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- June 2020
- Article
Air Pollution, State Anxiety, and Unethical Behavior: A Meta-Analytic Review
By: J Lu, J. Lee, F. Gino and A. Galinsky
Lu, Lee, Gino, and Galinsky (2018) reported four studies demonstrating that air pollution predicted unethical behavior and that one mediating mechanism was state anxiety. In contrast, Heck and colleagues reported two null-effect studies on air pollution, trait... View Details
Lu, J., J. Lee, F. Gino, and A. Galinsky. "Air Pollution, State Anxiety, and Unethical Behavior: A Meta-Analytic Review." Psychological Science 31, no. 6 (June 2020): 748–755.
- April 2011
- Article
Ethical Breakdowns: Good People often Let Bad Things Happen. Why?
By: Max H. Bazerman and Ann E. Tenbrunsel
Companies are spending a great deal of time and money to install codes of ethics, ethics training, compliance programs, and in-house watchdogs. If these efforts worked, the money would be well spent. But unethical behavior appears to be on the rise. The authors observe... View Details
Keywords: Ethics; Moral Sensibility; Corporate Accountability; Corporate Governance; Leadership; Behavior; Conflict of Interests
Bazerman, Max H., and Ann E. Tenbrunsel. "Ethical Breakdowns: Good People often Let Bad Things Happen. Why?" Harvard Business Review 89, no. 4 (April 2011).
- 09 May 2012
- Research & Ideas
Clayton Christensen’s “How Will You Measure Your Life?”
relying on chance—on the currents of life—to guide us." Christensen also believes that certain common business principles are misguided and even dangerous. In the following excerpt, he explains why focusing on marginal costs and revenues can lead to personal,... View Details
- 05 Sep 2023
- Book
Failing Well: How Your ‘Intelligent Failure’ Unlocks Your Full Potential
necessarily means experiencing failures along the way, Edmondson says. Taking this approach may be especially important now, as employers struggle to retain talent and boost employee morale in workplaces that were completely reshaped by... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 09 Jun 2015
- First Look
First Look: June 9, 2015
instance, estimates of U.S. annual losses indicate $1 trillion paid in bribes, $270 billion lost due to unreported income, as well as $42 billion lost in retail due to shoplifting and employee theft. In this article we draw on insights from the growing fields of View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Apr 2021
- Research & Ideas
Why Anger Makes a Wrongly Accused Person Look Guilty
whether an accused person has committed the offense, based on the emotions he or she expresses. Such an unfair judgment can have grave consequences, affecting the accused person’s career and even leading to job loss. "People who are falsely accused, of course, have... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 10 Feb 2009
- First Look
First Look: February 10, 2009
response to the current financial crisis has created a new reality, in which virtually all systemically significant financial institutions now enjoy an implicit guarantee from the federal government that will continue to exist (and continue to generate View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 30 Apr 2024
- Book
When Managers Set Unrealistic Expectations, Employees Cut Ethical Corners
accounting practices, noting that “no one has reason to believe that it is inappropriate from a technical standpoint” (quoted in Cummings, Hamburger, & Kranhold, 2002). Judging from the overall behaviour of other companies in the ad... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 15 Mar 2024
- HBS Case
Let's Talk: Why It's Time to Stop Avoiding Taboo Topics at Work
broader strategic discussions at a company, creating a chilling effect. “I encounter many privately held companies where employees have no clue how much annual revenue the company makes,” Wing says. The reason for the secrecy? Sometimes... View Details
Keywords: by Avery Forman
- Web
Placement - Doctoral
Alexandra Killewald , and Andras Tilcsik Karen Huang Organizational Behavior, 2020 Placement: Georgetown University, McCourt School of Public Policy Dissertation: Veil-of-Ignorance Reasoning and Justification of View Details
- 25 Sep 2012
- First Look
First Look: September 25
what does the term "big data" actually entail, and how will the insights it yields differ from what managers might generate from traditional analytics? Does Power Corrupt or Enable: Moral Identity, Power and Self-Serving... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Mar 2016
- First Look
March 22, 2016
Acceptance of Morally Arbitrary Luck and Widespread Support for Classical Benefit-Based Taxation By: Weinzierl, Matthew C. Abstract—Public moral reasoning is shown to differ in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 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
- 05 Dec 2016
- Research & Ideas
How To Deceive Others With Truthful Statements (It's Called 'Paltering,' And It's Risky)
so you end up with a better deal, or at least this is what people tend to believe, especially in situations where they are claiming value.” And here’s another reason paltering may be popular: It works. Palters can be quite difficult to... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 17 Aug 2020
- Research & Ideas
What the Stockdale Paradox Tells Us About Crisis Leadership
survival. However, the pattern of human response to disasters has been shown to be remarkably consistent across cultures, and for disasters of many different causes, effects, and durations, from earthquakes to shipwrecks to kidnapping. There is every View Details
Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Robin Abrahams
- 25 Jun 2024
- Research & Ideas
Rapport: The Hidden Advantage That Women Managers Bring to Teams
and wail from the back seat: “Where are the fries?” Disappointment ensues. The reason for the oversight—and the frustrating customer experience—may have nothing to do with the fast-food worker’s skill level. In fact, new research shows... View Details
- 04 Sep 2001
- Research & Ideas
Is Government Just Stupid? How Bad Decisions Are Made
increases efficiency and makes better goods and services available to citizens across the world. Why then do so many people fight free trade? A primary reason is loyalty to the short-sighted interest of a group. Groups that benefit from... View Details
- 29 Oct 2012
- Research & Ideas
Are You Paying a Tip--or a Bribe?
bribery levels—with Canada seeing little bribing activity and India seeing substantially more. The researchers concluded that the reason for this difference was rooted in the way people in the two countries viewed this exchange of money.... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- Web
Human Behavior & Decision-Making - Faculty & Research
organization and how you have created solutions to such problems. 2014 Article Time, Money, and Morality By: F. Gino and C. Mogilner Money, a resource that absorbs much daily attention, seems to be present in much unethical behavior... View Details
- 14 Feb 2012
- First Look
First Look: February 14
undeniable ethical failure, people experience ethical dissonance between their moral values and their behavioral misconduct. Our findings indicate that to reduce ethical dissonance, individuals use a double-distancing mechanism. Using an... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel