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- 21 May 2001
- Research & Ideas
From Tigers to Kaleidoscopes: Thinking About Future Leadership
group The first two points are not as clear-cut as they might appear. While the leader's standard charge is to set direction, a leader also has to communicate a moral and strategic vision that actually inspires people to give their all....
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by Martha Lagace
- 27 Jan 2015
- First Look
First Look: January 27
Publisher's link: http://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Publication%20Files/Wurgler_Paper_78db6340-ae41-4630-8e25-d990b547171b.pdf January 2015 Psychological Science The Moral Virtue of Authenticity: How Inauthenticity Produces Feelings of...
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Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Data: The Ever-Expanding Frontier - Race, Gender & Equity
hopes that morale improves. Operating with openness, humility, and an investment in cultivating cognitive integrity enables us to expand our capacity for critique. It only improves the work. When the gaps in our technology and...
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- 12 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 12, 2009
Working PapersDishonest Deed, Clear Conscience: Self-Preservation through Moral Disengagement and Motivated Forgetting (revised) Authors:Lisa Lixin Shu, Francesca Gino, and Max H. Bazerman Abstract People routinely engage in dishonest...
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Martha Lagace
- Article
Don't Let Power Corrupt You
By: Julie Battilana and Tiziana Casciaro
Although power is essential to taking charge and driving change, it makes leaders vulnerable to two traps that can not only erode their own effectiveness but also undermine their teams. Hubris—the excessive pride and self-confidence that can come with power—causes...
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Humility;
Empathy;
Hubris;
Leadership;
Power and Influence;
Moral Sensibility;
Performance Effectiveness
Battilana, Julie, and Tiziana Casciaro. "Don't Let Power Corrupt You." Harvard Business Review 99, no. 5 (September–October 2021): 94–101.
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Hit Pause
are the standards you want to meet when you’ve got to do something? Spend some time reflecting on those standards, rather than just moving the task down the assembly line.” The John Shad Professor of Business Ethics, Joe Badaracco currently teaches the second-year...
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- September 2000
- Case
MBA In Jeopardy (A)
By: Lynn S. Paine, Gagan Gupta and Phani K. Nagarjuna
The Community Standards Panel of Harvard Business School must determine whether two students have violated the school's community standards, and if so, what sanction would be appropriate. Concerns allegations of plagiarism. In a second-year elective course, two...
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Moral Sensibility;
Business Education;
Learning;
Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues;
Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms;
Education Industry
Paine, Lynn S., Gagan Gupta, and Phani K. Nagarjuna. "MBA In Jeopardy (A)." Harvard Business School Case 301-033, September 2000.
- 29 May 2014
- Research & Ideas
Research Symposium 2014
amortization from its constitution, in favor of fair value accounting. Ramanna said that there are no unequivocal villains in thin political market situations, but rather "a quilt of special interests." Still, he argued that managers in thin political markets have a...
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- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Rx for Too Big to Fail
taxpayers on the hook when things went bad. The upshot is that the nation’s largest financial institutions now live in a “heads I win, tails you lose” world of moral hazard. No wonder calls to end too big to fail have hit a fever pitch....
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Kaelin Goulet
an independent study. Maybe it was confronting some of my own personal failings. Apologies to Howard Roark, but good does not always come to hard-working people; weakness is not tantamount to moral failure. I want to treat struggle with...
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- 27 Mar 2007
- First Look
First Look: March 27, 2007
Moral Dilemma Harvard Business School Note 607-067 No abstract available. Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=607067 CAMBIA, Supplement to Epodia Harvard Business School Supplement 606-057...
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Martha Lagace
- Web
Buy Now, Pay Later: Credit, Information, and the Courts
the charge of libel. 15 This decision secured the future of credit reporting. 13 Ingrid Jeacle and Eamonn J. Walsh, “From Moral Evaluation to Rationalization: Accounting and the Shifting Technologies of Credit,” Accounting, Organizations...
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- 01 Sep 2012
- News
Rebel with a Cause
but increasingly, it seemed to Massie, many big businesses lacked a moral compass. Putting his newly acquired business knowledge to work, Massie developed the Project on Business, Values, and the Economy at Harvard Divinity School. He is...
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- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Honoring HBS’s Organization Men
impacts the financial crisis. “I’m intrigued,” said Lawrence. “You may not call it a structural element, but one can think of values and moral standards as an integrative device that you enforce throughout your system.” There would be no...
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- 06 Sep 2017
- What Do You Think?
Summing Up: What Are the Limits of CEO Activism?
in setting moral tone.” Stephen Dolle commented, “I see CEO’s speaking on social injustice as a gimmick to cover themselves (on a number of other practices and issues to which Dolle objects).” Those who addressed the question also...
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by James Heskett
- 12 Sep 2012
- Research & Ideas
The Unexpected Link Between Cadavers and Careers
occupations are more likely to bequeath their corpses to medical research than those in male-dominated occupations. “There's a lot of discussion in the field of donation on how to morally increase the supply.” The finding is important...
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- 25 Oct 2016
- First Look
October 25, 2016
enhanced creativity and reduced intergroup bias. In contrast, the present work uncovers a potential downside of foreign experiences: increased immoral behavior. We propose that broad foreign experiences (i.e., experiences in multiple foreign countries) foster not only...
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Sean Silverthorne
- September 1994
- Case
Leadership Problems at Salomon (A)
By: Lynn S. Paine and Michael Santoro
Deryck Maughan, a vice chairman and co-head of investment banking at Salomon Brothers, learns that his superiors have been less than candid about their knowledge of bidding improprieties by the firm's government trading desk. He must decide what, if anything, he should...
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Leadership;
Decision Choices and Conditions;
Ethics;
Moral Sensibility;
Values and Beliefs;
Crime and Corruption;
Rank and Position;
Financial Services Industry
Paine, Lynn S., and Michael Santoro. "Leadership Problems at Salomon (A)." Harvard Business School Case 395-044, September 1994.
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Nathalie du Preez
"I'm strengthening my moral and ethical compass by being here," says Nathalie. "I'm learning to see the best in people, and through them, the best insights in so many aspects of business: marketing, finance, ethics, and...
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- 19 Oct 2016
- Blog Post
Reflections From My First Month at HBS
acting based on one’s moral compass. Most of the time it’s just listening attentively before speaking, even when you have a burning thought. We talk about our feelings more often than I previously thought great leaders would. Perhaps...
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