Conflicts of Interest in the News: 010712 Edition
Three stories of particular note this week: “Is It a Conflict of Interest? Yes, but It’s Legal.” “In most states and municipalities, government officials who vote to spend taxpayer dollars on...
View ArticleGlobal Challenges in Addressing Conflicts of Interest (Part One)
By Lori Tansey Martens Part I of this blog post will deal with the challenges that firms may face when implementing conflict of interest policies and programs around the world. Part II will present...
View ArticleThe Two Types of Conflict of Interest Dilemmas
By Marty Taylor The Institute for Global Ethics has spent the last 20+ years providing tools for people to negotiate right-versus-right (RvR) ethical dilemmas. In IGE’s world, some ethical dilemmas are...
View ArticleConflicts of Interest: A governance challenge or a moral maze?
By Judith Irwin, Institute of Business Ethics Let’s start at the beginning. What is a conflict of interest? Wikipedia defines it as ‘a conflict of interest occurs when an individual or organisation...
View ArticleNepotism – the most powerful conflict of all?
In 1973, in speaking to colleagues on the Cook County Democratic Committee, Mayor Richard Daley of Chicago defended his having directed a million dollars of insurance business to an agency on behalf...
View ArticleHow not to get your next job
A prior post catalogued various COI issues arising from moving from one job to another. To this inventory should be added the recent case of David Ostermeyer (which was brought to my attention by a...
View ArticleConflicts of interest and constitutional rights
Can a conflict of interest be protected by a constitutional right? The answer is Yes. Campaign finance – at least in the US – is a prominent (some would say glaring) example of this. But what about...
View ArticleSupervising spouses and other family members in the workplace
A story earlier this week in the NY Daily News reported: “The doctor picked by [NYC] Mayor de Blasio to run the municipal hospital system was slapped with a conflict-of-interest ruling after his wife...
View ArticleFriendship – and the ties that blind (directors to conflicts of interest)
King Herod the Great had something of a problem: he had backed the losing side in the contest between Marc Antony and Octavian to rule Rome, and now fully expected to lose his life for it. But, as...
View ArticleRisk assessments for office romances
Perhaps the most celebrated story ever about a love affair is Anna Karenina and the story doesn’t end well – as the distraught heroine throws herself under a train. Office romances typically don’t...
View ArticleJust friends? Chris Christie and Jerry Jones
A long time ago – before Enron, World Com and Sarbanes-Oxley – business ethics issues in general and conflicts of interest compliance requirements in particular had little prominence in the work lives...
View ArticleTrump Princelings?
The most recent post on this blog concerned the possibility of President Elect Trump putting his assets in a trust which would be managed by his children to avoid conflicts of interest that could arise...
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