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- 05 Mar 2009
- What Do You Think?
How Frank or Deceptive Should Leaders Be?
how candid can they be in expressing those doubts? The ability of a naturally pessimistic (or perhaps more realistic) CEO to adversely affect everything from market reactions to employee morale and motivation may be substantial, thereby...
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by Jim Heskett
- September–October 2020
- Article
A New Model for Ethical Leadership
By: Max Bazerman
Rather than try to follow a set of simple rules (“Don’t lie.” “Don’t cheat.”), leaders and managers seeking to be more ethical should focus on creating the most value for society. This utilitarian view, Bazerman argues, blends philosophical thought with business school...
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Social Value;
Leadership;
Moral Sensibility;
Ethics;
Decision Making;
Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact;
Society
Bazerman, Max. "A New Model for Ethical Leadership." Harvard Business Review 98, no. 5 (September–October 2020): 90–97.
- 31 Aug 2021
- Book
Feeling Powerless at Work? Time to Agitate, Innovate, and Orchestrate
through persuasion or coercion.” But where does this power come from? It derives from controlling access to what others value, such as income, status, achievement, belonging, autonomy, and moral purpose. Strategies for shifting power When...
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by Jay Fitzgerald
- 09 Nov 2022
- In Practice
COP27: What Can Business Leaders Do to Fight Climate Change Now?
The US government’s newly passed Inflation Reduction Act will direct $370 billion toward advancing renewal energy and reducing greenhouse gas emissions—the country's largest investment in fighting climate change so far. As business and government leaders around the...
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by Lynn Schenk and Danielle Kost
- 07 Mar 2022
- Research & Ideas
Effective Leaders Share the Spotlight with Their Teams
practice. In the study’s sample set, the average manager did not engage colleagues even once during the year. Zou hopes leaders will begin to recognize the importance of encouraging input from subordinates, especially as many managers struggle to unite groups and boost...
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by Pamela Reynolds
- 07 May 2012
- Research & Ideas
The Art of Haggling
the moral issues that negotiation inevitably raises. Acknowledging the distributive aspect of the process makes them confront the issue of fairness. "How much do we owe the other side?" he asks. "Is there an ironclad rule,...
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by Katie Johnston
- 01 Sep 2022
- What Do You Think?
Is It Time to Consider Lifting Tariffs on Chinese Imports?
I wonder if the discussion could be more broadly framed as ‘Can ancient wisdom be used to influence organization values?’” Bill Fotsch commented, “ I suggest the driver is not religion, but rather morality. Morality has been shown to have...
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Re: James L. Heskett
- 18 Jan 2016
- Research & Ideas
Hazard Warning: The Unacceptable Cost of Toxic Workers
is the morally correct path. “To say the rules should never be broken isn’t completely forthright and honest, so this is basically a sophisticated way to capture that,” Minor says. Another factor could be more Machiavellian applicants...
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by Roberta Holland
- 08 Nov 2022
- Research & Ideas
How Centuries of Restrictions on Women Shed Light on Today's Abortion Debate
infibulation, an invasive form of genital cutting that makes intercourse painful, and about how restricted she is in her freedom of movement. Becker also draws data from the World Values Survey, which examines values, beliefs, and moral...
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by Kara Baskin
- 10 Nov 2015
- Op-Ed
Authentic Leadership Rediscovered
authentic. Authentic Leadership was intended as a clarion call to the new generation to learn from negative examples like Enron, WorldCom and Tyco. In it, I defined authentic leaders as genuine, moral and character-based leaders:...
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by Bill George
- Web
Events - Business History
Sumner, Andrew Carnegie, Booker T. Washington and Frederick Taylor” Kimberly Phillips-Fein, NYU 3:30 - 5:00 PM, via Zoom Nov 8 08 Nov 2021 Business History Seminar: Global Business and Society “The Solidarity Economy: Markets and Morals...
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- 2024
- Working Paper
The Fading Light of Democratic Capitalism: How Pervasive Cronyism and Restricted Suffrage Are Destroying Democratic Capitalism as a National Ideal…and What to Do about It
What are we to do about declining public trust and confidence in democratic capitalism, which many citizens consider a cornerstone of our national ideology and identity? While the answer is not entirely clear, I argue in this essay that any effort aimed at restoring...
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Salter, Malcolm S. "The Fading Light of Democratic Capitalism: How Pervasive Cronyism and Restricted Suffrage Are Destroying Democratic Capitalism as a National Ideal…and What to Do about It." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 24-062, March 2024.
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Commodities, Currencies, and Balancing of the Trade Deficit - A Chronicle of the China Trade
government officials also tried to use the moral argument in their negotiations with the British,” Geoffrey Jones, Elisabeth Köll, and Alexis Gendron write in Opium and Entrepreneurship in the Nineteenth Century . 17 After losing the...
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General Management Curriculum - Faculty & Research
Leadership and Happiness Arthur Brooks Spring 2025 Q3 1.5 Making Difficult Decisions: The General Manager’s Job (MDD) (also listed under Entrepreneurial Management and Technology & Operations Management) Amy Edmondson , Tiona Zuzul Spring 2025 Q3Q4 3.0 The View Details
- 12 Dec 2005
- Research & Ideas
Using the Law to Strategic Advantage
Moreover, moral and ethical considerations may decisively influence how the law is applied. As a result, purely technical legal advice is often inadequate. CEOs should be looking for lawyers with wisdom and the courage to push back if...
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- 15 Jan 2013
- Working Paper Summaries
The Promise of Positive Optimal Taxation: A Generalized Theory Calibrated to Survey Evidence on Normative Preferences Explains Puzzling Features of Policy
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by Matthew Weinzierl
- October 2011
- Case
Chris and Alison Weston (A)
By: Sandra J. Sucher and Celia Moore
Chris and Alison Weston describe how they, a well-educated middle class couple, ended up committing mail fraud, for which they each served a year and a half in federal prison. The case highlights for students how otherwise upstanding individuals much like themselves...
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Sucher, Sandra J., and Celia Moore. "Chris and Alison Weston (A)." Harvard Business School Case 612-019, October 2011.
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Buy Now, Pay Later: Cars on Time
market share in the 1920s. Ford, who believed that buying cars on credit was morally reprehensible, responded to GMAC with a surge in advertising and an unpopular program that encouraged customers to use their local Ford dealer as a...
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- 18 May 2016
- Research & Ideas
Unethical Amnesia: Why We Tend to Forget Our Own Bad Behavior
actions gradually become less clear than other memories—a phenomenon the authors of the paper call “unethical amnesia.” Moreover, forgetting wrongdoings of the past makes us more likely to misbehave in the future. “We are social beings, and our basic need for...
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by Carmen Nobel
- 06 Jul 2011
- Research & Ideas
Are You a Level-Six Leader?
people who always ask, "What's in it for me?" Their moral compass is guided primarily by the accumulation of wealth and power, all else be damned. Bernie Madoff, now in prison, is a poster boy for the Opportunists. While Madoff...
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by Mitch Maidique