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VW Emissions and the 3 Factors That Drive Ethical Breakdown

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Winterkorn, who led the company from 2007 until his forced resignation in September 2015, became a figurehead of the scandal. Regulators across the world opened investigations and VW halted sales of its 2015 models. than in Europe. The fallout was fierce. Winterkorn resigned. Senior managers were suspended or put on leave.

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Ethical Decisions, Character and Your Personal Vision

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Defining Moments: When Managers Must Choose Between Right and Right (Boston, MA: Harvard Business School Press, 1997), 5. 4 David Brooks, The Road to Character (New York: Random House, 2015), 21. Bogle, Enough: True Measures of Money, Business and Life (Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, 2009). Badaracco Jr., 8 Clayton M.