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      • June 2025
      • Teaching Note

      Paul Weiss: Fighting or Negotiating with POTUS

      By: Eugene Soltes and Anthea Brady
      This note was prepared by Professor Eugene Soltes and Research Associate Anthea Brady for the purpose of aiding classroom instructors in the use of “Paul Weiss: Fighting or Negotiating with POTUS,” HBS No. 125-098. It provides analysis and questions that are intended... View Details
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      Soltes, Eugene, and Anthea Brady. "Paul Weiss: Fighting or Negotiating with POTUS." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 125-119, June 2025.
      • April 2025 (Revised June 2025)
      • Case

      Paul Weiss: Fighting or Negotiating with POTUS

      By: Eugene Soltes and Anthea Brady
      In early 2025, Paul Weiss Chairman Brad Karp weighed how to respond to an Executive Order from President Trump that could threaten the financial livelihood of his law firm. Paul Weiss and Karp had to decide to mount a legal fight or negotiate with the White House. The... View Details
      Keywords: Federal Government; Decision Making; Law; Mission and Purpose; Negotiation; Business and Government Relations; Legal Services Industry; United States
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      Soltes, Eugene, and Anthea Brady. "Paul Weiss: Fighting or Negotiating with POTUS." Harvard Business School Case 125-098, April 2025. (Revised June 2025.)
      • 2023
      • Working Paper

      What Makes Managers’ Private Disclosures Informative? Evidence from Professional Investors

      By: Michael Durney, Hoyoun Kyung, Jihwon Park and Eugene F. Soltes
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      Durney, Michael, Hoyoun Kyung, Jihwon Park, and Eugene F. Soltes. "What Makes Managers’ Private Disclosures Informative? Evidence from Professional Investors." Working Paper, December 2023.
      • 2022
      • Chapter

      Corporate Misconduct’s Relevance to Society through Everyday Misconduct

      By: Eugene Soltes
      Terms like "corporate misconduct" and "white-collar crime" typically bring to mind major scandals like Enron or Bernie Madoff. This popular perception overlooks another important—and in fact much more typical—type of deviance: "everyday misconduct." Everyday misconduct... View Details
      Keywords: Research; Crime and Corruption; Society
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      Soltes, Eugene. "Corporate Misconduct’s Relevance to Society through Everyday Misconduct." Chap. 2 in A Research Agenda for Financial Crime, edited by Barry Rider, 31–48. Edward Elgar Publishing, 2022.
      • 2022
      • Book

      Corporate Criminal Investigations and Prosecutions

      By: Leo R. Tsao, Daniel S. Kahn and Eugene F. Soltes
      Over the past two decades, corporate criminal liability has developed into one of the fastest-growing and most dynamic areas of legal practice. The growth of corporate criminal enforcement has correlated with a broad shift in how the government investigates and... View Details
      Keywords: Criminal Investigations; Crime and Corruption; Legal Liability
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      Tsao, Leo R., Daniel S. Kahn, and Eugene F. Soltes. Corporate Criminal Investigations and Prosecutions. Aspen Publishing, 2022.
      • 2022
      • Chapter

      Measuring Compliance Risk and the Emergence of Analytics

      By: Eugene F. Soltes
      Corporate compliance manages a diverse set of regulatory and reputational concerns ranging from fraud to privacy to discrimination. However, effectively managing such risks has often been hampered by a lack of adequate information about when, where, and why misconduct... View Details
      Keywords: Compliance; Risk; Analytics; Governance Compliance; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Risk Management; Analytics and Data Science
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      Soltes, Eugene F. "Measuring Compliance Risk and the Emergence of Analytics." Chap. 8 in Measuring Compliance: Assessing Corporate Crime and Misconduct Prevention, edited by Melissa Rorie and Benjamin van Rooij, 137–152. Cambridge University Press, 2022.
      • December 2021
      • Case

      Should I Stay or Should I Go? Assessing Risk in Carlos Ghosn's International Escape

