ethics - Publications - Faculty & Research

18 Jun 2024
HBS Conference

Directors’ AI Ethics Forum

20 Apr 2011
Research & Ideas

Blind Spots: We’re Not as Ethical as We Think

of the trap is the subject of the new book, Blind Spots: Why We Fail to Do What's Right and What to Do about It, by Max H. Bazerman, a professor at Harvard Business School, and Ann E. Tenbrunsel, a professor of business ethics at the... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

Awards

Ethisphere. 100 Most Influential People in Business Ethics

By: Max H. Bazerman

Named as one of Ethisphere's 100 Most Influential People in Business Ethics in 2008. View Details

18 Sep 2013
News

An Honest Wage: Dollars, Hours, And Ethics

28 Feb 2011
Research & Ideas

The Importance of ‘Don’t’ in Inducing Ethical Employee Behavior

In trying to encourage good moral conduct, it's common for a company to come up with a list of don'ts—wording policies such that they focus on unethical behavior employees should avoid rather than on ethical acts they should strive to... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

1999
Chapter

Management Buyouts and Managerial Ethics

By: L. S. Paine

Keywords: Executive Compensation; Ethics; Conflict of Interests

Citation

October 1999
Article

Toward an Ethics of Organizations

By: Joshua D. Margolis and Robert A. Phillips

Keywords: Ethics; Organizations

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March 2023
Article

Developing Moral Muscle in a Literature-based Business Ethics Course

By: Inge M. Brokerhof, Sandra J. Sucher, P. Matthijs Bal, Frank Hakemulder, Paul G. W. Jansen and Omar N. Solinger

Moral subjectivity (e.g., reflexivity, perspective-taking) is a necessary condition for moral development. However, widely used approaches to business ethics education, rooted in conceptualizations of ethical development as objective and quantifiable, often neglect... View Details

Keywords: Moral Sensibility; Business Education; Growth and Development; Teaching

2010
Article

The Ethical Mirage: A Temporal Explanation as to Why We Are Not as Ethical as We Think We Are

By: A. E. Tenbrunsel, K. Diekmann, K A. Wade-Benzoni and Max Bazerman

This paper explores the biased perceptions that people hold of their own ethicality. We argue that the temporal trichotomy of prediction, action and recollection is central to these misperceptions: People predict that they will behave more ethically than they actually... View Details

Keywords: Forecasting and Prediction; Values and Beliefs; Framework; Research; Behavior; Cognition and Thinking; Perception; Prejudice and Bias

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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

01 Sep 2023
News

The Exchange: Where Ethics Meet Economics

negotiation. His latest book is Complicit: How We Enable the Unethical and How to Stop. Here, they talk about how the confluence of behavioral ethics and behavioral economics can help shape our understanding of these questions and inform... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Data Processing, Hosting, and Related Services; Information

2004
Book

What's Fair? Ethics for Negotiators

By: Carrie Menkel-Meadow and Michael A. Wheeler

Keywords: Fairness; Ethics; Negotiation

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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

Keywords: Ethics; Analysis; Balance and Stability

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15 Sep 2015
News

Are corporate ethics sliding again?

26 Feb 2015
News

Ethics and the environment: Eco-waverers

January 2019
Teaching Note

Accenture's Code of Business Ethics

By: Eugene Soltes

Teaching Note for HBS No. 119-049. View Details

Keywords: Code Of Conduct; Compliance; Ethics; Governance; Law; Leadership; Governance Compliance

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2016
Teaching Note

Advanced Leadership Pathways: Shelly London and Ethics Education

By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter, Tessa Natanay Hamilton and Ai-Ling Jamila Malone

Teaching Note for Case 313-028. Following a successful career as a Senior Vice President, Vice President, and Chief Communications Officer at two large corporate companies, Shelly London became a Harvard Advanced Leadership Fellow. During her fellowship she set out to... View Details