BLOGSCAN: Corporate Characteristics that Lead to Fraud

Kurt Eichenwald on the corporate characteristics that lead to fraud: 1) huge positive incentives for achieving financial targets, huge negative incentives for not achieving them; 2) a cult of personality, or a rock-star CEO; 3) a weak compliance department.  The example was for-profit hospital system Columbia/ HCA, whose former CEO just was elected governor of Florida.  See the video on PharmaGossip.

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