Publications

27 Feb 2013
News

Troublemakers: Entrepreneurial Approaches Against Corruption

05 Aug 2015
News

Mobilizing the Public to Fight Corruption

The corruption is so endemic in government that many people think it’s just how government operates. “We asked what can we do that will help the lives of everyday people?” Motte-Munoz says. “We’re interested in the situations where you... View Details

April 2014
Teaching Plan

Following Lance Armstrong: Excellence Corrupted

By: Clayton S. Rose and Noah Fisher

2012
Chapter

Evidence from the Firm: A New Approach to Understanding Corruption

By: Shawn A. Cole and Anh Tran

Due to its clandestine nature, most of what we understand about corruption comes from survey evidence and self-reported perceptions of corruption: this limits both the range of questions that can be asked and the precision of answers that can be provided. This chapter... View Details

Keywords: Measurement and Metrics; Crime and Corruption; Organizations; Ownership; Asia

November 2018
Supplement

Corruption and Business in Emerging Markets

By: Geoffrey Jones

05 Dec 2016
News

The Normalization of Corruption and Wells Fargo’s 2 Million False Accounts

October 2018 (Revised February 2019)
Teaching Plan

Corruption and Business in Emerging Markets

By: Geoffrey Jones, Tarun Khanna and Nataliya Langburd Wright

Teaching Note for HBS No. 319-054. View Details

12 May 2011
News

Powerlessness is as corrupting as power

2006
Chapter

Corruption and the Demand for Regulating Capitalists

By: Rafael Di Tella and Robert MacCulloch

Keywords: Crime and Corruption; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Economic Systems

08 Mar 2012
Working Paper Summaries

Customer-Driven Misconduct: How Competition Corrupts Business Practices

Keywords: by Victor Manuel Bennett, Lamar Pierce, Jason A. Snyder & Michael W. Toffel; Auto

Article

After the Fall: Reintegrating the Corrupt Organization

By: Michael D. Pfarrer, K. A. DeCelles, Ken G. Smith and M. Susan Taylor

We propose a four-stage model of the organizational actions that potentially increase the speed and likelihood that an organization will restore its legitimacy with stakeholders following a transgression. Organizations that work to discover the facts of the... View Details

Keywords: Ethics; Reputation; Business and Stakeholder Relations

Read Now

26 Jun 2015
News

A firm's approach to corruption depends on the individual running it

22 Aug 2013
News

BBC World Update on Tipping and Corruption

December 2006 (Revised January 2007)
Case

Infosys in India: Building a Software Giant in a Corrupt Environment

By: Rawi E. Abdelal, Rafael M. Di Tella and Prabakar (PK) Kothandaraman

Shortly after Infosys was founded in 1981, its managers faced a major turning point when they made a decision to operate without giving in to the petty corruption rife in the Indian economy. Within just a few years, that decision had truly defined the company. Over the... View Details

Keywords: History; Management Style; Moral Sensibility; Policy; Business and Government Relations; Decisions; Business Growth and Maturation; Situation or Environment; Crime and Corruption; Business Strategy; Information Technology Industry; Computer Industry; India

Educators

22 Feb 2022
News

Voting Out Incumbents Boosts Economic Growth, Decreases Corruption

May 2013
Article

Here's a Tip: Prosocial Gratuities Are Linked to Corruption

By: Magnus Thor Torfason, Francis J. Flynn and Daniella Kupor

We investigated the link between tipping, an altruistic act, and bribery, an immoral act. We found a positive relationship between these two seemingly unrelated behaviors, using archival cross-national data for 32 countries, and controlling for per capita GDP, income... View Details

Keywords: Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Crime and Corruption; Behavior

August 2013
Article

Customer-Driven Misconduct: How Competition Corrupts Business Practices - Appendix

By: Victor Manuel Bennett, Lamar Pierce, Jason A. Snyder and Michael W. Toffel