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Submit a ProposalResisting Corporate Corruption, 4th Edition
 | Cases in Practical Ethics from Enron, the Financial Crisis and Present Day By Stephen V. Arbogast Copyright: 2022 | Status: Published ISBN: 9781119871439 | Hardcover | 620 pages Price: $120 USD  |
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The frequently used textbook is now in its 4th edition and includes
new case studies on Tesla, VW, Nikola, WeWork, and Theranos.
Audience
This text provides practical case study work for business and law students, and employees in the formative stages of their careers. It is intended to help prepare this audience to withstand pressures and adverse cultural influences as they progress along a career path.
This text provides practical case study work for business and law students, and employees in the formative stages of their careers. It is intended to help prepare this audience to withstand pressures and adverse cultural influences as they progress along a career path.
Description
Resisting Corporate Corruption teaches business ethics in a manner very different from the philosophical and legal frameworks that dominate graduate schools. The book offers twenty-seven case studies and eight essays that cover a full range of business practices, controls, and ethics issues. The essays discuss the nature of sound financial controls, root causes of the Financial Crisis, contemporary ethics challenges like ‘Fake it Till You Make It,’ and the evolving nature of whistleblower protections. The cases are framed to instruct students in early identification of ethics problems and how to work such issues within corporate organizations. They also provide would-be whistleblowers with instruction on the challenges they’d face, plus information on the legal protections, and outside supports available should they embark on that course. Some of the cases illustrate how ‘The Young are the Most Vulnerable,’ i.e. short-service employees are most at risk of being sacrificed by an unethical firm. Other cases show the ethical dilemmas facing well-known CEOs and the alternatives they can employ to better combine ethical conduct and sound business strategy. Through these case studies, students should emerge with a practical toolkit that will help them to follow their moral compass. Finally, the cases provide an in-depth look at how a corporation becomes progressively corrupted (Enron), how the Financial Crisis was rooted in ethical decay at institutions as diverse as Countrywide, Goldman Sacks, Citigroup, and Moody’s, and at the ethical challenges that have emerged in the post-crisis, post-Dodd-Frank environment at firms like TESLA, VW, Theranos and WeWork.
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Resisting Corporate Corruption teaches business ethics in a manner very different from the philosophical and legal frameworks that dominate graduate schools. The book offers twenty-seven case studies and eight essays that cover a full range of business practices, controls, and ethics issues. The essays discuss the nature of sound financial controls, root causes of the Financial Crisis, contemporary ethics challenges like ‘Fake it Till You Make It,’ and the evolving nature of whistleblower protections. The cases are framed to instruct students in early identification of ethics problems and how to work such issues within corporate organizations. They also provide would-be whistleblowers with instruction on the challenges they’d face, plus information on the legal protections, and outside supports available should they embark on that course. Some of the cases illustrate how ‘The Young are the Most Vulnerable,’ i.e. short-service employees are most at risk of being sacrificed by an unethical firm. Other cases show the ethical dilemmas facing well-known CEOs and the alternatives they can employ to better combine ethical conduct and sound business strategy. Through these case studies, students should emerge with a practical toolkit that will help them to follow their moral compass. Finally, the cases provide an in-depth look at how a corporation becomes progressively corrupted (Enron), how the Financial Crisis was rooted in ethical decay at institutions as diverse as Countrywide, Goldman Sacks, Citigroup, and Moody’s, and at the ethical challenges that have emerged in the post-crisis, post-Dodd-Frank environment at firms like TESLA, VW, Theranos and WeWork.
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Author / Editor Details
Stephen V. Arbogast is Professor of Practice of Finance and Director of the Energy Center at the Kenan-Flagler Business School, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. At the Energy Center, he leads industry conferences and research on the Energy Transition. From 2004-2014 Arbogast was Executive Professor of Finance at the University of Houston. From 1972-2004, he worked for ExxonMobil Corporation in various finance positions, serving overseas in Brazil and Thailand, and culminating as Treasurer of ExxonMobil Chemical Company. Professor Arbogast has authored over eighty case studies and published articles on the Energy Transition, project finance, advanced biofuels, and the disconnect between economics and Catholic Social Doctrine. Since 2010 he has been a member of the Technical Review Panel of the National Renewable Energy Laboratory.
