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From Systemically Corrupt to Above Reproach: Examining Siemens' Remarkable Turnaround
Season 2 · Episode 25

From Systemically Corrupt to Above Reproach: Examining Siemens' Remarkable Turnaround

Examining Siemens' Remarkable Turnaround

Fraud Eats Strategy

March 12, 202134m 19s

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In 2006, Germany-based Siemens was ranked 22nd on the Global Fortune 500 with revenues of $100 billion. It was a global leader and one of the world’s most admired companies. Until November 16, 2006 when the Munich Police Department raided Siemens corporate offices and several subsidiaries based on whistleblower allegations of bribery and misuse of funds. This Munich Police Department investigation triggered a global corruption investigation which revealed that Siemens had methodically violated U.S., German and other global anti-bribery laws for decades. When the settlement of the case was announced in 2008, law enforcement didn’t pull any punches.  Yet what is equally remarkable is that a company that used corruption strategically and methodically to achieve its business objectives for decades remade itself in the wake of the corruption scandal to emerge as a model of corporate reform and business ethics.  

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