Welcome to The Woody Report, where Washington & Lee School of Law Associate Professor Karen Woody and host Tom Fox discuss issues on white collar crime, compliance issues, international corruption, securities and accounting fraud, and internal corporate…
A company can publish thoughtful AI principles, appoint a governance committee, and still struggle to answer a basic question: who can stop an AI system when its behavior creates unacceptable…
Compliance technology has become the operational backbone of the modern ethics and compliance program. When technology works, it can make compliance faster, more consistent, measurable, and embedded in business operations….
In the first four posts in the Leonardo Compliance Framework, we used Leonardo’s work to explore the compliance disciplines of Refine, Investigate, Innovate, and Monitor. For our final blog post, the…
In the previous post in the Leonardo Compliance Framework, Leonardo’s flying machines gave us Innovate, the principle that Compliance should help organizations capture the benefits of emerging technology while establishing governance…
In the first two posts in the Leonardo Compliance Framework, the Mona Lisa gave us Refine, the principle that an effective compliance program improves as the organization learns from experience. Leonardo’s anatomical…
In the first post in our Leonardo Compliance Framework, the Mona Lisa introduced Refine: the discipline of continuous improvement. An effective compliance program should learn from investigations, monitoring, risk assessments, employee feedback, control failures,…
I recently wrote a five-part blog series on compliance through Michelangelo’s lens. In our Michelangelo Compliance Framework, we used five extraordinary projects to explore five disciplines of the modern compliance…
A business leader calls a Chief Compliance Officer (CCO) difficult after a proposed distributor fails to provide basic ownership information. The transaction is important to the quarter. The CCO has…
A board can have impressive credentials and still lack the experience needed to challenge management on the company’s most significant compliance risks. Directors may understand finance, strategy, and operations in…
A compliance strategic plan should explain how the function will build the capabilities the business needs to manage its risks. That requires choices about priorities, resources, authority, and execution. A…
