Compliance into the Weeds

In this episode, Matt Kelly and I take a deep dive into the events which led to the resignation of Steve Wynn as the CEO and Chairman of Wynn Casinos for sexual harassment and misconduct.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode Matt Kelly and myself take a deep dive into the weeds of the recent remarks by Neomi Rao, head of the Office for Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA), the Administration’s top regulatory review office outlining ambitious plans for more deregulation in 2018 — including efforts to sweep independent federal agencies into her purview and to crack down on the “sub-regulatory” guidance that corporate compliance professionals consume all the time. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode Matt Kelly and I take a deep dive into the absolutely stunning indictment of five former partners or employees of KPMG and one former employee at the Public Company Oversight Accounting Board (PCAOB). L Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode Matt Kelly and I take a deep dive into a fascinating paper from Harvard Business School. Boris Groysberg and George Serafeim, worked with a global recruitment firm to study more than 2,000 executive-level job placements from 2004 to 2011, examining a wide range of job placements and pay data since 2004. They found that the stigma of listing a discredited company on your resume, even if you had nothing to do with the misconduct there, leads recruiters at your next employer to pay you less. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode Matt Kelly and I take deep dive into the issue of non-GAAP metrics and its implications. We were inspired an article in this quarter's MIT Sloan Management Review entitled, "The Pitfalls of Non-GAAP Metrics". It is fascinating review of this topic, which "Lurking within the financial statements and communications of public companies is a troubling trend. Alternative metrics, once used sparingly, have become increasingly ubiquitous and more detached from reality."  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode, Matt Kelly and I take a look at some of the more intriguing issues in compliance and ethics, FCPA and greater GRC issues in the new year of 2018. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this podcast, we consider the joint role of a GC-CCO and the potential corporate governance issues involved when the roles are held by one person. Does this create an irreconcilable conflict? What are the different functions of the General Counsel and the Chief Compliance Officer. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

What will be the fate of the Justice Department's Evaluation of Corporate Compliance Programs going forward under the Sessions Department of Justice.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode, Matt Kelly and I take a deep dive into the scandal around Harvey Weinstein. We consider it from the compliance perspective, both programatic and for the CCO. We consider the different types of harassment which comes may face claims of from the fallout. We also consider the Board response by The Weinstein Company board and for the claims involving Bill O'Reilly.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode, Matt Kelly and I take a deep dive into an article by Todd Haugh, in the most recent issue of the MIT Sloan Management Review entitled, “The Trouble With Corporate Compliance Programs” that even best practices compliance program fail to take into account behavioral best practices and one important but too often overlooked key to strengthening both individual and overall corporate behavior is eliminating rationalizations.   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices