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There is a growing demand for knowledgeable compliance professionals, and current and prospective corporate employees need the tools to succeed in this exciting field. The required one-week intensive course provides students with the skills to address corporate compliance issues in a business landscape that is dealing with increasingly stringent regulatory oversight. Leading compliance experts and practitioners across a variety of industries provide their insights regarding the challenges and complexities facing today’s corporations. This practical, hands-on program is designed for corporate professionals in any discipline who are seeking to gain expertise on a variety of corporate compliance and ethics topics.

Upon completion of the Certificate program, students have knowledge of:

• Key substantive areas of corporate compliance, including corruption, fraud, conflicts of interest, and social media
• Pertinent laws, including Dodd-Frank, Sarbanes-Oxley, and the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, along with their implications
• Core elements of an effective corporate compliance and ethics program, including compliance risk assessments and their role within risk management; training and communications; effective hotline, helpline, and whistle-blower protection programs and disciplinary systems; the roles of the board and executive management; and program auditing, monitoring, evaluation
• Corporate compliance in the face of multijurisdictional government investigations, enforcement, fines, and criminal penalties
• Benchmarking and best-practice examples from global corporations

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