In my dissertation, I explore the role of firm governance reforms and regulatory interventions in preventing organizational misconduct. In , I investigate whether informed trading happens during the product recall decision making process and suggest how closer collaboration between regulators can mitigate it. In , i explore whether appointing a Chief Sustainability Officer can help reduce environmental injustice. In , I propose and empirically test a policy to use machine leanring predictions to optimize the inspection resource allocation of health departments to mitigate restaurant hygiene violations.