Sociology Of Ethics And Morality - Publications - Faculty & Research

March 2017 (Revised September 2017)
Case

Facebook Fake News in the Post-Truth World

By: John R. Wells and Carole A. Winkler

In January 2017, Mark Zuckerberg, founder and CEO of Facebook, was surrounded by controversy. The election of Donald Trump as the next president of the United States in November 2016 had triggered a national storm of protests, and many attributed Trump’s victory to... View Details

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12 Dec 2005
Research & Ideas

Using the Law to Strategic Advantage

Moreover, moral and ethical considerations may decisively influence how the law is applied. As a result, purely technical legal advice is often inadequate. CEOs should be... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Legal Services

03 Jul 2018
What Do You Think?

Should CEO Satya Nadella Cancel Microsoft’s Contract with ICE?

moral leadership, it needs to carefully examine and discuss issues that cross the line from legal to immoral. Microsoft needs to show its employees that it takes the issue of... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Computer; Technology

29 Nov 2017
Research & Ideas

How to Succeed in Business (According to a 15th Century Trade Merchant)

Zanato, and Vera Ribaudo. A reluctant merchant Born into a family of cloth and wool traders, Cotrugli was a reluctant merchant, pulled from his studies at the University View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

21 Feb 2005
Op-Ed

Is Business Management a Profession?

well-meaning but ultimately toothless calls for greater individual integrity and ethics on the other. To speak of the professional obligations of... View Details

Keywords: by Rakesh Khurana, Nitin Nohria & Daniel Penrice

25 Aug 2017
Op-Ed

Op-Ed: After Charlottesville, Where Does a CEO's Responsibility Lie?

Charlottesville—and more generally with regards to the Trump Administration—is actually the simplest one. Leaders have many obligations to others. They also have obligations to themselves, to their own ethics View Details

Keywords: by Gautam Mukunda

18 Jun 2001
Lessons from the Classroom

Why Leaders Need Great Books

adversaries," Badaracco said. "You see them trying to figure out who they are and what they really care about over the course of these books." Many students who first enroll in The View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

17 Aug 2021
Research & Ideas

Can Autonomous Vehicles Drive with Common Sense?

introduction of penicillin or vaccines. “So many people are injured and dying on the roads every year, and we are allowing that to happen,” says De Freitas. “That’s an View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Auto

September 2017
Case

Harvard Men's Soccer

By: Alison Wood Brooks and Katherine Coffman

In the fall of 2016, the Crimson, Harvard’s undergraduate newspaper, broke a story revealing that the 2012 Harvard Men’s Soccer team had produced a sexually explicit “scouting report” about the Women’s Soccer team. The story generated national headlines and... View Details

Keywords: Moral Sensibility; Ethics; Gender; Social Issues

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02 Jun 2011
Research & Ideas

Signing at the Top: The Key to Preventing Tax Fraud?

cheat based on our lab and field studies; we thought it was now time to examine how to prevent people from cheating." The key, according to the researchers, lies in increasing ethical salience: inducing... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Accounting

January 2018
Case

Merck CEO Ken Frazier Quits President Trump's Advisory Council

By: Andy Zelleke and Brian Tilley

In the first six months of Donald Trump’s presidency, Merck CEO Kenneth Frazier appeared alongside Trump at least three times at press events, one of which commemorated the first and only meeting of the president’s Manufacturing Job Initiative (better known at the... View Details

Keywords: CEO Role; Politics; Corporate Governance; Moral Sensibility; Managerial Roles; United States

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13 Feb 2013
Research & Ideas

5 Weight Loss Tips From Behavioral Economists

Business scholars increasingly hinge their hypotheses on sociological and psychological studies, seeking a true handle on what motivates executives, employees, consumers, and... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

08 Feb 2021
Book

How to Make the World Better, Not Perfect

was trying to impose my goals on another person by suggesting that his ethical behavior was in need of improvement. I was also applying my own value system—particularly, the notion that fish eating is View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

07 Dec 2011
Research & Ideas

Are Creative People More Dishonest?

be a really important component of explaining when and why we cross ethical boundaries, and these results show us that creativity helps with that... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Advertising

August 2011 (Revised December 2013)
Supplement

Albert 'Jack' Stanley in Nigeria (B)

By: Lena G. Goldberg and Chad M. Carr

The case describes Albert "Jack" Stanley's response to actions initiated against him by the U.S. Department of Justice and the SEC. View Details

Keywords: Crime and Corruption; Moral Sensibility; Law; Value; Nigeria; United States

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16 Nov 2010
First Look

First Look: November 16, 2010

Francesca Gino, Lisa L. Shu, and Chia-Jung Tsay Publication:Emotion Review (forthcoming) Abstract Moral problems often prompt emotional responses that invoke intuitive judgments View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

September 1994
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Leadership Problems at Salomon (A)

By: Lynn S. Paine and Michael Santoro

Deryck Maughan, a vice chairman and co-head of investment banking at Salomon Brothers, learns that his superiors have been less than candid about their knowledge of bidding improprieties by the firm's government trading desk. He must decide what, if anything, he should... View Details

Keywords: Leadership; Decision Choices and Conditions; Ethics; Moral Sensibility; Values and Beliefs; Crime and Corruption; Rank and Position; Financial Services Industry

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02 Jun 2003
What Do You Think?

What Can Aspiring Leaders Be Taught?

managers confronted with alternatives that some would view as involving right and wrong, and others would view as involving a selection of the lesser View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

05 May 2015
First Look

First Look: May 5

that provide insights on when and why even people who care about morality end up crossing ethical boundaries. May 2015 American Economic Review: Papers View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

September 2018 (Revised November 2018)
Case

An Innovative Anti-bribery Commitment?

By: Eugene Soltes

Reebonz, an online luxury goods platform based in Singapore that operates across the Asia-Pacific region, offers its investors the opportunity to redeem shares if either the firm or its founder are investigated by the U.S. or U.K governments with regard to complying... View Details