Rotten: Why Corporate Misconduct Continues and What to Do About It

An insiders’ account of failed efforts to control corporate misconduct—and a forceful plan to do so.

Nothing anyone has done in the past 50 years has stopped, or even slowed, corporate misconduct. Business schools have required courses on ethics, regulators have implemented laws and levied fines, and journalists have exposed the scandals named names, yet misconduct continues. Why? Is it simply the case of a few bad apples? Or maybe it’s a bad orchard? Two pioneers in the field of business et...