How Companies Reckon with Past Wrongdoing

Social media giants mishandle data, banks mis-sell PPI insurance, engineers arrange for cars to cheat emissions tests. Why do companies sometimes do bad things? Evan Davis and guests discuss whether it's by accident or deliberate. Coverage of business wrongdoing often focuses on ...  Show more

Bad behaviour and big mistakes can destroy careers and even entire businesses if they're not addressed quickly, so why do some companies and their leaders try to downplay or even deny them?Evan Davis and guests discuss the culture of defensiveness and denial that exists in some o ...  Show more

To err is human. To mess up at work might put you in the doghouse. Mary and Chris discuss how to recover from mistakes, rebuild your reputation and use your humanity to move on. Chris confesses to a sticky mistake. Mary throws her team under the bus. Send us your workplace dilemm ...  Show more

Sometimes we can see what others can't and in this episode Pandy reviews a recent discrimination case that had all the signs of what not to do. See if you can pick them out as she walks you through the multiple mistakes and why a court of appeals found evidence of adverse ...