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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
- 08 Jan 2018
- Research & Ideas
The Startling Percentage of Financial Advisors with Misconduct Records
iStock Even as President Donald Trump and Republican leaders seem set on a course to weaken Obama-administration consumer protection regulations, a soon-to-be-published study reports that 7.3 percent of financial advisors in the United States have been cited for... View Details
- 2002
- Book
Buy, Lie, and Sell High: How Investors Lost Out on Enron and the Internet Bubble
By: D. Quinn Mills
Mills, D. Quinn. Buy, Lie, and Sell High: How Investors Lost Out on Enron and the Internet Bubble. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Financial Times Prentice Hall, 2002.
- Video
Suresh Krishna
Suresh Krishna, founder of the largest manufacturer of industrial fasteners for the auto industry in India, discusses his company's decision following India's economic liberalization in the 1990's not to enter industries controlled by the government. View Details
- 28 Jun 2021
- Video
Ouided Bouchamaoui
Ouided Bouchamaoui, the Nobel Prize winning co-founder of the Tunisian National Dialogue Quartet and CEO of Hédi Bouchamaoui Group, discusses the challenges faced by business in Tunisia under the presidency of Ben Ali (1987-2011) and subsequent challenges of... View Details
- 01 Feb 2021
- Working Paper Summaries
Hate Crime Increases with Minoritized Group Rank
- 2002
- Book
Buy, Lie, and Sell High: How Investors Lost Out on Enron and the Internet Bubble
By: D. Quinn Mills and Dirk Seifert
Mills, D. Quinn, and Dirk Seifert. Buy, Lie, and Sell High: How Investors Lost Out on Enron and the Internet Bubble. Frankfurt: Galileo Press, 2002, German ed.
- 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
Heese, Jonas, Charles C.Y. Wang, Tonia Labruyere, and Carlota Moniz. "Dan McCrum - Unmasking Wirecard." Harvard Business School Case 123-098, June 2023.
- 2001
- Book
Diagnosis Corruption: Fraud in Latin America's Public Hospitals
By: Rafael Di Tella and William D. Savedoff
Di Tella, Rafael, and William D. Savedoff. Diagnosis Corruption: Fraud in Latin America's Public Hospitals. Inter-American Development Bank, 2001.
- 15 Jan 2020
- Video
Cem Boyner
Cem Boyner, Chair of Boyner Holdings, one of the largest retail groups in Turkey, explains how when he was the Chair of the Turkish Industrialists' and Businessmen's Association (TUSIAD) between 1989 and 1990,... View Details
- 15 Nov 2016
- News
Cultivating the Next Generation of Thought Leaders
corruption and socially responsible behavior influence corporate profitability. He has found that bribery and corruption, while they may boost sales, lead to a loss in profits. Businesses that tackle environmental, social, and governance... View Details
- July 2005 (Revised August 2006)
- Background Note
Bribery in Business: A Legal Perspective
By: Lynn S. Paine and Christopher Bruner
Provides a brief overview of the concept of bribery and the principal rationales prompting restrictions on such conduct. Also, reviews some of the most important U.S. and international laws prohibiting various forms of bribery. View Details
Paine, Lynn S., and Christopher Bruner. "Bribery in Business: A Legal Perspective." Harvard Business School Background Note 306-012, July 2005. (Revised August 2006.)
- November 1979
- Case
Bribery and Extortion in International Business
Wells, Louis T., Jr. "Bribery and Extortion in International Business." Harvard Business School Case 380-087, November 1979.
- July 2005 (Revised August 2006)
- Background Note
Deception in Business: A Legal Perspective
By: Lynn S. Paine and Christopher Bruner
Discusses several of the most important prohibitions on deception found in U.S. law, starting with the basic elements of liability for fraud and moving to important antifraud provisions in federal statutes, restrictions on "misrepresentation" in consumer and contract... View Details
Paine, Lynn S., and Christopher Bruner. "Deception in Business: A Legal Perspective." Harvard Business School Background Note 306-019, July 2005. (Revised August 2006.)
- 2022
- Chapter
What Predicts Corruption?
By: Emanuele Colonnelli, Jorge Gallego and Mounu Prem
Keywords: Crime and Corruption
Colonnelli, Emanuele, Jorge Gallego, and Mounu Prem. "What Predicts Corruption?" Chap. 16 in A Modern Guide to the Economics of Crime, edited by Paolo Buonanno, Paolo Vanin, and Juan Vargas, 345–373. Edward Elgar Publishing, 2022.
- 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
Di Tella, Rafael. "Free to Punish? The American Dream and the Harsh Treatment of Criminals." Cato Papers on Public Policy 1 (2011).
- September 2006
- Teaching Note
Innovation Corrupted: The Rise and Fall of Enron (TN) (A) and (B)
By: Allen S. Grossman and Aldo Sesia