Photo Credit: Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (via Flickr) For any company to reach its full potential, a change toward a culture of compliance and ethics is needed. This change should start from the top, with management leading the way. However, to truly foster an environment of compliance and ethics, everyone in the organization… Read More
By Andrew Wilson Joining business and civil society leaders around the world to explain why tackling corruption matters, CIPE’s acting Executive Director Andrew Wilson stresses the need to make business part of the solution. CIPE is one of the many organizations contributing to the Anti-Corruption Manifesto to world leaders organized by Transparency International in the lead… 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
Join the Center for International Private Enterprise (CIPE) on Monday, November 10 for a discussion on Anti-corruption Compliance for Mid-Sized Companies in Emerging Markets. In today’s globalized world, where international value chains stretch across borders and continents, anti-corruption compliance provides a vital competitive advantage. Ethical companies tend to have higher valuations, are more attractive to potential… Read More
Graffiti art produced at LTA-LABN’s public rally held in the Beirut Souks, September 12, 2014. CIPE partner the Lebanese Transparency Association (LTA) recently wrapped up a banner month in its fight against corruption in Lebanon. CIPE’s partnership with LTA dates back over ten years, and since 2012 CIPE has been supporting LTA through a grant… Read More
A lab technician went to the office of a public official to renew her work contract with a municipal laboratory in northern Lebanon. Several days after submitting her request, the official’s secretary invited her to come to his office. Hoping to finally receive his signature on her contract renewal, the young woman arrived at the… Read More