The Dark Pattern: Hidden Dynamics of Corporate Scandals

Join the OEC for our 3rd webinar of the year as we welcome Dr. Guido Palazzo as he speaks about corporate scandals and the ethical patterns he has discovered and researched.

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Boeing, Volkswagen, Theranos. Every day you can read about a new corporate scandal in the news. You might read this like you watch a Hollywood movie: For entertainment, because you are convinced that it has nothing do to with you. However, if you look deeper into those scandals, you find that those responsible are normal and decent managers. Your company could be the next. I spent almost two decades analyzing large scandals, wondering whether there would be something like a repeating pattern, the same things going wrong again and again, spreading from company to company, from industry to industry. And yes, there is such a pattern that pushes companies over the moral cliff. I call it the DARK PATTERN. In my talk I will present the pattern along some of the most iconic corporate scandals, summarizing what my colleague Ulrich Hoffrage and I describe in our forthcoming book: The Dark Pattern. Hidden Dynamics of Corporate Scandals. Public Affairs (June 2025).

Guido Palazzo is Professor of Business Ethics at the Faculty of business and economics at the University of Lausanne. He teaches and does research on the mechanisms of (un)ethical decision making in organizations. He has worked with numerous boards and executive teams of multinational corporations in Europe, the USA and Asia on ethics and sustainability related challenges. https://guidopalazzo.com/

Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/guidopalazzo-/

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**This webinar will not be recorded**