Edwin Dodd Lecture Series
Fool Me Once: How Good Employees Often Rationalize Bad Decisions
Dr. Kelly Richmond Pope
Thursday, Oct. 26
4:30-6 p.m.
Savage & Associates Business Learning Complex Room SB 1200
Reception to follow
The event is free and open to the public. Parking is free in Area 1N off University Hills Blvd.
If you were to ask people whether they think stealing is wrong, most would respond by saying ‘yes.' And yet, fraud, theft and other forms of financial crime cost organizations millions per year. Join us for this interactive session as educator, forensic accountant and filmmaker (All the Queen’s Horses, Kartemquin Films 2017), Professor Kelly Richmond Pope explores how ethical lapses creates fraud situations for any employee.
We will also review preventive strategies that all stakeholders should know to keep their organizations fraud free. Based on her research from her book Fool Me Once: Scams, Stories and Secrets from the Trillion Dollar Fraud Industry (Harvard Business Review Press, 2023), Dr. Pope will share personal lessons learned from intimate conversations with white-collar offenders, whistleblowers and victims of fraud.
Learning Objectives:
- Apply the fraud triangle to high-risk transactions
- Apply the 'Fool Me Once' Fraud Archetype structure to analyze ethical dilemmas
- Improve fraud detection strategies