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- 25 Aug 2015
- First Look
First Look Tuesday
foreign officials, and the packaging and sale of toxic securities to naïve investors-require ethically problematic judgments and behaviors. However, dominant models of workplace unethical behavior fail to... View Details
- 13 Jul 2016
- News
From Money to Ministry
general manager in its Tokyo office, and later in New York managing multinational accounts. He’d later land in Houston, where he was sent to fix banks in trouble. “I used my skills from Professor Lodge’s Organizational Behavior course,... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 27 Jun 2024
- Research & Ideas
Gen AI Marketing: How Some 'Gibberish' Code Can Give Products an Edge
Himabindu Lakkaraju, an assistant professor at Harvard Business School. The study is one of the first to explore the ethics of repositioning content to influence query results produced by LLM applications such as ChatGPT, Google Gemini,... View Details
- 30 May 2025
- News
Galas in NYC and Mexico City; NFL Coach Shares Leadership Insights in Charlotte
for Social and Human Sciences at UNESCO, leading efforts on social inclusion, gender equality, youth support, anti-racism, sports values, and scientific ethics, including AI governance. She spearheaded UNESCO’s AI Ethics Recommendation,... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 06 Aug 2013
- First Look
First Look: August 6
behavior are reduced (Study 5). Our results have important implications for models of ethical decision making, moral behavior, and self-regulatory theory. Publisher's link: http://www.francescagino.com... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- April 2011
- Case
Daniel Kim's Dilemma (A)
By: Bill George and Natalie Kindred
Daniel Kim was considering "blowing the whistle" on his friend, the CEO of a fast-growing startup where Kim had spent most of his professional career. When Kim joined the company, called Cardio-Metric, in 2002, it consisted of seven young engineers (including its two... View Details
Keywords: Ethics; Fairness; Corporate Accountability; Emotions; Behavior; Leadership Style; Governing and Advisory Boards; Corporate Disclosure
George, Bill, and Natalie Kindred. "Daniel Kim's Dilemma (A)." Harvard Business School Case 411-009, April 2011.
- 10 Oct 2005
- Research & Ideas
Corporate Responsibility and the Environment: What is the Right Thing To Do?
help shareholder returns, that is designated CSP. Of course, if it serves the shareholder, then it is perfectly reasonable behavior that management should engage in. There is, in other words, nothing special about it. Q: The book brought... View Details
Keywords: by Manda Salls
- Web
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
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Faculty Books
Dilemmas, Social Values, and Ethical Judgments edited by Roderick M. Kramer, Ann Tenbrunsel, and Max H. Bazerman (Routledge) In honor of David Messick, emeritus professor of management and organizations at Northwestern’s Kellogg School of... View Details
- December 2009
- Article
How to Combat Online Ad Fraud
By: Benjamin Edelman
Online advertisers frequently fall victim to dishonest, tech-savvy publishers. Here's a sampling of common scams with some advice on how to outwit their perpetrators. View Details
Edelman, Benjamin. "How to Combat Online Ad Fraud." Harvard Business Review 87, no. 12 (December 2009): 24–25.
- November 2007
- Case
Differences at Work: Ben (A)
By: Sandra J. Sucher and Rachel Gordon
During a casual conversation one of Ben's professional colleagues unexpectedly makes an anti-Semitic remark. What should Ben do? View Details
Sucher, Sandra J., and Rachel Gordon. "Differences at Work: Ben (A)." Harvard Business School Case 408-012, November 2007.
- 22 Feb 2011
- Research & Ideas
The Most Important Management Trends of the (Still Young) Twenty-First Century
to cross ethical boundaries. What this research suggests is that everyone, regardless of their ethical foundations, has the capacity to behave dishonestly. In fact, most individuals start with good... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- December 2011
- Article
Economics Education and Greed
By: Long Wang, Deepak Malhotra and J. Keith Murnighan
The recent financial crisis, and repeated corporate scandals, raise serious questions about whether a business school education contributes to what some have described as a culture of greed. The dominance of economic-related courses in MBA curricula led us to assess... View Details
Wang, Long, Deepak Malhotra, and J. Keith Murnighan. "Economics Education and Greed." Academy of Management Learning & Education 10, no. 4 (December 2011): 643–660.
- 02 Sep 2010
- What Do You Think?
How Transparent Should Boards Be?
will be accompanied by a "quitclaim" letter settling the case with an agreement that the CEO will make no further statement about the matter. This group argues that if the CEO is fired for cause, it will almost certainly result in a lawsuit in which the... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
The Meaning of Ramadi
something positive. We can prove that when it comes to doing good and doing well, you cannot have one without the other. We can prove that the term “business ethics” is a repetition, not an oxymoron, because business is not sustainable unless it focuses on View Details
- Article
Signaling When Nobody Is Watching: A Reputation Heuristics Account of Outrage and Punishment in One-shot Anonymous Interactions
By: Jillian J. Jordan and David G. Rand
Moralistic punishment can confer reputation benefits by signaling trustworthiness to observers. However, why do people punish even when nobody is watching? We argue that people often rely on the heuristic that reputation is typically at stake, such that reputation... View Details
Keywords: Signaling; Morality; Trustworthiness; Anger; Third-party Punishment; Moral Sensibility; Behavior; Trust; Reputation
Jordan, Jillian J., and David G. Rand. "Signaling When Nobody Is Watching: A Reputation Heuristics Account of Outrage and Punishment in One-shot Anonymous Interactions." Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 118, no. 1 (January 2020).
- July 2009
- Journal Article
Dirty Work, Clean Hands: The Moral Psychology of Indirect Agency
By: Neeru Paharia, Karim Kassam, Joshua Greene and Max Bazerman
When powerful people cause harm, they often do so indirectly through other people. Are harmful actions carried out through others evaluated less negatively than harmful actions carried out directly? Four experiments examine the moral psychology of indirect agency.... View Details
Keywords: Judgments; Ethics; Moral Sensibility; Behavior; Motivation and Incentives; Power and Influence
Paharia, Neeru, Karim Kassam, Joshua Greene, and Max Bazerman. "Dirty Work, Clean Hands: The Moral Psychology of Indirect Agency." Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes 109, no. 2 (July 2009): 134–141.
- 2008
- Working Paper
Dirty Work, Clean Hands: The Moral Psychology of Indirect Agency
By: Neeru Paharia, Karim S. Kassam, Joshua D. Greene and Max H. Bazerman
When powerful people cause harm, they often do so indirectly through other people. Are harmful actions carried out through others evaluated less negatively than harmful actions carried out directly? Four experiments examine the moral psychology of indirect agency.... View Details
Keywords: Judgments; Ethics; Moral Sensibility; Behavior; Motivation and Incentives; Power and Influence
Paharia, Neeru, Karim S. Kassam, Joshua D. Greene, and Max H. Bazerman. "Dirty Work, Clean Hands: The Moral Psychology of Indirect Agency." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 09-012, August 2008. (Conditionally Accepted at Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes.)
- 28 Apr 2009
- First Look
First Look: April 28, 2009
show that the same behaviors produce more ethical condemnation when they happen to produce bad rather than good outcomes, even if the outcomes are determined by chance. Our studies show that individuals... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 2013
- Working Paper
Networks as Covers: Evidence from an On-Line Social Network
By: Mikolaj Jan Piskorski
This paper proposes that networks give actors a cover by giving them the excuse of sociability to engage in normatively prohibited market behaviors. I apply this hypothesis to actors in long-term exclusive relationships who are surreptitiously seeking new relationships... View Details
Piskorski, Mikolaj Jan. "Networks as Covers: Evidence from an On-Line Social Network." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 13-083, March 2013.