Whistleblower
Is the SEC’s Whistleblower Program Distorting Enforcement?
Using a proprietary dataset, Dave Jochnowitz, Steven Singer, and Mona Birjandi analyze trends in the Securities and Exchange Commission’s whistleblower program. They find that sanctions have concentrated in a select few violation categories, raising the possibility that the program is structurally guiding enforcers to focus on certain violation types to the neglect of others.
The DMA Whistleblower Tool Needs a Revamp
In new research, Sarah Hinck and Jasper van den Boom argue that the European Union’s Digital Markets Act’s (DMA) whistleblower tool does not yet bring enough to the table to effectively incentivize potential informants to report on Big Tech violations.
European Union’s Plan to Protect Whistleblowers Continues to Face Obstacles
A little over a year ago, the EU adopted the Directive on the protection of persons who report breaches of Union law, a first-of-its-kind...
“The Way Insurance Companies Have Rigged Our Health Care System, They’re Probably Going to Emerge as Financial Winners from This”
Author and former health insurance executive Wendell Potter explains to ProMarket why the employer-based health care system in the US is “collapsing” and why health...
“Monetary Awards Are Not the Only Reason Why Whistleblowers Report Corporate Malpractice”
At the SEC, Jordan Thomas had a leadership role in developing the program to protect and reward employees who report corporate wrongdoing. Now, he is...
Companies Are More Effective Than the White House in Stopping Whistleblowers
Harvard Business School professor Eugene Soltes tested the "integrity hotlines" companies are supposed to have to let employees report misconduct. In many cases, they...
