Publications

January 1997
Case

HBS Honor Code, The: Laying a Foundation

By: Henry B. Reiling, Amy Burroughs, Jay Haynes and Taggart M Romney

Keywords: Ethics

Article

Too Tired to Tell the Truth: Self-control Resource Depletion and Dishonesty

By: N. Mead, R. F. Baumeister, F. Gino, M. E. Schweitzer and D. Ariely

Keywords: Ethics

14 Nov 2011
Research & Ideas

Creating a Global Business Code

School's required first-year MBA course Leadership and Corporate Accountability, which focuses on the economic, legal, and ethical responsibilities of business leaders. As they studied various business cases, the students were looking for... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

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

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

June 1990 (Revised November 1991)
Case

Morality and Consequences

By: Joseph L. Badaracco Jr.

Consists mainly of excerpts from Utilitarianism by John Stuart Mill. Mill explains what utilitarianism is and gives his rationale for accepting it as a moral philosophy. View Details

Keywords: Ethics; Moral Sensibility; Outcome or Result; Value

Educators

01 Dec 2006
News

Enron’s Legacy

today? The answer is yes and no. The no (or probably not) answer reflects the likelihood that executives of private-equity firms do not, on average, possess any more ethical discipline than leaders of public companies. Maintaining View Details

Keywords: Malcolm S. Salter; Enron; Finance

03 Dec 2012
HBS Case

HBS Cases: Against the Grain

weaknesses that underlie corruption everywhere. As an emerging professional he must also weigh the trust value of the personal relationships he is forming; his own comfort zone for ethical trade-offs; and the inherent uncertainties of... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Food & Beverage

June 1990 (Revised February 1991)
Case

Morality and Integrity

By: Joseph L. Badaracco Jr.

Keywords: Moral Sensibility; Ethics

February 2007
Module Note

The Secret Sharer Summary: Earning Legitimacy

By: Sandra J. Sucher

A summary of the major themes discussed in the tenth class of The Moral Leader (EC curriculum). View Details

Keywords: Ethics; Power and Influence; Moral Sensibility

July–August 2013
Article

Relaxing the Taboo on Telling Our Own Stories: Upholding Professional Distance and Personal Involvement

By: Michel Anteby

Scholars studying organizations are typically discouraged from telling, in print, their own stories. The expression "telling our own stories" is used as a proxy for field research projects that, in their written form, explicitly rely on a scholar's personal involvement... View Details

Keywords: Fieldwork; Research Practiced; Distance; Involvement; Taboo; Practice; Ethics; Education Industry

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September 2012 (Revised August 2013)
Background Note

A Brief History of the U.S. Tobacco Industry Controversy

By: Sandra J. Sucher and Henry McGee

This history of the U.S. tobacco controversy is a reading for a class on "The Insider," a film about whistleblowing in the U.S. tobacco industry, taught in the course, The Moral Leader. View Details

Keywords: Leadership; Ethics; United States

Educators

January 1998
Case

Sideco Americana S.A. (B)

By: Lynn S. Paine and Harold F. Hogan Jr

Supplements the (A) case. View Details

Keywords: Change; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Culture; Values and Beliefs; Moral Sensibility; Ethics; Argentina

March 2014 (Revised October 2014)
Teaching Note

ISS A/S: The Buyout

By: Lucy White and Carsten Bienz

Provides the opportunity to value a leveraged buyout; and to examine the nature and extent of a company's responsibilities to its bondholders. Here, the context is a "going private" transaction in Europe, where the financing plan called for the addition to the... View Details

Keywords: LBO; Private Equity; Contracts; Global Business; International Business; Finance; Ethics; Law; Service Industry; Europe