OVERVIEW: Siemens is a financially stong, diversified company that makes everything from car navigation systems to locomotives to dishwashers: $28 billion in revenue and close to a half-million employees. However, charges of [1] $570 million worth of bribes in late 2006 has led to investigations that continue and recently forced out two top executives.

RESEARCH QUESTIONS:

1. Are people making value calls about the company as a whole or relegating these as isolated incidents from a couple of bad actors?
2. Are Siemens’ consumer brands affected at all?  More adversely due to awareness?  Or is this islotated to those businesses where the alleged bribes took place?
3. What’s the stakeholder impact, particularly government officials, employees and shareholders?  more