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Buy Now, Pay Later: Cars on Time

market share in the 1920s. Ford, who believed that buying cars on credit was morally reprehensible, responded to GMAC with a surge in advertising and an unpopular program that encouraged customers to use their local Ford dealer as a... View Details

18 Jan 2016
Research & Ideas

Hazard Warning: The Unacceptable Cost of Toxic Workers

is the morally correct path. “To say the rules should never be broken isn’t completely forthright and honest, so this is basically a sophisticated way to capture that,” Minor says. Another factor could be more Machiavellian applicants... View Details

Keywords: by Roberta Holland

06 Jul 2011
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Are You a Level-Six Leader?

people who always ask, "What's in it for me?" Their moral compass is guided primarily by the accumulation of wealth and power, all else be damned. Bernie Madoff, now in prison, is a poster boy for the Opportunists. While Madoff... View Details

Keywords: by Mitch Maidique

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General Management Curriculum - Faculty & Research

Management) Regina Herzlinger , Ben Creo Fall 2025 Q1 1.5 Law, Management and Entrepreneurship (also listed under Entrepreneurial Management) John Batter Fall 2025 Q1Q2 3.0 John Batter Spring 2026 Q3Q4 3.0 Leadership and Happiness Arthur Brooks Spring 2025 Q3 1.5 The... View Details

20 Oct 2008
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The Seven Things That Surprise New CEOs

behave. Second, he must recognize that his position does not confer the right to lead, nor does it guarantee the organization's loyalty. He must perpetually earn and maintain the moral mandate to lead. CEOs can easily lose their... View Details

Keywords: by Michael E. Porter, Jay W. Lorsch & Nitin Nohria

09 Feb 2015
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Professional Networking Makes People Feel Dirty

School of Management at Northwestern University.) "From an academic perspective, we thought we could advance the theory of networks by looking at the psychological consequences of networking." Previous psychology research has shown that people think about View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

05 May 2011
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How Ethical Can We Be?

Summing Up Our perceptions of whether we do "what's right" depend on such things as the situation, the time frame, the expectations of others, and whether we are face-to-face with the object of our actions. And we are much poorer judges of whether we are... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

18 May 2016
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Unethical Amnesia: Why We Tend to Forget Our Own Bad Behavior

actions gradually become less clear than other memories—a phenomenon the authors of the paper call “unethical amnesia.” Moreover, forgetting wrongdoings of the past makes us more likely to misbehave in the future. “We are social beings, and our basic need for... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

2011
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Blind Spots: Why We Fail to Do What's Right and What to Do about It

By: Max H. Bazerman and Ann E. Tenbrunsel

When confronted with an ethical dilemma, most of us like to think we would stand up for our principles. But we are not as ethical as we think we are. In Blind Spots, leading business ethicists Max Bazerman and Ann Tenbrunsel examine the ways we overestimate our ability... View Details

Keywords: Crime and Corruption; Moral Sensibility; Values and Beliefs; Failure; Performance Evaluation; Sales; Consumer Products Industry

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30 Nov 2016
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How Do Leaders Manage the Tension Between Pride and Arrogance?

SUMMING UP: Is collective pride the primary contributor to organization arrogance? There are three things that many respondents to this month’s column can agree on: (1) Pride is an attractive trait among members of an organization; arrogance is not. (2) Leaders’... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

24 Jun 2002
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Four Keys of Enduring Success: How High Achievers Win

observed. Individuals want a sense of mastery and pleasure; relationships are important to success. The most common reason people give him and Nash is, "I want to make a difference in the world." Most people admire others who display fairly high View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

10 Apr 2014
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John Kotter’s Plan to Accelerate Your Business

do this other thing that they find important," he says. In the book, Davidson's critic began to warm toward the network as he saw signs of morale improving in his own group and the posting of several impressive wins. The idea for a dual... View Details

Keywords: by Kim Girard

Malcolm S. Salter

Malcolm Salter has been a member of the Harvard Business School faculty since 1967. His teaching and research focus on issues of corporate strategy, organization, and governance.

In addition to teaching at HBS, he has held faculty positions at the Harvard... View Details

Keywords: arts; automobiles; energy; investment banking industry; retailing; venture capital industry

12 Nov 2012
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Pay Workers More So They Steal Less

Bigger paychecks for retail employees could generate significant payoffs for employers by reducing worker theft and raising the level of moral behavior in the workforce, a new study shows. Tatiana Sandino, an associate professor in... View Details

Keywords: by Kim Girard; Retail

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The 20th Century Zeitgeist - Leadership

oral contraceptive pill Influence: High 70 1970 s 19 National Organization for Women mobilizes for Equal Rights Amendment Roe v. Wade legalizes abortion Social discord continues over Vietnam War and civil rights Watergate scandal undermines faith in authority... View Details

31 Aug 2020
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Why Don’t More Organizations Understand the Power of Diversity and Inclusion?

preached about it.” In addition to questions about the data, there is the moral issue of whether diversity and inclusion should be promoted with or without supporting data regarding performance. David Wittenberg posed the issue this way:... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

24 Apr 2019
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The 'Amazon Effect' Is Changing Online Price Competition—and the Fed Needs to Pay Attention

win some moral victories: the Economist magazine stopped publishing the Argentinian government’s numbers in favor of Cavallo’s stats, and, when a new government took over, it relied on Cavallo’s numbers as it built a new index from... View Details

Keywords: by Roberta Holland; Retail

25 Aug 2014
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Ashraf M. Dahod, MBA 1981

face rejection are job requirements for entrepreneurs. “No one person can build a company,” says Dahod, reflecting that one of the most difficult moments in his career was when he sold Starent to Cisco and decided to build a new team. “I felt a View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

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Is AI Coming for Your Job?

these tasks will enable knowledge workers to concentrate on value-adding activities where human expertise is indispensable, such as interpreting context and nuance, exercising emotional intelligence, addressing moral and ethical... View Details

01 Mar 2024
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Alumni and Faculty Books and Podcasts

Edited by Margie Kelley Alumni Books You Got This! A Straightforward, No-Nonsense Playbook for Crushing 130+ Workplace Challenges By Heidi Abelli (MBA 1993) Palmetto Publishing Stepping into the corporate world can feel like navigating a labyrinth, especially when... View Details

Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

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