Authors:

  • Francesca Gino

Excerpt

How Unethical Behavior Becomes Habit. Francesca Gino, September 4, 2014, Opinion. "When a former client’s secretary was arrested for embezzlement years before his own crimes were uncovered, Bernie Madoff commented to his own secretary, “Well, you know what happens is, it starts out with you taking a little bit, maybe a few hundred, a few thousand. You get comfortable with that, and before you know it, it snowballs into something big.” We now know that Madoff’s Ponzi scheme started when he engaged in misreporting to cover relatively small financial losses. Over a 15-year period..." May require purchase or user account. Link