Archive | June, 2011
Compliance Bits and Pieces for June 3

Compliance Bits and Pieces for June 3

Here are some recent compliance-related stories that caught my attention: Launching Into Unethical Behavior: Lessons from the Challenger Disaster by Ann E. Tenbrunsel and Max H. Bazerman in Freakonomics On the night before the Challenger was set to launch, a group of NASA engineers and managers met with the shuttle contracting firm Morton Thiokol to [...]

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Paying a Bribe? There’s an App for that

Can you crowdsource the fight against corruption? An international team coming from Estonia, Lithuania, Finland and Iran thinks you might. They created a smartphone app that allows people to anonymously report incidences of bribery and later see the data visualized on an interactive map. Bribespot is an app that allows you to see how much [...]

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Revisiting the Fabulous Fab

Revisiting the Fabulous Fab

Last summer, Fabrice Tourre didn’t turn around fast enough to see the bus coming at him. Goldman Sachs had given him a big push and put him in the front and center of their big bet on a crash in the residential mortgage securities market. Tourre ended up as the Fabulous Fab after giving himself [...]

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