Business News Notorious Failed Company Enron Was the Poster Child for Corporate Corruption. Now It Claims to Be ‘Back’ With a New Website and Merch—But Is It Real? Would you buy an Enron hoodie for $118? By Erin Davis
Business News ‘No One Is Important:’ Senior Executives at ‘Sports Illustrated’ Publishing House Are Out of a Job Following AI Article Controversy By Sam Silverman
Business News A Developer Conference Featuring High-Profile Tech Leaders Was Just Canceled Amid a Bizarre, AI-Induced Scandal: ‘Never Seen Anything Like This’ By Amanda Breen
Business News Ghislaine Maxwell Is Called ‘Prison Karen’ for Filing 400 Complaints Behind Bars By Jonathan Small
Business News NYC Wine Store Fined $100,000 for Selling Counterfeit Bourbon The retailer was fined for purchasing whiskey from "unauthorized" sellers. By Madeline Garfinkle
Business News Extortion, Sex Trafficking, and Dirty Money: Hulu’s New ‘Stolen Youth’ Crime Series Unpacks Larry Ray’s Sarah Lawrence College Cult Larry Ray has been sentenced to 60 years in prison for using manipulation to extort millions from his victims. By Sam Silverman
Business News The FBI’s Most Wanted ‘Crypto Queen’ Scammed Investors Out of $4 Billion. Now, 5 Years Later, a London Apartment Listing May Have Blown Her Cover. Ruja Ignatova vanished in 2017 after orchestrating a Ponzi Scheme to con investors into buying her OneCoin crypto token. By Sam Silverman
Human Resources A Sleepwalking Worker Jumps Into A Colleague’s Bed On A Business Trip. Should This Innocent Mistake Be Covered By Disability Laws? An innocent mistake? An embarrassing sleepwalking incident? Perhaps. But what are the workplace consequences? By Gene Marks
Business News Jerry Falwell Jr. Says He Knows What Being Unfaithful Is Like. So Do I. There are people in my life who I know cheat on me. Why do I allow it? By Gene Marks
Business News These 11 Famously Disgraced CEOs Have Entered the Reputation Hall of Shame McDonalds' Steve Easterbrook is just the latest chief executive who allegedly failed to recognize the importance of ethics and permanently damaged their reputation. Here are the lessons companies can learn from each of them. By Tom Popomaronis
Business Ideas What Do Pitching and Investing Look Like In a Post-Elizabeth Holmes and Theranos World? An entrepreneur and VC share their experiences and insights in the wake of the Theranos scandal that shocked the biotech world. By Nina Zipkin
Thought Leaders What Scandalized Companies Like Facebook and Uber Can Learn From Jay-Z By adopting four key principles, leaders can help avert scandals while also learning more about themselves. By David Holzmer
Business News Audi CEO, Rupert Stadler, Arrested in Germany for Potential Evidence Tampering Audi involvement speculated in Volkwagen's ongoing Deiselgate emissions scandal. By Madison Semarjian
Business News 8 Times Uber Has Tracked People The ride-hailing company is watching you. By Rose Leadem
Business News Tech CEO Tweets Sex Hotline Number at Reporter Hootsuite's chief told the writer questioning his company's value to call 1-800-EAT-DICK. By Mariella Moon
Marketing With its New Ad, Chipotle Wants to Make You Forget Its Troubles and Fall in Love Again The embattled restaurant chain put out a charming advertisement amidst legal trouble for a top exec. By Nina Zipkin
Business News Facebook’s Zuckerberg to Meet Conservatives on Political Bias Scandal Some 12 'conservative thought leaders' will join the meeting with Zuckerberg on Wednesday, a Facebook spokesman said. By Reuters
Business Operations & Logistics VW to Offer to Buy Back Nearly 500,000 U.S. Diesel Cars, Sources Say That would include versions of the Jetta sedan, the Golf compact and the Audi A3 sold since 2009. By Reuters
Building a Business Hacker Who Stole Nude Jennifer Lawrence Selfies Pleads Guilty Ryan Collins of Lancaster has been charged with computer hacking for leaking nude selfies of celebrities. He could face 18 months in prison. By David Meyer
Business News How Many Bodyguards Does It Take to Protect Mark Zuckerberg’s 5-Bedroom Mansion? Hint: More than a baker's dozen. By Kim Lachance Shandrow
Building a Business This ‘Smart Wallet’ Found Success on Kickstarter and Indiegogo. So Why Didn’t It Deliver? Crowdfunding is all about the numbers, but the humans behind the risky campaigns are often hard to calculate. By Kim Lachance Shandrow
Marketing Learning From Volkswagen: 6 Tips for Surviving a Scandal Handled correctly, a scandal represents an opportunity to win trust, show goodwill and reassure consumers. By Luis Gallardo
Business News Volkswagen to Give Gift Cards, Repairs to Diesel Car Owners The embattled car maker admitted to installing 'defeat devices' in 11 million vehicles worldwide. By Reuters
Online Presence ‘Yelp For People’ Co-Founder: Your Hate Only Fuels My Resolve to Launch Peeple Our exclusive Q&A with Julia Cordray, the brassy CEO behind the Internet's most hated app. By Kim Lachance Shandrow
Building a Business Volkswagen Faces the Most Onerous Rebranding Challenge In History, Again A nice apology letter from VW gives some clues just how badly they screwed up. By Peter Page
Business News Following Death Threats, Peeple Founder Says She Was Wrong to Position App as ‘Yelp for People’ So what if people hate Peeple? Julia Cordray is launching it anyway. By Kim Lachance Shandrow
Building a Business This Creepy, Yelp-Like App Lets You Rate People Like Restaurants Imagine if Tinder, Facebook and LinkedIn had a snarky stalker baby and, yuck, you're there. By Kim Lachance Shandrow
Thought Leaders What We Can Learn From Volkswagen’s Scandal and the Legacy of a Leader The carmaker's mistake stems from toxicity in its culture, and that always starts at the top. By Brian Fielkow
Business Legal JustFab: Silicon Valley Sees a Unicorn, Customers See a Trojan Horse The company's founders have a history of being associated with dubious practices. By Carly Okyle
Business News Volkswagen to Fire Employees Responsible for Emissions Scandal Sources say people responsible for rigging the U.S. emissions tests will be fired starting Friday. By Reuters