Eugene Soltes
Cambridge
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Harvard Business School Professor & Founder of Integrity Lab
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An Unhealthy Culture Can Undermine the Best Compliance Program
This is an excerpt from the book Paper to Practice: Why Compliance Programs Fail and How to Build Programs That Work by Eugene Soltes. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., August 2026. The difference between a company achieving its business goals and becoming tomorrow’s headlines typically doesn’t come down to policies and controls. Companies that end up in scandal often have well-written policies and reasonably designed controls.
The Frequency of Corporate Misconduct: Public Enforcement versus Private Reality
Abstract Perceptions about the frequency of misconduct—among the public, academics and even regulators—have largely been formed by examining enforcement statistics, which rely on the detection and sanctioning of the misconduct. This study aims to illuminate the real occurrence of corporate misconduct, much of which escapes public detection.
Welcher Standort ist der beste? - Fallstudie
Benard Kenani erkannte seinen Onkel sofort, als er die Hotellobby betrat. Onkel Michael saß zusammen mit zwei anderen Männern im Businessoutfit an ei-nem Ecktisch. Beide lachten gerade über einen seiner Witze. Das war wieder mal typisch für seinen Onkel, der in Nigeria ein erfolgreicher Topmanager war: Er stand immer gleich mit allen Leuten auf Du und Du und war überall beliebt. Als Onkel Michael seinen Neffen sah, erhob er sich rasch. "Willkommen in Lagos!", rief er quer durch die Hotelhalle.
Even Death Doesn't Stop Russia's Ponzi Mastermind
Even Death Doesn't Stop Russia's Ponzi Mastermind Sergei Mavrodi's massive, globe-spanning pyramid scheme has evolved to capitalize on the current infatuation with cryptocurrencies.Read Full Article »
MMM and bitcoin: Russian Ponzi mastermind Sergei Mavrodi is dead, but his legacy lives on in crypto
Sergei Mavrodi, creator of one of the largest Ponzi schemes in history, died last month at age 62, potentially leaving millions of “investors” in countries around the world in the lurch.
Why Your Compliance Programs Are a Million-Dollar Waste of Time
The authors explain how we reached this sorry state—and how we can remedy it. Firms should start by linking compliance initiatives more closely to specific objectives: preventing misconduct, detecting it, or aligning policies with laws and regulations. Then, using careful model design and some creativity, firms can develop better metrics to measure what’s working and what isn’t.
What Do Investors Ask Managers Privately?
Investors and managers of publicly traded firms spend a considerable amount of time speaking privately. According to the consultancy Ipreo, the average publicly traded firm conducts more than 100 one-on-one meetings annually with investors. While growing body of research provides evidence that these offline interactions offer investors in attendance opportunities to make more informed trading decisions. what actually goes on during these interactions has largely been elusive to outsiders.
Let Data Guide Legislation: Stifling Shareholders in the CHOICE Act? -
In improving the current shareholder proposal process, legislators should trade the butcher knife for the scalpel. What influence, if any, should shareholders have over corporate policy? The answer to this question has long been guided by the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, which offers shareholders the opportunity to propose changes that all shareholders can vote on annually. Among both institutional and individual investors, such proposals are popular.
bookSCREAM! August 20th, 2017 Newsletter
AUDIOBOOKS WHY THEY DO IT $3.95was $31.49 BY EUGENE SOLTES Based on extensive interaction with nearly 50 former executives, Soltes provides insights into why some saw the immediate effects of misconduct as positive, why executives often don't feel the emotions most people would expect, and how acceptable norms in the business community can differ from those of the broader society.
Teaching Versus Living
Preparing students for the consequential ethical decisions that they will face in their careers is among the most difficult tasks of management education. I describe some of these challenges based on my book Why They Do It: Inside the Mind of the White-Collar Criminal and recent work in behavioral ethics.
Why It’s So Hard to Train Someone to Make an Ethical Decision
One of the conundrums of ethical decision making is that many moral decisions that are quite straightforward — even easy — to resolve in a classroom or during training exercises seem far more difficult to successfully resolve when confronted during actual day-to-day decision making. Take the decision of Sam Waksal, the former CEO of the emerging biotechnology company ImClone Systems.
The Psychology of White-Collar Criminals
This idea that white-collar offenders weigh expected costs against expected benefits comports with notions of how executives ought to make decisions. The explanation is also rooted in the influential work of Gary Becker, the University of Chicago economist who was awarded the Nobel Prize for, among other things, mathematically modeling crime based on such trade-offs. Becker’s work contrasted with decades of prior scholarship that characterized criminals as somehow psychologically aberrant.
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