Compliance and Managers’ Accountability https://blog.iese.edu/compliance-and-managers-accountabilty Compliance and Managers’ Accountability Thu, 08 Jun 2017 09:27:56 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.1 Spain: Corporate Compliance, Crime Prevention… and Business Ethics? https://blog.iese.edu/compliance-and-managers-accountabilty/2017/06/08/spain-corporate-compliance-crime-prevention-and-business-ethics/ https://blog.iese.edu/compliance-and-managers-accountabilty/2017/06/08/spain-corporate-compliance-crime-prevention-and-business-ethics/#comments Thu, 08 Jun 2017 09:27:56 +0000 https://blog.iese.edu/compliance-and-managers-accountabilty/?p=63 This post is the result of a collaboration with Manuel Alverez Feijoo, a friend and lawyer in the important law-firm Uría Menéndez. What we discuss below is also the topic of many lectures Manuel delivers within my business ethics and compliance courses in IESE business school. I believe that two main broad considerations can be […]

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]]> https://blog.iese.edu/compliance-and-managers-accountabilty/2017/06/08/spain-corporate-compliance-crime-prevention-and-business-ethics/feed/ 3 Evaluating Damages: Some Ethical and Practical Considerations https://blog.iese.edu/compliance-and-managers-accountabilty/2017/05/04/evaluating-damages-some-ethical-and-practical-considerations/ https://blog.iese.edu/compliance-and-managers-accountabilty/2017/05/04/evaluating-damages-some-ethical-and-practical-considerations/#comments Thu, 04 May 2017 15:33:06 +0000 https://blog.iese.edu/compliance-and-managers-accountabilty/?p=49 Be prepared: this will be a very long post. But, you asked me. Following the requests of some followers (thanks always for writing to me!), I have just finished a document about damage evaluation. Not easy to do in just a few pages, but I did my best. Why damage evaluation? It is important to immediately […]

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]]> https://blog.iese.edu/compliance-and-managers-accountabilty/2017/05/04/evaluating-damages-some-ethical-and-practical-considerations/feed/ 13 Homogeneity and Ethics of Compliance Systems https://blog.iese.edu/compliance-and-managers-accountabilty/2017/04/06/homogeneity-and-ethics-of-compliance-systems/ https://blog.iese.edu/compliance-and-managers-accountabilty/2017/04/06/homogeneity-and-ethics-of-compliance-systems/#comments Thu, 06 Apr 2017 14:49:24 +0000 https://blog.iese.edu/compliance-and-managers-accountabilty/?p=41 Should compliance systems address specific local and cultural issues? Or, instead, is homogeneity throughout geographies the best solution? These questions are real nightmares for compliance officers that manage multinational companies. On one hand, some variation is imposed by different national legislations; on the other hand, homogeneity in the compliance function is often searched for many […]

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]]> https://blog.iese.edu/compliance-and-managers-accountabilty/2017/04/06/homogeneity-and-ethics-of-compliance-systems/feed/ 3 Developing Active Controls Systems for Fraud https://blog.iese.edu/compliance-and-managers-accountabilty/2017/02/28/developing-active-controls-systems-for-fraud/ https://blog.iese.edu/compliance-and-managers-accountabilty/2017/02/28/developing-active-controls-systems-for-fraud/#comments Tue, 28 Feb 2017 13:16:51 +0000 https://blog.iese.edu/compliance-and-managers-accountabilty/?p=35 Today almost everyone speaks about the importance of proactive compliance strategies, in opposition to reactive ones. Of course I fully agree on the importance of proactivity. But, it is important to remember that it requires a well-developed nervous system that allows the brain (the top management) to control and receive the information from the body […]

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]]> https://blog.iese.edu/compliance-and-managers-accountabilty/2017/02/28/developing-active-controls-systems-for-fraud/feed/ 4 FBI vs Apple https://blog.iese.edu/compliance-and-managers-accountabilty/2017/02/09/apple-vs-fbi/ https://blog.iese.edu/compliance-and-managers-accountabilty/2017/02/09/apple-vs-fbi/#comments Thu, 09 Feb 2017 10:43:01 +0000 https://blog.iese.edu/compliance-and-managers-accountabilty/?p=26 Between August 2015 and February 2017 Apple has objected at least 13 different courts requests to unlock the iPhone of suspected terrorists. This situation obtained the attention of the public in December 2015 when, after the San Bernardino terrorist attack, FBI recovered an Apple iPhone 5c who was used by Syed Rizwan Farook, one of […]

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]]> https://blog.iese.edu/compliance-and-managers-accountabilty/2017/02/09/apple-vs-fbi/feed/ 4 Cosmetic or Substantial Compliance? https://blog.iese.edu/compliance-and-managers-accountabilty/2017/01/25/cosmetic-or-substantial-compliance/ https://blog.iese.edu/compliance-and-managers-accountabilty/2017/01/25/cosmetic-or-substantial-compliance/#comments Wed, 25 Jan 2017 15:22:14 +0000 https://blog.iese.edu/compliance-and-managers-accountabilty/?p=12 During the last ten years, I had the possibility to analyze, for research or consulting reasons, hundreds of compliance models of companies operating in Europe, North America, Africa and Latina America. Let me share with you a very simple statistics: over 95% of them adopted a compliance approach that I define in my courses as […]

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