Morals - Publications - Faculty & Research

July 1991 (Revised March 1992)
Background Note

Integrity and Management

Describes the role that issues of personal integrity play in managers' decisions. Defines personal integrity, the factors that influence it, the situations in which it becomes particularly relevant to company decisions, and ways of overcoming the blind spots that can... View Details

Keywords: Decisions; Moral Sensibility; Planning; Situation or Environment; Trust; Value

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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

Keywords: Ethics; Education; Moral Sensibility; Behavior; Decision Making; Leadership; Innovation and Management; Change Management; Social Enterprise; Education Industry; Service Industry; North and Central America

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creation of the "H-P Way," a unique kind of moral code that fostered company longevity and entrepreneurial spirit, while creating a sense of camaraderie among employees. View Details

Keywords: Computers & Electronics

December 2017
Supplement

Piracy in Somalia (B)

By: Sophus A. Reinert and Alissa Davies

Supplements the (A) case. View Details

Keywords: Piracy; Foreign Aid; Civil War; Private Property; Human Rights; Economic Development; Globalization; War; Property; Crime and Corruption; Rights; Development Economics; Moral Sensibility; Somalia

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22 Aug 2017
News

Thoughts on Charlottesville

HBS Dean Nitin Nohria has shared the following message with the HBS community regarding the recent events in Charlottesville, Virginia and their aftermath: Members of the HBS community, The events in Charlottesville deserve our strongest condemnation. We cannot claim... View Details

01 Dec 2007
News

Lighten Up

Khurana traces the history of American business schools and argues for a return to the professional and moral ideals that first inspired the study of management as a profession. View Details

Article

Kidneys for Sale: Who Disapproves, and Why?

By: Stephen Leider and Alvin E. Roth

The shortage of transplant kidneys has spurred debate about legalizing monetary payments to donors to increase the number of available kidneys. However, buying and selling organs faces widespread disapproval. We survey a representative sample of Americans to assess... View Details

Keywords: Moral Sensibility; Policy; Health; Market Transactions; Attitudes; Trust

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September 1996
Case

Craig Parks (B)

By: David A. Thomas and Lisa J. Chadderdon

Supplements the (A) case. View Details

Keywords: Personal Development and Career; Decision Making; Decision Choices and Conditions; Moral Sensibility

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Portrait Project

Kaelin Goulet

an independent study. Maybe it was confronting some of my own personal failings. Apologies to Howard Roark, but good does not always come to hard-working people; weakness is not tantamount to moral failure. I want to treat struggle with... View Details

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Arturo Alvarez Demalde

feel the responsibility to get involved and will work hard to see a nation with strong democratic institutions, young moral leaders, a well-educated population, and world-class companies. Starting gradually by setting an example within... View Details

01 Dec 2002
News

Fall Reunions

Members of the Class of 1977 were treated to a special presentation by Professor Joe Badaracco on "The Moral Leader: Fiction As a Lens on Leadership". Photography by Stuart Cahill, C.J. Gunther, and Thomas J. Fitzsimmons. More than twelve... View Details

07 Nov 2007
Op-Ed

How Marketing Hype Hurt Boeing and Apple

had already bought the iPhone. The moral of the story: Do not risk marketing hype unless you are sure of both your supply curve and your demand curve. Hype can hurt stock prices and investor confidence when expectations are not met. Join... View Details

Keywords: by John Quelch; Aerospace; Consumer Products

01 Jun 2005
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Full Circle

what I was doing did not match up well with my core, with my soul,” he recalls. “At some level I’d lost my ability to read my moral compass. That created a certain restlessness and discontent with my life.” With the encouragement of his... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; veterinary; MBA applicable; Health, Social Assistance

Article

Don't Let Power Corrupt You

By: Julie Battilana and Tiziana Casciaro

Although power is essential to taking charge and driving change, it makes leaders vulnerable to two traps that can not only erode their own effectiveness but also undermine their teams. Hubris—the excessive pride and self-confidence that can come with power—causes... View Details

Keywords: Humility; Empathy; Hubris; Leadership; Power and Influence; Moral Sensibility; Performance Effectiveness

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Portrait Project

Jonathan Wilkins

I will pray for stamina to raise the nation's moral conscience. I will exercise personal agility to exert faith through action. I will strive to help heal the sick and extend resources to the poor. I will set about the business of... View Details

02 May 2021
News

They’re Banking on Him

a moral obligation.” All eyes will be on Horta-Osório, in another high-stakes, high-stress moment on the global banking stage. “Shareholders and employees cannot wait for months for a new strategy,” Manuel Ammann, a professor at the Swiss... View Details

Keywords: banking; leadership; turnarounds; Finance

04 Sep 2013
News

From HBO to HBS

including Sandra Sucher and Joe Badaracco, who each teach The Moral Leader, an EC course that uses fiction, plays, essays, and film to explore moral and ethical issues. Based on those discussions, McGee... View Details

Keywords: Hanna, Julia; HBSO; HBS; faculty; Arts, Entertainment; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

11 Feb 2014
First Look

First Look: February 11

bring about a just state of affairs? This paper examines whether this question can be meaningfully addressed without having to engage two contentious debates in contemporary scholarship: the debate about the moral agency of corporations... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

22 Jun 2009
Research & Ideas

“Too Big To Fail”: Reining In Large Financial Firms

unwittingly created the mother of all moral hazards—implicit rescue guarantees as far as the eye can see? No doubt about it, says HBS professor and economic historian David Moss. "The extension of implicit guarantees to all systemically... View Details

Keywords: by Roger Thompson; Banking; Financial Services