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Fortune
Eva Roytburg

From US Open 'hat thief' to Coldplay affair: CEOs keep going viral for bad behavior

Kamil Majchrzak of Poland raises his fist with a focused look during the U.S. open. (Credit: Photo by Sarah Stier/Getty Images)

When there is an incident involving the police, such as an arrest or a traffic stop, police officers should assume they are being watched by their body cameras, which could then be inspected by their superiors. CEOs, today, live under the same scrutiny. Except, their “body cameras” are the thousands of smartphones in any arena, stadium, or conference that they enter, Erik Gordon, a corporate governance professor at the University of Michigan Ross School of Business, told Fortune. 

“If you are a CEO who remembers the good old days when you got away with things, now you need to know that those days are over,” Gordon said. 

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