Publications

12 Dec 2005
Research & Ideas

Using the Law to Strategic Advantage

environment, participate in corporate decisions, and be ready to push back when executives head toward murky ethical or legal waters. Bagley's latest book, Winning Legally: How to Use the Law to Create Value, Marshal Resources, and Manage... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Legal Services

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Health Care - Faculty & Research

Small Business ; Change Management ; Decision Making ; Ethics ; Values and Beliefs ; Health ; Medical Specialties ; Leadership ; Health Industry ; United States Citation Educators Related Ager, David, Lynda M. Applegate, and James... View Details

2019
Book

Love Your Enemies: How Decent People Can Save America from the Culture of Contempt

By: Arthur C. Brooks

To get ahead today, you have to be a jerk, right?

Divisive politicians. Screaming heads on television. Angry campus activists. Twitter trolls. Today in America, there is an “outrage industrial complex” that prospers by setting American against... View Details

Keywords: Political Participation; Political Culture; Moral Sensibility; Government and Politics; Society; United States

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Events - Business History

Entrepreneurial History," co-organized by Geoffrey Jones and Christina Lubinski. Oct 27 27 Oct 2025 Business History Seminar David Smith (Wilfrid Laurier University), "Reimagining the Mid-Century American Corporation: Spirituality, Business View Details

November 2002 (Revised January 2004)
Case

Martha McCaskey

By: Joshua D. Margolis and Bart J. van Dissel

Martha McCaskey, a project leader at a consulting firm, is asked to complete a project at a crucial point in her career. Successful completion of the project would gain McCaskey a promotion and a significant raise. McCaskey, however, cannot see a way to complete the... View Details

Keywords: Ethics; Values and Beliefs; Personal Development and Career; Decision Making; Problems and Challenges; Consulting Industry

02 Mar 2009
Research & Ideas

When Goal Setting Goes Bad

blame the crisis on a set of specific goals. Q: One side effect of goal setting that your team identified is a rise in unethical behavior. Example: Your paper mentions that Bausch & Lomb employees falsified financial statements to meet earnings goals. I know... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

February 2012
Case

Henkel: Building a Winning Culture

By: Robert Simons and Natalie Kindred

This case illustrates a CEO-led organizational transformation driven by stretch goals, performance measurement, and accountability. When Kasper Rorsted became CEO of Henkel, a Germany-based producer of personal care, laundry, and adhesives products, in 2008, he was... View Details

Keywords: Performance Measurement; Performance Appraisals; Human Resource Management; Values; Organizational Transformations; Pay For Performance; Strategy Execution; Values and Beliefs; Work-Life Balance; Organizational Culture; Human Resources; Performance Evaluation; Compensation and Benefits

29 Mar 2022
Book

5 Qualities That Help Companies Thrive for Decades—Even Centuries

in influencing younger generations of leaders. In numerous instances, so did the continuing influence of the ideas of Mahatma Gandhi. “[In India], our protagonists talked, unprompted actually, about a sense of mission for society, the need for View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

14 Jan 2019
Op-Ed

These 4 CEOs Created a New Standard of Leadership

Four titans who defined a new era in business during the past decade recently concluded their terms: PepsiCo’s Indra Nooyi, Unilever’s Paul Polman, Mayo Clinic’s John Noseworthy, and US Bancorp’s Richard Davis. When they became CEOs, the Great Recession of 2008 was... View Details

Keywords: by Bill George; Health; Banking; Food & Beverage; Consumer Products

12 Dec 2023
Cold Call Podcast

Can Sustainability Drive Innovation at Ferrari?

Keywords: Re: Raffaella Sadun; Auto

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Accounting & Management Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

Medical Records on Hospital Utilization Costs" with Luminita Enache, Xue Guo, and Eddie Riedl. Jonas Heese : Winner of the 2021–2022 Glen McLaughlin Prize for Research in Accounting Ethics for “When Executives Pledge Integrity: The Effect... View Details

2022
Chapter

Capitalism and the Environment

By: Geoffrey Jones

Capitalism drove the environmental decimation of the planet. The environment was seen as a free good, while the consequences of dirty industrial and agricultural processes were seen as external to the firm. Public policies largely allowed this to happen, as politicians... View Details

Keywords: History; Environment; Sustainability; Capitalism; Ethics; Business History; Environmental Sustainability; Green Technology; Pollution; Climate Change

September 2016
Case

Truly Human Leadership at Barry-Wehmiller

By: Dylan Minor and Jan Rivkin

The chief executive of Barry-Wehmiller, a large maker of industrial equipment, has resolved to run the company via “truly human leadership” in which “success is measured by the way we touch the lives of people.” With unusual people practices and a distinctive strategy,... View Details

Keywords: Job Cuts and Outsourcing; Values and Beliefs; Organizational Culture; Employees; Business Strategy; Manufacturing Industry

October 1993 (Revised March 2023)
Case

Conflict on a Trading Floor (A)

By: Joseph L. Badaracco Jr. and Jerry Useem

A junior salesperson on FirstAmerica Bank's trading floor is assisting a top salesperson, Linda, on a deal to finance the construction of a new cruise ship for Poseidon Cruise Lines. While the terms of the deal are being worked out, he realizes Linda has taken... View Details

Keywords: Cost vs Benefits; Ethics; Values and Beliefs; Profit; Knowledge Use and Leverage