Moral Philosophers - Publications - Faculty & Research

03 Oct 2023
Research Event

Build the Life You Want: Arthur Brooks and Oprah Winfrey Share Happiness Tips

we've been coming at the same problem from different angles using the same mission, the same philosophy, the same moral understanding of what we're trying to do, which is to, look, you don't get very much time in the world.” Brooks:... View Details

Keywords: by HBS Staff

31 Aug 2021
Book

Feeling Powerless at Work? Time to Agitate, Innovate, and Orchestrate

through persuasion or coercion.” But where does this power come from? It derives from controlling access to what others value, such as income, status, achievement, belonging, autonomy, and moral purpose. Strategies for shifting power When... View Details

Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald

08 Feb 2021
Book

How to Make the World Better, Not Perfect

productive ways.” Setting achievable goals Philosophers and ethicists talk a lot about what it means to be “good.” The problem, says Bazerman, is that they tend to hold up the ideal rather than the achievable. “Philosophers talk about... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

17 Aug 2021
Research & Ideas

Can Autonomous Vehicles Drive with Common Sense?

machines have to make in the spur of the moment are at the heart of the discomfort consumers feel about autonomous cars, says De Freitas. It’s akin to the famous philosophical “trolley problem” in which a subject must decide to let a... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Auto

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Adam Smith - Vanderblue Collection | Baker Library

Adam Smith - Vanderblue Collection The Adam Smith – Vanderblue Collection is one of the most comprehensive collections of the works of Adam Smith in many translations and editions, including The Wealth of Nations , The Theory of Moral... View Details

07 Dec 2011
Research & Ideas

Are Creative People More Dishonest?

In his 1641 treatise, Meditations on First Philosophy, philosopher René Descartes introduced the concept of an "evil genius," a powerful force of nature who is equally clever and deceitful. Since then, the world has given us... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Advertising

10 Jan 2012
First Look

First Look: January 10

http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/11-095.pdf Working PapersBehavioral Ethics: Toward a Deeper Understanding of Moral Judgment and Dishonesty Authors:Max H. Bazerman and Francesca Gino Abstract Early research and teaching on ethics focused... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

31 Jan 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research: January 31, 2017

the observer’s perspective, leaving the perspective of the observed to the realm of scholarly methodology courses and philosophical debates on privacy. I suggest how the literature on transparency and related literatures might be improved... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

24 May 2004
Research & Ideas

Becoming an Ethical Negotiator

as an ethical argument, actually. It's really just a different calculation of personal costs and benefits. Regarding people as individual value-maximizers is a valid point of view, but it certainly isn't the only one. Other people see the situation in View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

13 Aug 2008
Research & Ideas

The Inner Life of Leaders

the ancient Greek philosophers that hedgehogs know one big thing while foxes know many things. Applied to leadership, hedgehogs reduce reality to one single principle, while foxes know many things and are prepared to adapt to a complex... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

01 Jun 2009
News

Too Big To Fail

to help, has the government unwittingly created the mother of all moral hazards — implicit rescue guarantees as far as the eye can see? No doubt about it, says HBS professor and economic historian David Moss. “The extension of implicit... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; federal bailouts; Credit Intermediation and Related Activities; Finance

22 Jun 2009
Research & Ideas

“Too Big To Fail”: Reining In Large Financial Firms

unwittingly created the mother of all moral hazards—implicit rescue guarantees as far as the eye can see? No doubt about it, says HBS professor and economic historian David Moss. "The extension of implicit guarantees to all systemically... View Details

Keywords: by Roger Thompson; Banking; Financial Services

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Design: At, Into, & Beyond - Race, Gender & Equity

natural human and human-informed technological bias. Embedded Ethics A distributed pedagogy initiative at the Harvard John A. Paulson School Of Engineering And Applied Sciences that embeds philosophers directly into computer science... View Details

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2023 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity

Director of the Emotion and Society Lab. Her research is primarily concerned with the role of emotions and attitudes in public life. Cherry’s books include UnMuted: Conversations on Prejudice, Oppression, and Social Justice (Oxford University Press) and, co-edited with... View Details

03 Jun 2008
First Look

First Look: June 3, 2008

dominated by philosophical and political discourse due to a lack of systematic evaluation. Very little empirical evidence is available to indicate whether these codes legitimately distinguish adopting companies and factories as providing... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Apr 1999
News

Spirit at Work

The Business World: Moral and Spiritual Inquiry Through Literature, adds, "What we're seeing is an increasingly felt need for people to integrate the spiritual dimension of their lives into what they do for most of the day. People are... View Details

Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso

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Print View - Course Catalog

Strategy Jorge Tamayo Fall 2025 Q1 1.5 Modern Corporate Strategy: Revitalizing the Corporation Strategy Jorge Tamayo Spring 2026 Q3 1.5 The Moral Leader General Management Joseph Badaracco Fall 2025 Q1Q2 3.0 ^ back to top N Area Faculty... View Details

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