Stephen V. Arbogast is Professor of Practice of Finance and Director of the Energy Center at the Kenan-Flagler Business School, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. At the Energy Center, he leads industry conferences and research on the Energy Transition. From 2004-2014 Arbogast was Executive Professor of Finance at the University of Houston. From 1972-2004, he worked for ExxonMobil Corporation in various finance positions, serving overseas in Brazil and Thailand, and culminating as Treasurer of ExxonMobil Chemical Company. Professor Arbogast has authored over eighty case studies and published articles on the Energy Transition, project finance, advanced biofuels, and the disconnect between economics and Catholic Social Doctrine. Since 2010 he has been a member of the Technical Review Panel of the National Renewable Energy Laboratory.
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Table of Contents
Foreword
Sherron S. Watkins
Introduction to the 4th Edition
Note to Faculty: How to Use this Book
Acknowledgements
Section 1 The Enron Cases
Part 1 Demolishing Financial Control, Neutering the Gatekeepers
Case 1 Enron Oil Trading: Untimely Problems in Valhalla
Natural Gas Pipelines in Crisis
Considering the Options
The Meeting with Internal Audit
Author’s Note
Notes
Essay 1 How to Do an Ethics Case Study
The Solution Framework: Defining the Ethics Issue
Tactical Planning and Alternative Business Plans
Personal Considerations
A Final Word About Financial Control
Essay 2 How a Corporation Becomes Corrupt
Case 2 Enter Mark-to-Market: Exit Accounting Integrity?
Jeff Skilling’s Association with Enron
Steve Goddard Prepares to Meet Jeff Skilling
Author’s Note
Notes
Essay 3 Necessary Ammunition: Economic Rationales for Financial Control
Financial Control at the Heart of Business Success: Personal Experience
Summarizing the Controls/Business Success Intangibles
The Economic Consequences of Sound Financial Control
Notes
Part 2 Business Struggles, Accounting Manipulations
Case 3 Enron’s SPEs: A Vehicle too Far?
Enron and Special Purpose Entity (SPE) Vehicles
Chewco Investments
Author’s Note
Notes
Case 4 Court Date Coming in California?
California Decontrols Electricity
Enron’s ‘Star Wars’ Gambits
Political Fallout in California
Enron Legal Investigates 86
SR Produces a Legal Opinion
Author’s Note
Notes
Part 3 Resisting Corruption at Enron
Case 5 New Counsel for Andy Fastow
Determining a Course of Action
Author’s Note
Notes
Case 6 Lay Back … and Say What?
Problems Deciding What to Say
Skilling Decides to Call it Quits
Assessing the Broader State of Enron
Focusing on the Task at Hand
Author’s Note
Notes
Case 7 Whistleblowing Before Imploding in Accounting Scandals
Welcome Back; Now Meet the Raptors
Pondering an Approach to Ken Lay
A Decision to Go Forward
Author’s Note
Notes
Essay 4 Resisting Corporate Corruption: The Enron Legacy
Tactical Lessons for Internal Resistance
Tactical Lessons for Taking Ethics Issues Outside the Firm
Implications for the Financial Crisis Cases
Essay 5 Underappreciated Origins of the Financial Crisis – A Personal Memoir
Jack Bennett Shakes Up Wall Street
Wall Street Restructures, Consolidates, and Innovates
Trading Dominates Banking and Client Relations Change
Prelude to Financial Crisis
Section 2 The Financial Crisis Cases
Part 1 New Business Models Undermine Standards and Controls
Case 1 Seeking a Sustainable Business Model at Goldman Sachs
Banking vs. Trading at Goldman Sachs
Competitive Pressures Change Wall Street’s Business Models
Embarrassment and Unprecedented Losses
Hank Paulson Decides on a ‘Counter to Corzine’
Author’s Note
Notes
Case 2 He’s Madoff with the Money – Stop Him Now?
Ponzi Schemes and Madoff
Madoff Perfects the Ponzi Scheme
More Red Flags than the Soviet Union
Markopolos Goes to the SEC
Where to Go after Meaghan Cheung’s Cold Shoulder?
Author’s Note
Notes
Case 3 Should Countrywide Join the Subprime ‘Race to the Bottom’?
