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- 17 Aug 2021
- Research & Ideas
Can Autonomous Vehicles Drive with Common Sense?
introduction of penicillin or vaccines. “So many people are injured and dying on the roads every year, and we are allowing that to happen,” says De Freitas. “That’s an ethical choice.” "People want to be able to say, it’s behaving in a... View Details
- Blog
Is AI Coming for Your Job?
these tasks will enable knowledge workers to concentrate on value-adding activities where human expertise is indispensable, such as interpreting context and nuance, exercising emotional intelligence, addressing moral and ethical... View Details
- 12 Mar 2014
- Lessons from the Classroom
Managing the Family Business: Firing the CEO
something has gone very wrong and the organization could be in trouble. It implies that the person was a bad choice to begin with, which impugns the judgment of those who hired the CEO. And there's also the personal confrontation that... View Details
- 01 Feb 2010
- Research & Ideas
The ‘Luxury Prime’: How Luxury Changes People
activate a social norm that it is appropriate to pursue interests beyond a basic comfort level, even at the expense of others. It may be this activated social norm affects people's judgment and decision-making. Alternatively, exposure to... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
- 11 May 2009
- Research & Ideas
The IT Leader’s Hero Quest
twentieth-century senior executives and twenty-first-century senior executives. Much more frequently, today's senior executives are confronted with situations with multiple uncertainties, requiring collaboration and judgment from experts... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
How to Fix Wall Street
organizations. Admittedly, good judgment and sound decision-making are not typically thought of in ethical terms. In a free society, individuals are at liberty to make thoughtless, uninformed, and even... View Details
- 25 Aug 2017
- Op-Ed
Op-Ed: After Charlottesville, Where Does a CEO's Responsibility Lie?
Leaders of publicly held companies are required to exercise their best judgment in pursuit of the interests of the business, and this gives them enormous flexibility to make whatever choice they see fit. This a test that cannot be... View Details
Keywords: by Gautam Mukunda
- July 2011 (Revised November 2012)
- Case
Ultimate Fighting Championship: License to Operate (A)
By: George Serafeim and Kyle Welch
The case describes the challenges that Ultimate Fighting Championship faced as a result of regulatory opposition and loss of the license to operate. The genesis of the business idea, the subsequent growth, and the fall of the UFC are described. The case concludes with... View Details
Keywords: Governance Compliance; Ethics; Judgments; Investment; Sports Industry; Entertainment and Recreation Industry
Serafeim, George, and Kyle Welch. "Ultimate Fighting Championship: License to Operate (A)." Harvard Business School Case 112-011, July 2011. (Revised November 2012.)
- 16 Mar 2003
- Research & Ideas
At the Center of Corporate Scandal Where Do We Go From Here?
year deeply disturbing. I am appalled at the instances of greed and corporate wrongdoing uncovered at firms and organizations once held up as paragons of success, and I am dismayed to see the destructive effect these instances of corruption and View Details
Keywords: by Kim B. Clark
- 21 Nov 2017
- News
Rushing Yards
it’s clear that Howard’s earliest influencers were his parents, who grew up the children of sharecroppers yet both graduated from college. That same work ethic and love of education would take Howard to Oxford University as a Rhodes... View Details
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Joe Badaracco
School, I started thinking about teaching.” Badaracco earned his DBA at HBS in 1981 and joined the faculty that same year. Today, he’s the John Shad Professor of Business Ethics and a widely respected author and expert on business View Details
- August 2017
- Case
Wake Up Call
By: David G. Fubini and Christine Snively
In 1993, three consultants at different stages in their careers must decide how to respond to what they considered to be unethical behavior from a partner at their firm. They each considered the potential consequences of reporting a senior colleague and the impact it... View Details
Fubini, David G., and Christine Snively. "Wake Up Call." Harvard Business School Case 418-001, August 2017.
- August 1981
- Case
West Point: The Cheating Incident (C)
An outline of the Secretary of the Army's decision in the matter of the 1976 cheating scandal at West Point. View Details
Keywords: Higher Education; Ethics; Judgments; Government Administration; Public Administration Industry; Education Industry
Schlesinger, Leonard A. "West Point: The Cheating Incident (C)." Harvard Business School Case 482-006, August 1981.
- September 2012 (Revised March 2013)
- Teaching Note
Ultimate Fighting Championship: License to Operate (A) & (B) (TN)
By: George Serafeim
The case describes the challenges that Ultimate Fighting Championship faced as a result of regulatory opposition and loss of the license to operate. The genesis of the business idea, the subsequent growth, and the fall of the UFC are described. The case concludes with... View Details
- 24 Nov 2009
- First Look
First Look: Nov. 24
Processes (in press) Abstract People often make judgments about the ethicality of others' behaviors and then decide how harshly to punish such behaviors. When they make these View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 10 Dec 2012
- Research & Ideas
Why We Blab Our Intimate Secrets on Facebook
unprofessional, it featured red font and a pixelated cartoon devil. Other participants received a deliberately professional-looking survey titled "Carnegie Mellon University Executive Council Survey on Ethical Behaviors," which sported... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 02 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 3, 2008
Seemingly Irrelevant Factors Influence Judgment of (Un)ethical Behavior Authors:Francesca Gino, Lisa L. Shu, Max H. Bazerman Abstract People often make judgments about the View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Lesson from the Fall
illegal, gaming of society’s rules that led to Enron’s collapse. The answer points to three persis-tent tasks of corporate governance: the avoidance of perverse incentives for executives, the strengthening of board oversight, and the reinforcement of View Details
- 19 Jul 2011
- Research & Ideas
Rupert Murdoch and the Seeds of Moral Hazard
illegally. The 1993 Council of Europe's Resolution 1003 on the ethics of journalism clearly states that "In the journalist's profession the end does not justify the means; therefore information must be obtained by legal and View Details
- 2010
- Working Paper
Conveniently Upset: Avoiding Altruism by Distorting Beliefs about Others
By: Rafael Di Tella and Ricardo Perez-Truglia
In this paper we present the results from a "corruption game" (a dictator game modified so that the second player can accept a side payment that reduces the overall size of the pie). Dictators (silently) treated to have the possibility of taking a larger proportion of... View Details
Keywords: Decision Choices and Conditions; Judgments; Fairness; Values and Beliefs; Game Theory; Personal Characteristics
Di Tella, Rafael, and Ricardo Perez-Truglia. "Conveniently Upset: Avoiding Altruism by Distorting Beliefs about Others." NBER Working Paper Series, No. 16645, December 2010.