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In a large international pharmaceutical company, collecting data for the Compliance Committee (CC) is rarely straightforward. You have dozens, perhaps hundreds of business units, regional offices, country affiliates, and functional (HQ) teams. Each must feed in quantitative and qualitative metrics, key risk indicators, remediation updates, audit...
Read More😅 It’s that time again: the Code of Conduct review cycle. Easy, you think? Not quite. In the pharmaceutical industry, a Code of Conduct (CoC) isn’t something Legal or Compliance can simply draft in isolation. Sure, we own the sections on anti-corruption, competition law, data protection, insider trading, dawn raids, third-party risk, sanctions,...
Read MoreWhy Process Documentation and Tracking Are Your Ethical Shield It’s a Tuesday morning, and the audit you’ve been preparing for finally begins. The auditors’ opening request is clear: show us how your company’s policies are applied in practice. On paper, your organization may look fine. Policies exist. Guidelines have been written and communicated...
Read MoreEnvironmental labels and sustainability claims are being used more and more as marketing tools to convince consumers to believe that buying such products would contribute to the development of a more circular economy. However, unfortunately, many of these claims are often vague and unsubstantiated. The problem is that they create the illusion of...
Read MoreI propose to move from “having a general idea” to collecting regular and consistent data to prioritize our actions. Too much work? Too many surveys? It does not need to be that way. In today’s blog post, we propose a simple yet effective data driven approach to monitor key health indicators for all of your Business Units
Read MoreDo you have competition law in your remit? Yes, partly, maybe? Some E&C Teams I know have a joint responsibility with the legal team: while the latter answers day to day questions, and advises on agreements, Ethics & Compliance professionals bring a systematic approach to risk prevention and mitigation. In today's blogpost, we refresh our...
Read MoreFacing the prospect of a dawn raid or a surprise visit from regulatory authorities can be a daunting experience for any organization. We’ve all feared it, and it has happened to some of us: authorities may visit in person, without being announced, and it’s so much better to be prepared than to be
Read MoreAs we step into 2024, Ethics & Compliance professionals find themselves at the forefront of a myriad of challenges and trends that demand their attention and strategic planning, to in turn enable their organizations to do the right thing, in an ever evolving and highly uncertain and crisis prone
Read MoreThe EU's 2020-2024 action plan on human rights, identifies the implementation of international standards on responsible business conduct and the eradication of forced labor as a priority (Joint communication to the european parliament and the council - EU Action Plan on Human Rights and Democracy 2020-2024 - 25 March
Read MoreRanging from communication to leadership to problem solving to creativity and governing how we interact with teams, we don't really learn them at school or university. And yet, no matter how savvy we are technically, these skills can make or break our success as a human working with other humans in any organization. Even though they are harder...
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