Publications

July 2024 (Revised December 2024)
Case

Compass Ethics: Governing Through Ethical Principles at WeCorp Industries

By: Elisabeth Kempf and Jesse M. Shapiro

Andrew Hill is Chief Information Officer at WeCorp, a UK-based defense technology startup specializing in drone technology. WeCorp faces decisions about international licensing and AI integration in its drones. In partnership with Compass Ethics, Hill aims to establish... View Details

Keywords: Business Startups; Decision Making; Ethics; Entrepreneurial Finance; AI and Machine Learning; Technology Industry; United Kingdom

Educators

06 May 2014
News

Harvard Historian Nancy Koehn Asks If The Steve Jobs Work Ethic Was One Without Ethics

01 Jun 2004
News

An Ethical Fitness Quiz for Negotiators

down to craft a deal or settle a dispute,” says Wheeler. “Your character is one thing you shouldn’t make up as you go along.” Wheeler presents three cases that test ethical negotiating behavior. The “steal deal” scenario involves an... View Details

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

04 Jan 2013
News

B-school curriculum is now covering legal, ethical issues too

Other Unpublished Work

Building the Business Case for Ethics

By: Joshua D. Margolis, James Walsh and Dean Krehmeyer

Keywords: Ethics

fall 1986
Article

An Inquiry on Ethics and Values

By: L. S. Paine

Keywords: Ethics; Values and Beliefs

01 Oct 2021
News

Helping Leaders Chart an Ethical Path

Cedar Environmental that does not rely on municipal waste management contracts. Hsieh hopes the students will also find their own ethical path. “This case and this course are an opportunity for students to reflect on their own commitments... View Details

July 1984 (Revised June 1985)
Background Note

Legal and Ethical Aspects of Marketing

By: Benson P. Shapiro

Keywords: Marketing; Ethics; Law

August 2018 (Revised April 2023)
Case

Facebook—Can Ethics Scale in the Digital Age?

By: George A. Riedel and Carin-Isabel Knoop

Since its founding in 2004, Facebook has built a phenomenally successful business at global scale to become the fifth most valuable public company in the world. The revelation of Cambridge Analytica events in March 2018, where 78 million users' information was leaked... View Details

Keywords: Facebook; Ethics; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Trust; Business Model; Corporate Accountability; Social Media

Educators

April 2011
Article

Ethical Breakdowns: Good People often Let Bad Things Happen. Why?

By: Max H. Bazerman and Ann E. Tenbrunsel

Companies are spending a great deal of time and money to install codes of ethics, ethics training, compliance programs, and in-house watchdogs. If these efforts worked, the money would be well spent. But unethical behavior appears to be on the rise. The authors observe... View Details

Keywords: Ethics; Moral Sensibility; Corporate Accountability; Corporate Governance; Leadership; Behavior; Conflict of Interests

Research Summary

Ethics & Politics of Emerging Technologies

In this stream of research, my collaborators and I investigate the ethical, political, and social implications of computational technologies.

In this work, I often collaborate with academic colleagues in computer science by helping to... View Details

Keywords: Artificial Intelligence; Algorithms; Computational Social Science

September 1983
Background Note

Note on Professional Ethics in Consulting

22 Oct 2013
News

Why business schools need business ethics

10 May 2016
News

How To Teach Ethics To Algorithms

03 May 2022
Video

The Enduring Nature of Business Ethics

February 1990
Background Note

Information Technology in Organizations: Emerging Issues in Ethics and Policy

Introduces a framework for identifying and analyzing the ethical and policy issues triggered by the various capabilities of information technology (IT). Ten IT capabilities are defined (access, capture, speed, permanence/storage. duplication, tracking, monitoring, data... View Details

Keywords: Rights; Information Technology; Ethics; Organizations; Policy

Educators

September 1992 (Revised August 2004)
Supplement

Martin Marietta: Managing Corporate Ethics (C2)

By: Lynn S. Paine

A jury must decide whether an employee, discharged for misusing company time and filling out false time cards for work on U.S. government contracts, has been wrongfully terminated. Designed to show how the human resource manager's perspective on employee discipline... View Details

Keywords: Ethics; Governance Compliance; Policy; Resignation and Termination; Perspective