The Denver Department of Public Health and Environment's decision last week to close Sloan's Lake to recreation and fishing because of blue-green algae bloom brought into stark focus the dangers of fertilizers and other chemical pollutants en...

Set in a desert, surrounded by hostile neighbors, and home to a literal Dead Sea, Israel faces one of the most precarious water situations in the world. But because the natural resource is so scarce, Israel has learned to make the most of every d...

Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the mouth. It's a nugget of wisdom (courtesy of heavyweight boxing great Mike Tyson) that companies would do well to heed when it comes to international compliance risks.

While many larg...

Let's face it: The private sector isn't getting the job done when it comes to cybersecurity. How many more Colonial Pipeline- and JBS-type incidents really need to occur to drive that point home?

The crescendo is building for a na...

Leaks of customer data, corrupt practices by foreign agents, IT breaches. These are just some of the biggest risks that companies face with their third-party relationships. Despite the known dangers, few get it right when it comes to budgeting fo...

Headlines for President Biden's $2 trillion infrastructure bill are mainly about roads and bridges, but the most pressing public health need is buried underground and out of sight.

America's network of drinking water plants, wast...

Right now, the people in charge of very important pieces of our national infrastructure are bearing an uncomfortable resemblance to a room full of preschoolers wandering around with sharp, pointy scissors.

The SolarWinds breach earli...

General counsels have evolved to become far more than just corporate lawyers. They are now a core part of executive teams, expected to show expertise in a range of financial and business areas, plus oversee legal and compliance matters. And thatâ...

Like millions of teens around the world, my daughter enjoys long showers. Unlike many fathers of teens, however, I see a bright side to the family water bill.

We're not just taking showers. We're growing grapes.

Our f...

The American West is suffering from the worst drought of our lifetimes - a two-decade dearth of precipitation, perhaps the most punishing megadrought of the past 1,200 years - and much attention is focused on water waste at home.

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Your sales team has identified and engaged with a promising new overseas distributor. The group is thrilled. They show you how the relationship could improve access to customers and boost company growth. But are you informed as to whether the pot...

Every now and then the geopolitical pendulum makes a decisive swing and the effects reverberate through economies as well as manufacturers and their supply chains. This feels like one of those moments as a new U.S. administration takes office wit...

Life sciences companies tend to consider themselves leaders when it comes to compliance policies.

In one sense they're right. The close sales relations between their distribution agents and state-linked doctors and hospitals have lo...

Sometimes even the gold standard still isn't enough. Since 1995, company leaders and their corporate counsel have leaned on a single, well-respected measure to gauge vulnerability to bribery and corruption risks around th...

Not that long ago, the process for filling orders or assembling a product involved mind-numbing tasks done over and over again, to the point the worker really didn't have to think.

Building a car, for instance, was essentially a han...

Typically, working with higher-risk third parties can creep up on a company that is either high growth or in a more regulated industry.

In the earlier part of their growth stories, most companies essentially wing it when it comes to...

As global M&A activity surges again after a brief Covid-19-related slump, it's a sure bet some acquiring companies will be inheriting unpleasant surprises along with their new partners.

One of the most underrated acquisition per...

For the past eight months, my company has been on the receiving end of a different kind of censorship from America's Big Tech companies. But not for any of the headline-generating reasons Donald Trump or Parler have been shut down. We've been...