One of the more promising recent workforce developments is that teams are increasingly composed of people from all walks of life. They bring different ideas, which most of us consider a good thing ...

Designing DEI that lasts requires that organizations find alignment and congruence between strategy, structure, and everyday practice.

At a moment of heightened polarization around diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) efforts in the United States and elsewhere—echoing earlier tensions surrounding the #MeToo movement—organizations ...

Last month, we began our three-part series on organizational conflicts of interests (“OCIs”) with an article discussing the different types of OCIs and how they can be mitigated. Now, in Part 2 of our ...

An Organizational Conflict of Interest (OCI) is defined as a circumstance in which a University investigator, due to their work on behalf of a U.S. governmental agency, might bias judgment in a ...

I was recently hired to help a group of doctors work through their issues and get their business back on a growth trajectory. They aren’t talking much. They’re barely making eye contact. After only a ...

Conflicts of interest are relevant for all persons serving on the boards of nonprofit organizations. Generally, the directors of nonprofits are individuals with extensive experience in their ...

Defense Department contractors would be required to disclose any possible organizational conflicts of interest before bidding on projects, under a proposed rule published on Thursday in the Federal ...

Conflict is always in the headlines. Whether it’s the leader of KPMG telling hundreds of staff to “stop moaning” about the impact of the pandemic, the chaotic parish council Zoom meeting, which ...

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A unique type of conflict of interest may arise when members of an organization assist in the development of new federal programs or federal contract specifications, and that organization later ...