      By: Eugene F. Soltes, Grace Liu and Muneeb Ahmed
      In 2018, automotive tycoon Carlos Ghosn was arrested in Japan on financial misreporting charges, followed later by charges of improper payments and misappropriation of funds. Over a year later, still awaiting trial, Ghosn organized his escape from house arrest in Tokyo... View Details
      Keywords: Crime and Corruption; Decision Making; Cost vs Benefits; Decision Choices and Conditions; Ethics; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Law; Courts and Trials; Rights; Risk and Uncertainty; Auto Industry; Japan
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      Soltes, Eugene F., Grace Liu, and Muneeb Ahmed. "Should I Stay or Should I Go? Assessing Risk in Carlos Ghosn's International Escape." Harvard Business School Case 122-051, December 2021.
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      Is ‘Not Guilty’ the Same as ‘Innocent’? Evidence from SEC Financial Fraud Investigations

      By: Eugene F. Soltes and David H. Solomon
      When the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) investigates firms for financial fraud, investors learn about the investigation only if managers disclose it, or regulators sanction the firm. We investigate the effects of such disclosures using confidential records on... View Details
      Keywords: Financial Fraud; Corporate Disclosure; Performance; Outcome or Result
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      Soltes, Eugene F., and David H. Solomon. "Is ‘Not Guilty’ the Same as ‘Innocent’? Evidence from SEC Financial Fraud Investigations." Journal of Empirical Legal Studies 18, no. 2 (June 2021): 287–327.
      • 2021
      • Chapter

      The Professionalization of Compliance

      By: Eugene F. Soltes
      Keywords: Compliance
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      Soltes, Eugene F. "The Professionalization of Compliance." Chap. 3 in The Cambridge Handbook of Compliance, edited by Benjamin van Rooij and D. Daniel Sokol, 27–36. Cambridge Law Handbooks. Cambridge University Press, 2021.
      • September 2020
      • Case

      An Introduction to Money Laundering: 'The Hunter'

      By: Eugene Soltes, Guilhem Ros and Grace Liu
      Money laundering schemes disguise the criminal origins of an estimated 2% to 5% of the world’s gross domestic product. Money laundering not only enables criminals to escape detection, but may also be used to finance further criminal operations including terrorism. This... View Details
      Keywords: Crime and Corruption; Accounting Audits; Financial Reporting; Financial Institutions; Banks and Banking; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Governance Controls; International Relations; National Security; Ethics; Accounting Industry; Banking Industry; United States; Europe
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      Soltes, Eugene, Guilhem Ros, and Grace Liu. "An Introduction to Money Laundering: 'The Hunter'." Harvard Business School Case 121-011, September 2020.
      • Article

      Paper Versus Practice: A Field Investigation of Integrity Hotlines

      By: Eugene Soltes
      In an effort to motivate firms to more rapidly detect potential misconduct, legislators, regulators, and enforcement agencies incentivize firms to have integrity or “whistleblowing” hotlines. These hotlines provide individuals an opportunity to report alleged... View Details
      Keywords: Hotlines; Compliance Programs; Corporate Misconduct; Governance Compliance; Programs; Performance
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      Soltes, Eugene. "Paper Versus Practice: A Field Investigation of Integrity Hotlines." Journal of Accounting Research 58, no. 2 (May 2020): 429–472.
      • Winter 2020
      • Article

      Unsubstantiated Allegations and Organizational Culture

      By: Eugene F. Soltes
      When organizations investigate allegations of misconduct, they routinely determine that some allegations are unsubstantiated. A variety of factors may contribute to the conclusion that an allegation does not warrant substantiation, including a lack of supporting... View Details
      Keywords: Misconduct; Organizational Culture
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      Soltes, Eugene F. "Unsubstantiated Allegations and Organizational Culture." Seattle University Law Review 43, no. 2 (Winter 2020): 413–439.
      • December 2019 (Revised November 2023)
      • Background Note

      Legal Analysis: Insider Trading Liability

      By: Trevor Fetter, Eugene F. Soltes and Grant Wahlquist
      There are numerous restrictions against trading on material, nonpublic information (MNPI)—typically called “insider trading.” This note describes the limitations facing managers and investors as enforced civilly and criminally within the United States. View Details
      Keywords: Insider Trading; Legal Liability; Ethics; Crime and Corruption; Finance; United States
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      Fetter, Trevor, Eugene F. Soltes, and Grant Wahlquist. "Legal Analysis: Insider Trading Liability." Harvard Business School Background Note 320-080, December 2019. (Revised November 2023.)
      • 2019
      • Chapter

