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Proxy Governance Goes after ISS in Proxy War of Proxy Services: The cold war among proxy service companies has been getting a lot hotter lately. Proxy Governance, a proxy service firm based in Vienna, Va., has gone on the offensive by pushing for a "code of ethics" among its group which includes Glass Lewis & Company and Egan...; Tags: Consulting Service, Code Of Ethics, SEC, Proxy Governance, Corporate Governance, Corporate Law, Policies And Procedures, Business Operations, Human Resources, Peter Galuszka; Blog posts 2008-07-28
Another Bump for Sarbanes-Oxley: After six years of survival, could a constitutional technicality derail the far-reaching Sarbanes-Oxley Act? At issue is a case before the U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington, D.C. that challenges the constitutionality of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board. The PCAOB was set up by the Sarbanes-Oxley...; Tags: Sarbanes-Oxley, Accounting, Sarbanes-Oxley Act, PCAOB, Regulatory Compliance, Regulations, Government, Financial Accounting, Finance, Human Resources, Policies And Procedures, Peter Galuszka; Blog posts 2008-07-21
Encouraging Accidental Invention: It's not by accident that some of our greatest inventions have resulted from, well, accidents. Many inventors stumble across breakthrough ideas while actually looking for something else, or not even looking at all. A melted candy bar led to the creation of the the microwave oven. Penicillin...; Tags: Sean Silverthorne, Human Resources, Policies And Procedures, Accident; Blog posts 2008-07-17
Sarbanes-Oxley in Retrospect: SOX Comes of Age: In the first two installments of this three-part series, I talked about the birth of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act and about how it spread fear and loathing among business leaders in the U.S. Flash forward to today. Having taken effect nearly six years ago, SOX has settled in. Was it...; Tags: Human Resources, Finance, Financial Accounting, Government, Regulations, Regulatory Compliance, Sarbanes-Oxley, Sarbanes-Oxley Act, Policies And Procedures, Peter Galuszka; Blog posts 2008-07-11
Sarbanes-Oxley in Retrospect: Fear and Loathing: By 2005, it was clear that Sarbanes-Oxley wasnâ€™t exactly popular. SOX was being blamed for everything from putting companies out of business to forcing foreign firms to seek capital in non-U.S. markets. The most serious and believable criticisms surrounded SOXâ€™s notorious Section 404 which called for internal...; Tags: Finance, Financial Accounting, Government, Regulations, Regulatory Compliance, Sarbanes-Oxley, Sarbanes-Oxley Act, Human Resources, Policies And Procedures, Peter Galuszka; Blog posts 2008-07-10

Sarbanes-Oxley in Retrospect: In the Beginning: We're coming up on the sixth anniversary of the passage of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act which still stirs strong emotions. Indeed, when President George W. Bush signed it into law on July 30, 2002, he called it "the most far-reaching" business regulation reform since the days of Franklin Delano Roosevelt. ...; Tags: Peter Galuszka, Policies And Procedures, Human Resources, Finance, Financial Accounting, Government, Regulations, Regulatory Compliance, Sarbanes-Oxley, Sarbanes-Oxley Act; Blog posts 2008-07-09
CFO Pay is Up, Says CEO Equilar: While high-flying CEOs continue to get big bumps in pay, down closer to earth, CFOs are getting larger pay hikes on average than the typical CEO. That's the conclusion of a recent report by CEO Equilar, which tracks compensation issues. Writing on Equilar CEO Blog, David Chun...; Tags: Human Resources, Regulations, CFO, CEO, Benefits, Sarbanes-Oxley, Peter Galuszka, Policies And Procedures, Finance, Financial Accounting, Government, Regulatory Compliance, Compensation; Blog posts 2008-06-23
Six Steps to an Ethical Business Culture: A recent white paper from Allegiance, a company which provides what they call Enterprise Feedback Management, attempts to outline a plan for creating an ethical business culture in six steps: Establish an enforceable code of conduct. Initial and ongoing training. Regular communications. Anonymous reporting...; Tags: Human Resources, Leadership, Management, Business Operations, Policies And Procedures, Business Ethics, Litigation, Culture, William Baker; Blog posts 2008-04-22
Marketing By Accident: Ben McConnell of the Church of the Customer blog features 10 Questions with David Vinjamuri author of the new book "Accidental Branding," which he looks at inexperienced entrepreneurs who nonetheless built well-known brands (Clif Bars, Columbia Sportswear). A couple of Vinjamuri's better comments from...; Tags: Human Resources, Marketing, Michael Fitzgerald, Policies And Procedures, Brand, Branding, Accident; Blog posts 2008-04-16
Stop the Meeting Madness! Tools for Simplifying Your Company: Is more than half your time soaked up in company meetings? How many layers of management sit between your CEO and front-line workers? Do you understand how to get a capital expense approved? The answer to these questions and 7 others in a new Harvard Business diagnostic...; Tags: Sean Silverthorne, Policies And Procedures, Human Resources, Finance, Financial Accounting, Government, Management, Strategy, Regulations, Organizational Structure, Regulatory Compliance, Sarbanes-Oxley, Productivity, Globalization, Manager, Accountability, Tool, Complexity; Blog posts 2007-12-11
