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Wal-Mart’s Bribery in Mexico (Part 1: Notable FCPA aspects of the NYT exposé)
4.23.2012
You know a corruption story is big when your in-box gets flooded with links to it in a matter of hours. Yesterday’s New York Times exposé about Wal-Mart de Mexico’s “campaign of bribery to win market dominance” is one of these stories. You can just picture DOJ and SEC regulators reading their Sunday Times over […]
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“Bad Press is the Worst Sanction”
3.09.2012
In Latin America, a company’s reputation matters. At least that is what a recent survey concluded after gauging factors that motivate businesses to counter corruption. The survey, conducted by Germany’s Humboldt-Viadrina School of Governance, reached out to business people, government officials, and civil society workers throughout the world to assess how incentives and sanctions affect […]