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  • 11 Feb 2002
  • Research & Ideas

The Quiet Leader—and How to Be One

is to writing about difficult ethical decisions?" Or put differently, what happens in between the big decisions—which don't come along very often? For some people they come along very, very infrequently. Does this mean these people... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 17 Mar 2009
  • First Look

First Look: March 17, 2009

and other contexts that pose stiff ethical challenges. Trinh seeks to combine his background in financial services with his desire to contribute to Vietnam's economic development, and he has to decide among four job offers with investment... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 09 Apr 2018
  • Sharpening Your Skills

The Dark Side of Performance Bonuses

several years ago, is that those bank bonuses also caused loan officers to perceive reality differently—they believed those loans would succeed. It’s not just financial incentives that are under study. Employers seek to change the behavior of workers in all manner of... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 18 Nov 2002
  • Research & Ideas

Where Morals and Profits Meet: The Corporate Value Shift

information technologies. Recent advances in biotechnology have raised ethical issues that have never before presented themselves. And globalization has given rise to cross-cultural dilemmas that just... View Details
Keywords: by Carla Tishler
  • February 2015
  • Case

CLP: Powering Asia

By: George Serafeim, Rebecca Henderson and Dawn Lau
Richard Lancaster, taking over from Andrew Brandler, was the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of CLP Holdings Ltd., one of the leading power companies in Asia, with operations in China, Southeast Asia, Taiwan, Australia, and India, and an energy portfolio spanning coal,... View Details
Keywords: Energy Generation; Environmental Sustainability; Goals and Objectives; Values and Beliefs; Growth and Development Strategy; Strategic Planning; Energy Industry; Asia; India
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  • 28 Oct 2014
  • First Look

First Look: October 28

business leaders. These include pollution and climate change, poverty and income inequality, obesity and public health, and corruption and regulatory capture. This note presents a way of analyzing the economic, legal, and ethical... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 17 Aug 2021
  • Research & Ideas

Can Autonomous Vehicles Drive with Common Sense?

kill only one. While such damned-if-you-do-damned-if-you-don’t ethical dilemmas have traditionally been the focus of public debates about AV algorithm design, they are the wrong way to look at the issue, say... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Auto
  • 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... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett; Entertainment & Recreation; Media & Broadcasting
  • 01 Jun 2022
  • What Do You Think?

Is Stakeholder Management Facing New Headwinds?

debate between economists such as the Chicago school’s Milton Friedman, who argued that the sole purpose of business is to generate profit for (and presumably transfer wealth to) shareholders by any legal and ethical means, and Yale’s... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 02 Jun 2003
  • What Do You Think?

What Can Aspiring Leaders Be Taught?

more practical context in which ethical dilemmas can be resolved than can separate courses in ethics or values. Further, how ethical and... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 16 Mar 2003
  • Research & Ideas

At the Center of Corporate Scandal Where Do We Go From Here?

new course in our required curriculum next year. This course will draw on a great deal of work at the School and focus on three issues: Individual decision making (how you as a leader confronting ethical View Details
Keywords: by Kim B. Clark
  • 02 Sep 2010
  • What Do You Think?

How Transparent Should Boards Be?

Summing Up The dilemma posed by the HP-inspired vignette of a CEO allegedly failing to adhere to company values divided respondents to the September column. Two schools of thought evolved. One was that the CEO should be fired for cause... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
  • 10 Jan 2012
  • First Look

First Look: January 10

judged the ethically questionable behavior of others more harshly, suggesting that childhood memories lead to altruistic punishment. Finally, in Experiment 4, compared to a control condition, both positively valenced and negatively... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 30 Sep 2002
  • What Do You Think?

Are Business Schools Really Important “Crucibles of Leadership?”

"teach[ing] and model[ing] ethical leadership?" Or can it also include the study of management practices that help create crucibles of leadership for others as well as dilemmas that enable one to... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 25 Jun 2001
  • Lessons from the Classroom

Machiavelli, Morals, and You

investigate important dilemmas that confront leaders. He believes that there are three interlocking elements to most leadership decisions: character, accountability, and pragmatism. Having To Choose Talking about the course earlier this... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 17 Jun 2014
  • First Look

First Look: June 17

involves the realization that an ethical dilemma might be addressed other than by conceding one set of moral imperatives to meet another, and it involves the generation of solutions that allows competing... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 31 Aug 2010
  • First Look

First Look: August 31

  PublicationsLying to Level the Playing Field: Why People May Dishonestly Help or Hurt Others to Create Equity Authors:F. Gino and L. Pierce Publication:Journal of Business Ethics (forthcoming) Abstract Unethical and dishonest behavior... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 13 Dec 2004
  • Research & Ideas

Sharing News That Might Be Bad

"Divergences between ethics and financial self-interest that appear acute in the short-term can narrow or disappear if a longer-term perspective is taken." True, Paine's big-picture purview may be a bit hard to swallow when the... View Details
Keywords: by Paul Michelman
  • 23 Sep 2008
  • First Look

First Look: September 23, 2008

additional compensation across social category lines than it did within them. The results thus broach an ethical dilemma for managers: Is it appropriate to let mere social category lines interfere with... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 30 Jun 2015
  • First Look

First Look: June 30, 2015

working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=49300   Cases & Course Materials Harvard Business School Case 515-095 Evans Food In April 2014, Hector Guerra (GMP 16) was discussing his company's dilemma with his living... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel

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