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Project Management: Achieving Competitive Advantage, Fifth Edition
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Project Management: Achieving Competitive Advantage, Fifth Edition

by Jeffrey K. Pinto
January 2018
Intermediate to advanced
480 pages
33h 56m
English
Pearson
Content preview from Project Management: Achieving Competitive Advantage, Fifth Edition

CASE STUDY 4.3 Volkswagen and Its Project to Cheat Emissions Tests

”Volkswagen obfuscated, they denied, and they ultimately lied.”

These were the words of U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch, as she set out how the German carmaker would be punished for attempting to willfully mislead U.S. authorities over the emissions produced by its diesel cars. This indictment by the Attorney General capped a long investigation into Volkswagen’s (VW) decision to find a way around U.S. emissions testing, opting, instead of redesigning its engines to run more efficiently, to “cook the books” by deliberately creating a system to cheat emissions testing. The story of the scandal represents a serious ethical violation that ran right through the organization, from ...

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