Why do people with plenty of power and money end up committing fraud, embezzlement and other white-collar crimes?
That was the question Eugene Soltes (@eugenesoltes), a Harvard Business School professor, sought to answer when he reached out to dozens of former top executives who’d been convicted of criminal activity.
Soltes turned those conversations into a new book, “Why They Do It: Inside the Mind of the White-Collar Criminal,” and talked about it with Here & Now‘s Meghna Chakrabarti.
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