This blog first appeared in The FCPA Blog on March 18, 2016. It is posted here with permission. By Worth MacMurray Heads up: The six-month anniversary in your new position will arrive in a flash. If you were hired as part of your organization’s response to a serious corruption allegation, you may still be in… Read More
This blog appeared originally on March 4, 2016 on The Global Anti-Corruption Blog. It is re-posted here with permission. by Nayana RenuKumar Corruption in government procurement is a massive problem worldwide, especially in developing countries. In an ideal world, measures to combat procurement corruption would include structural changes that would open up monopolies, break cartels, and enact rational, uniform,… Read More
Reflect, for one moment, on just how much you know about McDonald’s. (It doesn’t matter whether you love McDonald’s or would never be caught dead in one; this works either way.) You know the names of many of their foods. You know that an Egg McMuffin is eggs on an English muffin with cheese and… Read More
By Declan Croucher, Verité Verité’s on-the-ground research, risk assessments, and monitoring work in global supply chains routinely uncover situations where unethical labor brokers and corrupt government officials are instrumental in greasing the wheels of labor trafficking. The foreign subsidiaries, franchisees, joint ventures, and suppliers of global multinationals who end up employing trafficked migrant workers frequently express… Read More
Alison Taylor, the Director of Advisory Services for BSR (a global non-profit organization focused on sustainability) contributes the following article, which was originally posted on the Global Anticorruption Blog. Despite all the investment in corporate anti-bribery compliance programs, supported by a lucrative consulting industry dominated by investigation companies and accounting and law firms, violations of… Read More
By Matthew Stephenson, Professor, Harvard Law School This post originally appeared at the Global Anticorruption Blog. Several months ago I did a couple of posts (here and here) on the Transparency International USA report from a couple months back on verification of corporate anti-corruption compliance programs. That report also got me thinking about a more general… Read More