Nature and Structure of the U.S. Mortgage Business, 1940–85
Wall Street Develops Collateralized Mortgage Obligations (CMOs)
‘Subprime 1.0’ Temporarily Sobers the Market
Countrywide’s Strategy in the 1990s
AmeriQuest Launches a Subprime ‘Race to the Bottom’
Mozilo Reconsiders Countrywide’s Subprime Strategy
Author’s Note
Notes
Case 4 Subprime Heading South at Bear Stearns Asset Management
Hedge Funds Develop on Wall Street
Bear Stearns Forms its Own Hedge Funds
Mortgage Market Trends and HGF Disclosure
Financial Control Issues at HGF
Cioffi and Tannin Respond to Growing Pressures
February 2007: ELF Performance Turns Negative
Matthew Tannin Considers His Response to Barclays Bank
Author’s Note
Notes
Part 2 Consequences for Gatekeepers and Firms
Case 5 Ratings Integrity vs. Revenues at Moody’s Investors Services
RMBS/CDO Ratings: Kolchinsky Protests and is Transferred
Moody’s Becomes a NRSRO
Moody’s Culture Changes, and the Firm Goes Public
Subprime Mortgage Debt: The Ratings Methodology Challenge
The Subprime Market Begins to Unravel
Summer 2008 – Moody’s Prepares to Resume Ratings
Author’s Note
Notes
Case 6 Admission of Material Omission?
Citigroup’s SIVs and Subprime Exposure
Citibank’s Subprime Product Flow and its SIVs
Citibank Structures and Launches Subprime SIVs
Citibank’s SIVs Finesse the VIE Rules
Conditions Worsen in the Mortgage and RMBS/CDO Markets
Citibank Reports Second Quarter Results
Third Quarter Events Hammer Citi’s Results
Considering Citi’s 3Q Results and IR’s Proposed Pre-Announcement
Author’s Note
Notes
Case 7 Facing Reputational Risk on Goldman’s ABACUS 2007-AC1
From Subprime RMBS to CDOs to SCDOs
Goldman’s Trading and its Clients, 2006–07
Fabrice Tourre Constructs ABACUS 2007-AC1
Tourre Prepares for the MCC ABACUS Review
Author’s Note
Notes
Case 8 Time to Drop the Hammer on AIG’s Controls?
Innovation and Controls on Wall Street
Management and Controls at AIG
Greenberg Takes a Fall for AIG’s ‘Cooked Books’
AIG-FP Confronts a Subprime Market Decline
FP Faces Collateral Calls on Subprime CDS
Ryan and PWC Approach a Decision
Author’s Note
Notes
Part 3 Financial Firms and Resisters
Case 9 Write to Rubin? – Pressure on Underwriting Standards at Citigroup
National City Bank Becomes a Giant Financial Conglomerate
Citi Demolishes Glass-Steagall
Organizational Challenges at Citigroup
Growth and Controls within Citigroup’s Mortgage Operations
Bowen Considers His Next Step – Write to Rubin?
Author’s Note
Notes
Case 10 Lehman Brothers Repo 105
Lehman Gets in Trouble
Repo 105 to the Rescue
Weighing Ethics, Career and Courses of Action
Author’s Note
Notes
Essay 6 Wall Street and the Crisis – Causes, Contributions and Problems to Fix
Section 3 The Post-Crisis Cases – Reforms, Resistance, Continuing Realities
Part 1 The Dodd-Frank Act: A Primer
Case 1 Back to the Future on Goldman Sachs Reputational Risk
KMI Moves on El Paso
El Paso Reacts and Goldman Faces its Conflicts
The Business Standards Committee on Client Conflicts
Blankfein Considers Goldman’s Options to Manage its El Paso-KMI Conflicts
Author’s Note
Notes
Case 2 Take Customer Cash to Survive? Compliance and Chaos at MF Global
Client Protections and Segregated Accounts
MF Global Courts an Illiquidity Crisis
Corzine ‘Bets the House’ on Euro Sovereign Debt
The Euro Sovereign Debt Crisis Hits
Markets Begin to Close in on MFGI
MFGI’s Final Week and a Decision on Segregated Accounts
Author’s Note
Notes
Case 3 Too Big to Know What’s Going on at Banamex?
