Ethical Reasoning - Publications - Faculty & Research

17 Jan 2023
Book

Good Companies Commit Crimes, But Great Leaders Can Prevent Them

In a fraught ethics and legal climate, leaders need to know how to steer clear of trouble more than ever. Corporate Criminal Investigations and Prosecutions, released in September, offers a comprehensive resource on everything from the... View Details

Keywords: by Lane Lambert

27 Jul 2020
Book

Reflection: The Pause That Brings Peace and Productivity

not even be sure how. Yet reflection is important; it gives us a chance to pause and figure out what really matters, especially when struggling with a difficult issue professionally or personally, says Joseph Badaracco, the John Shad Professor of Business View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

Article

Effects of Description of Options on Parental Perinatal Decision-Making

By: Marlyse F. Haward, Leslie K. John, John M. Lorenz and Baruch Fischhoff

Objective: To examine whether parents' delivery room management decisions for extremely preterm infants are influenced by (a) the degree of detail with which options-comfort care (CC) or intensive care (IC)-are presented or (b) their order of presentation. Methods: 309... View Details

Keywords: Decision Making; Values and Beliefs; Personal Characteristics; Attitudes; Motivation and Incentives; Family and Family Relationships; Health Care and Treatment

Citation

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24 Dec 2013
First Look

First Look: December 24

could expect to receive and, if the startup did fail, what impact would that have on her career and reputation? Lopez was also starting to worry about the ethical implications of Plámo's style of entrepreneurship. She worried that by... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

01 Feb 2001
News

What Makes a Good Leader

good leader? Name: Joseph Badaracco, John Shad Professor of Business Ethics Course head: Leadership, Values, and Decision Making module Developed and teaches: The Moral Leader, MBA elective Title of next book: Quiet Moral Leadership On... View Details

Keywords: Management

07 Jul 2021
Book

Good News for Disgraced Companies: You Can Regain Trust

sustainability. He sounded great! He was well versed in the vocabulary and actions of the fight to save the environment, using terms like “clean energy” and “going green,” and discussed how his company was committed to sustainability goals. We nodded along happily... View Details

Keywords: by Lane Lambert

18 May 2016
Research & Ideas

Unethical Amnesia: Why We Tend to Forget Our Own Bad Behavior

describing either ethical or unethical behavior (the main character either did or didn’t cheat on an exam), and presented the story from either a first-person or third-person perspective. Four days later, the participants reported the... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

Web

Curriculum - Business & Environment

that modern society was having on the environment, Ashley Telkes had always tried to be cognizant of her own impact on the environment and to take reasonable steps to mitigate her own effects. Having already implemented a number of... View Details

17 Dec 2018
Research & Ideas

Women Receive Harsher Punishment at Work Than Men

severity of their misconduct, giving their bosses a reason for treating them differently. When they dug deeper, however, they found the exact opposite. Men are more likely to be repeat offenders, and when they do commit misconduct, the... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Financial Services

12 Aug 2020
Research & Ideas

Why Investors Often Lose When They Sue Their Financial Adviser

Years of bull market bliss gave brokerage clients few reasons to open their account statements—until March. Within one month, stocks in the United States notched their biggest one-day losses—and gains—as mounting fears about COVID-19’s... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Financial Services

17 Sep 2021
Research & Ideas

The Trial of Elizabeth Holmes: Visionary, Criminal, or Both?

are interpreted. Most critically, the jury has to evaluate not on a preponderance of evidence, but whether the charges against her are made beyond a reasonable doubt. You read “Bad Blood” and it’s like, why are they even going to trial?... View Details

Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette; Biotechnology; Technology; Medical Devices & Supplies

15 Dec 2023
News

The Musts of 2023

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. At fall reunions, we set up shop on campus and asked alumni about what media moved them this year. What changed their minds or their hearts. And their answers ran... View Details

12 Jul 2004
Research & Ideas

Enron’s Lessons for Managers

collapsed on December 2, 2001 it destroyed over $60 billion in market value, he said. Second, its accounting fraud was "massive." Reasonable men and women might quibble over some of the finer points in accounting, but in FY... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

27 Feb 2017
Research & Ideas

Reputation is Vital to Survival in Turbulent Markets

notions of prominence, perceived quality, and resilience. The first two elements, prominence and perceived quality, you can find as being important in developed as well as emerging economies. The reason we think resilience is important to... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

01 Jun 2015
Research & Ideas

The Surprising Benefits of Oversharing

willing to overlook an honest person's bad behavior." “There may be completely innocuous reasons someone may wish to keep personal information private” The implication may be that people overcompensate in hiding bad information about... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

21 Feb 2005
Op-Ed

Is Business Management a Profession?

reason that the issue of trust arises is that these individuals are expected to exercise judgment—based on specialized knowledge and methods of analysis that they alone are thought to possess—in areas in which their decisions affect the... View Details

Keywords: by Rakesh Khurana, Nitin Nohria & Daniel Penrice

25 Sep 2019
Research & Ideas

The Economic Cost of Physician Burnout

reason to deal with the issue of doctor burnout. “Organizations have an ethical imperative to take care of their employees,” Goh says. And doing so could help take care of patients as well by reducing... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Health

31 Oct 2011
Research & Ideas

The Most Powerful Workplace Motivator

these hypotheses with HBS colleague and mentor Max Bazerman, a leading ethics scholar, who had a different theory. "Max told me, 'I'll bet people are doing this because they feel bad that their papers aren't being downloaded as much as... View Details