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Category Archives: coruption
Three reputation management reasons explain why Penn State and the NCAA settled so quickly
In the United States, the Jerry Sandusky scandal has gripped college sports unlike any scandal it has ever faced. The story centres on his criminal convictions for sexually assaulting young boys when he was a coach at Penn State and … Continue reading
RBS vs. Lehman Brothers failures in leadership, culture, and regulators.
In January 2012, the Financial Services Authority published its report on the Royal Bank of Scotland’s (RBS) failure. The report is surprisingly candid. It is also a rarity. The FSA does not usually publish its regulatory reports. However, the size … Continue reading
Posted in coruption, culture, leadership, management
Tagged ABN Amro, Financial Services Authority, Fred Goodwin, FSA, Hector Sants, Lehman Brothers, RBS, Royal Bank of Scotland
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Good Corporate Citizen or Good Person: check your ethics at the door?
With the recent financial crisis hitting the world, there have been a several attempts to understand what went wrong with the system. A financial and economic system that delivered staggeringly good results and provided economic benefits to billions of people … Continue reading
Posted in coruption, culture, management
Tagged Business, Consulting, corporate citizens, Corporate citizenship, Ethics, leadership, Lehman Brothers, management, Philosophy, politics, Research, unethical behaviour
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Risk cannot be conquered: Has Wall Street forgotten Machiavelli’s lessons?
In chapter 25 of Machiavelli’s Prince, we see the problem of fortune and the challenge it presents to a prince. In this instance, we are using fortune to refer to risk. The two are not exactly the same so one … Continue reading
Posted in change managment, coruption, culture, management, renewal
Tagged #ows, environment, Hedge fund, hedge fund managers, Hurricane Katrina, Niccolò Machiavelli, politics, Prince, Wall Street
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Why do companies obey the law? Compliance in a self-regulated business is habit that needs to be nurtured.
One of the challenges faced by businesses is how sustain compliance with corporate governance rules. The recent corporate scandals such as Enron, WorldCom and others shows what happens when the internal corporate culture diverges from corporate governance. The challenge is … Continue reading
Posted in coruption, culture, management, phone hacking
Tagged Business, Corporate governance, Enron, Human resources
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The myth of the rogue employee: rotten barrels create rotten apples
Often people will say that a problem has happened because of one “rogue” employee (reporter, cop, trader, or whatever). This is a myth, a dangerous myth. Why is this a myth? All employees work and operate within an organisational context. … Continue reading
Posted in coruption, culture, management, phone hacking
Tagged corruption, Employment, News Corporation, News of the World, organisational culture
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