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- 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
Paine, Lynn S. "Martin Marietta: Managing Corporate Ethics (A)." Harvard Business School Case 393-016, September 1992. (Revised August 2004.)
- 2020
- Book
Business, Ethics and Institutions: The Evolution of Turkish Capitalism in Global Perspectives
By: Asli M. Colpan and Geoffrey Jones
This book is the first systematic scholarly study on the business history of Turkey and its predecessor the Ottoman Empire from the nineteenth century until the present. It places the distinctive characteristics of capitalism in Turkey within a global and comparative... View Details
Keywords: Capitalism; Corruption; Business History; Ethics; Economic Systems; Crime and Corruption; Middle East; Central Asia; Turkey
Colpan, Asli M., and Geoffrey Jones, eds. Business, Ethics and Institutions: The Evolution of Turkish Capitalism in Global Perspectives. New York: Routledge, 2020.
- 2020
- Chapter
Ethical Business, Corruption and Economic Development in Comparative Perspective
By: Janet Hunter and G. Jones
This chapter contextualises the drivers of corruption in Turkish business through comparisons with Japan and India in the late 19th century. It identifies the developmental state as a common driver of corruption. Catching up by using extensive state intervention had... View Details
Keywords: Corruption; Crime and Corruption; Economic Growth; Turkey; Middle East; Central Asia; Japan; India
Hunter, Janet, and G. Jones. "Ethical Business, Corruption and Economic Development in Comparative Perspective." Chap. 10 in Business, Ethics and Institutions: The Evolution of Turkish Capitalism in Global Perspectives, edited by Asli M. Colpan and G. Jones, 224–245. New York: Routledge, 2019.
- 2023
- Working Paper
The Politics of Philanthropy in China
By: Geoffrey Jones and Yuhai Wu
This working paper looks historically at business philanthropy in China. In the West, the literature has distinguished between entrepreneurial and customary philanthropy, while the phenomenon of spiritual philanthropy has been identified in many emerging markets. This... View Details
Keywords: China; Philanthropy; Ethics; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Moral Sensibility; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Economic Systems; Economic Sectors; China
Jones, Geoffrey, and Yuhai Wu. "The Politics of Philanthropy in China." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 23-067, May 2023.
- Article
Ushering in Safe, Effective, Secure, and Ethical Medicine in the Digital Era
By: William J. Gordon, Andrea Coravos and Ariel Dora Stern
From clinical trials to care delivery, advanced, digitally enabled technologies and analytics offer new approaches to how we think about medicine, health, and biology. The COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated this conversation, and forced a roadmap, once measured in years... View Details
Gordon, William J., Andrea Coravos, and Ariel Dora Stern. "Ushering in Safe, Effective, Secure, and Ethical Medicine in the Digital Era." npj Digital Medicine 4, no. 56 (2021).
- October 2010 (Revised November 2010)
- Background Note
Plavix: Drugs in the Age of Personalized Medicine
By: Richard G. Hamermesh, Mara G. Aspinall and Rachel Gordon
PIavix, one of the world's best selling drugs in 2010, appears to have a limited future. Its patent was due to expire soon, and recently new data had been discovered that indicated that a small subset of the population would be at risk for stroke, heart attack, or even... View Details
Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Product Positioning; Business and Government Relations; Genetics; Competitive Strategy; Pharmaceutical Industry
Hamermesh, Richard G., Mara G. Aspinall, and Rachel Gordon. "Plavix: Drugs in the Age of Personalized Medicine." Harvard Business School Background Note 811-001, October 2010. (Revised November 2010.)
- 5 Jun 1997
- Lecture
Ethics in Tomorrow's Company." Guest speaker. "Best Practices Forum
By: Lynn S. Paine
- 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.
- Research Summary
The Transparency of Ethical Behavior
(with Max Bazerman, Karim Kassam, and Neeru Paharia)
This research analyzes how unethical behavior is viewed when performed... View Details
This research analyzes how unethical behavior is viewed when performed... View Details
- September 1987
- Article
The Board's Role in Influencing the Corporation's Ethical Climate
By: L. S. Paine
Paine, L. S. "The Board's Role in Influencing the Corporation's Ethical Climate." Director's Monthly (September 1987): 1–5. (Reprinted in Ethics and the Boardroom, compiled by the National Association of Corporate Directors, 11-16. Washington, D.C.: National Association of Corporate Directors, 1996.)
- January 2004 (Revised April 2005)
- Background Note
Personal Values and Professional Responsibilities
Describes some of the classic conflicts managers face in trying to live and work by their personal values and uses Hirschman's "exit, loyalty, and voice" framework to suggest ways for resolving these conflicts. View Details
Keywords: Values and Beliefs; Personal Development and Career; Conflict of Interests; Conflict and Resolution
Badaracco, Joseph L., Jr. "Personal Values and Professional Responsibilities." Harvard Business School Background Note 304-070, January 2004. (Revised April 2005.)
- March 11, 2020
- Editorial
A Bolder Vision for Business Schools
By: P. Tufano
Business schools teach to a model that dates back to the 1950s. Given the growing demands on business to take a lead in confronting societal challenges, business schools need to update how they train business leaders and how they compete, argues Oxford’s Saïd School... View Details
Keywords: Business Schools; Business And Society; Business Education; Leadership Development; Business and Stakeholder Relations
Tufano, P. "A Bolder Vision for Business Schools." Harvard Business Review Digital Articles (March 11, 2020).
- January 2023 (Revised November 2023)
- Technical Note
Ethical Analysis: Honesty and Self-Interest
By: Nien-hê Hsieh and Christopher Diak
Information asymmetry is pervasive in business and can often confer great advantage. This note distinguishes forms of deceptive behavior in the face of information asymmetry and aims to help students analyze their impermissibility. View Details
Hsieh, Nien-hê, and Christopher Diak. "Ethical Analysis: Honesty and Self-Interest." Harvard Business School Technical Note 323-067, January 2023. (Revised November 2023.)