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  • 01 Feb 2010
  • Research & Ideas

The ‘Luxury Prime’: How Luxury Changes People

corporate greed? Do you think there is a different mindset now for companies and executives to change and become more socially and morally responsible? A: In the midst of the current global economic crisis, people are outraged by highly... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
  • 08 Feb 2023
  • Op-Ed

Building an Inclusive Workplace? Prepare to Shield It from Economic Fears

underrepresented communities. As the COVID-19 pandemic dragged on, executives worked to continue these efforts, despite supply chain disruptions, labor shortages, and erratic consumer spending. Beyond the moral imperatives of confronting... View Details
Keywords: by Hise O. Gibson and Nicole Gilmore
  • 01 Oct 1999
  • News

Banking on Success

Morgan Stanley fit in the universe - and he could syndicate anything. Gordon Richardson, former governor of the Bank of England, remains a man of impeccable manners and morals and is endowed with a superb mind. At its core, the investment... View Details
Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg
  • 24 Apr 2019
  • Research & Ideas

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
  • 2010
  • Working Paper

Integrity: A Positive Model That Incorporates the Normative Phenomena of Morality, Ethics, and Legality Abridged

By: Werner H. Erhard, Michael C. Jensen and Steve Zaffron
We present a positive model of integrity that, as we distinguish and define integrity, provides powerful access to increased performance for individuals, groups, organizations, and societies. Our model reveals the causal link between integrity and increased... View Details
Keywords: Trust; Performance Productivity; Information Technology; Knowledge; Moral Sensibility; Opportunities; Competitive Advantage; Legal Liability; Cost vs Benefits
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  • 22 Mar 2013
  • Research & Ideas

Pulling Campbell’s Out of the Soup

the time Conant was recruited, the company's share price had dropped from a high of $60 in 1998 to $30. Conant took a good long look at staff morale and didn't like what he saw. "We had a toxic culture. People were understandably... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Food & Beverage
  • Blog

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 Oct 2000
  • News

Carlos A. Saladrigas: Hardworking Optimist

the relatives' house when federal agents removed Elián. "The silver lining in this difficult situation," says the diplomatic and optimistic Saladrigas, "is that the Cuban community has been brought together." Saladrigas traces his moral... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
  • Web

Serving the Public Interest Through Competition: British Railroads - Railroads and the Transformation of Capitalism | Harvard Business School

mergers, Parliament began to regulate the level of capital and the number of acquisitions permitted. William Gladstone, political leader and Christian socialist philosopher, believed the state had moral responsibilities to the public... View Details
  • 14 Apr 2022
  • Op-Ed

Let’s Move Forward from COVID—Without Forgetting What We’ve Learned

must decide its values. Identifying these values should be a collaborative, inclusive process at all levels. For example, common organizational values are "we are a people-first business" or "global impact in how people work" or even "do what is ethically or View Details
Keywords: by Hise O. Gibson and MaShon Wilson
  • 02 Mar 2021
  • HBS Case

The Tulsa Massacre: Is Racial Justice Possible 100 Years Later?

massacre and reparations, I’m hopeful that we can all learn more about this dark period and the vexing question of how to address it,” notes Desai. While Oklahoma has acknowledged its moral responsibility, creating a memorial and giving... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • 28 Sep 2020
  • Research & Ideas

How Leaders Can Navigate Politicized Conversations and Inspire Collaboration

says, “but to what seems morally right during a particular period in certain circles.” The authors also differentiate between political incorrectness and other types of insensitive communications, such as hate speech. [div... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
  • 08 Oct 2008
  • Research & Ideas

Book Excerpt: A Sense of Urgency

required if the firm was to leap into the future. Even the few employees who were mobilized into action found that the firm's needs were overwhelming. Morale sank. Losses continued to grow. Then the firm was bought by someone at a bargain... View Details
Keywords: by John P. Kotter
  • Web

Buy Now, Pay Later: Credit in Pre-Industrial Society

economics of lending and borrowing, but with its moral dimensions. 2 Usury—or lending on interest—was condemned by nearly every ancient authority from Plato onward. Medieval theologians followed their lead, placing avarice at the head of... View Details
  • July 2021
  • Case

'Why I Blew the Whistle': Mauro Botta v. PwC

By: Aiyesha Dey, Jonas Heese and Sarah Mehta
Set in April 2021, this case tells the story of Mauro Botta, a senior manager at PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC). In 2016, Botta filed a whistleblower claim with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, alleging that PwC had failed to fulfill its obligations to remain... View Details
Keywords: Accounting Audits; Financial Reporting; Financial Statements; Ethics; Fairness; Moral Sensibility; Values and Beliefs; Governance; Corporate Governance; Accounting Industry; United States; California; San Jose
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  • 2020
  • Book

Better, Not Perfect: A Realist's Guide to Maximum Sustainable Goodness

By: Max Bazerman
Every day, you make hundreds of decisions. They’re largely personal, but these choices have an ethical twinge as well; they value certain principles and ends over others. Bazerman argues that we can better balance both dimensions—and we needn’t seek perfection to make... View Details
Keywords: Decision Making; Moral Sensibility; Ethics; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact
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  • 01 May 2019
  • What Do You Think?

What Should the Leadership of YouTube Do?

littleny Can YouTube’s Users Help the Company Deal With Its “Moral” Problem?* This month’s mini-case described the dilemma faced by Susan Wojcicki, CEO of YouTube: how far to promote “sustainability,” viewership, and (to some) free speech at the risk of losing what is... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett; Entertainment & Recreation; Media & Broadcasting
  • 21 Feb 2005
  • Op-Ed

Is Business Management a Profession?

ways." Haunted by a belief that scientific, technological, and material progress was outstripping society's capacity for moral self-governance, and that the professions that had traditionally provided social and View Details
Keywords: by Rakesh Khurana, Nitin Nohria & Daniel Penrice
  • Portrait Project

Ahmed Farag

can I look at my younger reflection and not desire for them to have ambition? Without my own parents, I would’ve just been another statistic of illiteracy in a third world country. My moral insomnia continues to drag. If I can’t find... View Details
  • 08 Feb 2010
  • HBS Case

Looking Behind Google’s Stand in China

working inside the country to create value for its Chinese users, employees, and business partners. To critics, Google was selling out its core principles to play in the world's second largest economy. “Google shot themselves in the foot without gaining the View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Technology