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Why Law Firms Need IT Policies

Kraft Kennedy

The answers to these and hundreds of other questions should be documented and considered integra l to the operations of all organizations, especially in industries where work product and client data are highly sensitive, and highly valuable. Law firms need IT policies that define the rules and procedures for using technology within the firm.

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The Tightrope Google Has to Walk in China

Harvard Business

The company last entered China in 2006 with a censored search engine, but pulled the plug on the operation four years later after it discovered that human-rights activists’ Gmail accounts had been hacked. Intellectual property theft. It is well-known that the Chinese government en gages extensively in IP theft.

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How the CFO and General Counsel Can Partner More Effectively

Harvard Business

These issues include legislation, regulation, litigation, enforcement, investigations, geopolitical risk, demands for ethical actions, and public criticism, affecting all the functions of the corporation in their interaction with all levels of global governments (central, regional, local).

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When Is It Important for an Algorithm to Explain Itself?

Harvard Business

While GDPR only applies in Europe, businesses around the world anticipate that similar changes are coming and so are revisiting governance efforts. Often, the reason given is to protect intellectual property or prevent a security breach. What processes will we use to govern outcomes?

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Uber Can’t Be Fixed — It’s Time for Regulators to Shut It Down

Harvard Business

Kalanick and other top executives signal by example what is and is not acceptable behavior, and they are clearly responsible for the company’s ethically and legally questionable decisions and practices. These have certainly contributed to the company’s problems, and his resignation is probably appropriate.

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Your Company Needs a More-Radical Board of Directors

Harvard Business

Remember the public shaming – and heavy sentences — heaped on Enron and Worldcom for their accounting (and more importantly, ethical) failures? This is not surprising: Growing regulation, increased investor focus on governance issues, and scary new categories of corporate risk (e.g.