OgilvyÃ¢â�¬â�¢s Code of Ethics for Blogger Outreach: Nice job by the folks at Ogilvy PR to come up with a code of ethics in conducting blogger media relations. Their code is reprinted below in its entirety. Itâ€™s as much a Code of Blogger Media Relations Best Practices as it is a Code of Ethics. ...; Tags: Code Of Ethics, Blog, Blogger, Ogilvy, Ogilvy PR, E-mail, Policies And Procedures, Blogging, Public Relations, Online Communications, Human Resources, Internet, Marketing, Corporate Communications, Jon Greer; Blog posts 2007-11-13
What to Do if Your Product Catches on Fire: Passengers evacuated from a China Airlines plane that caught fire atÂ an Okinawa airport complained the flight crew provided poor evacuation instructions. Perhaps the flight crew should take a lesson in competency from the maintenance staffersÂ who meticulouslyÂ whited-out theÂ company's name and logo on the burntÂ aircraft's remains. That's right. The...; Tags: Accident, Media, China Airlines, Branding, Human Resources, Manufacturing, Marketing, Lori Deschene, Aerospace & Defense, Policies And Procedures; Blog posts 2007-08-23
When the Boss Is Away the Worker Will...Work?: You're taking off a week to go to Hawaii or Paris -- or maybe you're just schlepping it over toÂ small town, Missouri to visit family -- and you tell your employees you'll be unreachable for the week. Come Wednesday you start wondering if that important report got processed. So you...; Tags: Wall Street Journal Online, Worker, Employee, Team Management, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Recruitment & Selection, Healthcare, Policies And Procedures, Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Lori Deschene; Blog posts 2007-08-22
How to Fight the Afternoon Yawns: Everyone knows the feeling. You've just come back from lunch, and there's a stack of work two feet high on your desk. You know you should be working busily along, but for some reason you just can't seem to keep your eyes open or your thoughts straight. What's going on?...; Tags: Policies And Procedures, Mice, Human Resources, Hardware, Peripherals, Jessica Stillman, Times, Worker, Dip; Blog posts 2007-08-20
How to Change Limiting Beliefs: The beliefs that drive your sales behaviors are the keys to becoming a successful sales pro. Change the beliefs, and you'll change the behaviors and get better results. Now, that's easy to say, but most sales pros have no idea how to change a belief. ...; Tags: Sales strategy, Sales force management, Sales tools, Policies and procedures, Blogroll, Cold Calls, General, Sales Tips, Geoffrey James, sales; Blog posts 2007-06-20
One on One: "The financial service issues have become a political hot potato".(News): Byline: Sara Hansard If there's anyone in Washington who is keenly aware of the costs and burdens of federal regulations on investment advisers, it's David Tittsworth. He is head of the Investment Counsel Association of America...; Tags: advisor, compliance, financial, financial service, policies and procedures, SEC; Research articles 2003-06-30
Yahoo, Google, Microsoft Try Not Being Evil: Google's informal motto is a simple one, "donâ€™t be evil." It has certainly helped the hipster search giantâ€™s reputation among, well, hipster Web searchers, though the company hasn't always lived up to its ideal. Take for example the companyâ€™s alleged complicity with China's Golden Shield Project, which monitors Internet traffic...; Tags: china, google inc., yahoo! inc., microsoft corp., code of conduct, internet, policies and procedures, government, human resources, michael mattis; Blog posts 2008-08-06
SOX Didn't Force Away Foreign Firms: Study: The bugles sounded! The wagons circled! And the Hank Paulsons of the world, dressed in the blue and yellow of the cavalry, prepared for the attack! The attack, of course, was coming from the Sarbanes-Oxley Act that the John Waynes of Big Business such as Tom...; Tags: u.s., sarbanes-oxley act, firm, sarbanes-oxley, regulatory compliance, regulations, government, financial accounting, finance, human resources, policies and procedures, peter galuszka; Blog posts 2008-08-08
Conduct Unbecoming at Virtuous Costco?: Any company that's been known to violate what Stanford business professor Bob Sutton infamously calls The No Asshole Rule -- if it hasn't already been held up to shame in his best-selling book of the same name -- can expect to be shamed on a regular basis in...; Tags: Benefits, Blogging, Costco Wholesale Corp., Human Resources, Internet, Jeffrey Davis, Policies And Procedures; Blog posts 2008-04-11
Blaming the Messenger for Salmonella Outbreak: There's no question that the people who run the fresh-produce business are deeply concerned about events like the recent salmonella outbreak. Or at least, most of them are. "Maybe," said Brent Beckman, the sales and marketing manager of G.O. Fresh of Minneapolis, "this may not be such...; Tags: Accident, Dan Mitchell, Government, Human Resources, Outbreak, Policies And Procedures; Blog posts 2008-07-28