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- December 1995
- Case
Assessing Foreign Business Practices
By: Debora L. Spar
As businesses expand worldwide, corporations are increasingly being forced to grapple with definitions of "acceptable" foreign conduct. What differentiates a "bribe" from a "commission"? Should managers abroad refer to local custom or their own national laws in...
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Spar, Debora L., and Zanley Galton. "Assessing Foreign Business Practices." Harvard Business School Case 796-105, December 1995.
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Ex-Con Talks Ethics with HBS Students
official. He eventually turned himself in and served four years in prison in Costa Rica and the United States. Currently on probation, he spoke at HBS last November as part of the Leadership & Ethics Forum (LEF), a student-led organization. Kuhse’s descent into View Details
- 02 Nov 2017
- Cold Call Podcast
Could a Hackathon Help Solve the Heroin Crisis?
- October 2018
- Case
Corruption and Business in Emerging Markets
By: Geoffrey Jones, Tarun Khanna and Nataliya Langburd Wright
The case is built around video clips from top business leaders in emerging markets who were interviewed for Harvard Business School’s innovative Creating Emerging Markets oral history project. Corruption is a widespread problem in emerging markets, and this case is...
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Jones, Geoffrey, Tarun Khanna, and Nataliya Langburd Wright. "Corruption and Business in Emerging Markets." Harvard Business School Case 319-054, October 2018.
- 2010
- Book
The Economics of Crime: Lessons for and from Latin America
By: Rafael Di Tella, Sebastian Edwards and Ernesto Schargrodsky
Di Tella, Rafael, Sebastian Edwards, and Ernesto Schargrodsky, eds. The Economics of Crime: Lessons for and from Latin America. National Bureau of Economic Research Conference Report. University of Chicago Press, 2010.
- 2008
- Book
Innovation Corrupted: The Origins and Legacy of Enron's Collapse
Salter, Malcolm S. Innovation Corrupted: The Origins and Legacy of Enron's Collapse . Harvard University Press, 2008.
- April 2007 (Revised June 2009)
- Supplement
Federal Bureau of Investigation (B)
By: Jan W. Rivkin and Michael A. Roberto
Rivkin, Jan W., and Michael A. Roberto. "Federal Bureau of Investigation (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 707-553, April 2007. (Revised June 2009.)
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
The Deleterious Effects of Dirty Money
corporations, and fake transactions. The practice bolsters international crime and terrorism and contributes to global inequality and poverty, he writes. A guest scholar at the Brookings Institution and a senior fellow at the Center for...
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- September 2022
- Article
Tone at the Bottom: Measuring Corporate Misconduct Risk from the Text of Employee Reviews
By: Dennis W. Campbell and Ruidi Shang
This paper examines whether information extracted via text-based statistical methods applied to employee reviews left on the website Glassdoor.com can be used to develop indicators of corporate misconduct risk. We argue that inside information on the incidence of...
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Keywords:
Management Accounting;
Management Control;
Corporate Culture;
Corporate Misconduct;
Risk Measurement;
Organizational Culture;
Crime and Corruption;
Risk and Uncertainty;
Measurement and Metrics
Campbell, Dennis W., and Ruidi Shang. "Tone at the Bottom: Measuring Corporate Misconduct Risk from the Text of Employee Reviews." Management Science 68, no. 9 (September 2022): 7034–7053.
- May 1995
- Teaching Note
Note on the Federal Sentencing Guidelines for Organizations and Corporate Criminal Fines Exercise TN
By: Lynn S. Paine and Michael Santoro
Teaching Note for (9-393-060) and (9-394-101).
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- April 2013 (Revised March 2014)
- Case
Value Partners and the Evergrande Situation
By: Paul Healy and Keith Chi-ho Wong
In June 2012, Cheah Cheng-Hye and his colleagues at Value Partners, a Hong-Kong-based investment firm, received a copy of a short-seller report alleging that Evergrande, one of China's largest property developers, was using fraudulent accounting and paying bribes to...
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Keywords:
Financial Analysis;
Value Investing;
China;
Asset Management;
Crime and Corruption;
Financial Services Industry;
China
Healy, Paul, and Keith Chi-ho Wong. "Value Partners and the Evergrande Situation." Harvard Business School Case 113-113, April 2013. (Revised March 2014.)
