Would a CFO have Prevented the Theranos Fraud?
Ann Skeet, senior director, leadership ethics, highlights the ethical failures of the Theranos Fraud and identifies conditions that make it more likely for ethics to be used within organizations.
Skeet highlights a key condition, “a set of ethical deliberation practices,” including, “thinking about downstream effects, things that could go wrong, anticipating those, and then, whenever possible, sharing the thinking behind decisions that are made.”
Ann Skeet, senior director, leadership ethics, quoted by CFO Brew.
Aug 15, 2025