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- 15 Sep 2011
- Research & Ideas
High Ambition Leadership
Martha Lagace: What is missing in leadership models today? Michael Beer: Most formal leadership models do not incorporate institution-building in their definition of leadership. Leadership is thought of as a means for activating change, employee engagement and... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 02 Jun 2003
- What Do You Think?
What Can Aspiring Leaders Be Taught?
Summing Up An overarching theme of an unusually large number of responses to the June question of "What can aspiring leaders be taught?" was that of context. That is, the suggestion that while it may be late to teach ethics and... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 09 Sep 2024
- HBS Case
McDonald’s and the Post #MeToo Rules of Sex in the Workplace
scandal offers important lessons for all companies, the first being: It’s not OK to look the other way when a leader crosses ethical lines. In the wake of #MeToo, a global campaign against sexual abuse and harassment that started in 2017,... View Details
- 28 Oct 2013
- Research & Ideas
Book Excerpt: The Good Struggle: Responsible Leadership in an Unforgiving World
will change, perhaps dramatically." Commitments are serious pledges. They have real legal and ethical weight, and responsible leaders and their organizations work very hard to make good on them, but these commitments, in a recombinant... View Details
Keywords: by Joseph L. Badaracco
- 25 Aug 2017
- Op-Ed
Op-Ed: After Charlottesville, Where Does a CEO's Responsibility Lie?
Charlottesville—and more generally with regards to the Trump Administration—is actually the simplest one. Leaders have many obligations to others. They also have obligations to themselves, to their own ethics and beliefs. If you’re a... View Details
Keywords: by Gautam Mukunda
- 19 Nov 2007
- Lessons from the Classroom
Teaching The Moral Leader
that some of the hardest leadership decisions are the ones that have moral or ethical stakes. For example, while on the board of a nonprofit, I was approached by an employee—a whistleblower—who accused the program director of manipulating... View Details
- 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
- 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
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
How to Fix Wall Street
policy. But it is also a story of easy money and lazy ethics. Garden- variety offenses such as misleading sales practices were apparently rampant. Perhaps most troubling from an ethical point of view was the seemingly careless, if not... View Details
- 22 Apr 2014
- News
Exploring and defining a vision of responsible business leadership
Harvard Business School Visiting Scholar Karthik Ramanna talks about the School's role in promoting ethical thinking and responsible action by business leaders. (Published April 2014) View Details
- 20 Jun 2019
- Blog Post
What is the MS/MBA Biotechnology: Life Sciences Program? A Q&A with Bill Anderson, Senior Lecturer on Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology
this field. Furthermore, these advances raise a host of ethical issues in terms of diseases targeted, types of therapies, and accessibility. Given the rich experience of translational science in the Harvard system (Cambridge, Longwood,... View Details
- 28 Jul 2014
- Research & Ideas
Eyes Shut: The Consequences of Not Noticing
enough to cover costs of safety improvements. Sridevi Kalavakolanu, a Wal-Mart director of ethical sourcing, told attendees the company wouldn't share the cost, according to Ineke Zeldenrust, international coordinator for the Clean... View Details
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Economics and Global Commerce | Working Knowledge
Economics and Global Commerce Explore global economic trends and challenges, from corporate debt’s role in downturns to trade with China, microfinance's impact, and the economic roots of political shifts. Insights for navigating debt, tariffs, and View Details
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Negotiation - Course Catalog
Identify (often-overlooked) value-creating potential in different situations; Design and execute agreements that unlock maximum value on a sustainable basis; End up with an appropriate share of the value that is negotiated; Understand the vital role of View Details
- March 2011
- Article
Dishonest Deed, Clear Conscience: When Cheating Leads to Moral Disengagement and Motivated Forgetting
By: L. L. Shu, F. Gino and M. H. Bazerman
Keywords: Ethics
Shu, L. L., F. Gino, and M. H. Bazerman. "Dishonest Deed, Clear Conscience: When Cheating Leads to Moral Disengagement and Motivated Forgetting." Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin 37, no. 3 (March 2011): 330–349.
- September 2010
- Article
Lying to Level the Playing Field: Why People May Dishonestly Help or Hurt Others to Create Equity
By: F. Gino and L. Pierce
Keywords: Ethics
Gino, F., and L. Pierce. "Lying to Level the Playing Field: Why People May Dishonestly Help or Hurt Others to Create Equity." Special Issue on Regulating Ethical Failures: Insights from Psychology. Journal of Business Ethics 95, no. 1 (September 2010): 89–103.
- April 2006
- Article
When Does Client Entertainment Cross the Line? HBR Case Commentary
By: Das Narayandas
Keywords: Ethics
Narayandas, Das. "When Does Client Entertainment Cross the Line? HBR Case Commentary." Harvard Business Review 84, no. 4 (April 2006): 42.
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Regulation and Compliance | Working Knowledge
Regulation and Compliance Explore complex global issues in this collection on regulation and compliance, from navigating Asia's authoritarian regimes and political influence on voting to ethical dilemmas in corporate America and solutions... View Details
- 28 Oct 2013
- Research & Ideas
Responsible Leadership in an Unforgiving World
members of a team. Finally, because intense performance pressure and complexity can lead to ethical and legal violations, leaders have to draw bright lines and let employees know they crossing them will bring serious or severe... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Research Brief: A Path to Moral Management
Eugene Soltes (photo by Russ Campbell) Eugene Soltes (photo by Russ Campbell) Making ethical and moral decisions in business can be murky and is difficult to teach in the vacuum of a business school classroom, argues Associate Professor... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers