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The Five Levels of Building an Ethical Culture

Richard Bistrong

Mar 26, 2017

The Five Levels of Building an Ethical Culture

This guest post is by Alison Taylor, Director, BSR, and first appeared on BSR here. How to build and sustain an organization whose employees are happy, motivated, and ethical remains one of the most complex, elusive questions confronting business leaders. Organizational culture is determined by the interaction of systems, norms, and values, all of which influence behavior. Much discussion of organizational culture still focuses on structural changes to corporate governance

VIDEO: The Terrain of Global Anti-Bribery Compliance Challenges

Richard Bistrong

Jul 18, 2016

VIDEO: The Terrain of Global Anti-Bribery Compliance Challenges

In the second part of their interview, Alison Taylor, Director of advisory services at BSR, a non-profit consultancy and company network focused on sustainability and CSR, and James Cohen, an expert on anti-corruption, international development, and security sector reform, share their reflections on a co-authored blog piece titled “An Organizational Response to Global Compliance Challenges.” In this video, they address: Why organizational culture is such an area of focus in t

VIDEO: Hyper-Transparency and Corporate Anti-Corruption

Richard Bistrong

Jul 14, 2016

VIDEO: Hyper-Transparency and Corporate Anti-Corruption

In part one of a two part interview, Alison Taylor, Director of advisory services at BSR, a non-profit consultancy and company network focused on sustainability and CSR, and James Cohen, an expert on anti-corruption, international development, and security sector reform, share their personal views of how recent data leaks have impacted our awareness of global corruption issues, and how that might shape the future of compliance programs. Issues addressed in this seventeen minu

An Organizational Response to Global Compliance Challenges

Richard Bistrong

Jul 11, 2016

An Organizational Response to Global Compliance Challenges

The following is part II of a guest post by Alison Taylor and James Cohen. Part I can be found here. A consensus has emerged as to what an effective anti-corruption compliance program looks like – its components and success factors. At the same time, it has become clear that compliance programs don’t exist in a vacuum; the effectiveness of any process is driven by its surrounding culture. Regulators and compliance teams are drawing inspiration from leading academic thinking o

Global Trends and Business Ethics

Richard Bistrong

Jul 5, 2016

Global Trends and Business Ethics

The following is part one of a two-part guest post by Alison Taylor and James Cohen. 2016 is only half-complete, but it’s already been a pivotal year in ethics and compliance. The Panama Papers and Unaoil data leaks have ushered in a transformed transparency environment. Due diligence approaches have come under particular pressure as it came clear that standard tools and approaches are not fit for purpose. Leading thinkers in compliance have called for Compliance 2.0, a boost

Organizational Cultures of Corruption

Apr 21, 2016

Organizational Cultures of Corruption

The following guest post is by Alison Taylor. My new issue brief, published by the Columbia Law School Center for the Advancement of Public Integrity, is based on extensive academic research, a review of primary data from FCPA investigations, and interviews with 23 expert integrity practitioners. The research aims to answer one simple question – what do corrupt organizations have in common? It seemed to me that any attempt to build more sustainable and ethical organizational

Offshore Leaks and the New Transparency

Apr 5, 2016

Offshore Leaks and the New Transparency

The Following Guest Post is by Alison Taylor Last week’s joint investigation by Huffington Post and Fairfax Media into oil intermediary Unaoil, which offered up revelations that seem to implicate a number of big oil and gas companies in grand corruption, quickly provoked a dramatic raid by authorities in Monaco. Within days, the Unaoil case was dwarfed by history’s biggest data leak, 40 years’ worth of beneficial ownership data from Mossack Fonseca, a law firm specializing in