Designing for Integrity: How Law, Organizational Culture, and Psychology Intersect in Compliance

Add to Calendar: Add to Calendar: 2025-11-12 16:30:00 2025-11-12 17:30:00 Designing for Integrity: How Law, Organizational Culture, and Psychology Intersect in Compliance Event Description After a brief introduction to compliance programs, this presentation explores the science of compliance, drawing on behavioral ethics to examine how cognitive biases and situational factors can lead otherwise ethical individuals to engage in misconduct. We then consider what academic research reveals about building a corporate culture of compliance, highlighting the shift from coercive approaches to a more effective integrity-based strategy. This approach aims to shape the key aspects of organizational life and to build an ethical infrastructure that empowers employees to act with integrity. Speaker Bio: David Hess is the Everett E. Berg Professor of Business Administration and Professor of Business Law at the Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan. He is also a Research Member of the European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI). Professor Hess is co-President of the Global Business and Human Rights Scholars Association and co-Editor-in-Chief of the Business and Human Rights Journal. He served ten years as the Law, Public Policy, and Business Ethics Section Editor for the Journal of Business Ethics, and he serves on the editorial boards of the American Business Law Journal and Business Ethics Quarterly. He has served as the Reporter for the American Bar Association’s Criminal Justice Standards on corporate monitors and is the author of the 2024 book Advanced Introduction to Corporate Compliance. His academic research has been published in leading law, ethics, and management journals, and has been recognized with national awards, such as the Faculty Pioneer Award from The Aspen Institute. Reading materials CWRU School of Law Moot Courtroom School of Law School of Law America/New_York public