Moral Leadership - Publications - Faculty & Research

January 2014 (Revised August 2014)
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The Kursk Submarine Rescue Mission

By: Anette Mikes

The Kursk, a Russian nuclear-powered submarine sank in the relatively shallow waters of the Barents Sea in August 2000, during a naval exercise. Numerous survivors were reported to be awaiting rescue, and within a week, an international rescue party gathered at the... View Details

Keywords: Risk Management; Moral Sensibility; Leadership; Organizational Structure; Crisis Management; Failure; Cooperation; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Norway; United Kingdom; Russia

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24 Sep 2007
Research & Ideas

The FDA: What Will the Next 100 Years Bring?

agency is also feeling growing pains. Its 9,000 employees and $1.95 billion budget are straining to meet the demands of technological and global change. It has lost key senior managers, and low morale is a growing problem. Can the FDA... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Biotechnology; Consumer Products; Food & Beverage; Health

18 Jul 2012
Research & Ideas

Penn State Lesson: Today’s Cover-Up was Yesterday’s Opportunity

acknowledged its pedophilia scandals, it would have protected victims and its moral authority. Had President Bill Clinton admitted his relationship with Monica Lewinsky, the scandal would have subsided, enabling him to focus on his... View Details

Keywords: by Bill George; Education

17 Apr 2012
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First Look: April 17

under the Rug: How Unethical Actions Lead to Forgetting of Moral Rules Authors:Lisa L. Shu and Francesca Gino Publication:Journal of Personality and Social Psychology (in press) Abstract Dishonest behavior can have various psychological... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

08 Dec 2003
Research & Ideas

Is That Really Your Best Offer?

them. Deception can also hinge on what's not said at the bargaining table. Some people may feel morally bound to respond truthfully to any questions posed to them directly but not obliged to volunteer information. The burden falls on you... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Wheeler

27 Mar 2007
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First Look: March 27, 2007

advantage through an approach to innovation that emphasizes customer centricity. Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=507037 American Ground Summary: Assuming Leadership Harvard Business... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

24 May 2004
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Becoming an Ethical Negotiator

as an ethical argument, actually. It's really just a different calculation of personal costs and benefits. Regarding people as individual value-maximizers is a valid point of view, but it certainly isn't the only one. Other people see the situation in View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

08 Mar 2004
Research & Ideas

Secret to Success: Go for “Just Enough”

Think About Limits? To achieve multifaceted, lasting success in a world of moving targets, it is not enough to soberly reject celebrity as the only leadership style. You have to understand the baseline assumptions behind celebrity, and... View Details

Keywords: by Laura Nash & Howard Stevenson

03 Feb 2021
News

Power Play

watching the utility industry—finally, 20 years after deregulation—fall to more nimble competition with smaller and decarbonized assets.” Sustainability, which had become a bit of a buzzword in investment circles, had long felt like the right thing to do from a View Details

Keywords: Maureen Harmon

01 Mar 2011
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Alumni Books

essence, doing the right thing. Each major character in the epic embodies a moral failing or virtue. Das compares their successes and failures with those of prominent contemporary players in economics, business, and politics and finds... View Details

26 Sep 2006
First Look

First Look: September 26, 2006

business strategies. Exercising Moral Courage: A Developmental Agenda Author:Linda Hill Publication:In Moral Leadership: The Theory and Practice of Power, Judgment, and Policy, edited by Deborah L. Rhode.... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Jun 2003
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Books

Press) In the past decade, as technological developments raced forward, large corporations with a history of scientific leadership like AT&T, IBM, and Xerox ironically found themselves struggling to keep up. Their problem, says HBS... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Laura Singleton; Donald; Sull; Henry; Chesbrough; Rob; Austin; Leslie; Perlow; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

01 Jun 2014
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Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2014

Lavoie (MBA 1993) (Crown Business) In How Remarkable Women Lead, Barsh described Centered Leadership's five capabilities and the research that underpins it. In this book, Barsh and Lavoie provide a practical field guide for implementing the Centered View Details

04 Dec 2012
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First Look: December 4

http://www.innovation-enterprise.com/archives/vol/15/issue/1/article/4941/sustaining-innovation-when-outsourcing-components Ethically Adrift: How Others Pull Our Moral Compass from True North Authors:C. Moore and F. Gino... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

02 Jun 2021
News

On the Road Less Traveled

a hotel room at age 11, and among the challenges that something like that poses is that it doesn't give you any real grounding. And this is one line from the book. You say, “Having bounced around as much as I did, I had to set my moral... View Details

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Losing Passion for Your Job? Why Quitting Might Be the Right Move | Working Knowledge

critical of their moral character and levels of competence if they quit their current passion pursuit. Meanwhile, other people actually judged those who quit much less harshly than participants predicted. This misperception is specific to... View Details

22 Mar 2011
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First Look: March 22

behave dishonestly (Study 1), and this relationship was mediated by impaired moral awareness (Study 2). Unlike individuals with moderate or low moral identity, individuals high in View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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Brittani Rettig

"Several cases in Leadership and Corporate Accountability are the most memorable. Particularly "The Fall of Enron" and the Harvard Business Review article by Charles Handy, "What's a Business For?" I got so... View Details

Keywords: Consulting; Services; Health Care

17 Jun 2020
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Toronto Copes with COVID-19 Via Webinars; Alumni Respond to Pandemic in Philippines

the country’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Morales recently asked club members to share stories of how they are leveraging their networks, leadership strategies, corporate resources during this... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

19 Jul 2004
Research & Ideas

Why Innovations Sit on the Shelf

leadership has the courage to initiate the measures necessary to do so. We've discovered that standard initiatives such as employee surveys, interviews by external consultants, and even relatively straightforward, one-on-one conversations... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Beer, Russell Eisenstat & Derek Schrader

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