Publications

August 1981
Case

West Point: The Cheating Incident (C)

By: Leonard A. Schlesinger

An outline of the Secretary of the Army's decision in the matter of the 1976 cheating scandal at West Point. View Details

Keywords: Higher Education; Ethics; Judgments; Government Administration; Education Industry; Education Industry

September 2000
Case

MBA in Jeopardy (C)

By: Lynn S. Paine, Gagan Gupta and Phani K. Nagarjuna

Supplements the (A) case. View Details

Keywords: Moral Sensibility; Interdisciplinary Studies; Education; Performance; Crime and Corruption; Education Industry

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

02 Sep 2002
What Do You Think?

What Can Business Schools Do to Avoid Bad Apples?

might be taken in admissions to sort out the "bad apples," the primary responsibility of business schools is to provide a place where ethics and values can be discussed by all, rather than just those clearing some admissions... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

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

07 Jun 2018
News

Sowing the Seeds of Leadership

in agricultural sciences and natural resources management and a master’s in agribusiness innovation. Courses are taught by an international faculty and emphasize experiential education in sustainable agriculture and View Details

01 Dec 2010
News

Record Gift to HBS from India’s Tata Group

a gift of $50 million from the Tata Companies, the Sir Dorabji Tata Trust, and the Tata Education and Development Trust, philanthropic entities of India’s Tata Group. The gift, the largest from an international donor in the School’s... View Details

Keywords: Tata Hall

January 2020 (Revised April 2020)
Case

Fossil Fuel Divestment (Abridged)

By: Michael W. Toffel and Sarah Gulick

The president of Harvard University is facing growing pressure from students, alumni, and other climate change activists that are urging the university to divest its multi-billion dollar endowment from fossil fuel companies. The case summarizes the arguments for and... View Details

Keywords: Divestment; Harvard University; Higher Education; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Environmental Sustainability; Climate Change; Public Opinion; Ethics; Education Industry

March 2021 (Revised June 2022)
Case

James Bryant Conant: Changing the World

By: Robert Simons and Shirley Sun

This case traces the rise of James Conant from a working-class neighborhood in Boston to president of Harvard University. The case describes how Conant, as a young man interested in chemistry and physics, embarks on studies to build his academic credentials and the... View Details

Keywords: Education; Science; Higher Education; Mission and Purpose; Research; Values and Beliefs; Personal Characteristics; Work-Life Balance; Personal Development and Career; Education Industry; Boston

2019
Article

Fair Algorithms for Learning in Allocation Problems

By: Hadi Elzayn, Shahin Jabbari, Christopher Jung, Michael J Kearns, Seth Neel, Aaron Leon Roth and Zachary Schutzman

Settings such as lending and policing can be modeled by a centralized agent allocating a scarce resource (e.g. loans or police officers) amongst several groups, in order to maximize some objective (e.g. loans given that are repaid, or criminals that are apprehended).... View Details

Keywords: Allocation Problems; Algorithms; Fairness; Learning

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February 2007
Module Note

The Prince Summary: Exercising Authority

By: Sandra J. Sucher

A summary of the major themes discussed in the ninth class of The Moral Leader (EC curriculum). View Details

Keywords: Leadership; Moral Sensibility; Business Education

August 1981
Case

West Point: The Cheating Incident (B)

By: Leonard A. Schlesinger

A review of the activities following the expose of the cheating incident at West Point and leading up to the Secretary of the Army's decision on the situation. View Details

Keywords: Higher Education; Ethics; Judgments; Government Administration; Education Industry; Education Industry

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

February 2007
Module Note

Trifles Summary: Reasoning from Moral Theory

By: Sandra J. Sucher

A summary of the major themes discussed in the fifth class of The Moral Leader (EC curriculum). View Details

Keywords: Leadership; Moral Sensibility; Business Education

July–August 2013
Article

Relaxing the Taboo on Telling Our Own Stories: Upholding Professional Distance and Personal Involvement

By: Michel Anteby

Scholars studying organizations are typically discouraged from telling, in print, their own stories. The expression "telling our own stories" is used as a proxy for field research projects that, in their written form, explicitly rely on a scholar's personal involvement... View Details

Keywords: Fieldwork; Research Practiced; Distance; Involvement; Taboo; Practice; Ethics; Education Industry