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- 2017
- Working Paper
The Effectiveness of White-Collar Crime Enforcement: Evidence from the War on Terror
By: Trung Nguyen
This paper studies the deterrent effect of criminal enforcement on white-collar criminal activities. Using the 9/11 terrorist attacks as a shock to the FBI’s allocation of investigative resources and priorities, and variations in the Muslim population in the United... View Details
Keywords: Regulation; Fraud; White-collar Crime; Enforcement; Crime and Corruption; Law Enforcement; System Shocks
Nguyen, Trung. "The Effectiveness of White-Collar Crime Enforcement: Evidence from the War on Terror." Working Paper.
- 23 Aug 2021
- News
Life After White-Collar Crime
- March 2021
- Article
The Effectiveness of White-Collar Crime Enforcement: Evidence from the War on Terror
By: Trung Nguyen
This paper analyzes the impact of changes in regulatory priorities and resource allocation on criminal enforcement of white‐collar criminal activities. Using the 9/11 terrorist attacks as a shock to the FBI's priorities and allocation of investigative resources, as... View Details
Keywords: White-collar Crime; Government Regulation; Financial Fraud; Securities Fraud; Insider Trading; Crime and Corruption; Finance; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Law Enforcement
Nguyen, Trung. "The Effectiveness of White-Collar Crime Enforcement: Evidence from the War on Terror." Journal of Accounting Research 59, no. 1 (March 2021): 5–58.
- 02 Jul 2019
- News
Stopping White-Collar Crime at Your Company
- 10 Oct 2016
- Book
Why White-Collar Criminals Commit Their Crimes
- 14 Mar 2023
- News
On Background: White-Collar Crime and Punishment
- 10 Oct 2016
- News
Why White-Collar Criminals Commit Their Crimes
- 23 Aug 2021
- Research & Ideas
Why White-Collar Crime Spiked in America After 9/11
After the 9/11 terrorist attacks, the FBI shifted financial resources and hundreds of agents toward combatting terrorism, unintentionally weakening the agency’s ability to investigate white-collar crime in America, research shows. As a result, wire fraud, illegal... View Details
Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald
- 2016
- Working Paper
Who Pays for White-Collar Crime?
By: Paul Healy and George Serafeim
Using a proprietary dataset of 667 companies around the world that experienced white-collar crime, we investigate what drives punishment of perpetrators of crime. We find a significantly lower propensity to punish crime in our sample, where most crimes are not reported... View Details
Keywords: Crime; Gender Bias; Women; Women Executives; Corruption; Legal Aspects Of Business; Firing; Human Capital; Human Resource Management; Prejudice and Bias; Crime and Corruption; Judgments; Law Enforcement; Human Resources; Corporate Governance; Gender
Healy, Paul, and George Serafeim. "Who Pays for White-Collar Crime?" Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 16-148, June 2016.
- 22 Jul 2016
- Working Paper Summaries
Who Pays for White-Collar Crime?
Keywords: by Paul Healy and George Serafeim
- March 2012
- Case
Fighting Corruption at Siemens
By: Paul Healy and Djordjija Petkoski
On November 15, 2006, German prosecutors raided offices and homes of Siemens AG staff as part of an ongoing investigation into bribery. The subsequent investigations covered business representing 60% of Siemens' revenues and spanned operations in Asia, Africa, Europe,... View Details
Healy, Paul, and Djordjija Petkoski. "Fighting Corruption at Siemens." Harvard Business School Multimedia/Video Case 112-702, March 2012.
- 2016
- Book
Why They Do It: Inside the Mind of the White-Collar Criminal
By: Eugene F. Soltes
From the financial fraudsters of Enron, to the embezzlers at Tyco, to the Ponzi schemer Bernie Madoff, the failings of corporate titans are regular fixtures in the news. But what drives wealthy and powerful people to white-collar crime? I draw from extensive personal... View Details
Soltes, Eugene F. Why They Do It: Inside the Mind of the White-Collar Criminal. New York: PublicAffairs, 2016.
Why They Do It: Inside the Mind of the White-Collar Criminal
"A spectacular achievement" - Library Journal
From the financial fraudsters of Enron, to the embezzlers at Tyco, to the Ponzi schemer Bernie Madoff, the failings of corporate titans are regular fixtures in the news. But what drives wealthy and... View Details
- 20 Jan 2015
- News
J.P. Morgan’s Witness and the Holes in Corporate Criminal Law
- 19 Jul 2016
- First Look
July 19, 2016
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51379 Who Pays for White-Collar Crime? By: Healy, Paul, and George Serafeim Abstract—Using a proprietary dataset of 667 companies around the world that experienced View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Oct 2016
- Research & Ideas
Bernie Madoff Explains Himself
of the White-Collar Criminal, devotes an entire chapter to Madoff and his Ponzi scheme. For starters, Soltes wants students to understand that while Madoff possesses an extraordinary lack of empathy for his victims, he didn’t explicitly... View Details
- 17 Jan 2023
- Book
Good Companies Commit Crimes, But Great Leaders Can Prevent Them
officials. Soltes turns his hand to corporate crime after making a media splash with his 2016 book, Why They Do It: Inside the Mind of a White-Collar Criminal. Based on personal visits, letters, and phone... View Details
Keywords: by Lane Lambert
- 17 Sep 2021
- Research & Ideas
The Trial of Elizabeth Holmes: Visionary, Criminal, or Both?
simple case. However, when it gets down to how white-collar crimes are prosecuted, it’s quite challenging. We don’t prosecute people based on our intuitive notions of is this fraud or not fraud? Or is this... View Details