving Ethisphere to pursue a new path. In this Q&A, Ethisphere EVP Erica Salmon Byrne interviews Passman about ...
Special Edition Magazine: BELA Asia Pacific
At its core, the BELA Asia Pacific community, in partnership with William E. Connor & Associates is about promoting integrity through shared experiences, enabling companies to improve ...
Northern Trust: ESG Transparency & Metrics
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 ...
Baker McKenzie: ESG as New Risk Frontier
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 ...
EY: Future of Investigations & Compliance
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 ...
Commit to Community: Peñoles Succeeds by Building Up Mexico
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 ...
Lost in a Cyber Second: Protecting Information and Mitigating Cyber Risk
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 ...
Control Risks: Speaking to a New Generation about Corruption
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 ...
Risk Management: Balancing Needs in Non-Operated International Joint Ventures
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 ...
Managing International Subsidiaries: Combining Legal and Cultural Know-How to Set Up a Plan
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 ...
U.S. Bancorp: Manage, Protect and MEASURE Your 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 ...
RepRisk: Oil & Gas Sector
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 ...
RepRisk Special Report: Human Trafficking
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 ...
RepRisk Special Report: Forced Labor
The International Labour Organization (ILO) defines the term “forced labor” as: “situations in which persons are coerced to work through the use of violence or intimidation, or by subtler means ...
What it Takes to Make it to the World’s Most Ethical Companies List
Ken Daly (pictured right) is President of the New York business of National Grid, which serves 4 million natural gas and electric customers in Brooklyn, Queens, Staten Island, Long Island ...
Sharing Citizenship: Unleashing the Skills and Passion of Your Employees
J.P. Bilbrey is Chairman of the Board, President, and Chief Executive Officer for The Hershey Company, the largest producer of quality chocolate in North America and a global leader in ...