The world's largest businesses must routinely police other businesses. By public mandate,
Facebook monitors app developers' privacy safeguards, Citibank audits call centers for …

The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has had a significant impact on the certification and
auditing services of Voluntary Sustainability Standards (VSS). The traditional approach to …

Like police officers patrolling the streets for crime, the front lines for most large business
regulators—Environmental Protection Agency engineers, Consumer Financial Protection …

Concerns about the climate and local air impacts of emissions from the oil and gas supply
chain have caused a reevaluation of natural gas' role in a low carbon future. In response …

In July 2023, New York City became the first jurisdiction globally to mandate bias audits for
commercial algorithmic systems, specifically for automated employment decisions systems …

Accuracy and consistency are critical for inspections to be an effective, fair, and useful tool
for assessing risks, quality, and suppliers—and for making decisions based on those …

The rapid development of remote sensing technologies (such as airborne, unmanned aerial
vehicles and terrestrial sensors) as surveillance tools to monitor the environment exposes …

Relying on firms to self‐report information is an information‐gathering mechanism that often
results in biased measures due to the incentives of the reporting firms. What is less …

Activism seeking to improve labor conditions in global supply chains has led many
transnational corporations to adopt codes of conduct and to monitor suppliers for …

Reducing and preventing corporate crime and wrongdoing requires more than merely
punishing corporations and their executives. True change requires transformations within …