harvard business school professor eugene soltes is the author of "why they do it an examination of white-collar crime. to write his book, he spoke with nearly 50 executives involved in corporate crime. >> host: professor soltes, good morning. it's an pleasure to have the opportunity to talk to you about your book, "why they do it." let me start by asking how you came about writing a book on the perspectives and the background and thinking of white-collar criminals. >> guest: i am an economist by training and thi into this begai was a graduate student working on the empirical data. it's a cross between a reality tv show the documentary. on the show they had a crew going to various prisons and they were interviewing the felon for murder, assault, rape. i started to think about the kind of people that i wonder and think about some of the people in the industry, fortune, commencement donating generously, and wondering what happened to these guys. they were convicted for offenses and then disappear. it began as a personal interest i saw the headlines in 2008 and that evening out of personal curiosit

after words is next on book tv, harvard business school professor eugene soltes on book why they do it. he spoke to 50 executives involved with corporate crime. >> professor soltes, good morning. >> good morning. >> pleasure to speak to you about your book why do they do it. how is it that you came upon writing a book about the prospectives and the background and the thinking of white collar criminals? >> i'm a financial economist by training and this book actually began all the way back when i was a graduate student working on large data set like most graduate students are doing at 3:00 in the morning and came across msnbc lock-up. they were interviewing convicted felons most were violent offenses, murderer, rapists, most violent cases. donating generously and wondered what happened to these guys, the many people really respected and they were convicted for offenses and then they disappeared. and so this project began. it was really a personal interest. this was 2000-2008, that evening out of personal curiosity, this isn't a scholar project at all, i did what a lot of people think whe