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Educators

27 Jan 2009
First Look

First Look: January 27, 2009

is found when the regression is run on data generated by a calibrated version of our theoretical model. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-080.pdf Dirty Work, Clean Hands: The Moral Psychology of Indirect Agency... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

December 2003
Article

Social Issues in Management: Our Lost Cause Found

By: James P. Walsh, Klaus Weber and Joshua D. Margolis

Keywords: Social Issues; Management

September 2008
Case

Samoa Tala

By: Joshua D. Coval, Bhagwan Chowdhry and Konark Saxena

This case examines currency risks faced by Microfinance Institutions, and evaluates strategies to hedge them in countries with pegged currency regimes and no derivatives markets. An MFI based in Western Samoa borrows in different currencies like the US dollar and the... View Details

Keywords: Cash Flow; Currency Exchange Rate; Microfinance; Risk and Uncertainty; Financial Services Industry; Samoa

Educators

Article

Professionalism, Fiduciary Duty, and Health-Related Business Leadership

Expanding fiduciary duty to leaders of health-related businesses can help leaders meet the challenges of caring for not only the corporation and shareholders but also the patients and medical professionals. How should leaders of health-related businesses weigh the... View Details

June 2003
Compilation

George McClelland at KSR: Planning the First Week

Supplement to (9-403-163). View Details

Keywords: Computer Industry; Technology Industry

January 2021
Article

Veil-of-Ignorance Reasoning Mitigates Self-Serving Bias in Resource Allocation During the COVID-19 Crisis

By: Karen Huang, Regan Bernhard, Netta Barak-Corren, Max Bazerman and Joshua D. Greene

The COVID-19 crisis has forced healthcare professionals to make tragic decisions concerning which patients to save. Furthermore, the COVID-19 crisis has foregrounded the influence of self-serving bias in debates on how to allocate scarce resources. A utilitarian... View Details

Keywords: Self-serving Bias; Procedural Justice; Bioethics; COVID-19; Fairness; Health Pandemics; Resource Allocation; Decision Making

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July 1998
Article

Psychological Pragmatism and the Imperative of Aims: A New Approach for Business Ethics

Keywords: Ethics; Practice

1995
Article

Dignity and Downsizing

Keywords: Job Cuts and Outsourcing

October 2024
Supplement

Fritidsresor: Johan Lundgren

March 2009
Teaching Note

Fritidsresor Under Pressure (TN) (A), (B), (C)

Teaching Note for [407007, 407008 and 407009]. View Details

Keywords: Problems and Challenges; Air Transportation Industry; Service Industry

March 2009
Teaching Note

Antegren: A Beacon of Hope (TN)

Teaching Note for [408025], [408026], [408027], and [408028]. View Details

Keywords: Ethics; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Decision Choices and Conditions; Crisis Management; Biotechnology Industry; Pharmaceutical Industry

February 2004 (Revised May 2005)
Supplement

Confronting a Necessary Evil: The Firing of Alex Robins (B)

A manager recounts his experience firing the person he was asked to replace and reflects on the challenges of the experience. Teaching Purpose: To role-play and reflect on tasks that entail harming other people to fulfill one's responsibility. View Details

Keywords: Resignation and Termination

July 2003
Supplement

George McClelland at KSR-2003

2004
Chapter

Responsibility, Inconsistency, and the Paradoxes of Morality in Human Nature: de Waal's Window into Business Ethics

Keywords: Ethics

2022
Chapter

Redirecting Rawlsian Reasoning Toward the Greater Good

By: Joshua D. Greene, Karen Huang and Max Bazerman

In A Theory of Justice, John Rawls employed the ‘veil of Ignorance’ as a moral reasoning device designed to promote impartial thinking. By imagining the choices of decision-makers who are blind to biasing information, one might see more clearly the organizing... View Details

Keywords: Moral Sensibility; Judgments; Prejudice and Bias; Decision Making