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- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Inside MBA Admissions
critical element of the evaluation process, says Dewey. The Admissions staff carefully evaluates answers to essay questions focusing on ethical challenges and looks for character in the comments submitted by recommenders. It is this area... View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Reimagining the MBA
Ask The Power of Leadership Groups for Staying on Track Related Links Watch Professor Joshua Margolis on teaching business ethics to MBA students Watch Dean Nohria's TED Talk on practicing moral humility The sense of excitement... View Details
- June 1981 (Revised February 1983)
- Case
West Point: The Cheating Incident (A)
Presents a review of published data on the 1976 cheating scandal at West Point. Written from the perspective of the Academy Superintendent, it raises issues of ethics, organizational change and action planning in the face of conflicting stakeholder interests. View Details
Keywords: Organizational Change and Adaptation; Higher Education; Ethics; Government Administration; Conflict and Resolution; Planning; Education Industry; Education Industry
Schlesinger, Leonard A. "West Point: The Cheating Incident (A)." Harvard Business School Case 481-117, June 1981. (Revised February 1983.)
- 20 Feb 2019
- News
Dean Nohria: Business Schools have a Vital Role in Teaching Trust
In a recent opinion piece in The Financial Times, Dean Nitin Nohria outlines the School’s commitment to educating leaders who are “deeply committed to values and ethics.” “Business schools—including HBS—must teach students how to be... View Details
- 08 Jan 2018
- Research & Ideas
The Startling Percentage of Financial Advisors with Misconduct Records
misconduct disclosures may be higher. Near the top for best ethical practices was USAA Financial Advisors, which serves military families and had only a 3 percent rate of misconduct. More distressing than the rates of financial... View Details
- 22 Feb 2011
- Research & Ideas
The Most Important Management Trends of the (Still Young) Twenty-First Century
of innovative ecosystems holds great promise for significant scholarly work over the next decade. Francesca Gino The last decade has documented several ethical failures which have caused remarkable harm, including those of individuals... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
Leng Lim: The Spiritual Face of Business
self-described “bookworm,” is used to being a little different. As a high-school student, he appreciated his country’s strong commitment to education even as he longed to experience other cultures. At age 18, he was given that opportunity... View Details
- 22 Apr 2014
- News
Exploring and defining a vision of responsible business leadership
Harvard Business School Visiting Scholar Karthik Ramanna talks about the School's role in promoting ethical thinking and responsible action by business leaders. (Published April 2014) View Details
- February 2007
- Module Note
The Remains of the Day Summary: Reasoning From a Moral Code
By: Sandra J. Sucher
A summary of the major themes discussed in the seventh class of The Moral Leader (EC curriculum). View Details
Sucher, Sandra J. "The Remains of the Day Summary: Reasoning From a Moral Code." Harvard Business School Module Note 607-071, February 2007.
- 12 Nov 2001
- Research & Ideas
Can Religion and Business Learn From Each Other?
really hating the other person, it tends to escalate and deals break down that way. Greed kicks in; whereas if your religion is from an ethic of love—which sounds so squishy—in fact it can be the anchor for good business practices. So... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 25 Jun 2014
- News
A Man on a Mission
educational service. Since his retirement, Earls has been an executive in residence at Cleveland State University's Monte Ahuja College of Business, where he lectures on ethical issues and recruits promising... View Details
- 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
Elzayn, Hadi, Shahin Jabbari, Christopher Jung, Michael J Kearns, Seth Neel, Aaron Leon Roth, and Zachary Schutzman. "Fair Algorithms for Learning in Allocation Problems." Proceedings of the Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency (2019): 170–179.
- 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
Sucher, Sandra J. "The Prince Summary: Exercising Authority." Harvard Business School Module Note 607-073, February 2007.
- 1999
- Chapter
Ethics, Organizations and Business Schools
By: L. S. Paine and Thomas R. Piper
Paine, L. S., and Thomas R. Piper. "Ethics, Organizations and Business Schools." In The Intellectual Venture Capitalist: John H. McArthur and the Work of the Harvard Business School, 1980-1995, edited by T. K. McCraw and J. L. Cruikshank. Boston: Harvard Business School Press, 1999.
- 16 Mar 2003
- Research & Ideas
At the Center of Corporate Scandal Where Do We Go From Here?
year deeply disturbing. I am appalled at the instances of greed and corporate wrongdoing uncovered at firms and organizations once held up as paragons of success, and I am dismayed to see the destructive effect these instances of corruption and View Details
Keywords: by Kim B. Clark
- 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
Anteby, Michel. "Relaxing the Taboo on Telling Our Own Stories: Upholding Professional Distance and Personal Involvement." Organization Science 24, no. 4 (July–August 2013): 1277–1290.
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
Providing an Environment for Ideas to Grow
built,” she stresses. Currently at work on a book based on her globalization study, Neeley teaches several Executive Education offerings and the MBA elective Leading Teams in a Global Economy. Her case study “Language and Globalization:... View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
How Business Schools Lost Their Way
contemporary state is in many ways antithetical to the goals of professional education itself,” writes Khurana. The excerpts that follow trace business schools from their early idealism to the more recent abandonment of their... View Details
- 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
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
An Encore for the MBA Oath
School and inspired over 4,000 MBAs in the United States and around the world to participate. The MBA Oath grew out of concern over the widespread criticism leveled at business schools and MBAs regarding the global economic crisis. The oath is an attempt to set... View Details
Keywords: MBA Oath