Gladstone Capital On Why Companies Fail: A Framework Of Red Flags

In April of this year, UC Berkeley hosted a series of informal discussions and panels in San Francisco of the critical issues, technologies, and policies that drive financial fraud around the world.

One of these discussions, between Bethany McLean (author, The Smartest Guys in the Room), Martin Stapleton (Gladstone Capital Management) focused on fraud red flags, and tips for finding fraudulent companies.

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Shortseller Martin Stapleton has done a tremendous amount of work on this topic. During the past two decades, he's compiled 241 case studies of corporate frauds and failures in an attempt to organize a framework explaining...