- 2022
- Book
Corporate Criminal Investigations and Prosecutions
By: Leo R. Tsao, Daniel S. Kahn and Eugene F. Soltes
Over the past two decades, corporate criminal liability has developed into one of the fastest-growing and most dynamic areas of legal practice. The growth of corporate criminal enforcement has correlated with a broad shift in how the government investigates and...
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Tsao, Leo R., Daniel S. Kahn, and Eugene F. Soltes. Corporate Criminal Investigations and Prosecutions. Aspen Publishing, 2022.
- December 2021
- Article
Cash-for-Information Whistleblower Programs: Effects on Whistleblowing and Consequences for Whistleblowers
By: Aiyesha Dey, Jonas Heese and Gerardo Pérez Cavazos
We study the effect of financial incentives on whistleblowing and the consequences for whistleblowers under the cash-for-information program of the False Claims Act (FCA). Exploiting appeals-court decisions that increase financial incentives for whistleblowing, we find...
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Keywords:
Whistleblowers;
Cash-for-information Whistleblower Programs;
False Claims Act;
Corporate Misconduct;
Consequences For Whistleblowers;
Crime and Corruption;
Information;
Cost
Dey, Aiyesha, Jonas Heese, and Gerardo Pérez Cavazos. "Cash-for-Information Whistleblower Programs: Effects on Whistleblowing and Consequences for Whistleblowers." Journal of Accounting Research 59, no. 5 (December 2021): 1689–1740.
- March 1984 (Revised August 1990)
- Case
Petite Playthings, Inc.--1984 (A)
Provides background information for the (B) case, in which a young sales person is asked for a bribe by an experienced children's wear buyer.
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Shapiro, Benson P. "Petite Playthings, Inc.--1984 (A)." Harvard Business School Case 584-080, March 1984. (Revised August 1990.)
- 06 Aug 2014
- Research & Ideas
Climbing Down from the Ivory Tower
In the late 1970s, the Chicago Police Department noticed that the city's crime rate increased when cops stopped walking the beat and started driving around in patrol cars instead. They wondered why, and asked the political scientist...
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- 01 Mar 2024
- News
The Exchange: Takeaways from the Takedown
committed—his victims lost almost $10 billion in the failed exchange—makes even the crimes of Bernie Madoff pale in comparison, says Professor Eugene Soltes. His work focuses on corporate integrity and risk management; he’s also the...
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- March 2017
- Article
Institutional Ownership and Corporate Tax Avoidance: New Evidence
By: Mozaffar N. Khan, Suraj Srinivasan and Liang Tan
We provide new evidence on the agency theory of corporate tax avoidance (Slemrod, 2004; Crocker and Slemrod, 2005; Chen and Chu, 2005) by showing that increases in institutional ownership are associated with increases in tax avoidance. Using the Russell index...
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Keywords:
Tax Avoidance;
Agency Costs;
Institutional Ownership;
Private Ownership;
Crime and Corruption;
Taxation;
Agency Theory
Khan, Mozaffar N., Suraj Srinivasan, and Liang Tan. "Institutional Ownership and Corporate Tax Avoidance: New Evidence." Accounting Review 92, no. 2 (March 2017): 101–122.
- June 2008 (Revised May 2009)
- Supplement
Corruption at Siemens (D)
By: Paul M. Healy and Maria Loumioti
Keywords:
Crime and Corruption
Healy, Paul M., and Maria Loumioti. "Corruption at Siemens (D)." Harvard Business School Supplement 108-036, June 2008. (Revised May 2009.)
- Article
The Fall of Enron
By: Paul M. Healy and Krishna G. Palepu
Keywords:
Crime and Corruption
Healy, Paul M., and Krishna G. Palepu. "The Fall of Enron." Journal of Economic Perspectives 17, no. 2 (Spring 2003).
- 12 May 2016
- Research & Ideas
When Mass Shootings Lead to Looser Gun Restrictions
In the United States, there’s much debate over whether gun-related legislation can diminish the likelihood of mass shootings. New research from Harvard Business School turns the question on its head: Do mass shootings lead to more gun-related legislation? The answer is...
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by Carmen Nobel