Ethics - Publications - Faculty & Research

September 2012 (Revised August 2013)
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A Brief History of the U.S. Tobacco Industry Controversy

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

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Social Responsibility and Sustainability | Working Knowledge

decarbonization strategies. Learn how social movements influence public opinion, how unrealistic managerial expectations can lead to ethical compromises, and why building a climate-conscious ecosystem is essential. These articles provide... View Details

November 1981
Case

Questionable Payments Abroad: Gulf in Italy

By: Christopher A. Bartlett

Gulf Oil in Italy was confronted by the need to increase the authorized capacity at a refinery in the face of substantial opposition. Raises the issue of their use of "facilitating gratuities" to minor officials, payments to influence news reports, and the employment... View Details

Keywords: Ethics; Energy Industry; Mining Industry; Italy

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September 1996
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HBS Honor Code, The: A Delicate Experiment?

By: Henry B. Reiling, Susan Emery, Myer Joy and Joe Sigelman

Keywords: Ethics

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16 Oct 2002
Keynote Speech

Value Shift: The Need for a New Corporate Ethic." Speaker. "Harvard Institute for Learning in Retirement

By: Lynn S. Paine

Keywords: Ethics

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11 Jul 2017
News

The Right Thing to Do

Playing by the Rules, Ethics at Work, a new series of video case studies of business ethics, aims to teach people that there’s a direct link between morality and the bottom line. Joe Badaracco, the John Shad Professor of Business View Details

Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Finance; Mining (except Oil and Gas); Mining

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Data and Technology | Working Knowledge

Data and Technology Our research on Data and Technology explores how AI, digital tools, and platform collaboration are reshaping industries and society. From enhancing social outcomes to addressing ethical challenges, we investigate the... View Details

17 May 2004
Research & Ideas

Why We Don’t Study Corporate Responsibility

this information would help managers better understand their big-picture role and perhaps lead to more ethical conduct in business. Manda Salls: What did you learn from your look at organizational research, and how has this research... View Details

Keywords: by Manda Salls

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Origins of the Belief in Good True Selves

By: Julian De Freitas, Mina Cikara, Igor Grossman and Rebecca Schlegel

Despite differences in beliefs about the self across cultures and relevant individual differences, recent evidence suggests that people universally believe in a ‘true self’ that is morally good. We propose that this belief arises from a general tendency: psychological... View Details

Keywords: Self; True Self; Psychological Essentialism; Values and Beliefs; Moral Sensibility

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12 Nov 2003
Lecture

Where Morals and Profits Meet: The Corporate Value Shift." Presenter. "CHCA Executive Dialogue

By: Lynn S. Paine

Keywords: Values and Beliefs; For-Profit Firms; Ethics

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15 Apr 2011
News

Students Hear Wall St. Critics

cited the FCIC’s January report that found failures in financial regulations and enforcement, corporate governance, risk management, and accountability and ethics at all levels. Overarching this, Angelides said, is a climate in which “too... View Details

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

01 Mar 2011
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Faculty Books

how we act unethically without meaning to. They demonstrate how ethical standards shift, how we neglect to notice and act on the unethical behavior of others, and how compliance initiatives can actually promote unethical behavior.... View Details

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

November 26, 2019
Article

Veil-of-Ignorance Reasoning Favors the Greater Good

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

The “veil of ignorance” is a moral reasoning device designed to promote impartial decision-making by denying decision-makers access to potentially biasing information about who will benefit most or least from the available options. Veil-of-ignorance reasoning was... View Details

Keywords: Policy Making; Procedural Justice; Ethics; Decision Making; Policy; Fairness

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Wealth and Justice: The Morality of Democratic Capitalism

By: Peter Wehner and Arthur C. Brooks

Popular opinion would have us believe that America's free market system is driven by greed and materialism, resulting in gross inequalities of wealth, destruction of the environment, and other social ills. Even proponents of capitalism often refer to the free market as... View Details

Keywords: Capitalism; Economic Systems; Ethics; Moral Sensibility

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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

Keywords: by Avery Forman; Food & Beverage