Publications

13 May 2013
Blog Post

"I never thought I would be a business person until…”

minored in Media Studies at Korea University. I never thought I would be a business person until I interned at The Boston Consulting Group. I worked on a technology incubation... View Details

Keywords: Manufacturing

02 Jan 2013
News

Do good ethics make good business?

05 May 2011
What Do You Think?

How Ethical Can We Be?

Tenbrunsel, a professor of business ethics at the University of Notre Dame, argue that something they call bounded ethicality leads "even good people to engage View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

24 May 2022
News

Professor J S Nelson on What Everyone Needs To Know About Business Ethics

September–October 2020
Article

A New Model for Ethical Leadership

By: Max Bazerman

Rather than try to follow a set of simple rules (“Don’t lie.” “Don’t cheat.”), leaders and managers seeking to be more ethical should focus on creating the most value for society. This utilitarian view, Bazerman argues, blends philosophical thought with business school... View Details

Keywords: Social Value; Leadership; Moral Sensibility; Ethics; Decision Making; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Society

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September 6, 2022
Article

Creating a Platform for Costless Personalization in Clothing

By: Shane Greenstein

This study analyzes the role of co-invention in the creation of a platform for print-on-demand-clothing, or PODC. Co-invention is the invention of a new business process to complement new technology, and turn it into a valuable commercial service. PODC copies a design... View Details

Keywords: Print-on-demand-clothing; Customization and Personalization; Digital Platforms; Apparel and Accessories Industry

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April 2009 (Revised July 2009)
Module Note

Delivering Personally on Responsibility

By: Joshua D. Margolis

How can individuals equip themselves to exercise leadership in the face of moral adversity? This six-session module aims to prepare students to meet moral responsibility when it is simultaneously most essential and most difficult. Moral adversity refers to situations... View Details

Keywords: Ethics; Leadership; Moral Sensibility; Leadership Development

30 May 2002
Keynote Speech

The Corporation's Evolving Personality." Speaker. "Shanghai International Conference on Business Ethics: Developing Business Ethics in China

By: Lynn S. Paine

Keywords: Change; Organizational Culture; Ethics; Shanghai

Research Summary

Personal Productivity

He is working on a short book advising professionals on how to increase their productivity -- the quality and quantity of their output, as opposed to their hours. The book grows out of an article he published on the subject in the Harvard Business Review

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30 Jul 2018
Research & Ideas

Why Ethical People Become Unethical Negotiators

Bazerman, the Jesse Isidor Straus Professor of Business Administration, argues that good people with strong ethical values, like these traders, can behave in shady ways without... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

September 2015 (Revised January 2023)
Background Note

Ethical Analysis: Situation versus Character

By: Nitin Nohria, Sandra J. Sucher, Joseph Badaracco and Bridget Gurtler

When we think of human behavior, especially from a moral perspective, we often rely on explanations based on character. We think that good decisions and responsible behavior require people with integrity and strong character and that immoral behavior originates within... View Details

Keywords: Decision Choices and Conditions; Ethics; Behavior; Personal Characteristics; Power and Influence; Situation or Environment; Values and Beliefs; Social Psychology

14 Jun 2022
News

Corporate Crime and the Ethical Slide

July 1982 (Revised April 1984)
Background Note

Some Avenues for Ethical Analysis in General Management

Provides a general framework for the analysis of ethics-related case studies in business policy, drawing upon categories from the discipline of moral philosophy. View Details

Keywords: Management; Analysis; Ethics

01 Apr 2008
Working Paper Summaries

No Harm, No Foul: The Outcome Bias in Ethical Judgments

Keywords: by Francesca Gino, Don A. Moore & Max H. Bazerman

30 May 2002
Keynote Speech

Corporate Values: Should Investors Care?" Speaker. "Shanghai International Conference on Business Ethics: Developing Business Ethics in China

By: Lynn S. Paine

Keywords: Ethics; Investment

01 Dec 2004
News

Getting Personal

the airline JetBlue, for example: It has no meals and no round-trip airfares, but it does have leather seats and personal entertainment centers that delight and surprise its passengers. JetBlue’s unique combination of features is what... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

September 1992 (Revised August 2004)
Case

Martin Marietta: Managing Corporate Ethics (A)

By: Lynn S. Paine

Senior managers at Martin Marietta are considering two questions: how to assess the company's seven-year-old ethics program; and how to deal with employees' fear of retribution--real or imagined--for alerting the corporate ethics office to potential problems. The case... View Details

Keywords: Ethics; Resignation and Termination; Employees; Law; Business or Company Management; Programs