Publications

June 2008 (Revised May 2009)
Case

Corruption at Siemens (A)

By: Paul M. Healy and Maria Loumioti

Keywords: Crime and Corruption; Electronics Industry

June 2023
Case

Dan McCrum - Unmasking Wirecard

By: Jonas Heese, Charles C.Y. Wang, Tonia Labruyere and Carlota Moniz

Dan McCrum, an investigative journalist for the Financial Times, had spent the past six years fighting to expose German payment processing firm Wirecard. The company had enjoyed years of exponential growth and was viewed by several investors as the poster child of... View Details

Keywords: Crime and Corruption; Accounting; Financial Services Industry; Journalism and News Industry; Europe; United Kingdom; Germany

2001
Book

Diagnosis Corruption: Fraud in Latin America's Public Hospitals

By: Rafael Di Tella and William D. Savedoff

Keywords: Crime and Corruption; Health; Health Industry; Latin America

30 Sep 2008
First Look

First Look: September 30, 2008

are identified by exploiting random assignment and a separate instrumental variables procedure. Download the paper: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1264038 Welfare Payments and Crime Author:C. Fritz Foley Abstract This... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

03 Nov 2009
First Look

First Look: Nov. 3

water purification solution. We find that higher prices screen out those who use the product less. By contrast, we find no consistent evidence of sunk-cost effects. Welfare Payments and Crime Author:C. Fritz Foley Publication:The Review... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

17 Apr 2006
Research & Ideas

Resisting the Seductions of Success

with them. At first, Tony's crime and confession are hard to explain. With Tony Lowder, Louis Auchincloss draws on his extraordinary dual career to give us a strikingly contemporary perspective on the hazards of success and the ways... View Details

Keywords: by Joseph L. Badaracco Jr.; Entertainment & Recreation; Information; Publishing

April 2023 (Revised April 2025)
Case

Eike Batista: Making or Breaking Brazil

By: Geoffrey Jones, Pedro Magalhães, Daniel Tong and Marcel Anduiza

This case explores the meteoric rise and fall of Eike Batista, once Brazil’s richest person and the world’s seventh wealthiest in 2012. Batista began his career by investing in gold mining in the Amazon, using the network his father had built after years serving as... View Details

Keywords: Crime and Corruption; Entrepreneurship; Investment; Energy Industry; Mining Industry; Brazil

2020
Chapter

Ethical Business, Corruption and Economic Development in Comparative Perspective

By: Janet Hunter and G. Jones

This chapter contextualises the drivers of corruption in Turkish business through comparisons with Japan and India in the late 19th century. It identifies the developmental state as a common driver of corruption. Catching up by using extensive state intervention had... View Details

Keywords: Corruption; Crime and Corruption; Economic Growth; Turkey; Middle East; Central Asia; Japan; India

May 1993
Case

Vocational Educational Club—The Missing Cash Dilemma

By: Regina E. Herzlinger

Keywords: Education; Crime and Corruption; Cash

November 1986 (Revised December 1998)
Case

Disctech, Inc.

Describes a company that had problems of fraudulent financial reporting. Provides an opportunity to discuss the roles of top management, financial management, internal and external auditors, and the audit committee of the board of directors in such circumstances. The... View Details

Keywords: Crime and Corruption; Financial Reporting

December 1993 (Revised April 1995)
Exercise

Corporate Criminal Fines Exercise

By: Lynn S. Paine

Keywords: Crime and Corruption; Law Enforcement

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

summer 1997
Article

The New Economics of Corruption: A Survey and Some New Results

By: Alberto Ades and Rafael Di Tella

Keywords: Economics; Crime and Corruption

April 2002 (Revised July 2002)
Case

eBay (B): Combating Fraud

By: Frances X. Frei and Hanna Rodriguez-Farrar

Supplements the (A) case. View Details

Keywords: Crime and Corruption; Management; Web Services Industry

2022
Chapter

What Predicts Corruption?

By: Emanuele Colonnelli, Jorge Gallego and Mounu Prem

Keywords: Crime and Corruption

2011
Article

Free to Punish? The American Dream and the Harsh Treatment of Criminals

By: Rafael Di Tella

We describe the evolution of selective aspects of punishment in the U.S. over the period 1980-2004. We note that imprisonment increased around 1980, a period that coincides with the "Reagan revolution" in economic matters. We build an economic model where beliefs about... View Details

Keywords: Crime and Corruption

June 2008 (Revised May 2009)
Supplement

Corruption at Siemens (C)

By: Paul M. Healy and Maria Loumioti

Keywords: Crime and Corruption

September 2006
Teaching Note

Innovation Corrupted: The Rise and Fall of Enron (TN) (A) and (B)

By: Allen S. Grossman and Aldo Sesia

Keywords: Crime and Corruption; Energy Industry

2014
Working Paper

Firm Competitiveness and Detection of Bribery

By: George Serafeim

Using survey data from firms around the world I analyze how detection of bribery has impacted a firm's competitiveness over the past year. Managers report that the most significant impact was on employee morale, followed by business relations, and then reputation and... View Details

Keywords: Competitiveness; Corruption; Bribery; Employee Engagement; Reputation; Regulation; Competition; Crime and Corruption; Ethics; Performance

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