Wednesday, November 03, 2010

Kurt Eichenwald discusses how businesses involved in scandals have the same company structure, and uses an example involving Columbia HCA



Kurt Eichenwald: Reporter, Author and Pulitzer Prize Nominee has spent his career uncovering fraud and helping us understand the staggering impact of corporate scandals on world markets, on employees, on customers, on shareholders and on public confidence. Eichenwald's bestseller Conspiracy of Fools, the definitive book on Enron, is soon to be a movie starring Leonardo DiCaprio. His book The Informant, about the Archer Daniels Midland price-fixing scandal, has been made into a hit movie starring Matt Damon. Both books are widely considered masterpieces of investigative journalism. A Pulitzer Prize nominee, Eichenwald is one of America's most respected business journalists, and has twice won the George Polk Award, one of journalism's highest honors, his latest for a series about allegations of corruption at the nation's largest private hospital chain.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Judge Saris in federal court in Boston just issued a 146-page ruling finding there is no evidence Neurontin is effective in treating bipolar disorder. How much money did Pfizer make from off-label marketing of this drug for that?

Anonymous said...

I think most of this is covered well in the book "The Seven Signs of Ethical Collapse"