What drives wealthy and powerful people to commit white-collar crimes? The sensationalism of greedy Wall Street criminals has given way to popular, yet misleading, explanations for their actions. Everything is not at seems, as Professor Eugene Soltes writes about in his book Why They Do It: Inside the Mind of the White-Collar Criminal. Kirkus Reviews describes it as “a groundbreaking study” on white-collar criminality, exploring why wealthy and successful executive engage in deception.

Please join us in Houston on November 7^th to hear Professor Soltes speak on his over seven years of interaction with nearly fifty high-profile former executives.  With combined experience at the Harvard Business School, consulting private firms, and with national regulators, Professor Soltes has amassed award-winning research focusing on corporate misconduct and fraud that has been published in leading finance and econfomics journals. 

Complimentary copies of Why They Do It will be provided to all attendees.

About the Speaker

Professor Eugene Soltes is currently the Jakurski Family Associate Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School, where his research focuses on corporate misconduct and fraud. He is a popular keynote speaker and frequently advises firms about their compliance programs and training. He is regularly invited to speak to regulators, including the Department of Justice, Securities and Exchange Commission, United States Treasury, and the FBI. Before joining the Harvard Business School faculty, Professor Soltes had received his PhD and MBA from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business and his AM in statistics and AB in economics from Harvard University.

About the Book

Rarely does a week go by without a well-known executive being indicted for engaging in a white-collar crime. Perplexed as to what drives successful, wealthy people to risk it all, Harvard Business School professor Eugene Soltes took a remarkable journey deep into the minds of these white-collar criminals, spending seven years in the company of the men behind the largest corporate crimes in history--from the financial fraudsters of Enron, to the embezzlers at Tyco, to the Ponzi schemers Bernie Madoff and Allen Stanford. Drawing on intimate details from personal visits, letters, and phone calls with these former executives, as well as psychological, sociological, and historical research, Why They Do It is a breakthrough look at the dark side of the business world. | Read More