Oceanografía Defrauds Banamex
Managing the Global Financial Supermarket
Corbat Confronts the Banamex Scandal in a Post-Financial Crisis World
Author’s Note
Notes
Case 4 Take CitiMortgage to the Feds?
CitiMortgage Ignores FHA Procedures
Citi Fails to Fix its FHA Noncompliance Issues
Hunt Meets Her Attorney
Author’s Note
Notes
Case 5 Faking it on Diesel Emissions at VW (A)?
VW Goes Diesel as a Sales and Climate Strategy
Perceived Consequences of VW Admitting to Fraud
Geldmacher Decides on Next Steps
Author’s Note
Notes
Case 6 Faking it on Diesel Emissions at VW (B)?
VW’s Deception Begins to Unravel
Geldmacher Watches VW’s Deception Intensify
Geldmacher Considers His Options
Author’s Note
Notes
Case 7 Fake it Till You Make it at TESLA?
The SEC and its Enforcement Arsenal
TESLA Takes on the Car Market, Faces ‘Manufacturing Hell’
Questionable Accounting by TESLA
Substantive Basis for Musk’s Latest Tweet
Time for a Decision
Author’s Note
Notes
Case 8 Fake it Till You Make it with Patient Blood at Theranos?
Elizabeth Holmes Wants to Change the World
The Technology—or Not
Funding Theranos
Walgreens Pilot Crashes, Staff Question, and Theranos Looks to Shut Down Dissent
Theranos Playbook for Disgruntled Employees
Erika Cheung Considers Her Options
Author’s Note
Notes
Case 9 Fake it Till You Cash Out?’ on Flexible Office Space at WeWork?
WeWork Becomes a Unicorn
WeWork ‘Works’ the Unicorn Funding Circuit
IPO Market Conditions Worsen
J.P. Morgan Faces WeWork’s S-1
Author’s Note
Notes
Case 10 What to Do About Faking it at Nikola?
Nikola Promises a Trucking Revolution
Potential Nikola/Milton Fraud
Nikola Goes Public via a SPAC Merger
Reports of Fraud Surface
Chairman Clayton Considers the SEC’s Options
Author’s Note
Notes
Essay 7 ‘And the Young Shall be Thrown Under the Bus’ – Lessons in Resisting Unethical Conduct from Enron Through the Financial Crisis
Essay 8 Resisting Corporate Corruption, 2022
A Note on Blogs and Law Firms
A Note on Sources
Index
The Financial Crisis Cases
The Post-Financial Crisis Cases
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Foreword
Sherron S. Watkins
Introduction to the 4th Edition
Note to Faculty: How to Use this Book
Acknowledgements
Section 1 The Enron Cases
Part 1 Demolishing Financial Control, Neutering the Gatekeepers
Case 1 Enron Oil Trading: Untimely Problems in Valhalla
Natural Gas Pipelines in Crisis
Considering the Options
The Meeting with Internal Audit
Author’s Note
Notes
Essay 1 How to Do an Ethics Case Study
The Solution Framework: Defining the Ethics Issue
Tactical Planning and Alternative Business Plans
Personal Considerations
A Final Word About Financial Control
Essay 2 How a Corporation Becomes Corrupt
Case 2 Enter Mark-to-Market: Exit Accounting Integrity?
Jeff Skilling’s Association with Enron
Steve Goddard Prepares to Meet Jeff Skilling
Author’s Note
Notes
Essay 3 Necessary Ammunition: Economic Rationales for Financial Control
Financial Control at the Heart of Business Success: Personal Experience
Summarizing the Controls/Business Success Intangibles
The Economic Consequences of Sound Financial Control
Notes
Part 2 Business Struggles, Accounting Manipulations
Case 3 Enron’s SPEs: A Vehicle too Far?
Enron and Special Purpose Entity (SPE) Vehicles
Chewco Investments
Author’s Note
Notes
Case 4 Court Date Coming in California?
California Decontrols Electricity
Enron’s ‘Star Wars’ Gambits
Political Fallout in California
Enron Legal Investigates 86
SR Produces a Legal Opinion
Author’s Note
Notes
Part 3 Resisting Corruption at Enron
Case 5 New Counsel for Andy Fastow
Determining a Course of Action
Author’s Note
Notes
Case 6 Lay Back … and Say What?