      Going into the Gray: Conducting Fieldwork on Corporate Misconduct

      By: Eugene F. Soltes
      Keywords: Fieldwork; Corporate Misconduct
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      Soltes, Eugene F. "Going into the Gray: Conducting Fieldwork on Corporate Misconduct." In Inside Ethnography: Researchers Reflect on the Challenges of Reaching Hidden Populations, edited by Miriam Boeri and Rashi Shukla. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2019.
      • 2019
      • Article

      The Frequency of Corporate Misconduct: Public Enforcement versus Private Reality

      By: Eugene F. Soltes
      Perceptions about the frequency of misconduct—among the public, academics and even regulators—have largely been formed by examining enforcement statistics, which rely on the detection and sanctioning of the misconduct. This study aims to illuminate the real occurrence... View Details
      Keywords: Fraud; Bribery; Misconduct; Organizations; Crime and Corruption
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      Soltes, Eugene F. "The Frequency of Corporate Misconduct: Public Enforcement versus Private Reality." Journal of Financial Crime 26, no. 4 (2019): 923–937.
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      Creating Firm Disclosures

      By: Amir Amel-Zadeh, Alexandra Scherf and Eugene F. Soltes
      Managers expend significant time and effort preparing disclosures about firm performance and strategy. Although prior literature has explored how variation in the style and presentation of disclosures impacts investors' perceptions of firms, little is known about how... View Details
      Keywords: Disclosure; Earnings Conference Call; Field Study; MD&A; Textual Analysis; Corporate Disclosure
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      Amel-Zadeh, Amir, Alexandra Scherf, and Eugene F. Soltes. "Creating Firm Disclosures." Journal of Financial Reporting 4, no. 2 (Fall 2019): 1–31.
      • August 2019
      • Teaching Note

      Creating Accountability in Afghanistan

      By: Jonas Heese, Gerardo Pérez Cavazos, Eugene F. Soltes and Grace Liu
      Teaching Note for HBS No. 120-024. View Details
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      Heese, Jonas, Gerardo Pérez Cavazos, Eugene F. Soltes, and Grace Liu. "Creating Accountability in Afghanistan." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 120-030, August 2019.
      • August 2019
      • Case

      Creating Accountability in Afghanistan

      By: Jonas Heese, Gerardo Pérez Cavazos, Eugene F. Soltes and Grace Liu
      By early 2019, the United States had contributed $132 billion to the Afghan reconstruction. John Sopko, in his role as the Special Inspector General for Afghan Reconstruction (SIGAR), was in charge of providing accountability for U.S. aid funding. Sopko’s oversight... View Details
      Keywords: Auditing; Fraud; Accountability; Crime and Corruption; Law Enforcement; Governance; Infrastructure; Information; Networks; Strategy; Afghanistan
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      Heese, Jonas, Gerardo Pérez Cavazos, Eugene F. Soltes, and Grace Liu. "Creating Accountability in Afghanistan." Harvard Business School Case 120-024, August 2019.
      • July–August 2019
      • Article

      Where Is Your Company Most Prone to Lapses in Integrity?

      By: Eugene F. Soltes
      Every sizable organization has integrity gaps—areas where what’s considered appropriate behavior diverges from the norms set by its leaders. Within these pockets, things like offensive language, overly aggressive sales practices, or conflicts of interest may be... View Details
      Keywords: Integrity; Organizational Culture; Ethics
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      Soltes, Eugene F. "Where Is Your Company Most Prone to Lapses in Integrity?" Harvard Business Review 97, no. 4 (July–August 2019): 51–54.
      • May 2019
      • Article

      Who Consumes Firm Disclosures? Evidence from Earnings Conference Calls

      By: Anne Heinrichs, Jihwon Park and Eugene F. Soltes
      Using a set of proprietary records, we examine who consumes quarterly earnings conference calls and under which circumstances the calls are consumed. While there is significant interest in calls by institutional investors and sell-side analysts, we find that investors... View Details
      Keywords: Disclosure; Conference Calls; Firm News; Corporate Disclosure; Business Earnings; Situation or Environment
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      Heinrichs, Anne, Jihwon Park, and Eugene F. Soltes. "Who Consumes Firm Disclosures? Evidence from Earnings Conference Calls." Accounting Review 94, no. 3 (May 2019): 205–231.
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