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Rarely does a week go by with out a well-known exec being indicted for engaging in a white-collar crime. Perplexed in regards to what drives successful, prosperous people to associated risk it all, Harvard Business College teacher Eugene Soltes spent seven years together with the men behind the largest corporate crimes ever sold - from the financial fraudsters of Enron, to the embezzlers at Tyco, to the Ponzi schemers Bernie Madoff and Allen Stanford. Soltes refutes popular explanations of why seemingly successful executives engage in crime. White-collar bad guys, he shows, are not merely influenced by abnormal greed or hubris, nor do they often carefully calculate the expenses and benefits before breaking regulations. Instead, he demonstrates almost all of these executives make decisions the way we all do - based on their intuitions and gut feelings. Based on comprehensive interaction with practically 50 former executives, Soltes provides insights into why some found the immediate effects of misconduct as positive, why executives often don't have the emotions most people would expect, and how acceptable norms available community may vary from those of the broader culture.
