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- October 2011 (Revised December 2022)
- Background Note
Ethical Analysis: Moral Disengagement
By: Sandra J. Sucher and Celia Moore
Moral disengagement is a process that enables people to engage in negative behaviors, from small misdeeds to great atrocities, without believing that they are causing harm or doing wrong. When Conrad Black, the fallen Canadian mogul convicted of multiple counts of... View Details
Sucher, Sandra J., and Celia Moore. "Ethical Analysis: Moral Disengagement." Harvard Business School Background Note 612-043, October 2011. (Revised December 2022.)
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
Business Ethics Fellow Honored
maintained an interest in ethics and its teaching. The Henry B. Arthur Fund for Business Ethics was established in 1987 by Arthur's daughter, Janice A. McCoy Miller (HRPBA '61), and his then son-in-law Bowen... View Details
- 12 Feb 2008
- News
Ethics Must Be Global, Not Local
- 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
- 1993
- Book
Can Ethics Be Taught?
By: T. R. Piper, M. Gentile and S. Park
Piper, T. R., M. Gentile and S. Park, eds. Can Ethics Be Taught? Boston: Harvard Business School Press, 1993.
- 10 Mar 2015
- News
The ethics of Etsy
- July 2001
- Background Note
Ethics in Venture Capital
By: Ashish Nanda
Discusses potential conflicts of interest that venture capitalists face in dealing with entrepreneurs. Critiques arguments that such conflicts are easily managed and unproblematic. Suggests four ways to address potential conflicts. View Details
Nanda, Ashish. "Ethics in Venture Capital." Harvard Business School Background Note 902-028, July 2001.
- 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
Sezer, Ovul, F. Gino, and Max H. Bazerman. "Ethical Blind Spots: Explaining Unintentional Unethical Behavior." Special Issue on Morality and Ethics edited by Francesca Gino and Shaul Salvi. Current Opinion in Psychology 6 (December 2015): 77–81.
- 19 Jun 2020
- News
Ethical Challenges for Reopening
- 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
Wheeler, Michael A., Dana Nelson, and Gillian Morris. "Confidentiality in Settlement Negotiations: Ethics & Law." Harvard Business School Background Note 904-057, January 2004. (Revised September 2004.)
- 2014
- Chapter
Ethical Leadership and Noticing
By: Max Bazerman
Bazerman, Max. "Ethical Leadership and Noticing." Chap. 3 in Conceptions of Leadership: Enduring Ideas and Emerging Insights, edited by George R. Goethals, Scott T. Allison, Roderick M. Kramer, and David M. Messick. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.
- 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
Bazerman, Max, and Ovul Sezer. "Bounded Awareness: Implications for Ethical Decision Making." Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes 136 (September 2016): 95–105.
- 12 Jun 2008
- News
Evaluating Your Business Ethics
- 18 Jun 2024
- HBS Conference
Directors’ AI Ethics Forum
- December 2024
- Article
Managerial Pluralism: Thirty Years of Teaching Business Ethics
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
Badaracco, Joseph L. "Managerial Pluralism: Thirty Years of Teaching Business Ethics." Society 61, no. 6 (December 2024): 678–684.
- 22 Apr 2019
- HBS Seminar
Francesca Rossi, AI Ethics Global Leader, IBM
- 20 Apr 2011
- Research & Ideas
Blind Spots: We’re Not as Ethical as We Think
of the trap is the subject of the new book, Blind Spots: Why We Fail to Do What's Right and What to Do about It, by Max H. Bazerman, a professor at Harvard Business School, and Ann E. Tenbrunsel, a professor of business ethics at the... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne