Business ethics
Opioids, Inc.
| Frontline | The story of a drug company that pushed opioids by bribing doctors and committing insurance fraud. With the Financial Times, FRONTLINE investigates how Insys Therapeutics profited from a fentanyl-based painkiller 50 times stronger than heroin.
- 2020
- Bribery, Business ethics
Sick Around America
| Frontline | As the worsening economy leads to massive job losses — potentially increasing the ranks of the tens of millions of Americans without health insurance — FRONTLINE travels the country examining the nation’s broken health care system and…
- 2009
- Business ethics
Breaking the Bank
| Frontline | The bets were huge and risky — billions of dollars on the housing market. The upside was undeniable — superbanks reaped billions of dollars, dominated the landscape, and gobbled up competitors. Then the bottom dropped out. In…
- 2009
- Business ethics
College, Inc.
| Frontline | The business of higher education is booming. It’s a $400 billion industry fueled by taxpayer money. But what are students getting out of the deal? Critics say a worthless degree and a mountain of debt. Investors insist…
Flying Cheap
| Frontline | One year after the deadly airline crash of Continental 3407 in Buffalo, NY, FRONTLINE investigates the accident and discovers a dramatically changed airline industry, where regional carriers now account for half of the nation’s daily departures. The…
- 2010
- Business ethics
Doctor Hotspot
| Frontline | New Yorker writer and FRONTLINE correspondent Atul Gawande reports on a doctor in Camden, N.J., who actually seeks out the community’s sickest — and most expensive — patients. Dr. Jeffrey Brenner and his team are pioneering a…
- 2011
- Business ethics