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  • June 2008
  • Case

Kidney Matchmakers

By: Brian J. Hall and Nicole Bennett
In this case we look at the design and development of an unconventional market, where neither money nor traditional "goods" are exchanged. Kidney exchange is an idea pioneered by HBS professor and market designer Alvin Roth and a small group of innovative doctors. This... View Details
Keywords: Moral Sensibility; Disruptive Innovation; Market Design; Market Transactions; Value Creation; Health Industry
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    Michael A. Wheeler

    Mike Wheeler joined the HBS faculty in 1993 and has taught extensively in its MBA, Executive, and distance learning programs. His highly interactive 8-week/40-hour HBS Online Negotiation... View Details

    Keywords: arts; construction; e-commerce industry; energy; federal government; green technology; internet; legal services; nonprofit industry; petroleum; pharmaceuticals; publishing industry; real estate; service industry; sports; state government; utilities
    • 1997
    • Dictionary Entry

    Incommensurable Values

    By: Nien-he Hsieh
    Values, such as liberty and equality, are sometimes said to be incommensurable in the sense that their value cannot be reduced to a common measure. The possibility of value incommensurability is thought to raise deep questions about practical reason and rational choice... View Details
    Keywords: Measurement and Metrics; Values and Beliefs
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    • 2020
    • Book

    Better, Not Perfect: A Realist's Guide to Maximum Sustainable Goodness

    By: Max Bazerman
    Every day, you make hundreds of decisions. They’re largely personal, but these choices have an ethical twinge as well; they value certain principles and ends over others. Bazerman argues that we can better balance both dimensions—and we needn’t seek perfection to make... View Details
    Keywords: Decision Making; Moral Sensibility; Ethics; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact
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    • November 2014
    • Case

    Napalm: From Soldiers Field to Trang Bang

    By: Tom Nicholas and Jonas Peter Akins
    Napalm is one of the most destructive weapons ever to be invented. Yet, at its original inception it was nothing more than a technical challenge, and it was never intended to be used in indiscriminate antipersonnel warfare. The pathway of its development by a Harvard... View Details
    Keywords: Moral Sensibility; War; Chemicals; Research and Development; Chemical Industry; Viet Nam; Cambridge; United States
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    • August 1992 (Revised December 1994)
    • Case

    Sexual Harassment, Free Speech or ...?

    By: Lynn S. Paine
    Presents two brief vignettes about female employees who object to gender discrimination in their work environment. In one case, the manager of a convenience store removes "adult" magazines from the store's shelves because she sees them as damaging to women. In the... View Details
    Keywords: Moral Sensibility; Working Conditions; Law; Behavior; Managerial Roles; Crime and Corruption; Groups and Teams; Organizational Culture; Problems and Challenges; Gender
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    • August 2021
    • Article

    Humanizing Strategy

    By: Ikujiro Nonaka and Hirotaka Takeuchi
    In this article, we apply our latest thinking on knowledge to provide insights on how to reconceptualize strategy to cope with a VUCA (volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity) world, epitomized recently by COVID-19. We demonstrate that business leaders must... View Details
    Keywords: Inside-out Approach To Strategy; Practical Wisdom; Future-making; Neuroscience; Sustainability; Strategy; Knowledge; Moral Sensibility
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    • 24 Feb 2015
    • First Look

    First Look: February 24

    Abstract—People experience a threat to their moral self-concept in the face of discrepancies between their moral values and their unethical... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 26 Feb 2015 - 28 Feb 2015
    • Conference Presentation

    Is That All There Is to Happiness?

    By: J. Phillips, C. Mott, Julian De Freitas, J. Gruber and J. Knobe
    Happiness researchers have started to converge on a conception of happiness that involves some combination of high positive affect, low negative affect, and high life satisfaction. We present three studies which demonstrate that the ordinary understanding... View Details
    Keywords: Moral Sensibility; Happiness; Personal Characteristics
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    • May 2017
    • Article

    Sacred versus Pseudo-sacred Values: How People Cope with Taboo Trade-Offs

    By: Philip E. Tetlock, Barbara A. Mellers and J. Peter Scoblic
    Psychologists have documented widespread public deference to "sacred values" that communities, formally or informally, exempt from tradeoffs with secular limits, like money. This work has, however, been largely confined to low-stakes settings. As the stakes rise,... View Details
    Keywords: Tradeoffs; Values and Beliefs; Civil Society or Community
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    • January 2015
    • Article

