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  • February 2012
  • Case

Kent Chemical: Organizing for International Growth

By: Christopher A. Bartlett and Laura Winig
In July 2008, Luis Morales, president of Kent Chemical International, is proposing a third reorganization effort after two failed attempts to better align his business with its U.S.-based parent company. With a global expansion strategy placing increasing demands on... View Details
Keywords: International Business; Organizational Change; Multinational Corporations; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Multinational Firms and Management; Organizational Design; Management Practices and Processes; Organizational Structure; Corporate Strategy; Organizational Culture; Global Strategy; Chemical Industry; United States
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  • June 1997 (Revised November 1998)
  • Case

Sky Air, Inc.

By: Paul A. Gompers
Concerns a fictitious airline company and examines the moral hazard situation that results within a firm. Provides an opportunity to discuss corporate governance and contracting under uncertainty. View Details
Keywords: Ethics; Corporate Governance; Contracts; Risk and Uncertainty; Air Transportation Industry
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  • 23 Aug 2011
  • News

Book Review: The Progress Principle

  • 05 Dec 2005
  • What Do You Think?

Is Growth Good?

just economic. But does this translate to the global economy? Benjamin Friedman, as the result of an examination of the economic and social histories of the United States, Britain, France, Germany, and a number of developing economies that he describes in his new book,... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • Research Summary

Overview

By: Julian J. Zlatev
First, Professor Zlatev studies how people make decisions that reinforce a sense that they are good or moral. He studies the psychology behind dual motive behaviors—actions that incorporate self-interested and prosocial motives—and the structure of moral identity. For... View Details
  • Article

The Role of Lockups in Initial Public Offerings

By: Alon Brav and Paul A. Gompers
In a sample of 2,794 initial public offerings (IPOs), we test three potential explanations for the existence of IPO lockups: lockups serve as (i) a signal of firm quality, (ii) a commitment device to alleviate moral hazard problems, or (iii) a mechanism for... View Details
Keywords: Initial Public Offering; Quality; Moral Sensibility; Compensation and Benefits; Venture Capital; Problems and Challenges; Stock Shares; Going Public
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  • August 2017
  • Article

Teaching Versus Living: Managerial Decision Making in the Gray

By: Eugene F. Soltes
Preparing students for the consequential ethical decisions that they will face in their careers is among the most difficult tasks of management education. I describe some of these challenges based on my book Why They Do It: Inside the Mind of the White-Collar... View Details
Keywords: Ethics; Organizational Culture; Business Education
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  • 01 May 2019
  • Working Paper Summaries

Rehabilitating Corporate Purpose

Keywords: by Malcolm S. Salter

    Eva Muraya

    Keywords: Advertising and Marketing
    • 07 Jan 2008
    • Research & Ideas

    Pursuing a Deadly Opportunity

    raising instinctive fears of bodysnatchers looking for a quick payday. It's just these kinds of gray zones that HBS assistant professor Michel Anteby likes to research, areas where questions of legitimacy and moral beliefs are raised.... View Details
    Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Health
    • 25 Jun 2001
    • Lessons from the Classroom

    Machiavelli, Morals, and You

    butler in a moral sense. He wanted to give his whole life, a life of service—and 'service' is the word he used—to somebody who was serving a larger cause." Unfortunately, the larger cause Stevens believed himself for decades to be... View Details
    Keywords: by Martha Lagace
    • March 2020 (Revised August 2020)
    • Case

    Culture at Google

    By: Nien-hê Hsieh, Amy Klopfenstein and Sarah Mehta
    Beginning in 2017, technology (tech) company Google faced a series of employee-relations issues that threatened its unique culture of innovation and open communication. Issues included protests surrounding Google’s contracts with the U.S. government, restrictions of... View Details
    Keywords: Human Resources; Employee Relationship Management; Recruitment; Retention; Resignation and Termination; Labor; Working Conditions; Employment; Labor Unions; Wages; Law; Lawsuits and Litigation; Rights; Ethics; Values and Beliefs; Fairness; Organizations; Organizational Culture; Mission and Purpose; Social Psychology; Attitudes; Behavior; Conflict Management; Trust; Motivation and Incentives; Prejudice and Bias; Power and Influence; Information Technology; Internet and the Web; Information Infrastructure; Society; Social Issues; Culture; Civil Society or Community; Demographics; Diversity; Ethnicity; Gender; Race; Technology Industry; North and Central America; United States; California
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    • September 2012 (Revised August 2013)
    • Background Note

    A Brief History of the U.S. Tobacco Industry Controversy

    By: Sandra J. Sucher and Henry McGee
    This history of the U.S. tobacco controversy is a reading for a class on "The Insider," a film about whistleblowing in the U.S. tobacco industry, taught in the course, The Moral Leader. View Details
    Keywords: Leadership; Ethics; United States
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    • 21 Jan 2009
    • First Look

    First Look: January 21, 2009

    http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/06-007.pdf Sweatshop Labor Is Wrong Unless the Jeans Are Cute: Motivated Moral Disengagement Authors:Neeru Paharia and Rohit Deshpandé Abstract While many consumers say they care about issues such as... View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
    • 2016
    • Working Paper

    Controlling Versus Enabling

    By: Andrei Hagiu and Julian Wright
    Revenue sharing between principals and agents is commonly used to balance double-sided moral hazard. We provide a theory of how, when such revenue-sharing is optimal, a principal allocates control rights over decisions that either party could make. We show that the... View Details
    Keywords: Control Rights; Decision Authority; Employment; Independent Contractors; Organizational Theory; Digital Platforms; Governance Controls; Ethics; Vertical Integration
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    • 22 Apr 2002
    • Research & Ideas

    Profits and Prophets: The Role of Values in Investment

    As chair of the investment committee for a college, Sam Hayes was faced with a challenging dilemma: Should the committee invest only in socially responsible funds even though the outcome might mean fewer scholarships and teaching positions, putting the school at a... View Details
    Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

      Markets, Morals, and Practices of Trade: Jurisdictional Disputes in the U.S. Commerce in Cadavers (article)

      This study examines the U.S. commerce in human cadavers for medical education and research to explore variation in legitimacy in trades involving similar goods. It draws on archival, interview, and observational data mainly from New York state to analyze market... View Details

      • 2019
      • Working Paper

      Veil-of-Ignorance Reasoning Favors the Greater Good

      By: Karen Huang, Joshua D. Greene and Max Bazerman
      The “veil of ignorance” is a moral reasoning device designed to promote impartial decision-making by denying decision-makers access to potentially biasing information about who will benefit most or least from the available options. Veil-of-ignorance reasoning was... View Details
      Keywords: Policy-making; Procedural Justice; Ethics; Decision Making; Fairness
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      • 26 Aug 2014
      • News

      A Fair-Trade-Like Certification for Gender Equality

      • September–October 2013
      • Article

      The Role of Organizational Scope and Governance in Strengthening Private Monitoring

      By: Lamar Pierce and Michael W. Toffel
      Governments and other organizations often outsource activities to achieve cost savings from market competition. Yet such benefits are often accompanied by poor quality resulting from moral hazard, which can be particularly onerous when outsourcing the monitoring and... View Details
      Keywords: Crime and Corruption; Decision Choices and Conditions; Corporate Accountability; Governance Compliance; Policy; Management Practices and Processes; Demand and Consumers; Market Design; Market Entry and Exit; Market Transactions; Service Delivery; Service Operations; Business Processes; Organizational Structure; Performance Effectiveness; Performance Expectations; Practice; Transportation; Transportation Industry; Service Industry; United States; New York (state, US)
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