Articles

Corporate Wrongdoing

Crisis at Sunrise Medical

Former Sunrise CEO describes a 1994-95 accounting fraud in one of the companys divisions, exploring the impact, causes, and lessons learned (podcast).
Richard Chandler

Deferred Prosecution Agreements and Federal Monitors

Panelists discuss their role in white collar prosecutions and as federal monitors
B. Prachar, L. Caldwell, B. Schwartz, W. Swenson,

Encouraging Internal Whistleblowing (And More!)

An update on how organizations can set up mechanisms to identify wrongdoing
Carl R. Oliver and Francis J. Daly

Control Fraud at Rite Aid

The executive director of the Institute for Fraud Prevention discusses what went wrong at Rite Aid (pdf)
William Black

Exploring Ethical Lapses During the Rite Aid Crisis

Former Rite Aid COO and interim CEO Timothy Noonan gives a frank account of an ethical lapse that he wished he had avoided
Anne Federwisch

Curbing Corruption Around the Globe

Summary of a presentation by Glenn Ware, chief investigative counselor for the World Bank, on the bank's Department of Institutional Integrity
Anne Federwisch

Surviving a Federal Criminal Investigation

PowerPoint presentation on FBI investigations of white collar crime.
Jeffrey Bornstein, Tamara Neiman

WorldCom Case Study Update 2006

A description of the events between the declaration of bankruptcy by WoldCom and its acquisition by Verizon.
Edward J. Romar and Martin Calkins

Stopping Corporate Fraud

Joseph Grundfest, former SEC commissioner, addresses the Business and Organizational Ethics Partnership.
Miriam Schulman

Encouraging Internal Whistleblowing in Organizations

How can businesses encourage employees to report ethical lapses?
Lilanthi Ravishankar

WorldCom

What went wrong at WorldComm? Sweetheart loans to executives and a growth-through-acquisitions strategy are suggested as contributors to this business scandal.
Dennis Moberg and Edward Romar

Criminologists Needed

A criminologist's look at financial scandals.
William K. Black

Keeping the SEC on a Starvation Diet

Insufficient funding for SEC contributes to corporate scandals.
William K. Black

Repeating the Past

Learning the wrong lessons from the Savings & Loan crisis.
William K. Black

Link Between Moral and Market Values

Market value accounting and fraud.
William K. Black

Enron: We Slept Through Class

Lessons on ethics from the S&L debacle of the 1980s are being relearned--painfully--in recent financial scandals.
William K. Black

Where are honest business leaders when this country needs them?

Can Americans really count on the ethics of the nation's business leaders to protect the average investor?
Rob Elder

Lessons from the Enron Scandal

An interview with Center Executive Director Kirk O. Hanson.
Kirk O. Hanson

Enron: What Ever Happened to Going Down with the Ship?

The responsibility of executives for company failures.
Miriam Schulman

What Really Went Wrong With Enron? A Culture of Evil?

A panel of Santa Clara University Business Ethicists reflect on the reasons behind the Enron scandal.
Business Ethicists Panel

The Case of the Million Dollar Decision

A company is planning to expand in a country where bribery is a normal part of doing business.
Michael Hackworth, Thomas Shanks