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- 27 Feb 2006
- Research & Ideas
Corporate Values and Employee Cynicism
At Maverick, employees' morale had gone down, but no one had quit. In my conversations with the CEO, he was eager to learn how employees were feeling about the company, but did not express awareness of this problem. Q: In this firm or... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Spirit at Work: The Search for Deeper Meaning in the Workplace
Jr., who teaches the MBA elective The Business World: Moral and Spiritual Inquiry Through Literature, adds, "What we're seeing is an increasingly felt need for people to integrate the spiritual dimension of their lives into what they... View Details
Keywords: by Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 21 Dec 2009
- Research & Ideas
Good Banks, Bad Banks, and Government’s Role as Fixer
the primary regulator of every systemically risky institution is just not practical. That means it would need to be an expert on money market funds, hedge funds, and life insurance companies as well as banks. Second, if you identify an institution as systemically... View Details
- 28 Jun 2024
- News
Honoring Leadership in New York; PRIDE Alumni Share HBS Stories
event,” says Stone. “It was gratifying that the event brought the Harvard Business School community together to remind us what moral courage and moral clarity around leadership is. We’ve only given the... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 23 May 2019
- Book
These Entrepreneurs Take a Pragmatic Approach to Solving Social Problems
pragmatic approach to figuring out their own best ways to contribute. “Our people feel a moral imperative to act, but they don’t go out and try to solve world hunger,” he says. “They identify a problem where they think their skills and... View Details
- October 2014
- Case
Teckentrup: A Door to Managing Difference
By: Clayton Rose, Jerome Lenhardt and Daniela Beyersdorfer
For Kai Teckentrup, the owner and co-CEO of the German "Mittelstand" door manufacturer Teckentrup, balancing competitive pressures, demographic realities and values were at the heart of the diversity program that he had started and championed at the company. Beyond... View Details
Keywords: Diversity Management; Corporate Values; Competitiveness; Demographics; Change Management; Transformation; Diversity; Ethnicity; Gender; Literacy; Nationality; Race; Residency; Corporate Accountability; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Organizational Culture; Economic Growth; Fairness; Moral Sensibility; Values and Beliefs; Immigration; Employee Relationship Management; Civil Society or Community; Manufacturing Industry; Construction Industry; Consumer Products Industry; Europe; Germany; Russia; Turkey
Rose, Clayton, Jerome Lenhardt, and Daniela Beyersdorfer. "Teckentrup: A Door to Managing Difference." Harvard Business School Case 315-016, October 2014.
- 10 Apr 2012
- First Look
First Look: April 10
principle, be instantly acquired, clarity may take time to develop and may interact with credibility in complex ways so that relational contracts may often be difficult to build. Vicarious Dishonesty: When Psychological Closeness Creates Distance from One's View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- Profile
Anthony Tan
countries and has its own sights on the Asian marketplace. “We will do whatever it takes to ensure that we maintain our leadership in an ethical and moral way,” Tan said when the Softbank investment was announced. “It’s... View Details
- 11 Jun 2014
- News
The First Five Years: Brittani Rettig (MBA 2010)
and brought us together in a sort of familial way. Business leadership is more than generating a profit; it is adding value to the lives of others. HBS taught me how to thoroughly evaluate business purpose from both a moral and monetary... View Details
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Books
practices, such as the use of outsider-only boards. Acknowledging the difficulty of teaching ethics in a culture that increasingly views morality as private and relativistic, Mills still advocates a role for business schools in raising... View Details
- 06 Mar 2006
- What Do You Think?
The China Dilemma for U.S. Firms: Comply, Resist, or Leave?
not see any threat or moral hazard when the service provider makes clear to its customer the potential threat of use or sharing of the information by the intelligence or other authorities. Forewarned is forearmed. . . . As in Buddhist... View Details
- 02 Jan 2019
- News
Not Waiting for Progress
those skills, he says, gave him “the general management training and opportunities I knew I needed to pursue a strong leadership career in business.” Along with lifelong ties to classmates, he says courses such as The Moral Leader, taught... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
An Authentic Leader
committed to a purpose or a mission; people who live by their values every day and who know the true north of their moral compass. They lead with the discipline and commitment to get great results for all their stakeholders: their... View Details
- Web
Faculty Spotlight: HBS Racial Equity Fellow Professor Ivuoma N. Onyeador - Blog: RGE Report
timely policy issues. Professor Onyeador illustrates that emotional engagement, particularly anger, and outrage about moral injustices , can catalyze mass movements. Leaders need not take a public stance on a high-profile issue (though... View Details
- 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
- July – August 2008
- Article
When Virtue Is a Vice
By: Anat Keinan and Ran Kivetz
Choosing duty over pleasure today can cause regret down the road—whereas regret over the reverse is fleeting. Marketers of luxury products and services should consider prompting customers to predict their future feelings about choices made now. View Details
Keywords: Decision Choices and Conditions; Forecasting and Prediction; Moral Sensibility; Marketing Strategy; Consumer Behavior; Emotions; Luxury
Keinan, Anat, and Ran Kivetz. "When Virtue Is a Vice." HBS Centennial Issue Harvard Business Review 86, nos. 7/8 (July–August 2008): 22.
- 24 May 2011
- First Look
First Look: May 24
Dishonest Self-Reports Authors:Lisa L. Shu, Nina Mazar, Francesca Gino, Dan Ariely, and Max H. Bazerman Abstract Many business and governmental interactions are based upon trust with the assumption that all actors generally comply with social and View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Mar 2011
- First Look
First Look: March 22
behave dishonestly (Study 1), and this relationship was mediated by impaired moral awareness (Study 2). Unlike individuals with moderate or low moral identity, individuals high in View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- January 2014 (Revised August 2014)
- Case
The Kursk Submarine Rescue Mission
By: Anette Mikes
The Kursk, a Russian nuclear-powered submarine sank in the relatively shallow waters of the Barents Sea in August 2000, during a naval exercise. Numerous survivors were reported to be awaiting rescue, and within a week, an international rescue party gathered at the... View Details
Keywords: Risk Management; Moral Sensibility; Leadership; Organizational Structure; Crisis Management; Failure; Cooperation; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Norway; United Kingdom; Russia
Mikes, Anette. "The Kursk Submarine Rescue Mission." Harvard Business School Case 114-046, January 2014. (Revised August 2014.)
- 20 Apr 2016
- Research & Ideas
When CEOs Become Activists
want to tell the academy that we think CEO activism is a very interesting phenomenon well worth studying, and we think there are lots of interesting questions to explore. So we hope this is the first word rather than the last word in management research around this... View Details