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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
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  • 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
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  • 10 Oct 2016
  • Book

Why White-Collar Criminals Commit Their Crimes

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Financial Services
  • 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... 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
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  • 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
Keywords: White-collar Crime; Crime and Corruption; Organizational Culture; Ethics
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  • 22 Jul 2016
  • Working Paper Summaries

Who Pays for White-Collar Crime?

Keywords: by Paul Healy and George Serafeim
  • 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
Keywords: Crime and Corruption; Corporate Finance
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  • 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
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Financial Services
  • 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
Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette; Biotechnology; Technology; Medical Devices & Supplies
  • 08 Jan 2018
  • Research & Ideas

The Startling Percentage of Financial Advisors with Misconduct Records

consumers are saved unnecessarily high fees. Opponents argue the rule would create an uneven playing field between products and raise fees. Related Reading: Are Stockbrokers Illegally Leaking Confidential Information to Favored Clients? Why View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Financial Services
  • 14 May 2019
  • Research & Ideas

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

stockstudioX] Related Reading: Why Ethical People Become Unethical Negotiators Why White-Collar Criminals Commit Their Crimes Blind Spots: We’re Not as Ethical as We Think What do you think of this research?... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • 05 Jul 2017
  • Research & Ideas

Are Stockbrokers Illegally Leaking Confidential Information to Favored Clients?

area, that would be important.” Related Reading: Connecting School Ties and Stock Recommendations Why White-Collar Criminals Commit Their Crimes What do you think? Do you think stockbrokers should come under... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Financial Services

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