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  • 01 May 2019
  • What Do You Think?

What Should the Leadership of YouTube Do?

littleny Can YouTube’s Users Help the Company Deal With Its “Moral” Problem?* This month’s mini-case described the dilemma faced by Susan Wojcicki, CEO of YouTube: how far to promote “sustainability,” viewership, View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett; Entertainment & Recreation; Media & Broadcasting
  • 03 Sep 2024
  • Blog Post

Business of Animal Protection Club

focused clubs to learn about the history of the club, the impact and mission, and the types of programming that members can participate in. What... View Details
  • 05 Dec 2016
  • Research & Ideas

How To Deceive Others With Truthful Statements (It's Called 'Paltering,' And It's Risky)

according to a new paper, Artful Paltering: The Risks and Rewards of Using Truthful Statements to Mislead Others. “It’s interesting to see the difference between the person who is deceiving View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • Forthcoming
  • Article

Public Perception and Autonomous Vehicle Liability

By: Julian De Freitas, Xilin Zhou, Margherita Atzei, Shoshana Boardman and Luigi Di Lillo
The deployment of autonomous vehicles (AVs) and the accompanying societal and economic benefits will greatly depend on how much liability AV firms will have to carry for accidents involving these vehicles, which in turn impacts their insurability and associated... View Details
Keywords: Moral Sensibility; Judgments; Legal Liability; Insurance; Perception
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  • 01 Dec 2014
  • News

Research Brief: The Power of Could

question unwittingly locks you into a tradeoff, upholding your moral principles in one way but breaking them in another. Instead, strategically asking yourself what you could do often generates an array of... View Details
  • 15 Apr 2024
  • Book

Struggling With a Big Management Decision? Start by Asking What Really Matters

book Your True Moral Compass: Defining Reality, Responsibility, and Practicality in Your Leadership Moments. In the following excerpt from the book, Badaracco, the John Shad Professor View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • 14 Apr 2022
  • Op-Ed

Let’s Move Forward from COVID—Without Forgetting What We’ve Learned

involuntary loss of knowledge in an organization. The type of organizational forgetting occurring now is creating more problems. Instead of relying on the lessons learned from... View Details
Keywords: by Hise O. Gibson and MaShon Wilson
  • 2022
  • Chapter

Interrogating Corporate Purpose: Values Based Firms and the Struggle to Build a Just and Sustainable World

By: Rebecca Henderson
Book Abstract: Defining a just economy in a tenuous social-political time. If we can agree that our current social-political moment is tenuous and unsustainable—and indeed, that may be the only thing we can agree on right now—then how do markets, governments, and... View Details
Keywords: Moral Sensibility; Social Issues
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  • 04 Apr 2023
  • Book

Two Centuries of Business Leaders Who Took a Stand on Social Issues

While shareholders still reign supreme at many companies, a widespread shift toward more responsible business practices is driving more leaders to take a stand on social and environmental issues today, says Harvard Business School Professor Geoffrey Jones. Jones... View Details
Keywords: by Lane Lambert; Consumer Products; Fashion; Retail; Green Technology
  • 01 Dec 2004
  • News

The Future of Stem Cells

Stem cells have been much in the news recently. But the hot-button ethical and political questions currently surrounding this area of research may ultimately prove moot, if the... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
  • November 2012 (Revised January 2018)
  • Teaching Note

Chris and Alison Weston (A), (B), (C)

By: Sandra J. Sucher
Teaching Note for Chris and Alison Weston(A), (B) and (C) cases. View Details
Keywords: Crime and Corruption; Moral Sensibility; Values and Beliefs; Conflict of Interests; Value; United States
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  • July 2017
  • Article

Business Responsibilities for Human Rights: A Commentary on Arnold

By: Nien-hê Hsieh
Human rights have come to play a prominent role in debates about the responsibilities of business. In the business ethics literature, there are two approaches to the question of whether businesses have human rights obligations. The “moral” approach conceives of human... View Details
Keywords: Rights; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Moral Sensibility; Society
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  • Article

Kidneys for Sale: Who Disapproves, and Why?

By: Stephen Leider and Alvin E. Roth
The shortage of transplant kidneys has spurred debate about legalizing monetary payments to donors to increase the number of available kidneys. However, buying and selling organs faces widespread disapproval. We survey a representative sample of Americans to assess... View Details
Keywords: Moral Sensibility; Policy; Health; Market Transactions; Attitudes; Trust
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  • 21 Jun 2010
  • Research & Ideas

Strategy and Execution for Emerging Markets

"How do we survive? It's like many of the great companies who survive corruption in their own countries. For us, the challenge is how to conduct our business in the most ethical way View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 17 Oct 2024
  • Research & Ideas

The Reputation Risks of Sharing Fake News

Social Change Lab at Stanford University; Robb Willer, professor of sociology at Stanford University; Mohsen Mosleh, associate professor at the University of Oxford; Gordon... View Details
Keywords: by Avery Forman
  • 2019
  • Book

Love Your Enemies: How Decent People Can Save America from the Culture of Contempt

By: Arthur C. Brooks
To get ahead today, you have to be a jerk, right?

Divisive politicians. Screaming heads on television. Angry campus activists. Twitter trolls. Today in America, there is an “outrage industrial complex” that prospers by setting American against... View Details
Keywords: Political Participation; Political Culture; Moral Sensibility; Government and Politics; Society; United States
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  • 16 Jan 2006
  • Research & Ideas

Adam Smith, Behavioral Economist?

from one of Smith's earlier works, The Theory of Moral Sentiments, that caught the attention of Harvard Business School professor Nava Ashraf... View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen
  • 06 Jun 2011
  • Research & Ideas

Why Leaders Lose Their Way

In recent months several high-level leaders have mysteriously lost their way. Dominique Strauss-Kahn, former head of the International Monetary Fund and a leading French politician, was arraigned on charges... View Details
Keywords: by Bill George
  • 03 Oct 2023
  • Research Event

Build the Life You Want: Arthur Brooks and Oprah Winfrey Share Happiness Tips

coauthor of the new book Build the Life You Want: The Art and Science of Getting Happier, for an intimate, powerful conversation that touches on: the mistake people make in... View Details
Keywords: by HBS Staff
  • 30 Nov 2016
  • What Do You Think?

How Do Leaders Manage the Tension Between Pride and Arrogance?

worked in an organization that crossed far over the line where a pride in being the most prestigious firm in their industry became arrogance The result of this was stagnation and a rigid resistance to... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett