Survival Guide for Whistleblowers
Tom Devine, legal director of the Government Accountability Project and co-author of The Corporate Whistleblower's Survival Guide: A Handbook for Committing the Truth, and Jeffrey Wigand, a prominent...
View ArticleSurvival Guide for Whistleblowers
Welcome to Politics Bites, where every afternoon at It's A Free Country, we bring you the unmissable quotes from the morning's political conversations on WNYC. Today on The Brian Lehrer Show, Tom...
View ArticleInside Coca-Cola
Neville Isdell, former CEO of Coca-Cola, talks about his 30 years with the company and his role running the world’s leading soft-drink company. In Inside Coca-Cola: A CEO’s Story of Building the...
View ArticleFormer Olympus Executive on Why He Blew The Whistle
Japanese company Olympus was founded in 1919 with the goal of making microscopes. But now, after a series of shocking accounting revelations the microscope is being turned on Olympus. The camera...
View ArticleA Whistleblower, Corruption, and Retaliation at the EPA
Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo describes her efforts to get the government to investigate allegations that a U.S. multinational corporation was responsible for the deaths of hundreds of South Africans...
View ArticleEconomic Crimes
When he won the Oscar for the documentary "Inside Job," director Charles Ferguson asked why no one responsible for the financial crisis went to jail. He looks for answers in his new book Predator...
View ArticleThe Shareholder Value Myth
Executives, investors, and the business press routinely say that corporations are required to “maximize shareholder value,” but corporate expert Lynn Stout disagrees. She argues that overemphasizing...
View ArticleCorporations Behaving Badly
Heidi Moore, Marketplace Wall Street correspondent and New York bureau chief, gives a round-up of GlaxoSmithKline's fraud settlement, JP Morgan's bad investment advice, and Barclay's interest rate...
View ArticleValues Vs. Profits: Inside the World of Corporate Idealism
Can you work for one of the world's largest oil companies and still advance the cause of climate change and human rights? Former BP Oil employee Christine Bader says yes.That realization began with a...
View ArticleShould Companies Report Profits Less Often?
It's earnings season again, that quarterly ritual when investors anxiously wait for companies to report their financial results. In the wave of new regulations passed during the Great Depression, the...
View ArticleIn Defense of Corporate Persons
On the fifth anniversary of the Supreme Court's decision, with reports of unprecedented "dark money" continuing to flood the political system, Citizens United is as controversial as ever. Brooke speaks...
View ArticleInside the Chickenshit Club
It's long been a trope that the wealthy play by a different set of rules than everyone else. It also happens to be true, especially when it comes to the prosecution of white collar crime...or lack...
View ArticleThe New Wave of Corporate Activism
With its Global Compact, the United Nations is mobilizing corporations to move toward more sustainable and environmentally friendly business practices. But this is far from the first time businesses...
View ArticleCorporate America Pressures Trump to Concede
Under the Trump administration, it seemed like even tweets from President Trump wouldshake the economy. During his time in office, President Trump promised, and delivered, on major tax cuts for the...
View ArticleCorporations Stay Silent on Abortion
It’s been almost three weeks since a new restrictive abortion law called SB8 took effect all across Texas. The law bans abortion after six weeks of pregnancy. Because most people don’t know they’re...
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