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…
We continue our exploration of one of the most public cases of corporate moral bankruptcy where Lafarge SA and its Syria unit Lafarge Cement Syria, or LCS, each pled guilty…
On April 24, 2017, Holcim Group issued a press release announcing the conclusion of the investigation into the payment of its subsidiary LaFarge to designated terrorist organizations. The Press Release…
I conclude my Great Structures Week with a focus on structural engineering failures: suspension bridges and the challenges of wind in their construction and maintenance. I am drawing these posts…
I continue my Great Structures Week with focus on great structural engineering and its innovations in the medieval world – that being the Gothic Cathedral. I am drawing these posts…
I continue my Great Structures Week with focus on structural engineering innovations from ancient Rome. I am drawing these posts from The Teaching Company course, “Understanding the World’s Greatest Structures:…
I continue my Great Structures Week with a focus on great structures from the earliest times, ancient Egypt and Greece. I am drawing these posts from The Teaching Company course,…
In “Understanding the World’s Greatest Structures: Science and Innovation from Antiquity to Modernity”, by Professor Stephen Ressler, he explores some of the world’s greatest structures and the development of structural…
One of the requirements consistent throughout the Principles of Federal Prosecution of Business Organization (US Sentencing Guidelines) and its section on corporate compliance programs; the Organization for Economic Co-operation and…
In 2006, Germany-based Siemens was ranked 22nd on the Global Fortune 500 with revenues of $100 billion. It was a global leader and one of the world’s most admired companies. Until…
One thing compliance professionals are rarely trained to do is trust your eyes. This may be because it seems too obvious. After all the well-known Howard Sklar maxim of “Water…
