"Bernie Madoff Explains Himself"
From the Judges' Report
This story hinges on a simple yet stunning piece of digital content - an audio snippet of an ongoing conversation between fraudster Bernie Madoff and Harvard Business School professor Eugene Soltes. Soltes, a researcher into white collar crime, plays this interview for his MBA and Executive Education students to better understand how (im)propriety can fester in the stressful, ruthless world of big business.