[CLARIFICATIONS, March 23, 2021: BCD Travel and Sammit Khanndeparkar of Springer Nature provided additional information to help the reader's understanding of the developments covered in this article. Firstly, while Springer in 2019 spent nearly $40 million annually on travel and entertainment in 75 countries, BCD Travel's portion of the account represented about $11 million and 11 countries. Secondly, Khanndeparkar restated his experience of learning about his account manager's departure from BCD Travel. While he did ultimately learn about the account manager's permanent separation from BCD on LinkedIn, he had been . . .
