ET Guest Column By Andrea Bonime-Blanc | Governance, Risk, Ethics and Compliance: Time for a Seat at the Executive Table

ET Guest Column By Andrea Bonime-Blanc Governance, Risk, Ethics and Compliance: Time for a Seat at the Executive Table

ERC - Ethics Resource Center
Published: February 18, 2009
Guest Column By Andrea Bonime-Blanc

Governance, Risk, Ethics and Compliance: Time for a Seat at the Executive Table

The meltdown of the global financial markets over the past weeks and months and the implosion of the largely unregulated risk-taking of the past few years, point to the urgent need for a fundamentally new way of doing business: one that places an effective internal governor on business in a way that simultaneously helps profitability and lessens liability. Governance, risk management, ethics and compliance need to get a permanent seat at the executive table, and senior business leaders must finally put real support behind the fashionable mantra of doing business responsibly.


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This posting was made my Jim Jacobs, President & CEO of Jacobs Executive Advisors. Jim also serves as Leader of Jacobs Advisors' Insurance Practice.