Name: 【TED】Kelly Richmond Pope: How whistle-blowers shape history (How whistle-blowers shape history | Kelly Richmond Pope)
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thought that we should report it, but decided not to?

And not that I need to see a show of hands,

but I'm sure this has happened to someone in this room before.

In fact, when this question was asked to a group of employees,

46 percent of them responded by saying that they had seen something

So if you raised your hand, or quietly raised your hand,

This message of if you see something to say something

Even when driving down the highway, you see billboards like this,

encouraging us to report crime without revealing ourselves.

But I still feel like a lot of us are really uncomfortable

I'm an accounting professor, and I do fraud research.

And in my class, I encourage my students to come forward with information

Or in other words, encouraging my students to become whistle-blowers.

But if I'm being completely honest with myself,

I am really conflicted with this message that I'm sending to my students.

Many people choose not to become whistle-blowers

Choosing to become a whistle-blower is an uphill battle.

So how can I, as a professor who really cares about her students

encourage them to become whistle-blowers,

when I know how the world truly feels about them?

So, one day I was getting ready for my annual whistle-blower lecture

And I was working on an article for "Forbes,"

entitled "Wells Fargo and Millennial Whistle-blowing.

And as I was working on this piece and reading about the case,

And what made me angry was when I came to the fact and realized

that the employees that tried to whistle-blow

about the message that I was sharing with my students.

And it made me think: What if my students had been Wells Fargo employees?

On the one hand, if they whistle-blew, they would have gotten fired.

if they didn't report the frauds that they knew,

if they knew something and didn't report it.

So criminal prosecution is a real option.

What's a person supposed to do with those type of odds?

I of all people know the valuable contributions

In fact, most frauds are discovered by them.

Forty two percent of frauds are discovered by a whistle-blower

like measurement review and external audit.

And when you think about some of the more classic

Think Watergate -- discovered by a whistle-blower.

Think Enron -- discovered by a whistle-blower.

And who can forget about Bernard Madoff, discovered by a whistle-blower?

It takes a tremendous amount of courage to come forward in the name of the truth.

But when we think about the term whistle-blower,

we often think of some very descriptive words:

And those are the nice words, the ones I can say from the stage.

I go around the country and I interview white-collar felons,

Because really I'm trying to understand what makes them tick

and to bring those experiences back into the classroom.

But it's my interviews with whistle-blowers that really stick with me.

because they make me question my own courage.

When given the opportunity, would I actually speak up?

And so, this is a couple stories that I want to share with you.

Mary Willingham is the whistle-blower from the University of North Carolina

And Mary was a learning specialist at the university,

and she worked with students, primarily student athletes.

And what she noticed, when she was working with students,

that seemed well beyond their reading levels.

and she found out that there was a database

where the student athletes could retrieve papers and turn them in.

And then she found out that some of her colleagues

were funneling students into fake classes, just to keep them eligible to play.

Now, when Mary found this out, she was outraged.

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