    Poker-faced Morality: Concealing Emotions Leads to Utilitarian Decision Making

    By: Jooa Julia Lee and F. Gino
    This paper examines how making deliberate efforts to regulate aversive affective responses influences people's decisions in moral dilemmas. We hypothesize that emotion regulation—mainly suppression and reappraisal—will encourage utilitarian choices in emotionally... View Details
    Keywords: Decisions; Moral Sensibility; Emotions
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    • 2010
    • Working Paper

    Agency Revisited

    By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and Daniel F. Spulber
    The article presents a comprehensive overview of the principal-agent model that emphasizes the role of trust in the agency relationship. The analysis demonstrates that the legal remedy for breach of duty can result in a full-information efficient outcome eliminating... View Details
    Keywords: Ethics; Contracts; Agency Theory; Mathematical Methods; Behavior; Trust
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    • March 2020 (Revised May 2021)
    • Case

    Employee Activism

    By: Ethan Rouen and Akari Furukawa
    Liz O’Sullivan, an employee at a fast-growing technology company called Clarifi, had a moral dilemma: She disagreed with Clarifi’s decision to sell its image-recognition technology to the U.S. Department of Defense for possible use in weaponized drones. This case... View Details
    Keywords: Activism; Employees; Moral Sensibility; Personal Development and Career; Decision Choices and Conditions
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    • 03 Apr 2007
    • First Look

    First Look: April 3, 2007

    recommendations and zero pressure following hold recommendations. We discuss possible explanations for the differences in trading response, including information costs and investor naivete. The Business,... View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
    • December 2022 (Revised February 2023)
    • Case

    Daniel Defense: Responding to the Shooting at the Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, TX

    By: Benjamin C. Esty and Daniel Fisher
    At 11:33am on May 24, 2022, an 18-year-old man from Uvalde, Texas walked into the Robb Elementary School carrying a semi-automatic "AR-15-style” rifle manufactured by Daniel Defense and killed 19 children and two adults. Three days later, Representative Carolyn Maloney... View Details
    Keywords: Gun Violence; Gun Policy; Second Amendment; Legal Liability; Government Legislation; Marketing Strategy; Business or Company Management; Product Marketing; Ethics; Corporate Accountability; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Moral Sensibility; Crime and Corruption; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Manufacturing Industry; Advertising Industry; United States
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    • April 2017
    • Supplement

    Imprimis (C)

    By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell, Karen Elterman and Marc Appel
    This case is a supplement to Imprimis (A & B). Set in 2015, it first describes Imprimis’s decision to introduce its own line of compounded eye drop medication called LessDrops. The case then examines the moral dilemma faced by CEO Mark Baum, who was struck by the... View Details
    Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Cost; Moral Sensibility; Competitive Strategy; Decision Choices and Conditions; Pharmaceutical Industry; United States
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    • 09 May 2012
    • Research & Ideas

    Clayton Christensen’s “How Will You Measure Your Life?”

    relying on chance—on the currents of life—to guide us." Christensen also believes that certain common business principles are misguided and even dangerous. In the following excerpt, he explains why... View Details
    • 16 Sep 2008
    • First Look

    First Look: September 16, 2008

    Minimizing Joint Gains: An Ethical Dilemma? Authors:Stephen M. Garcia, Max H. Bazerman, and Dale T. Miller Abstract People prefer maximizing joint gains (e.g., self gets $600 / counterpart gets $800) instead... View Details
    • 2018
    • Introduction

    Introduction

    By: Sophus A. Reinert
    BOOK ABSTRACT: When Istvan Hont died in 2013, the world lost a giant of intellectual history. A leader of the Cambridge School of Political Thought, Hont argued passionately for a global-historical approach to political ideas. To better understand the development of... View Details
    Keywords: Markets; Moral Sensibility; Government and Politics; Trade; History
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    • 31 Oct 2023
    • HBS Case

    Checking Your Ethics: Would You Speak Up in These 3 Sticky Situations?

    McKinsey, serving as managing director of the Boston office and leader of the global merger integration practice during that period. “These dilemmas will happen, View Details
    Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Consulting