Morality - Publications - Faculty & Research

03 Aug 2010
First Look

First Look: August 3

performing functions traditionally relegated to government. Yet these potential cost efficiencies from market competition are often offset by poor enforcement quality resulting from moral hazard, which can be particularly onerous when... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

23 May 2019
Book

These Entrepreneurs Take a Pragmatic Approach to Solving Social Problems

In 1908, Harvard Business School’s first dean, Edwin Francis Gay, welcomed the School’s inaugural class of 59 students by saying that HBS was challenged with encouraging its students to have the “intellectual respect for business as a profession, with the social... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Green Technology

17 Jun 2020
News

Toronto Copes with COVID-19 Via Webinars; Alumni Respond to Pandemic in Philippines

earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, and other natural disasters. As such, “helping people through times of crisis is second nature to Filipinos,” says Alicia Morales (AMP 186), co-president of the HBS Club of the Philippines. It’s no... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

November 2008
Supplement

Differences at Work: Sameer (B)

By: Sandra J. Sucher and Rachel Gordon

In Differences at Work: Sameer (B) HBS Case No. 9-609-054, Sameer leaves the firm at the summer's end without confronting his employer about the jokes and wondering whether he made the right choice. Later Sameer's former employer calls him to apologize for their... View Details

Keywords: Decision Choices and Conditions; Moral Sensibility; Resignation and Termination; Working Conditions; Opportunities; Behavior

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September 1997 (Revised May 1998)
Case

Mitsubishi Motor Manufacturing of America: The Quest for a Model Workplace

By: Lynn S. Paine and Dale Coxe

This case details the sexual harassment case brought against Mitsubishi Motor Manufacturing of America by nearly 300 female employees in April 1996. The recommendations developed for the company by former U.S. Labor Secretary Lynn Marten are presented. In response to... View Details

Keywords: Ethics; Moral Sensibility; Groups and Teams; Organizational Culture; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Behavior; Attitudes; Problems and Challenges; Working Conditions; Crime and Corruption; Auto Industry; United States

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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
News

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

11 Feb 2014
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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

10 Sep 2021
Blog Post

Perspectives on Anti-Racism in the HKS Curriculum

pursuit of near limitless personal fortunes, often at someone else’s expense, [unrestrained capitalism] does put a cash value on our moral commitments.” Featured image: The HBS/HKS joint degree cohort on their first day of class at HBS. View Details

01 Mar 2004
News

David Horgan: Iraqi Briefing, 21st November, 2003

but resistance becomes more deadly. Coalition military morale has collapsed. The outcome will be decided by approaching US elections. High economic and political costs force rethinks. Oil drives all. Production averaged about 2 million... View Details

Keywords: Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Government

01 Jun 2014
News

School Ties

School's US Competitiveness Project. Because business leaders have a profound economic and moral stake in making that happen, Rivkin adds, "the most progressive of them are moving into hands-on, long-term partnerships with educators.... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Elementary and Secondary Schools; Educational Services

22 Aug 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 23

two approaches to the question of whether businesses have human rights obligations. The “moral” approach conceives of human rights as antecedently existing basic moral rights. The “institutional” approach starts with contemporary human... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Sep 2010
News

Letters to the Editor

country but of American and foreign businesses as well. My only recommendation to remedy the abuses mentioned is to lift the level of morality of all perpetrators, government and private sector alike. But as citizens, we have no power to... View Details

Keywords: Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Finance

22 Jul 2014
Blog Post

From FIELD to Field, Putting What I’ve Learned at HBS into Practice

simple and clear as they appeared at first glance. The many times I was pushed to justify my stance – from the morality and ethicality of pharmaceutical patents in the developing world to the negotiation tactics I would use with Steve... View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Technology

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Collection Highlights | Baker Library

The Theory of Moral Sentiments , collected works, and miscellaneous writings. Hancock Family Papers Papers, dated 1664-1854, containing business and personal correspondence, financial records, and legal papers of Thomas Hancock, John... View Details

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Harvard Business School

self–determined, moral act in organizing ourselves to address such societal issues of racism, poverty, neglect, exclusion and tokenism," AASU co–founder A. Leroy Willis (MBA '69) wrote. 21 In December 1969, AASU students voiced their... View Details

01 Apr 1997
News

Learning from the Past

After witnessing the civil war that has ravaged his country for almost three decades, an historian makes this observation about the moral decline of the nation: "The ancient simplicity into which honor so largely entered was laughed down... View Details

Keywords: James E. Aisner

01 Sep 2013
News

Faculty Books

with little overt guidance from the hierarchy. Anteby suggests that this model, which tolerates moral complexity, may be one of the few that can adapt and endure. Faculty Research HBS Working Knowledge offers a first look at new thinking... View Details

Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

04 Dec 2012
First Look

First Look: December 4

http://www.innovation-enterprise.com/archives/vol/15/issue/1/article/4941/sustaining-innovation-when-outsourcing-components Ethically Adrift: How Others Pull Our Moral Compass from True North Authors:C. Moore and F. Gino... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

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