Publications

Presents summaries for the The Moral Leader course. View Details

Keywords: Moral Sensibility; Leadership; Power and Influence

Web

Note on January 6 Events at U.S. Capitol | About

episode of their After Hours podcast. Mitt Romney, “ Romney Condemns Insurrection at U.S. Capitol ,” press release. Sandra Sucher and Shalene Gupta, “ The Breach of the U.S. Capitol Was a Breach of Trust ,”... View Details

August 2021 (Revised November 2021)
Case

The NCB Capital Turnaround: Waking the Sleeping Giant

By: Sandra J. Sucher, Gamze Yucaoglu, Shalene Gupta and Fares Khrais

The case opens in 2019, five years after, Sarah Al Suhaimi, CEO of NCB Capital (NCBC), the investment arm of Saudi’s largest bank, NCB, took the helm. Having successfully turned the business to make it the market leader, she was contemplating her next steps as... View Details

Keywords: Turnaround; Investment Banking; Financial Institutions; Change Management; Leadership; Business Model; Strategy; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Management Teams; Asset Management; Growth and Development Strategy; Saudi Arabia

Educators

11 Jan 2021
News

Strengthening Democracy

of the U.S. Capitol Was a Breach of Trust, by Professor Sandra Sucher and Shalene Gupta "Reflections on the Tumult in Washington D.C.," Professors Youngme Moon, Felix... View Details

21 Jun 2011
First Look

First Look: June 21

characterizes the financial world. They also overlook the role of natural selection. To be sure, natural selection in the financial world is not exactly analogous to the processes first described by Darwin and elaborated on View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

June 2022
Case

Michelin’s Green Gold Bahia Program: Leaving With Grace

By: Sandra J. Sucher, Shalene Gupta and Susan J. Winterberg

In 2015, the top management of French tire-maker Michelin, was evaluating Michelin’s approach to divesting its rubber plantations ten years after incorporating a novel strategy.
In 2004, Michelin had a Brazilian rubber challenge. Its Bahía plantation had been hit... View Details

Keywords: Divestment; Supply Chain Management; Natural Resources; Corporate Accountability; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Rubber Industry; Auto Industry; Brazil; France

Educators

Research Summary

Workforce Change

This research encompasses layoffs, furloughs and restructuring, global practices that affect millions of employees and thousands of companies every year. In this work I aim to replace bad practice that damages trust with good (or at least better) practice through... View Details

Keywords: Layoffs; Leadership And Change Management; Global Innovation; Strategic Decision Making; Multinational Corporations; Organizational Change and Adaptation; United States; France; Germany; Hungary; Finland; United Kingdom; Netherlands; China; Japan; Brazil

November 2012 (Revised January 2018)
Teaching Note

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

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

March 2012
Background Note

Managing the Layoff Process: France

This note is an overview of the context for managing layoffs in France. It describes the legal responsibilities of managers in conducting layoffs, recent unemployment trends, and the financial, health, training, job placement, and other benefits that laid-off employees... View Details

Keywords: Job Cuts and Outsourcing; Resignation and Termination; Compensation and Benefits; Ethics; Management; Employees; Governance Compliance; France

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February 2007 (Revised March 2007)
Module Note

Truman and the Bomb Summary: Balancing Benefits and Harms

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

Keywords: History; Leadership; Ethics; Decision Choices and Conditions; Government and Politics

February 2007
Module Note

The Prince Summary: Exercising Authority

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

February 2007 (Revised March 2007)
Module Note

The Sweet Hereafter Summary: Reasoning from Personal Perspective

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

Keywords: Perspective; Cognition and Thinking

November 2004 (Revised April 2010)
Module Note

Module II: Moral Reasoning Class Summaries

Presents class summaries for the The Moral Leader course. View Details

Keywords: Decision Making; Moral Sensibility; Leadership; Cognition and Thinking

September 2004 (Revised November 2012)
Module Note

Module I: Moral Challenge Class Summaries

What is a moral challenge? Explores four main types of moral challenge: the challenge of survival, the conflict between "two rights," a moral dilemma—or situation in which it is impossible to satisfy conflicting moral obligations and commitments—and the challenge of... View Details

Keywords: Decision Choices and Conditions; Moral Sensibility; Values and Beliefs; Leadership; Problems and Challenges; Conflict of Interests

August 2004 (Revised August 2006)
Background Note

Reading the Material

This note is intended to aid students preparing for The Moral Leader course. Given the unique nature of the materials used in the course (history, literature, biography, autobiography, plays, philosophical extracts), a different approach to reading is required for... View Details

Keywords: Education

Educators

2007
Text Book

The Moral Leader: Challenges, Tools, and Insights

Successful leaders—at any level and in any arena—are inevitably presented with moral and ethical choices. This unique and innovative textbook is designed to encourage students and managers to confront those fundamental moral challenges, to develop skills in moral... View Details

Keywords: Competency and Skills; Decision Choices and Conditions; Judgments; Moral Sensibility; Leadership

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January 2002
Teaching Note

Ritz-Carlton Hotel Company, The TN

Teaching Note for (9-601-163). View Details

Keywords: Accommodations Industry; Service Industry

Research Summary

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI)

In this research I develop cases and articles that provide thought-provoking, real-world examples of the ways in which social identity differences emerge and are managed in the workplace, and the skills needed to constructively engage with differences to create and... View Details

Keywords: Diversity; Equity; Social Issues

Research Summary

Moral Muscle