How do people get away with bad behavior without being held accountable? Typically, the conduct of bad actors in any organization isn’t a secret; in fact, usually it was enabled by a supporting cast of characters who were complicit through action or inaction, and helped shield them from accountability.

In this thought-provoking talk, Asha Rangappa shows how we can think of these complicit actors as the human "scaffolding" who allow corruption to take root and misconduct to flourish at the top. Using case studies across different sectors — including the Theranos scandal, the CIA torture program, Harvey Weinstein, the Minneapolis police department, Facebook and even Vladimir Putin, among others — Rangappa analyzes the incentives, fears and goals of the cast of characters who are invariably a part of any corrupt system.

Rangappa’s presentation offers lessons for managers and policymakers to develop norms, codes of conduct and oversight mechanisms that can prevent corruption and misconduct from taking root and empower those in a position to stop it.
 

This event is free and open to the public. Registration Required.

Presented by: The Museum of Political Corruption, Rockefeller College of Public Affairs and Policy at the University at Albany, and Government Law Center at Albany Law School Present

About the Speaker: Asha Rangappa is a Senior Lecturer at Yale University’s Jackson Institute for Global Affairs and a former Associate Dean at Yale Law School. Prior to her current position, Rangappa served as a Special Agent in the New York Division of the FBI, specializing in counterintelligence investigations.