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  • 21 Jan 2009
  • First Look

First Look: January 21, 2009

sentiment. One explanation for this discrepancy is that consumers are motivated to use moral disengagement strategies to reduce cognitive dissonance when their desire for a product conflicts with their View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 2023
  • Working Paper

The Irredeemability of the Past: Determinants of Reconciliation and Revenge in Post-Conflict Settings

By: Kristen Kao, Kristin Fabbe and Michael Bang Petersen
In the aftermath of violent conflict, identifying former enemy collaborators versus innocent bystanders forced to flee violence is difficult. In post-conflict settings, internally displaced persons (IDPs) risk becoming stigmatized and face difficulties... View Details
Keywords: Conflict and Resolution; War; Refugees; Moral Sensibility; Behavior; Public Opinion; Lawfulness; Iraq
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  • 01 Feb 2010
  • Research & Ideas

The ‘Luxury Prime’: How Luxury Changes People

"The Devil Wears Prada? Effects of Exposure to Luxury Goods on Cognition and Decision Making" [PDF]. "Will the same business meeting reach different decisions when it is held at a luxury resort as opposed to a modest... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
  • February 2007 (Revised March 2007)
  • Module Note

The Sweet Hereafter Summary: Reasoning from Personal Perspective

By: Sandra J. Sucher
A summary of the major themes discussed in the sixth class of The Moral Leader (EC curriculum). View Details
Keywords: Perspective; Cognition and Thinking
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  • September–October 2020
  • Article

A New Model for Ethical Leadership

By: Max Bazerman
Rather than try to follow a set of simple rules (“Don’t lie.” “Don’t cheat.”), leaders and managers seeking to be more ethical should focus on creating the most value for society. This utilitarian view, Bazerman argues, blends philosophical thought with business school... View Details
Keywords: Social Value; Leadership; Moral Sensibility; Ethics; Decision Making; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Society
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  • April 2011
  • Article

Ethical Breakdowns: Good People often Let Bad Things Happen. Why?

By: Max H. Bazerman and Ann E. Tenbrunsel
Companies are spending a great deal of time and money to install codes of ethics, ethics training, compliance programs, and in-house watchdogs. If these efforts worked, the money would be well spent. But unethical behavior appears to be on the rise. The authors observe... View Details
Keywords: Ethics; Moral Sensibility; Corporate Accountability; Corporate Governance; Leadership; Behavior; Conflict of Interests
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  • August 2023 (Revised December 2023)
  • Case

Automating Morality: Ethics for Intelligent Machines

By: Joseph L. Badaracco Jr. and Tom Quinn
As autonomy became a more significant part of modern life – most notably in autonomous vehicles (AVs), such as Teslas – ethical debates about whether and how to impart ethics to machines heated up. Utilitarians pointed out that autonomous vehicles crashed much less... View Details
Keywords: Cost vs Benefits; Judgments; Fairness; Moral Sensibility; Values and Beliefs; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Disruptive Innovation; Technology Adoption; Risk and Uncertainty; Cognition and Thinking; Technological Innovation; Auto Industry; Technology Industry; Africa; Asia; Europe; North and Central America; Oceania; South America
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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
    • 16 Nov 2010
    • First Look

    First Look: November 16, 2010

      PublicationsKeiei no Ryugi (The Management Ritual) Authors:Mitsuaki Shimaguchi and Hirotaka Takeuchi Publication:Nihon Keizai Shimbun Publishing, 2010 An abstract is unavailable at this time. Joint Evaluation as a Real World Tool for Managing Emotional Assessment of... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 26 Apr 2023
    • In Practice

    Is AI Coming for Your Job?

    cognitive work. Many people in such roles have been insulated from automation and globalization. That is about to change. The change is likely to follow a path similar to one a character in Ernest Hemingway’s The Sun Also Rises used to... View Details
    Keywords: by Kristen Senz; Technology
    • Web

    Negotiation, Organizations & Markets - Faculty & Research

    reputation do more to drive punishment in ambiguous situations, where punishment is less clearly deserved, eroding punishers’ sensitivity to moral nuance? Across eight studies focused on the U.S. political context (total n = 15,472... View Details
    • 17 Aug 2020
    • Research & Ideas

    What the Stockdale Paradox Tells Us About Crisis Leadership

    kidnapping, from a fire in an office block to an airliner crash in the jungle.” “People who survive disasters are the ones who are able to regain cognitive function quickly, assess their new environment accurately, and take goal-directed... View Details
    Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Robin Abrahams
    • 24 Oct 2016
    • Research & Ideas

    Bernie Madoff Explains Himself

    between right and wrong is not sufficient to avoid falling into the behavioral traps people can face when under pressure to succeed. Answering a single question, Madoff exhibits several all-too-familiar cognitive biases, psychological... View Details
    Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Financial Services
    • 01 May 2012
    • First Look

    First Look: May 1

    Publications Behaviorial Ethics: Toward a Deeper Understanding of Moral Judgment and Dishonesty Authors: Max Bazerman and Francesca Gino Publication: Annual Review of Law and Social Science (forthcoming) Abstract Early research and... View Details
    Keywords: Carmen Nobel
    • September 2013
    • Article

    Cultures as Learning Laboratories: What Makes Some More Effective than Others?

    By: Elaine Mosakowski, Goran Calic and P C Early
    With a mandate to globalize, business school educators have increasingly embraced global service learning as an important technique for creating global mind-sets and enhancing cultural understanding in students. While we applaud this movement from the domestic to the... View Details
    Keywords: Business Education; Learning; Cognition and Thinking; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues
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    • Web

    Human Behavior & Decision-Making - Faculty & Research

    organization and how you have created solutions to such problems. 2014 Article Time, Money, and Morality By: F. Gino and C. Mogilner Money, a resource that absorbs much daily attention, seems to be present in much unethical behavior... View Details

      Nitin Nohria

      Nitin Nohria served as the tenth dean of Harvard Business School from 2010-2020. He previously served as co-chair of the Leadership Initiative, Senior Associate Dean of Faculty Development, and Head of the Organizational Behavior unit.

      As Dean, building on... View Details

      Keywords: accounting industry; arts; biotechnology; emerging market private equity; energy; executive search; financial services; green technology; health care; high technology; industrial goods; information technology industry; infrastructure industry; investment banking industry; legal services; management consulting; manufacturing; oil ＆ gas; petroleum; pharmaceuticals; professional services
      • Web

      Topics - HBS Working Knowledge

      Stakeholder Relations (4) Business or Company Management (19) COVID-19 (127) Capital Markets (13) Capital Structure (1) Capital (65) Cash Flow (1) Cash (2) Central Banking (2) Change Management (67) Change (116) Civil Society or Community (7) View Details
      • 18 May 2016
      • Research & Ideas

      Unethical Amnesia: Why We Tend to Forget Our Own Bad Behavior

      have a weaker memory of their own unethical rather than ethical experience,” the researchers write. “But when taking a third-person perspective (which is less threatening to their own moral self-image), type of behavior doesn’t impact... View Details
      Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
      • Blog

      Is AI Coming for Your Job?

      cognitive work. Many people in such roles have been insulated from automation and globalization. That is about to change. The change is likely to follow a path similar to one a character in Ernest Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises used to... View Details