What if the seeds of a corporate scandal aren’t born in bad apples — but in the fertile soil of unchecked culture? That’s the core argument in The Dark Pattern: The Hidden Dynamics of Corporate Scandals  by Guido Palazzo and Ulrich Hoffrage — a bold and, at times, unsettling examination of how ordinary organizations slide into extraordinary ethical failure. To those of us in compliance, the book reads less like theory and more like diagnosis. Scandals Don't Start with Crime —

About the Author Keyu Jin is a Chinese economist educated in both China and the United States. She earned her A.B. and Ph.D. in Economics from Harvard University  and is now a tenured professor at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) , where her work focuses on international macroeconomics, technology, and China’s growth model. Having grown up during the reform era, she brings rigorous academic training together with lived experience of China’s transform

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