Corruption - Publications - Faculty & Research

Research Summary

The Institutional Foundations of Lending: Indirect Regulation and State-Building

The Institutional Foundations of Lending: Indirect Regulation and State-Building makes two main theoretical contributions to the scholarship on credit markets and institutional development. First, the book demonstrates that opportunistic lenders can take... View Details

14 Nov 2019
Book

Lifting the Lid on Turkey's Hidden Business History

limited the competitive structure of the economy. Silverthorne: In a chapter on business ethics and corruption, you and colleague Janet Hunter note that the country has struggled with corruption (as have other developing and Western... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

01 Jun 2010
News

$how Me the Money

Baker: With a strong belief in change within the system, working to reduce corruption so that free markets will function better, to the benefit of rich and poor nations alike. Photos by Katherine Lambert Corruption. Said slowly, even the... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Administration of Economic Programs; Government; Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Government; Legal Services; Professional Services; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

01 Feb 2001
News

Q&A - Dirty Money: Raymond Baker Explores the Free Market's Demimonde

Baker returned to the United States and was involved for many years in a variety of trading activities that took him to some two dozen countries in Africa, Latin America, and Asia. Observing further how corruption could subvert markets... View Details

Keywords: Finance; Government

01 Jun 2007
News

KPMG for Mayor!

Corporations could do a good job of running corrupt Third World governments. Corruption rules in too many of the world’s democratically elected governments. From Achocalla, Bolivia, to Mayuge, Uganda, voters... View Details

Keywords: Eric Werker; Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Government

24 Apr 2014
News

Leading a battle against corruption, a force that slows economic development

“Business leaders must remember that, left unchecked, corruption will eventually undermine the very legitimacy of capitalism,” says Paul Healy, James R. Williston Professor of Business Administration and Senior Associate Dean for Faculty... View Details

01 Sep 2010
News

Letters to the Editor

professional and personal involvement as they embark on their post-MBA careers. Aaron Rudenstine (MBA ’09) New York, NY Curbing Corruption I highly commend the editor for publishing “Show Me the Money” and “M.I.A. Boards” in the June... View Details

Keywords: Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Finance

14 May 2019
Research & Ideas

Ethics Bots and Other Ways to Move Your Code of Business Conduct Beyond Puffery

geographical area are asking lots of questions about the policy on taking gifts from certain ministers, then this would help compliance leaders appreciate that maybe it’s time to go back and make sure people understand our gifts policy and obligations under the Foreign... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

21 Aug 2019
Video

Naina Lal Kidwai

Naina Lal Kidwai, former head of HSBC India and founder of the India Sanitation Coalition, discusses how to create a successful organization without participating in corruption.

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01 Dec 2004
News

One-on-One with William H. Donaldson

that comes from satisfying the Wall Street “beasts” quarterly-earnings estimates. If you don’t hit the number, your stock falls. This is an unfortunate game where Wall Street research had become the corrupt handmaiden of the investment... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Finance; Administration of Economic Programs; Government

Portrait Project

Martin Vasev

The cycle of protests never stopped. When I was twelve, all the teachers, including my mom, went on a months-long strike. At nineteen, my friend suffered a skull fracture from police brutality during a student protest. At twenty-five, we were protesting View Details

21 Sep 2020
Video

Pedro Gómez

Pedro Gómez, who founded the construction company Pedro Gómez y Cia in Colombia in 1968, sums up the lessons of his long career for young Colombians, especially the need to behave ethically and to challenge corruption. View Details

04 Feb 2020
Video

Sir Fazle Hasan Abed

Sir Fazle Hasan Abed, founder of Bangladesh-based BRAC, the world’s largest NGO, describes how he was approached by politicians asking him to influence the votes of his employees, and how he refused to do... View Details

22 Sep 2017
News

The Epicenter of Miami’s Vice

cocaine, it was just so ubiquitous. And that was the money that corrupted this city. Money bought law enforcement, money bought the protection. I mean, even people who worked in this hotel, like the one waitress, the hostess who I... View Details

04 Feb 2020
Video

Rahul Bajaj

Rahul Bajaj, who was Chair of the diversified business group Bajaj Group, describes how a government minister in India approached him for a favor, which he refused.

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Melek El Nimer

Melek El Nimer, founder of the Social Support Society and Unite Lebanon Youth Project in Lebanon, details the policies her organizations have put in place to shield them from corruption, which she describes as a pervasive problem in Lebanon. View Details

29 Jul 2020
Video

Sizwe Nxasana

Sizwe Nxasana, the founding partner of SizweNtsalubaGobodo, the largest Black accounting firm in South Africa, as well as the former CEO of Telkom and FirstRand Group, describes the challenges his accounting... View Details

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

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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