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STANFORD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF BUSINESS —How do you go about restoring trust in a 162-year-old company rocked by one of the worst corruption scandals in corporate history? That was the challenge facing Peter Löscher when he joined German conglomerate Siemens AG as president and CEO three years ago....
STANFORD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF BUSINESS —For global mining conglomerate Rio Tinto, 2008 was both the best of times and the worst of times.
A world leader in production of copper, coal, diamonds, and iron ore, the company's business was expanding at breakneck speed that year. They had just purchased...