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Leadership, Ethics, and Corporate Accountability Course | HBS Online

Corporate Accountability Kim B. Clark Professor of Business Administration “This course will offer valuable tools to sharpen your judgment and decision-making skills and help you act and lead with integrity and good conscience.” Dates &... View Details
  • 07 Aug 2012
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First Look: August 7

direct evidence that incentive contracts distort judgment and beliefs, even among trained professionals with many years of experience. Loans evaluated under more permissive incentive schemes are rated significantly less risky than the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 26 Oct 2010
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First Look: October 26, 2010

participate or withdraw. Students need to use judgment with respect to estimates of key variables including stabilized income, construction cost, and minimum expectations for return on investment in order to prepare their bids. Purchase... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 12 Jan 2010
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First Look: Jan. 12

  Working PapersA Reference Point Theory of Mergers and Acquisitions Authors:Malcolm Baker, Xin Pan, and Jeffrey Wurgler Abstract The use of judgmental anchors or reference points in valuing corporations affects several basic aspects of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 05 May 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Sharing the Responsibility of Corporate Governance

environment, workplace safety, and community involvement, most firms do not provide this information. Second, it is not economically efficient for shareholders with a small stake in a number of companies to ferret out sufficient information to enable them to make an... View Details
Keywords: by Carla Tishler
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Departments | Employment

dealing with highly confidential information Use good judgment Be friendly and inviting What makes it challenging to work in the Dean ’ s Office? Because this is the Dean’s Office, there is a tendency for people to expect that the staff... View Details
  • 08 Mar 2016
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March 8, 2016

Consumer Neuroscience: Advances in Understanding Consumer Psychology By: Karmarkar, Uma R., and Carolyn Yoon Abstract—While the study of consumer behavior has been enriched by improved abilities to generate new insights, many of the mechanisms underlying View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 02 Jun 2010
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First Look: June 2

when they were randomly assigned to wear them (Experiment 1b). Experiment 2 shows that the effects of wearing counterfeit sunglasses extend beyond the self, influencing judgments of other people's unethical behavior. Experiment 3... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 20 Dec 2016
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December 20, 2016

acquiring new resources. However, as the assets become larger and more strategic, management judgment becomes the determining factor. For assets that enhance operating efficiencies or increase revenue, we review techniques such as... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 05 Aug 2008
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First Look: August 5, 2008

supervision as well as expression. Cautioning against the hasty judgment that gray zone practices are simply wrong, Moral Gray Zones contributes to a deeper understanding of the culture, group dynamics, and deviance found in... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 07 Apr 2009
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First Look: April 7, 2009

Experiences, and Overindebtedness Authors:Annamaria Lusardi and Peter Tufano Publication:NBER Working Paper Series, No. 14808, March 2009 Abstract We analyze a national sample of Americans with respect to their debt literacy, financial experiences, and their View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • December 2020 (Revised February 2021)
  • Teaching Note

The Tulsa Massacre and the Call for Reparations

By: Mihir A. Desai and Suzanne Antoniou
How should historic social injustices be addressed? Survivors of the 1921 Tulsa Massacre and their descendants, including Representative Regina Goodwin of Tulsa, believe they should be addressed through reparations and have consequently continued to push the government... View Details
Keywords: Cost vs Benefits; Decision Choices and Conditions; Decisions; Judgments; Race; Fairness; Moral Sensibility; Values and Beliefs; Corporate Accountability; Corporate Governance; Policy; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Government Legislation; Government and Politics; Government Administration; Lawsuits and Litigation; Legal Liability; Leading Change; Mission and Purpose; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Conflict and Resolution; Conflict Management; Loss; Motivation and Incentives; Perspective; Prejudice and Bias; Civil Society or Community; Social Issues; Welfare; Tulsa; Oklahoma; United States
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  • 31 Mar 2009
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First Look: March 31, 2009

judgment, using a joint/separate evaluation paradigm. Experiment 2A demonstrates that effects of indirect agency cannot be fully explained by perceived lack of foreknowledge or control on the part of the primary agent. Experiment 2B indicates that reflective moral... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 18 Feb 2015
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First Look: February 18

transactional form was used: deferential business judgment review for freezeouts executed as tender offers, and stringent "entire fairness" review for transactions structured as mergers. Subramanian (2005), Subramanian (2007),... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 27 Sep 2004
  • Research & Ideas

How Leaders Build Winning Streaks

Mike Babcock, as head coach? Or was it sub-coaches and player-leaders who made the judgment calls at critical moments? The answer, of course, is all of the above. Even at the top, leaders often come in pairs, trios, and quartets,... View Details
Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter
  • 01 Dec 2002
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Bad Times for Business

with our students. That kind of interaction would make a deep and valuable impression. Hall: We need to show our students how incremental errors of judgment can lead down a slippery slope to a whole heap of trouble. In addition to having... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
  • December 2020 (Revised February 2021)
  • Supplement

The Tulsa Massacre and the Call for Reparations

By: Mihir A. Desai and Suzanne Antoniou
How should historic social injustices be addressed? Survivors of the 1921 Tulsa Massacre and their descendants, including Representative Regina Goodwin of Tulsa, believe they should be addressed through reparations and have consequently continued to push the government... View Details
Keywords: Cost vs Benefits; Decision Choices and Conditions; Decisions; Judgments; Race; Fairness; Moral Sensibility; Values and Beliefs; Corporate Accountability; Corporate Governance; Policy; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Government Legislation; Government and Politics; Government Administration; Lawsuits and Litigation; Legal Liability; Leading Change; Mission and Purpose; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Conflict and Resolution; Conflict Management; Loss; Motivation and Incentives; Perspective; Prejudice and Bias; Civil Society or Community; Social Issues; Welfare; Tulsa; Oklahoma; United States
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  • 06 Feb 2018
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First Look at New Research and Ideas: February 6, 2018

Context Affects Choice By: Thomadsen, Raphael, Robert P. Rooderkerk, On Amir, Neeraj Arora, Bryan Bollinger, Karsten Hansen, Leslie John, Wendy Liu, Aner Sela, Vishal Singh, K. Sudhir, and Wendy Wood Abstract—Due to its origins in the literature on View Details
  • 28 Apr 2015
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First Look: April 28

financial and nonfinancial measures, some envisioned its role only in formulaic compensation contracts. We describe an alternative view, in which the scorecard's formal measures are created and used for informal management, with executives using discretion and View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 24 Sep 2013
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First Look: September 24

the dimensions of human behavior, decision making, and judgments in carrying out the work of the modern corporation. A most fortuitous event in starting the project was the engagement of our research assistant who has a theater academic... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne