Dennis Kozlowski Revisited

Dennis Kozlowski, the founder and former CEO of Tyco, is often seen as a poster child for an era wrought with greed and corporate corruption. Catherine Neal challenges this one-dimensional […]

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Catherine S. Neal

January 16, 2014

Dennis Kozlowski, the founder and former CEO of Tyco, is often seen as a poster child for an era wrought with greed and corporate corruption. Catherine Neal challenges this one-dimensional view of the man.

Catherine S. Neal

Associate Professor of Business Ethics and Business Law, Northern Kentucky University

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