(By Joseph W. Koletar) On March 28, 2016, Niall Ferguson, Professor of History at Harvard, published his thoughts that to defeat a network such as ISIS will require a countervailing network of countries, agencies, and people in many fields. This is not unlike the movie, The Imitation Game, which recounted the efforts of Alan Turing, […]
(By Jack Bigelow) Corporate fraud prevention and detection tools include organizational structure design, tests, checklists, “healthy skepticism,” and other nonpersonal procedures targeting financial mischief. But there’s growing interest now in looking at the deep psychological influences on managers committing fraud, to see why (beyond the surface factor of greed) they do it. We call this […]
How Obama, Apple and the FBI might be wrong “The Founders would be appalled,” Apple wrote in its last court filing before it squares off against the government in federal court in California at a hearing on March 22.[1] Alina Selyukh, “the two-way” Breaking news from NPR (By Daven Morrison, MD) Trying to solve […]
WHERE HAVE ALL THE NEIGHBORS GONE? KEEPING UP WITH THE CEO JONESES (By Joseph W. Koletar) When someone hits the lottery by blind luck, peace and happiness spread throughout the land, right? Perhaps not. Perhaps all that happens is that the fires of jealousy get fueled. The Wall Street Journal of February 17, 2016 (page […]
(By Joseph W. Koletar) For decades much organizational and public policy has been made on the presumption that corruption is a result of poverty or low pay. A new study reported in The Economist (“The Wages of Sin,” January 30, 2016, p. 65) may turn that presumption on its head. The study, by American economists […]
Greed’s ties to Technology and Values (By guest blogger, Organizational Psychiatrist: David E. Morrison, M.D.) The bloggers for this web page and authors of The A.B.C.s of Behavioral Forensics (Wiley, 2013) argue that the motivations for fraud lie much deeper than the conventional wisdom’s diagnosis, “greed.” As a consulting psychiatrist, I fully endorse that argument. […]
(By Vic Hartman) Americans’ perception that bankers and Wall Street fat cats escaped accountability for their role in the recent financial crisis has not gone unnoticed by the Department of Justice (DOJ). The difficulties in prosecuting these executives has also been discussed on these blog pages, see “How To Explain the Mortgage Fraud Crisis: A […]
(HOW DO CIVILIZED SOCITIES AND PEOPLE RESPOND?) (By Joe Koletar)At about 4:30PM, Eastern Time, media reports began to come in about a series of coordinated and deadly attacks in and around Paris. As of the time of writing this post, reports continue about possible attacks yet to come. This obviously reminds Americans and others around […]
Say It Ain’t So, GI Joe Here in northern Illinois, we have been witness to an amazing story of deception. As the local news story of a murdered hero cop, “GI Joe”, unfolded this fall, many of us were impacted. Beyond the media coverage, our daily lives were touched: from traffic congestion to several local […]
(By Daven Morrison) This post is some brief follow-up musings regarding the preceding posting by Joe Koletar, KISS (“Keep It Simple, Stupid,” which could also be called, “KISOICM” or, “Keep It Simple; Otherwise I Confuse Myself”). I believe that a part of what was happening in the jury were the challenges of fast and slow […]