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Jul 2019
23m 25s

Stopping White-Collar Crime at Your Comp...

Harvard Business Review
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Eugene Soltes, associate professor at Harvard Business School, studies white-collar crime and has even interviewed convicts behind bars. While most people think of high-profile scandals like Enron, he says every sizable organization has lapses in integrity. He shares practical tools for managers to identify pockets of ethical violations to prevent them from ... Show More
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