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  • 2011
  • Working Paper

Memory Lane and Morality: How Childhood Memories Promote Prosocial Behavior

By: Francesca Gino and Sreedhari D. Desai
Four experiments demonstrated that recalling memories from one's own childhood lead people to experience feelings of moral purity and to behave prosocially. In Experiment 1, participants instructed to recall memories from their childhood were more likely to help the... View Details
Keywords: Judgments; Moral Sensibility; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Organizational Culture; Behavior; Emotions; Personal Characteristics; Welfare
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  • September 2012 (Revised August 2013)
  • Background Note

A Brief History of the U.S. Tobacco Industry Controversy

By: Sandra J. Sucher and Henry McGee
This history of the U.S. tobacco controversy is a reading for a class on "The Insider," a film about whistleblowing in the U.S. tobacco industry, taught in the course, The Moral Leader. View Details
Keywords: Leadership; Ethics; United States
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  • 01 May 2018
  • First Look

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

2018 Atlas of Moral Psychology In Search of Moral Equilibrium: Person, Situation, and Their Interplay in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 23 Apr 2019
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, April 23, 2019

conception of corporate purpose—one reflecting established moral and economic principles that challenge those underlying the shareholder value maximization doctrine. To this... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 01 Mar 2024
  • News

Alumni and Faculty Books and Podcasts

at a price. The 70-hour work weeks, constant travel, and intense pressure from his players and their corporate partners took Norton away from his family and ultimately led to... View Details
Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information
  • 2009
  • Working Paper

Integrity: Without It Nothing Works

By: Michael C. Jensen
There is confusion between integrity, morality and ethics. In our much longer paper on the topic (see "Integrity: A Positive Model that Incorporates the Normative Phenomena of Morality, Ethics and Legality" (available at http://ssrn.com/abstract=920625)) my co-authors,... View Details
Keywords: Trust; Moral Sensibility; Legal Liability; Behavior
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  • February 2010
  • Case

Burt's Bees: Balancing Growth and Sustainability (Multimedia)

By: Christopher Marquis
The case examines sustainability initiatives at Burt's Bees, with video segments that detail the company's history, leadership, and implementation of ambitious 2020 sustainability goals. The company traces its roots to 1984, when Roxanne Quinby and Burt Schavitz teamed... View Details
Keywords: Balance and Stability; Leadership; Problems and Challenges; Business or Company Management; Growth Management; Organizational Culture; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Environmental Sustainability; Mergers and Acquisitions; Social Enterprise; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Ethics
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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

By: Malcolm S. Salter
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... View Details
Keywords: Government Administration; Economic Systems; Trust; United States
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  • January 2007
  • Teaching Note

Leadership in Crisis: Ernest Shackleton and the Epic Voyage of the Endurance (TN)

By: Nancy F. Koehn
Teaching Note to 803127. View Details
Keywords: Leadership Style; Entrepreneurship; Personal Development and Career; Moral Sensibility; Groups and Teams; Managerial Roles; Crisis Management; Goals and Objectives; Antarctica
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  • 17 Mar 2022
  • News

The Companies Boycotting Russia Are Demonstrating Six Key Values

  • Article

Cheating, Inequality Aversion, and Appealing to Social Norms

By: Clara Amato, Francesca Gino, Natalia Montinari and Pierluigi Sacco
We conduct a field experiment involving 143, 9-years old children in their classrooms. Children are requested to flip a coin in private and receive a big or a small prize depending on the outcome they report. Comparing the actual and theoretical distribution of... View Details
Keywords: Cheating; Inequality Aversion; Social Norms; Children; Experiment; Behavior; Equality and Inequality; Moral Sensibility
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  • August 2017
  • Article

Teaching Versus Living: Managerial Decision Making in the Gray

By: Eugene F. Soltes
Preparing students for the consequential ethical decisions that they will face in their careers is among the most difficult tasks of management education. I describe some of these challenges based on my book Why They Do It: Inside the Mind of the White-Collar... View Details
Keywords: Ethics; Organizational Culture; Business Education
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  • May 1990 (Revised April 1991)
  • Background Note

Dirty Hands

By: Joseph L. Badaracco Jr.
A one-paragraph excerpt from a play by Jean-Paul Sartre. Describes in the words of one character, the ethical problem of "dirty hands": the problem that doing the morally superior thing in some circumstances inevitably involves doing some things that are morally wrong.... View Details
Keywords: Moral Sensibility; Management; Problems and Challenges; Personal Characteristics; Value
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  • 07 Jan 2008
  • Research & Ideas

Pursuing a Deadly Opportunity

organizational legitimacy and the kind of moral order we want to create as a society," Anteby explains. The same issues could help us come to grips with the murky legal... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Health
  • 16 Aug 2019
  • News

When Businesses Violate the Public’s Trust

    Joshua D. Margolis

    Joshua Margolis is James Dinan and Elizabeth Miller Professor of Business Administration and the Unit Head for the Organizational Behavior unit. He is also Faculty Chair of the Program for Leadership Development. His research and teaching revolve around leadership... View Details

    Keywords: furniture; health care; insurance industry; nonprofit industry; pharmaceuticals
    • March 2000
    • Background Note

    Fall Before Rising, A: The Story of Jai Jaikumar (A)

    By: H. Kent Bowen, Richard Compton Squire, Sarah Patricia Vickers-Willis and Harry James Wilson
    What is the relationship between good fortune, professional success, and a moral obligation to other people? Jai Jaikumar, who as a youth was saved by a shepherd woman after a tragic mountaineering accident in the Himalayas, and who later rose to the top of his... View Details
    Keywords: Moral Sensibility; History; Personal Development and Career; Relationships; Familiarity; Perception; Welfare
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    • March 2018
    • Article

    Polluted Morality: Air Pollution Predicts Criminal Activity and Unethical Behavior

    By: Jackson G. Lu, Julia J. Lee, F. Gino and Adam D. Galinsky
    Air pollution is a serious problem that influences billions of people globally. Although the health and environmental costs of air pollution are well known, the present research investigates its ethical costs. We propose that air pollution can increase criminal and... View Details
    Keywords: Pollutants; Behavior; Moral Sensibility; Crime and Corruption
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    • 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... View Details
    Keywords: Crime and Corruption; Moral Sensibility; Values and Beliefs; Conflict of Interests; Value
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    • 02 May 2022
    • News

    Business Ethics: What Everyone Needs to Know