Problems Deciding What to Say
Skilling Decides to Call it Quits
Assessing the Broader State of Enron
Focusing on the Task at Hand
Author’s Note
Notes
Case 7 Whistleblowing Before Imploding in Accounting Scandals
Welcome Back; Now Meet the Raptors
Pondering an Approach to Ken Lay
A Decision to Go Forward
Author’s Note
Notes
Essay 4 Resisting Corporate Corruption: The Enron Legacy
Tactical Lessons for Internal Resistance
Tactical Lessons for Taking Ethics Issues Outside the Firm
Implications for the Financial Crisis Cases
Essay 5 Underappreciated Origins of the Financial Crisis – A Personal Memoir
Jack Bennett Shakes Up Wall Street
Wall Street Restructures, Consolidates, and Innovates
Trading Dominates Banking and Client Relations Change
Prelude to Financial Crisis
Section 2 The Financial Crisis Cases
Part 1 New Business Models Undermine Standards and Controls
Case 1 Seeking a Sustainable Business Model at Goldman Sachs
Banking vs. Trading at Goldman Sachs
Competitive Pressures Change Wall Street’s Business Models
Embarrassment and Unprecedented Losses
Hank Paulson Decides on a ‘Counter to Corzine’
Author’s Note
Notes
Case 2 He’s Madoff with the Money – Stop Him Now?
Ponzi Schemes and Madoff
Madoff Perfects the Ponzi Scheme
More Red Flags than the Soviet Union
Markopolos Goes to the SEC
Where to Go after Meaghan Cheung’s Cold Shoulder?
Author’s Note
Notes
Case 3 Should Countrywide Join the Subprime ‘Race to the Bottom’?
Nature and Structure of the U.S. Mortgage Business, 1940–85
Wall Street Develops Collateralized Mortgage Obligations (CMOs)
‘Subprime 1.0’ Temporarily Sobers the Market
Countrywide’s Strategy in the 1990s
AmeriQuest Launches a Subprime ‘Race to the Bottom’
Mozilo Reconsiders Countrywide’s Subprime Strategy
Author’s Note
Notes
Case 4 Subprime Heading South at Bear Stearns Asset Management
Hedge Funds Develop on Wall Street
Bear Stearns Forms its Own Hedge Funds
Mortgage Market Trends and HGF Disclosure
Financial Control Issues at HGF
Cioffi and Tannin Respond to Growing Pressures
February 2007: ELF Performance Turns Negative
Matthew Tannin Considers His Response to Barclays Bank
Author’s Note
Notes
Part 2 Consequences for Gatekeepers and Firms
Case 5 Ratings Integrity vs. Revenues at Moody’s Investors Services
RMBS/CDO Ratings: Kolchinsky Protests and is Transferred
Moody’s Becomes a NRSRO
Moody’s Culture Changes, and the Firm Goes Public
Subprime Mortgage Debt: The Ratings Methodology Challenge
The Subprime Market Begins to Unravel
Summer 2008 – Moody’s Prepares to Resume Ratings
Author’s Note
Notes
Case 6 Admission of Material Omission?
Citigroup’s SIVs and Subprime Exposure
Citibank’s Subprime Product Flow and its SIVs
Citibank Structures and Launches Subprime SIVs
Citibank’s SIVs Finesse the VIE Rules
Conditions Worsen in the Mortgage and RMBS/CDO Markets
Citibank Reports Second Quarter Results
Third Quarter Events Hammer Citi’s Results
Considering Citi’s 3Q Results and IR’s Proposed Pre-Announcement
Author’s Note
Notes
Case 7 Facing Reputational Risk on Goldman’s ABACUS 2007-AC1
From Subprime RMBS to CDOs to SCDOs
Goldman’s Trading and its Clients, 2006–07
Fabrice Tourre Constructs ABACUS 2007-AC1
Tourre Prepares for the MCC ABACUS Review
Author’s Note
Notes
Case 8 Time to Drop the Hammer on AIG’s Controls?
