Ethics and Compliance

Your company's integrity.
The Conference Board Ethics Program is designed to assist those both new to ethics and compliance management as well as more seasoned executives. Industry guidelines are illustrated through real world best practices from leading corporations. Typical topics addressed include: gaining support, oversight and effective leadership, communications and training, discipline monitoring and program assessment.

Latest News

Working at the Intersection of Human Resources, Ethics and Compliance
New Report from The Conference Board Governance Center Points to Desire for More Collaboration

Events/Forums

Conferences

Business Ethics and Compliance Conference
Priorities in Today’s Regulatory and Enforcement Environment

Councils

Council on Corporate Compliance and Ethics
The role of the Chief Compliance and Ethics Officer continues to evolve rapidly. In an increasingly complex and difficult corporate environment, today’s Chief Compliance and Ethics Officer faces significantly increased responsibilities, high expectation

Council of Senior International Attorneys
Discusses legal issues that arise as companies conduct business globally.

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Research Working Group

Ethics & Compliance Criteria in Government Enforcement Decisions
This research working group will create a searchable database of cases from countries where E & C program effectiveness had an impact on the decision to bring charges or on sentence severity.

Publications

Executive Action Reports
Ethics and Compliance Enforcement Decisions – the Information Gap Senior executives and corporate directors want to know whether companies have "received credit" (i.e., avoided prosecution or obtained sentence reductions) for having effective ethics and compliance programs - but such information is in short supply.		Working at the Intersection of Human Resources and Business Ethics – the Need for Collaboration When it comes to the implementation of an effective ethics and compliance program, corporate culture, performance incentives, and disciplinary systems must be closely integrated with standard human resources and talent management processes.
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Research Reports
Working at the Intersection of Human Resources, Ethics, and Compliance - The Need for Collaboration The publication pursues cultural and organizational issues that may limit this collaboration, human resources' potential leadership role, and ways of introducing metrics into the equation.		Finding the Right Balance: The Risks and Rewards of Third Party Ethics Programs This survey based report provides findings on company practices regarding compliance and ethics requirements and standards to third parties.