Scott London Case
Scott London had it all – the perfect family, a gorgeous house, luxury cars, great friends, a hip social life, and a nearly seven-figure job to support it all. London’s position as audit partner at KPMG came with all the perks imaginable. It makes you wonder what it would take for someone to throw all of it away. This is a case about a man who was blinded by friendship. All he wanted to do was help his friend – we can all relate to that.
If you were asked to commit fraud, would you do it? Would you aimlessly follow your boss’s orders like Harold Katz? Or would you follow in Jackie McLaughlin’s footsteps and challenge your boss? Many people find themselves in these unethical situations and a lot of them fall for it. It’s easy …show more content…
That slippery slope was much like Jay Nolan’s. When Nolan was approached by his AA friends about trading for them, he initially declined knowing that part of his life was over. The more they asked, the more obligated he felt to help his friends. Similarly, the Garrett Bauer case also appealed to this sense of friendship. Bauer’s buddy Ken Robinson convinced Bauer to rejoin the insider trading group after years of suspension. In all three cases, the perpetrators were driven by the compulsion of helping their friends – that’s a feeling that everyone has …show more content…
News College Rankings. Coupled with a highly successful athletic program, this makes UNC one of the most popular universities in the world. But is everyone at UNC given a fair chance to succeed? For eighteen years, thousands of UNC student-athletes took “paper classes”, while advisors funneled them into a specialized program that kept them eligible. As valued high school recruits, these students were promised a first class education. Instead, they received a stripped down version and an unearned degree.
Mary Willingham has spent decades tutoring athletes and other undergraduates in need of reading assistance. She loved her job and loved UNC, but something wasn’t right. The students she tutored made significate progress, but the idea that a student with elementary school skills was going to be able to write a college-level paper was crazy. Mary was concerned that the athletic department was targeting students with minimum education requirements and expecting the school to prepare them for college-level
Scott London had it all – the perfect family, a gorgeous house, luxury cars, great friends, a hip social life, and a nearly seven-figure job to support it all. London’s position as audit partner at KPMG came with all the perks imaginable. It makes you wonder what it would take for someone to throw all of it away. This is a case about a man who was blinded by friendship. All he wanted to do was help his friend – we can all relate to that.
If you were asked to commit fraud, would you do it? Would you aimlessly follow your boss’s orders like Harold Katz? Or would you follow in Jackie McLaughlin’s footsteps and challenge your boss? Many people find themselves in these unethical situations and a lot of them fall for it. It’s easy …show more content…
That slippery slope was much like Jay Nolan’s. When Nolan was approached by his AA friends about trading for them, he initially declined knowing that part of his life was over. The more they asked, the more obligated he felt to help his friends. Similarly, the Garrett Bauer case also appealed to this sense of friendship. Bauer’s buddy Ken Robinson convinced Bauer to rejoin the insider trading group after years of suspension. In all three cases, the perpetrators were driven by the compulsion of helping their friends – that’s a feeling that everyone has …show more content…
News College Rankings. Coupled with a highly successful athletic program, this makes UNC one of the most popular universities in the world. But is everyone at UNC given a fair chance to succeed? For eighteen years, thousands of UNC student-athletes took “paper classes”, while advisors funneled them into a specialized program that kept them eligible. As valued high school recruits, these students were promised a first class education. Instead, they received a stripped down version and an unearned degree.
Mary Willingham has spent decades tutoring athletes and other undergraduates in need of reading assistance. She loved her job and loved UNC, but something wasn’t right. The students she tutored made significate progress, but the idea that a student with elementary school skills was going to be able to write a college-level paper was crazy. Mary was concerned that the athletic department was targeting students with minimum education requirements and expecting the school to prepare them for college-level