A gaijin blows the whistle
A cultural collision over integrity and loyalty ignited the scandal at Olympus, as Michael Woodford’s new book reveals, writes David Pilling
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Concerns over deal-making at the Japanese camera maker have been aired by the group’s former chief executive, Michael Woodford
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Former Olympus executives plead guilty
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A little-known Englishman took up the fight and became the world’s most high-profile corporate whistleblower. By Jonathan Soble
Olympus is litmus test on governance
The camera and medical equipment maker’s largest Japanese institutional investors have been conspicuously silent over the accounting scandal
Olympus committees criticise executives
Investigations have so far provided little comfort for the shrinking group of executives still running the Japanese camera maker
Olympus accounts deadline exposes auditors
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Olympus: time to go
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