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    Veil-of-Ignorance Reasoning Favors the Greater Good

    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

    • September 2012 (Revised August 2013)
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    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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    Sucher, Sandra J., and Henry McGee. "A Brief History of the U.S. Tobacco Industry Controversy." Harvard Business School Background Note 613-044, September 2012. (Revised August 2013.)
    • 22 Apr 2002
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    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

        Lincoln’s School of Management

        The legacy of Abraham Lincoln hangs over every American president. To free a people, to preserve the Union, “to bind up the nation's wounds”: Lincoln's presidency, at a moment of great moral passion in the country's history, is a study in high-caliber leadership. View Details
        • 27 Jan 2013
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        Lincoln's School of Management

        • June 1997
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        The Normative Foundations of Business

        What is the appropriate role for business to play in a capitalist society? In analyzing responses to this question, this note distinguishes two separate dimensions. The first involves the distinctive objective of business as a social institution, considers the pros and... View Details
        Keywords: Business or Company Management; Economic Systems
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        Dees, J. Gregory, and Jaan Elias. "The Normative Foundations of Business." Harvard Business School Background Note 897-012, June 1997.
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        Behavioral Hazard and Public Policy

        By: Joshua R. Schwartzstein

        It is well recognized that people overuse low-value medical care due to moral hazard—because copays are lower than costs. Now Professor Schwartzstein has introduced the concept of “behavioral hazard” to explain the opposite: people underuse high-value care because... View Details

        • April 2007
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        Microfinance in Bolivia: A Meeting with the President of the Republic

        By: Michael Chu
        Herbert Muller, chair of leading microfinance bank BancoSol, has met with Evo Morales one year after the populist leader's inauguration as president of Bolivia and proceeds to write an email to his fellow board directors. The bank is world famous for pioneering... View Details
        Keywords: Risk and Uncertainty; Race; Government Administration; Business and Government Relations; Microfinance; Poverty; Interest Rates; Banks and Banking; Financial Services Industry; Bolivia; South America
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        Chu, Michael. "Microfinance in Bolivia: A Meeting with the President of the Republic." Harvard Business School Case 307-107, April 2007.
        • 26 Jan 2013
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        Lincoln’s School of Management

        • 06 Jun 2022
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        The New Layoff Rules

        • 18 Aug 2011
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        Best Leadership Books of All Time

        • 02 May 2011
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        Three Leadership Steps to Defuse Tense Situations

        • 17 Mar 2022
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        The Companies Boycotting Russia Are Demonstrating Six Key Values

        • 17 Aug 2017
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        Trump Was Supposed To Be Business's Best Friend. Now They're Against Him.

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        The Business of Stem Cells

        By: Debora L. Spar
        In 2004, the topic of stem cell research made both medical and moral headlines. Buoyed by a series of technological breakthroughs, stem cell scientists grew increasingly convinced that they would eventually be able to use embryonic stem cells -- the pluripotent cells... View Details
        • 2014
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        Corporate Social Responsibility and Multinational Corporations

        By: Nien-he Hsieh and Florian Wettstein
        A central question that arises from the perspective of global ethics is what standards ought to apply to the activities of multinational corporations (MNCs). This chapter surveys the contemporary theoretical literature on this question. The first section provides... View Details
        Keywords: Multinational Corporation; Multinational Firms and Management; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Standards
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        Hsieh, Nien-he, and Florian Wettstein. "Corporate Social Responsibility and Multinational Corporations." Chap. 19 in The Routledge Handbook of Global Ethics, edited by Darrel Moellendorf and Heather Widdows, 251–266. London: Routledge, 2014.
        • 2016
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        Vicarious Contagion Decreases Differentiation—and Comes with Costs

        By: Ovul Sezer and Michael I. Norton
        Baumeister et al. propose that individual differentiation is a crucial determinant of group success. We apply their model to processes lying in between the individual and the group—vicarious processes. We review literature in four domains—attitudes, emotions, moral... View Details
        Keywords: Moral Sensibility; Behavior; Groups and Teams; Attitudes; Emotions
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        Sezer, Ovul, and Michael I. Norton. "Vicarious Contagion Decreases Differentiation—and Comes with Costs." Behavioral and Brain Sciences 39 (2016): e162.
        • July 2017
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        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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        Hsieh, Nien-hê. "Business Responsibilities for Human Rights: A Commentary on Arnold." Business and Human Rights Journal 2, no. 2 (July 2017): 297–309.
        • 28 Nov 2012
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