Innovation and Controls on Wall Street
Management and Controls at AIG
Greenberg Takes a Fall for AIG’s ‘Cooked Books’
AIG-FP Confronts a Subprime Market Decline
FP Faces Collateral Calls on Subprime CDS
Ryan and PWC Approach a Decision
Author’s Note
Notes
Part 3 Financial Firms and Resisters
Case 9 Write to Rubin? – Pressure on Underwriting Standards at Citigroup
National City Bank Becomes a Giant Financial Conglomerate
Citi Demolishes Glass-Steagall
Organizational Challenges at Citigroup
Growth and Controls within Citigroup’s Mortgage Operations
Bowen Considers His Next Step – Write to Rubin?
Author’s Note
Notes
Case 10 Lehman Brothers Repo 105
Lehman Gets in Trouble
Repo 105 to the Rescue
Weighing Ethics, Career and Courses of Action
Author’s Note
Notes
Essay 6 Wall Street and the Crisis – Causes, Contributions and Problems to Fix
Section 3 The Post-Crisis Cases – Reforms, Resistance, Continuing Realities
Part 1 The Dodd-Frank Act: A Primer
Case 1 Back to the Future on Goldman Sachs Reputational Risk
KMI Moves on El Paso
El Paso Reacts and Goldman Faces its Conflicts
The Business Standards Committee on Client Conflicts
Blankfein Considers Goldman’s Options to Manage its El Paso-KMI Conflicts
Author’s Note
Notes
Case 2 Take Customer Cash to Survive? Compliance and Chaos at MF Global
Client Protections and Segregated Accounts
MF Global Courts an Illiquidity Crisis
Corzine ‘Bets the House’ on Euro Sovereign Debt
The Euro Sovereign Debt Crisis Hits
Markets Begin to Close in on MFGI
MFGI’s Final Week and a Decision on Segregated Accounts
Author’s Note
Notes
Case 3 Too Big to Know What’s Going on at Banamex?
Oceanografía Defrauds Banamex
Managing the Global Financial Supermarket
Corbat Confronts the Banamex Scandal in a Post-Financial Crisis World
Author’s Note
Notes
Case 4 Take CitiMortgage to the Feds?
CitiMortgage Ignores FHA Procedures
Citi Fails to Fix its FHA Noncompliance Issues
Hunt Meets Her Attorney
Author’s Note
Notes
Case 5 Faking it on Diesel Emissions at VW (A)?
VW Goes Diesel as a Sales and Climate Strategy
Perceived Consequences of VW Admitting to Fraud
Geldmacher Decides on Next Steps
Author’s Note
Notes
Case 6 Faking it on Diesel Emissions at VW (B)?
VW’s Deception Begins to Unravel
Geldmacher Watches VW’s Deception Intensify
Geldmacher Considers His Options
Author’s Note
Notes
Case 7 Fake it Till You Make it at TESLA?
The SEC and its Enforcement Arsenal
TESLA Takes on the Car Market, Faces ‘Manufacturing Hell’
Questionable Accounting by TESLA
Substantive Basis for Musk’s Latest Tweet
Time for a Decision
Author’s Note
Notes
Case 8 Fake it Till You Make it with Patient Blood at Theranos?
Elizabeth Holmes Wants to Change the World
The Technology—or Not
Funding Theranos
Walgreens Pilot Crashes, Staff Question, and Theranos Looks to Shut Down Dissent
Theranos Playbook for Disgruntled Employees
Erika Cheung Considers Her Options
Author’s Note
Notes
Case 9 Fake it Till You Cash Out?’ on Flexible Office Space at WeWork?
WeWork Becomes a Unicorn
WeWork ‘Works’ the Unicorn Funding Circuit
IPO Market Conditions Worsen
J.P. Morgan Faces WeWork’s S-1
Author’s Note
Notes
Case 10 What to Do About Faking it at Nikola?
Nikola Promises a Trucking Revolution
Potential Nikola/Milton Fraud
Nikola Goes Public via a SPAC Merger
Reports of Fraud Surface
Chairman Clayton Considers the SEC’s Options
Author’s Note
Notes
Essay 7 ‘And the Young Shall be Thrown Under the Bus’ – Lessons in Resisting Unethical Conduct from Enron Through the Financial Crisis
Essay 8 Resisting Corporate Corruption, 2022
A Note on Blogs and Law Firms
A Note on Sources
Index
The Financial Crisis Cases
The Post-Financial Crisis Cases
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