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Feb 2023
27m 51s

Does It Pay to Be a Whistleblower?

HBR Presents / Brian Kenny
About this episode
In 2013, soon after the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) had started a massive whistleblowing program with the potential for large monetary rewards, two employees of a U.S. bank’s asset management business debated whether to blow the whistle on their employer after completing an internal review that revealed undisclosed conflicts of interest. Sh ... Show More
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