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…
Every major compliance failure eventually reaches the same destination: a moment when leadership says, “How did we not see this coming? ” The answer is almost always the same. The…
In Part 3, I examined Sherrone Moore’s individual compliance and ethics violations. That analysis was necessary, but it is not sufficient. No serious compliance professional believes that repeated misconduct by…
Part 1 of this series established that the Sherrone Moore story is both a human tragedy and an institutional crisis. In Part 2, we turn to a more difficult but…
There are moments when an organization confronts a crisis so severe that it overwhelms every narrative it once controlled. The University of Michigan now finds itself in precisely that moment….
When Netflix announced its acquisition of Warner Bros., attention quickly turned to strategic synergies, content pipelines, and market influence. These are important, but they are not where the transaction’s success…
The announcement that Netflix will acquire Warner Bros has ignited debate across the entertainment, technology, and regulatory communities. Some see a natural evolution of the media landscape. Others see a…
The Netflix acquisition of Warner Bros brings together two of the largest content ecosystems in the world. The deal has enormous strategic implications, but for compliance professionals, the deeper story…
When Netflix announced its acquisition of Warner Brothers, some industry observers immediately reached for superlatives. It is rare to witness the merging of two companies that so powerfully define the…
I have long been fascinated by non-movie company attempts to break into the film business. I do not know if it is simply the glitz of Hollywood, the glamour of…
Today I want to shift gears from the serious business of SFO guidance to the serious business of measuring impact. Whether we are talking about avoiding a Deferred Prosecution Agreement…
