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Dean Srikant Datar’s 2024 Commencement Remarks | About
mission. You do it by holding everyone to high ethical standards. You do it by treating employees with honesty and respect. You do it by focusing on your customers, by making sure that in every decision, you are thinking of how they will... View Details
- 28 Sep 2009
- Research & Ideas
Improving Accountability at the World Bank
democratic decision-making and accountability," Ebrahim told the committee. As author of NGOs and Organizational Change: Discourse, Reporting, and Learning (Cambridge University Press, 2003), co-editor of Global Accountabilities: Participation, Pluralism and... View Details
Keywords: by Alnoor Ebrahim
- 21 Jun 2010
- Research & Ideas
Strategy and Execution for Emerging Markets
very interesting laboratory. Free market principles were introduced initially under the authoritarian regime. Compared with other emerging markets anyway, Chile has since become a paragon of reasonably good governance. Its process of... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 15 Dec 2015
- First Look
December 15, 2015
grounded in the competitive dynamics that may otherwise drive a race-to-the-bottom. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50203 forthcoming Journal of Business Ethics Corporate Governance and Executive... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 29 Jan 2013
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 29
of Responsibility in Negotiation: A Case of Bounded Ethicality Authors:Paharia, Neeru, Lucas Clayton Coffman, and Max Bazerman Publication:Oxford Handbook of Economic Conflict Resolution Abstract This article compares direct deception... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2017
contributed significantly to the growth of environmental awareness among consumers, business leaders, and others. But the Earth's environmental health has continued to deteriorate. If combining profits and sustainability has proved challenging in the past, and remains... View Details
- 28 Oct 2014
- First Look
First Look: October 28
LevelUp considers adjustments to make the service attractive to both consumers and merchants, while trying to accelerate deployment at reasonable cost. Purchase this case:... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 01 Jun 2025
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
hope. Readers will find practical tools for caregiving, including emotional support frameworks and communication techniques; a thoughtful exploration of ethical and legal dilemmas, especially in the age of AI and technological... View Details
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
From Where We Stand
compassionate and collaborative. If a woman has reached the C-suite to date, I doubt that these are the reasons she has been successful and effective. My guess is that it has had more to do with being ultra-prepared, highly persevering,... View Details
- 21 Apr 2009
- First Look
First Look: April 21, 2009
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 watchdogs charged with catching instances of cheating. The watchdogs in our... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 14 Dec 2011
- Research & Ideas
The New Measures for Improving Nonprofit Performance
direction. The only reason LAYC knew this was because it collected information on participants' attitudes both before and after the program. It was very transparent of LAYC to admit this, and it was able to make changes (in this case,... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Leading In a New Era
stands to reason that what and how people communicate will determine the success or failure of an enterprise. Says HBS's Chris Bartlett, "We need to think about organizations in a more flexible way, in terms of processes — not as a... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 03 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 3, 2009
sophisticated safeguards such as an independent ethics committee and a "whistle blower" system for employees concerned with the company's practices. In less than two decades, Sydney IVF grew from just four employees to over 200,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 05 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 5, 2008
penetrated the field of negotiation and then presents a framework for bridging the gap between these two literatures. The paper notes that one of the reasons for its limited impact on negotiation research is that extant research on social... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Afghanistan’s Hope and Light
objective was to provide an air-conditioned environment; offer support for customers who couldn’t read or write; and get them in and out of the store in 15 minutes with working service.” It sounds like a reasonable goal. But building the... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 17 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 17, 2009
and other contexts that pose stiff ethical challenges. Trinh seeks to combine his background in financial services with his desire to contribute to Vietnam's economic development, and he has to decide among four job offers with investment... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Hard Choices
cushions the ill, or disadvantaged, or those who simply fail to thrive in their particular setting, geography, industry, or trade. After all, creative destruction is still destruction, even if inevitable and in the service of a net gain to society. These downsides of... View Details
Keywords: Seth Klarman (MBA 1982)
- 04 Dec 2012
- First Look
First Look: December 4
the moral compass to describe individuals' inner sense of right and wrong, we offer a framework to help us understand social reasons why our moral compass can come under others' control, leading even good people to cross View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 10 Apr 2012
- First Look
First Look: April 10
relational contracts (i.e., informal agreements sustained by the shadow of the future). We argue that one of the reasons these practices may be difficult to copy is that effective relational contracts must solve the twin problems of... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
World Class Learning
Decisions, as well as the MBA Ethics module. He is faculty chair for the members of the Class of '99 who entered the MBA Program in September 1997. Reiling sees the presence of international students at HBS as a basic necessity in today's... View Details
Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey