ASCL 6315

About This Course

Legal and/or ethical noncompliance can have significant negative impacts for any company and its employees, including on a company’s stock price and value; whether the desired talent wants to work for a company; whether customers want to buy products or services from a company; and whether suppliers want to sell products or services to a company.

Read more about this course in an interview with instructor Shirley Boyd.

Instructor

Shirley Boyd
Shirley Boyd

JD, Harvard Law School; BA, psychology, University of Minnesota

Shirley Boyd has over 36 years of business and legal experience working at Cargill, Incorporated. which has provided her with deep experience and a broad perspective on legal and ethical compliance issues. When she retired from Cargill in 2018, she was a vice-president, associate general counsel for Cargill Law; group lead lawyer for the Edible Oil Solutions business group, group lead lawyer for the Bioindustrial group, and lead lawyer for Global Business Operations and Supply Chain. Shirley was also the lead of the Food Law team and Law Employee Safety team, a member of Cargill Law’s Global Leadership team, and the Executive Sponsor for the company's Pride Network.

Information Subject to Change

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