A new co-authored essay from Professors Jennifer Robbennolt and Verity Winship will be published in the FSU Business Review, as part of the 2026 Symposium on Behavioral Perspectives on Corporate Law. The essay is titled “From Tweets to Testimony: A Case Study of Apologies After the FTX Collapse,” and the abstract follows:
In the wake of the collapse of cryptocurrency exchange FTX, chief executive Sam Bankman-Fried delivered a constellation of apologies to a variety of constituents. Bankman-Fried included apologetic statements in a series of tweets, in a letter to company employees, in a host of interviews, and, ultimately, in his remarks at his criminal sentencing hearing. We use the FTX collapse and Bankman-Fried’s apologies to make some observations about the differences between competence-based and integrity violations and the psychology of corporate apologies in the context of highly salient founder-CEOs.