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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)
- Background Note
A Brief History of the U.S. Tobacco Industry Controversy
- 22 Apr 2002
- Research & Ideas
Profits and Prophets: The Role of Values in Investment
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
- 27 Jan 2013
- News
Lincoln's School of Management
- June 1997
- Background Note
The Normative Foundations of Business
- Research Summary
Behavioral Hazard and Public Policy
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
- Case
Microfinance in Bolivia: A Meeting with the President of the Republic
- 26 Jan 2013
- News
Lincoln’s School of Management
- 06 Jun 2022
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The New Layoff Rules
- 18 Aug 2011
- News
Best Leadership Books of All Time
- 02 May 2011
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Three Leadership Steps to Defuse Tense Situations
- 17 Mar 2022
- News
The Companies Boycotting Russia Are Demonstrating Six Key Values
- Research Summary
The Business of Stem Cells
- 2014
- Chapter
Corporate Social Responsibility and Multinational Corporations
- 2016
- Article
Vicarious Contagion Decreases Differentiation—and Comes with Costs
- July 2017
- Article
Business Responsibilities for Human Rights: A Commentary on Arnold
- 28 Nov 2012
- News