Practical Ethics - Publications - Faculty & Research

24 Nov 2008
Research & Ideas

Harvard Business School Discusses Future of the MBA

complain that MBAs don't understand the practice of leadership or have sufficient awareness of their impact on others. Reflecting on these findings, Garvin concluded, "Business as usual isn't good enough." The Ford Foundation... View Details

Keywords: by Roger Thompson & HBS Bulletin; Education

01 Dec 2018
News

Hard Choices

sometimes be skirted, frauds sometimes perpetrated, society’s resources misallocated, and the environment sometimes damaged. Managements are sometimes tolerated or even embraced who should not be—managements preoccupied with self-interest, managements blind to their... View Details

Keywords: Seth Klarman (MBA 1982)

26 Jan 2016
First Look

January 26, 2016

a set of practices to guide firms as they adopt ambidexterity. Senior leadership is crucial here. We discuss the importance of leading in a consistently inconsistent fashion. Readers will come away with a new understanding of how to... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Dec 2019
News

John McArthur

building the faculty through the recruitment and promotion of outstanding faculty members, strengthening research, enhancing Executive Education, and launching important initiatives in ethics and social enterprise. He also oversaw a major... View Details

Keywords: Dean

September 2019 (Revised September 2019)
Case

Facebook Fake News in the Post-Truth World

By: John R. Wells, Carole A. Winkler and Benjamin Weinstock

In August 2019, Mark Zuckerberg, founder and CEO of Facebook, was surrounded by controversy. The first major storm of protest followed the surprise election of Donald Trump as President of the United States on November 8, 2016; many put the blame at the door of fake... View Details

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18 Aug 2021
News

Alumni on the Black Lives Matter Movement

considering, “How are we going to behave with each other, how we’re going to be with clients, how do we practice our authenticity?” he said. “I have been an outsider every single day. I’m a 6’10 Black [American] guy working in England.”... View Details

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