Building Public Trust - Book Abstract

(PWC) In the wake of the Enron bankruptcy, there has been plenty of teeth-gnashing about what went wrong, but far too little analysis of what we can do to make things better. Samuel A. DiPiazza, Jr., CEO of PricewaterhouseCoopers, and Robert G. Eccles, a PwC fellow and former Harvard Business School Professor, address the fundamental shortfalls in the process through which companies report their performance....Read Book AbstractRead Chapter 1

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