Publications

Educators

January 2004 (Revised September 2004)
Background Note

Confidentiality in Settlement Negotiations: Ethics & Law

By: Michael A. Wheeler, Dana Nelson and Gillian Morris

Legal policy has a long history of protecting confidentiality of negotiations that are designed to produce settlement. However, within the past several decades there has been a significant push toward openness. Compelling arguments support confidentiality: It helps... View Details

Keywords: Ethics; Lawsuits and Litigation; Attorney and Client Relationships; Policy; Corporate Disclosure; Negotiation

Educators

February 2022
Technical Note

Ethical Analysis: Fairness

By: Nien-hê Hsieh

Concerns about fairness can arise across a wide range of contexts. They include the treatment of others, how much things cost, how much workers are paid, the outcome of a decision, and how we assign benefits and burdens across individuals. What counts as fair in a... View Details

Keywords: Fairness; Management Practices and Processes; Decision Choices and Conditions

Educators

December 2023
Article

Managerial Pluralism: Thirty Years of Teaching Business Ethics

By: Joseph L. Badaracco

The author reflects on 30 years of teaching business ethics at Harvard Business School. The paper presents tactical lessons for teaching courses in professional ethics and introduces “managerial pluralism.” This concept is akin to Isaiah Berlin’s value pluralism and... View Details

Keywords: Business Education; Ethics; Judgments

2014
Chapter

Ethical Leadership and Noticing

By: Max Bazerman

02 Oct 2008
News

Business School Ethics

1992
Chapter

Ethical Issues in Distribution

By: Frank V. Cespedes

Keywords: Distribution; Ethics

10 Mar 2015
News

The ethics of Etsy

13 Jul 2011
News

Ethics become blurred when end justifies the means

Research Summary

Workplace Ethics and Global Business Standards

By: Rohit Deshpande

This research grows out of initial collaborative research with Joshua Margolis and Lynn Paine on the relationship between codes of conduct and corporate performance. This work was reported in Harvard Business Review articles in 2005 and 2011. More recent research... View Details

19 Jun 2020
News

Ethical Challenges for Reopening

12 Jun 2008
News

Evaluating Your Business Ethics

18 Jun 2024
HBS Conference

Directors’ AI Ethics Forum

1993
Book

Can Ethics Be Taught?

By: T. R. Piper, M. Gentile and S. Park

Keywords: Ethics; Curriculum and Courses

14 Jun 2022
News

Corporate Crime and the Ethical Slide

Awards

Ethisphere. 100 Most Influential People in Business Ethics

By: Max H. Bazerman

Named as one of Ethisphere's 100 Most Influential People in Business Ethics in 2008. View Details

Article

Ethical Blind Spots: Explaining Unintentional Unethical Behavior

By: Ovul Sezer, F. Gino and Max H. Bazerman

People view themselves as more ethical, fair, and objective than others, yet often act against their moral compass. This paper reviews recent research on unintentional unethical behavior and provides an overview of the conditions under which ethical blind spots lead... View Details

Keywords: Behavior; Ethics; Decision Choices and Conditions

Read Now

September 2016
Article

Bounded Awareness: Implications for Ethical Decision Making

By: Max Bazerman and Ovul Sezer

In many of the business scandals of the new millennium, the perpetrators were surrounded by people who could have recognized the misbehavior, yet failed to notice it. To explain such inaction, management scholars have been developing the area of behavioral ethics and... View Details

Keywords: Ethics