Where to Look for Ethical Risk Inside a Company

HBR On Leadership

Eugene Soltes, 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 ballooning into serious reputational and financial damage. Soltes is the author of the HBR article “Where Is Your Company Most Prone to Lapses in Integrity?”

Key episode topics include: business ethics, risk management, business management, cross-cultural management, organizational culture

● Listen to the original HBR IdeaCast episode: Stopping White-Collar Crime at Your Company
● Find more episodes of HBR IdeaCast
● Discover 100 years of Harvard Business Review articles, case studies, podcasts, and more at HBR.org

2026-01-28 24 min

Available Results

Generated results are saved to the knowledge database for reuse and search.

No generated results are available for this episode yet.

Extract Knowledge

Pick what you want extracted first. Model, scope, and chapter options appear after a template is selected.

Generated results for public episodes are saved to the knowledge database so they can be reused and searched later.

Transcript

No transcript is available for this episode yet.
Sign in to generate a transcript for review.
Sign in

Chapters

No chapters available.