Scandal - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Jun 2004
News

Alumni Author

9/11, the corporate accounting scandals — made me question what I wanted to do with my life. During this crisis of faith, I found the personal stories and advice that my professors delivered at the end of the term to be very... View Details

Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

07 Mar 2005
What Do You Think?

Should Business Management Be Regarded as a Profession?

code of ethics developed by and reviewed by a universally-recognized professional institution. The authors imply that the absence of the institutions of a profession that one finds in medicine, law, and the clergy may have contributed to the spate of large-scale View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

01 Jun 2011
News

Downtime

have a “guilty pleasure” author? James Michener. For some reason he captured my imagination years ago. Another guilty pleasure is Sports Illustrated. Nancy Koehn is the James E. Robison Professor of Business Administration and a business historian. What’s on your list?... View Details

Keywords: fiction; Christianity

01 Oct 1999
News

Eight Among Many: W. Mitt Romney

Do you believe in miracles? Some say that's what it will take for the Olympic movement to recover from the scandal surrounding the awarding of the 2002 Winter Games to Salt Lake City. Or maybe all that's needed, as the Salt Lake... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

01 Mar 2004
News

Reforming Company Boards

Senior executives have taken most of the heat for the headline-grabbing scandals that have rocked corporate America over the past few years. Scott C. Newquist (MBA ’75), president of Board Governance Services, wants to shift some of that... View Details

Keywords: Corporate Services

13 May 2002
Op-Ed

A Cure for Enron-Style Audit Failures

If companies and regulators are ever to learn from the collapse of Enron—and prevent similar corporate debacles in the future—they must look more closely at the relationship between auditors, managers and the company audit committee. The Enron View Details

Keywords: by Jay Lorsch; Accounting

01 Jun 1998
News

Katharine Graham Offers Advice on Leadership

leadership, the paper provided readers with courageous and award-winning editorial coverage of controversial issues such as the Watergate scandal and the Pentagon Papers. To succeed, not only did Graham have to acquire managerial... View Details

01 Dec 2004
News

One-on-One with William H. Donaldson

Donaldson Illustration by Joe Ciardiello When William Donaldson (MBA ’58) was sworn in as the 27th chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission on February 18, 2003, Wall Street and the commission itself were in turmoil. A wave of corporate View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Finance; Administration of Economic Programs; Government

13 Sep 2016
First Look

September 13, 2016

forthcoming Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes Bounded Awareness: Implications for Ethical Decision Making By: Bazerman, Max, and Ovul Sezer Abstract—In many of the business scandals of the new millennium, the... View Details

01 Aug 2007
Op-Ed

Company Town: Fixing Corrupt Governments

kickbacks. A corruption scandal in Lagos could harm KPMG's reputation in New York or Shanghai. Moreover, foreign firms are bound by many laws of their home country and by international laws, notably the antibribery convention of the... View Details

Keywords: by Eric Werker

07 Jul 2020
Blog Post

The JD/MBA Seminar: The Perfect Practice Ground

business and legal topics of the presenter’s choice. This year, we have presented and engaged with our peers on a wide variety of topics—ranging from the college admissions scandal to state intervention in low-income housing to the... View Details

01 Jun 2007
News

KPMG for Mayor!

corruption scandal in Lagos could harm KPMG’s reputation in New York or Shanghai. Moreover, foreign firms are bound by many laws of their home country and by international laws, notably the antibribery convention of the Organisation for... View Details

Keywords: Eric Werker; Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Government

27 Jul 2019
Op-Ed

Does Facebook's Business Model Threaten Our Elections?

purposes. Facebook makes changes In 2014, Facebook had changed the API and limited access to data, effectively closing the barn door after the horse got out. In 2018, after the scandal broke, Facebook further announced a six-point plan... View Details

Keywords: by George Riedel

10 Sep 2014
Research & Ideas

Become a Value Creator

follow from that." The Root Of All Scandals In 2008, greedy bankers became high-profile value claimers and nearly took the entire world into a depression, Hall says. They were slapped with tighter financial regulations as a result.... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

11 Jun 2012
Research & Ideas

When Business Competition Harms Society

The scandal spawned widespread questions about the value of competitive rankings—and even about the value of competition in general. Was the officer's behavior understandable? Did intense competition naturally lead to unethical behavior?... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Auto

06 Sep 2016
First Look

September 6, 2016

https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51553 September 2016 Harvard Business Review The Scandal Effect By: Groysberg, Boris, Eric Lin, George Serafeim, and Robin Abrahams Abstract—Executives with scandal-tainted companies on their... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

05 May 2003
Research & Ideas

Sharing the Responsibility of Corporate Governance

WorldCom, Adelphia, and other former high flyers. These scandals demonstrate not only a lapse of ethics but also a disdain for the rule of law. Enron's lawyers and auditors appeared more concerned with exploiting loopholes than ensuring... View Details

Keywords: by Carla Tishler

03 Feb 2011
What Do You Think?

Are We Going “Back to the Future” In Researching Management?

Citing corporate scandals of the past ten years, Andrew MacLennan said that " in the last 10 years there has been a growing recognition of the need to balance great ideas with concern for execution " Debra Farquharson commented... View Details

Keywords: Re: James L. Heskett

01 May 2018
First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, May 1, 2018

Tenbrunsel, and Max Bazerman Abstract—The business scandals in the past several decades led to the rising importance of ethics as a topic central to management scholarship. Behavioral scientists in particular were attracted to the topic... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

25 Oct 2006
Op-Ed

Fixing Executive Options: The Veil of Ignorance

option practices remains unknown, this most recent scandal has deepened the sense in many quarters that option contracts given to managers distort behavior in destructive ways. The ability to play with, and respond to, the many variables... View Details

Keywords: by Mihir Desai & Joshua Margolis

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