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Wal-Mart Leadership Sweeps $24 Million of Bribes Under the Rug

Coaching Tip

In The New York Times of April 22, 2012, a former executive described how Wal-Mart de Mexico had orchestrated a campaign of bribery to win market dominance. In September 2005, Wal-Mart dispatched investigators to Mexico City, and within days they unearthed evidence of widespread bribery. Source: The New York Times, April 22, 2012.

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Soft Corporate Cultures

Coaching Tip

In the April 30, 2012 issue of FORTUNE , Jack and Suzy Welch wrote about "one of the most immutable rules of business. In The New York Times of April 22, 2012, a former executive described how Wal-Mart de Mexico had orchestrated a campaign of bribery to win market dominance. How ethically vulnerable is your organization?

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Jamie Dimon’s Pay Raise Sends Mixed Signals on Culture and Accountability

Harvard Business Review

million for 2012, a 74 percent increase. Dimon’s raise obviously has special resonance because JP Morgan’s legal woes were one of the top business stories last year as it agreed to $20 billion in payments to settle a variety of cases involving the bank’s conduct since 2005 when Dimon became JPM CEO.

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Who’s Responsible for the Walmart Mexico Scandal?

Harvard Business Review

It broke into the open in April, 2012, when the New York Times published a lengthy investigative piece alleging Walmart bribery in a Mexican subsidiary and a cover-up in its Bentonville, Arkansas, global headquarters. Boards Leadership Wal-mart'

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Celebrity Leaders

Lead on Purpose

As a species, we are fascinated by the concept of leadership and the conduct of individual leaders. Why is leadership such a fascinating topic? Why are we so enthralled by leadership and curious about the private and public lives of leaders? Campbell believes that the “hero quest” is in effect a “leadership quest.”

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