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Apr 2023
24m 55s

A Forensic Accountant on How Companies C...

Harvard Business Review
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From Theranos to Enron, we can't get enough of corporate scandals. We also can't get enough of the intriguing people who perpetrate them. But instigators of fraud are not all Disneyesque villains chasing money and power at any cost, says DePaul University accounting professor Kelly Richmond Pope. She studies white-collar crime and finds that besides intentio ... Show More
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