ethics - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Mar 2017
News

Ask the Expert: Capital Architect

business, and social leadership. Similarly, we mandated that respected Zambian private or civil sector leaders chair all negotiating transaction teams. What consideration do you give to the spiritual and ethical components of building a... View Details

18 Jul 2012
Research & Ideas

Penn State Lesson: Today’s Cover-Up was Yesterday’s Opportunity

he had to fend off impeachment. Had Martha Stewart and Rajat Gupta admitted their roles in insider trading, they could have plea bargained, moved past their ethical lapses, and possibly avoided prison time. Had Best Buy founder Richard... View Details

Keywords: by Bill George; Education

01 Dec 2001
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Effective Leadership and Decision-Making

necessarily guarantee effective corporate leadership. Instead, he said, modesty and restraint are largely responsible for creating effective moral leaders. Badaracco listed four rules for making wise decisions and meeting ethical... View Details

Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

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Origins of the Belief in Good True Selves

By: Julian De Freitas, Mina Cikara, Igor Grossman and Rebecca Schlegel

Despite differences in beliefs about the self across cultures and relevant individual differences, recent evidence suggests that people universally believe in a ‘true self’ that is morally good. We propose that this belief arises from a general tendency: psychological... View Details

Keywords: Self; True Self; Psychological Essentialism; Values and Beliefs; Moral Sensibility

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01 Sep 2009
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How to Fix Wall Street

policy. But it is also a story of easy money and lazy ethics. Garden- variety offenses such as misleading sales practices were apparently rampant. Perhaps most troubling from an ethical point of view was the seemingly careless, if not... View Details

Keywords: Lynn Paine; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Finance; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

February 1992 (Revised May 1993)
Exercise

Exercises on ""What is Fair?""

By: Paul A. Vatter

Keywords: Fairness

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17 May 2004
Research & Ideas

Why We Don’t Study Corporate Responsibility

this information would help managers better understand their big-picture role and perhaps lead to more ethical conduct in business. Manda Salls: What did you learn from your look at organizational research, and how has this research... View Details

Keywords: by Manda Salls

18 Jun 2001
Lessons from the Classroom

Why Leaders Need Great Books

Agee Professor of Social Ethics and the acclaimed author of 50 books including the Pulitzer Prize-winning Children of Crisis, agreed to offer a course he had taught elsewhere at Harvard, where he let students talk about literature. These... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

02 Jun 2003
What Do You Think?

What Can Aspiring Leaders Be Taught?

Summing Up An overarching theme of an unusually large number of responses to the June question of "What can aspiring leaders be taught?" was that of context. That is, the suggestion that while it may be late to teach ethics and... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

Article

Dishonesty in the Name of Equity

By: F. Gino and L. Pierce

Keywords: Ethics

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21 Jan 2009
First Look

First Look: January 21, 2009

Unethical Behavior.") Four laboratory studies show that people are more likely to overlook others' unethical behavior when ethical degradation occurs slowly rather than in one abrupt shift. Participants served in the role of... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

Research Summary

Moral Muscle

By: Sandra J. Sucher

Can we get better at moral decision making? How is the capacity to exercise moral leadership developed? One answer to these questions is the notion of “moral muscle,” which is a combination of moral awareness (the ability to recognize situations that can be... View Details

Keywords: Moral Sensibility; Ethics; Decision Making

01 Dec 2012
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Corruption 101

that underlie corruption everywhere. As an emerging professional he must also carefully weigh the trust value of the personal relationships he is forming; his own comfort zone for ethical trade-offs; and the inherent uncertainties of... View Details

Keywords: Crop Production; Agriculture; Credit Intermediation and Related Activities; Finance

01 Dec 1996
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Intellectual Debate: The Business of Business

Leadership, Ethics, and Corporate Responsibility initiative. Professors Thomas R. Piper and Lynn Sharp Paine emphasized the importance of both ethics and economics for outstanding organizations. They argued that the only zone of... View Details