Compliance

With the expansion of large multinational corporations into developing countries, a proliferation of global regulatory enforcement actions, including anti-bribery and anti-corruption, has risen. Executives, including general counsel, compliance and risk officers, are smart to plan in advance for potential regulatory investigations.

Covered entities and business associates should supplement “out-of-the-box” privacy, security and breach training programs with specific training hypotheticals that mimic incidents that have occurred in the workforce within the previous year.

Board members of healthcare organizations are under more scrutiny than ever as a result of the unique compliance requirements in the healthcare industry, as well as increased regulatory enforcement and third-party lawsuits.

Your company’s code of conduct has an antitrust section. It seems to be a universal section. But this universality often results in complacency. Do you know how serious antitrust risk is to your company?

The Treasury Department has cracked down on the practice of inversion, so company execs who managed to pull one off before the deadline now have major integration headaches to contend with -- especially in HR.

In addition to penalties, prison terms, and the associated costs of investigation and defense, another less well-known consequence of bribery is debarment from contracting on projects funded by the World Bank.

When companies merge or acquire, stakeholders usually expect that the whole will be greater than the sum of its parts. Unfortunately, the facts tell a different story. A once-exceptional organization can quickly take a turn toward mediocrity, or worse.

Email is just a one piece of a more complex communications landscape. You can't ignore the electronically stored information issues that are growing along with adoption and use of various communications tools in our business.

Necessary evil. Pain in the rear. The management penalty. Performance reviews are called many things, few of them positive. What's up with that?? One of the most important things we do as senior managers is setting, and managing to, performance expectations.

The second in a series of 12 articles from LRN: Enforcement authorities hold the bar high when describing compliance expectations and are assigning special importance to areas like risk assessments, testing and internationalized compliance infrastructures.

Employing available technology to improve the delivery and navigability of disclosure and accessible and comprehensible disclosure could be just a double-click away – it almost seems too good to be true.

Is the compliance community spending enough time looking at the dark side? Instead of defining and enforcing "normal" behavior, how about identifying the pathologies of bad behavior -- and its warning signs...”