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  • 08 Dec 2009
  • First Look

First Look: Dec. 8

co-authors, Werner Erhard and Steve Zaffron, and I distinguish integrity from morality and ethics in the following way. Integrity in our model is honoring your word. As such, integrity is a purely positive phenomenon. It has nothing to do... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 22 Mar 2011
  • First Look

First Look: March 22

behave dishonestly (Study 1), and this relationship was mediated by impaired moral awareness (Study 2). Unlike individuals with moderate or low moral identity, individuals high in View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 12 May 2009
  • First Look

First Look: May 12, 2009

  Working PapersDishonest Deed, Clear Conscience: Self-Preservation through Moral Disengagement and Motivated Forgetting (revised) Authors:Lisa Lixin Shu, Francesca Gino, and Max H. Bazerman Abstract People routinely engage in dishonest... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 16 Nov 2010
  • First Look

First Look: November 16, 2010

Conflict Management Research (forthcoming) Abstract Routine and persistent acts of dishonesty prevail in everyday life, yet most people resist shining a critical moral light on their own behavior, thereby... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 14 Apr 2014
  • Research & Ideas

Difficulties for Women Bridging Racial, Generational, and Global Divides

the participants offered the most negative assessments for the conflicts involving Sarah and Anna—both in terms of the likelihood that they could repair their relationship, and the likelihood that their argument would hurt workplace View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 01 Sep 2020
  • Blog Post

6 Ways to Support COVID-Weary Employees

to contagious presenteeism: Remove financial incentives for it by providing paid sick leave, audit work designs for features that evoke undue pressure for attendance, and champion an organizational culture that fosters pro-health attitudes. Show gratitude and... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
  • 04 Dec 2012
  • First Look

First Look: December 4

severity of the coordination problem faced by users. Read the paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=38648 The Costs of Ambient Cultural Disharmony: Indirect Intercultural Conflicts in Social Environment Undermine... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 09 Sep 2024
  • HBS Case

McDonald’s and the Post #MeToo Rules of Sex in the Workplace

job and getting banned from serving as an executive or director at any other company for five years. This consensual workplace relationship—forbidden under the iconic fast-food chain’s fraternization policy because of potential conflicts... View Details
Keywords: by Avery Forman; Food & Beverage
  • 01 Dec 2004
  • News

One-on-One with William H. Donaldson

experienced. Why did the SEC override strong industry opposition and require mutual-fund boards to appoint independent chairmen? The commission felt, and I strongly agree, that there’s an unacceptable conflict of interest when the... View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson; Finance; Administration of Economic Programs; Government
  • 13 Aug 2020
  • Research & Ideas

6 Ways to Support COVID-Weary Employees

pro-health attitudes. Show gratitude and facilitate social time to boost morale Whillans: Recent studies have found links between employee happiness and organizational outcomes, such as productivity, absenteeism, and motivation. However,... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • December 2021
  • Case

Slice Labs: Creating a Fraud-free Online Insurance Platform

By: Amit Goldenberg, Max Bazerman and Ruth Page
"Slice Labs: Creating a Fraud-Free Online Insurance Platform" engages students with the challenge of how to influence other parties to not engage in fraud in the context of digital insurance. The case is centered around Slice, a digital insurance company that was... View Details
Keywords: Technology; Insurance; Digitization; Honesty; Negotiation; Fraud; Ethics; Negotiation Process; Negotiation Tactics; Negotiation Types; Social Psychology; Conflict and Resolution; Trust; Fairness; Moral Sensibility; Values and Beliefs; Crime and Corruption; Insurance Industry; Technology Industry; United States; Canada
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  • 30 Oct 2012
  • First Look

First Look: October 30

onerous when outsourcing the monitoring and enforcement of government regulation. In this paper, we argue that the considerable moral hazard associated with private regulatory monitoring can be mitigated by understanding View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 11 Jan 2016
  • Research & Ideas

Is Group Loyalty a Force for Good or Evil?

itself,” he says. “When we act out of a duty to loyalty we feel like our actions are ethical or moral even if they would conflict with what society prescribes as ethical.” Back at Harvard, Bazerman talked to... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • 19 Jul 2004
  • Research & Ideas

Why Innovations Sit on the Shelf

Several managers praised this as an excellent idea, but it was never implemented. It was apparent that conflicts between the sales department and the distribution department were to blame—but no one was willing to confront the View Details
Keywords: by Michael Beer, Russell Eisenstat & Derek Schrader
  • 01 Oct 2001
  • News

Making a World of Difference

their father ran successful textile and real estate businesses. Both parents believed in the importance of moral values, and in the fourth grade, the twins began studying at the Ethical Culture Society's Fieldston School. "Each week we'd... View Details
Keywords: Young, Susan; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management
  • 01 Feb 2001
  • News

Q&A - Dirty Money: Raymond Baker Explores the Free Market's Demimonde

Department estimates that 99.9 percent of the criminal money presented for deposit in the United States is accepted into secure accounts. It's a sad fact, but American banks, under an umbrella of conflicting American laws and policies,... View Details
Keywords: Finance; Government
  • 05 Jul 2004
  • What Do You Think?

Work-Life: Is Productivity in the Balance?

the flexibility that workers not only want but must have if they're going to handle their dual responsibilities." David Lovelace asserts that it is "clear that employees with higher morale will be more productive. An... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 10 Sep 2001
  • Research & Ideas

The Negotiator’s Secret: More Than Merely Effective

situation. Extensive research has documented an unconscious mechanism that enhances one's own side, "portraying it as more talented, honest, and morally upright," while simultaneously vilifying the opposition. This often leads... View Details
Keywords: by James K. Sebenius
  • 27 Dec 2015
  • Research & Ideas

The Most Popular Stories and Research Papers of 2015

touched controversial issues including gender equality and the conflicting emotions experienced both by women who work and those who stay home to raise families. Other popular stories, listed below, looked at such diverse topics as the... View Details
  • 03 Nov 2015
  • First Look

November 3, 2015

November 2015 Quarterly Journal of Economics Behavioral Hazard in Health Insurance By: Baicker, Katherine, Sendhil Mullainathan, and Joshua Schwartzstein Abstract—A fundamental implication of standard moral hazard models is overuse of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne