Business Ethics - Publications - Faculty & Research

25 Aug 2022
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A New Platform for Alumni Engagement

breakout brainstorming, and the ever-active chat box for online participants—sparked vital conversations that helped her think deeply about how to harness the power of AI ethically in her business ventures.... View Details

Keywords: April White

01 Mar 2019
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From Das’s Desk

plays in finding balance in work and life. Anxiety and fear. How to deal with the unknown and unexpected along the way. Work-life imbalance. What to do when faced with the choices and demands between a busy career and a full home and... View Details

01 Aug 2016
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Retail Execs Underplay Current Performance to Investors--but Why?

Business School finance professor Kenneth A. Froot in the April working paper What Do Measures of Real-Time Corporate Sales Tell Us about Earnings Surprises and Post-Announcement Returns? “It’s startling to find that managers are not even... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Financial Services

January 2017 (Revised August 2019)
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X Fire Paintball & Airsoft: Is Amazon a Friend or Foe? (A)

By: Feng Zhu and Angela Acocella

Three years after launching his brick-and-mortar store, X Fire Paintball and Airsoft, Steve Herbert Sr. and his sons began selling products on Amazon.com’s third-party Marketplace, and online sales expanded rapidly. Over time, X Fire noticed that products of which it... View Details

Keywords: Ethics; Competition; Digital Platforms; Internet and the Web; Small Business; Retail Industry; Canada

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Online AI Course | HBS Online

organization and highlight its benefits and considerations 6-7 hrs Module 3 Understand network and learning effects’ impact on business strategy and how they can be used to create value. Explore ethical... View Details

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Leadership, Ethics, and Corporate Accountability Course | HBS Online

It helps current and aspiring managers determine and deliver on their responsibilities to customers, employees, investors, and society, drawing on economic, legal, and ethical considerations. Related Programs 7 Courses Credential of... View Details

24 Nov 2014
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New York Alumni Connect Around a 'Vision' for the New HBS

you find is that Harvard Business School really has a special place,” Dinan added. “The world really recognizes that people coming out of Harvard know what they are doing, are instilled with a certain level of basic View Details

01 Dec 2004
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Ideas: Books

global alliances and networks, and internationalization. Deep Smarts by Dorothy Leonard and Walter Swap (Harvard Business School Press) Each time an employee leaves a firm, an asset most valuable to its future is lost: the know-how that... View Details

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

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Drake Du | MBA

but in every challenge is a chance to envision a new way of thinking and of doing, and I am excited to join a cohort dedicated to bringing that vision to life. Tech areas of interest: ethics and safety, distributed systems, machine... View Details

September 1994 (Revised January 2004)
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Forging the New Salomon

By: Lynn S. Paine and Michael Santoro

Describes Salomon Brothers' recovery from the August 1991 Treasury auction scandal. Details the impact of the firm's disclosure of bidding improprieties and describes how the new management team, led by Warren Buffett and Deryck Maughan, guided the company through the... View Details

Keywords: Crisis Management; Ethics; Organizational Culture; Law; Business or Company Management

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01 Jan 2012
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Andrew H. Tisch, MBA 1977

Arts, Tisch Hall, and Tisch Hospital. Visiting Central Park, you can enjoy the Tisch Children’s Zoo. Then taking a break in Washington Square Park, you can relax by the Tisch Fountain. While the family is well-known for its business... View Details

01 Sep 2020
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Righting the Ship

The decisions you make in a life-and-death crisis have a new, lasting importance. You can choose to ignore that, but you do so at your own peril. We are never going back to what we remember as business as usual. Why not? Because COVID is... View Details

01 Jun 2002
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Faculty Debates Lessons from Enron's Collapse

unprecedented session brought together faculty with expertise in all aspects of business for a far-reaching discussion of the fallen corporate giant. Palepu opened the discussion by stating the afternoon's objectives. “Together, we will... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Enron; faculty; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

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Clara Nevins | MBA

business. Tech areas of interest: Interaction design, ethical technology, smart cities, social networks Formative experience at the intersection of technology and business: During my gap year I worked at the social app, Bumble. It was... View Details

01 Dec 2006
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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

06 Dec 2021
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Truth Be Told

it could create—again, we haven’t tested this—distrust among employees. But, in general, having employees with the right ethics and values, who come forward when they see something, can actually help companies overall. How could these... View Details

Keywords: April White; Corporate, Subsidiary, and Regional Managing Offices; Management

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Managing Customers for Growth - Course Catalog

growth strategies. Topics include: Acquisition vs. retention trade-offs, engagement-driven business models, customer segmentation, and monetization strategies. Module 3: Managing Customers through Personalized Interventions Covers... View Details

07 Jun 2018
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Sowing the Seeds of Leadership

notes Condo, who led the renowned Latin American business school INCAE from 2007 to 2015. “That’s what got me completely hooked.” EARTH University draws outstanding students from 48 countries across Latin America and Africa. Most are... View Details

23 May 2000
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The Emerging Art of Negotiation

lost); differing interpretations of what constitutes fair play. Be it a straightforward business transaction, a divorce or an international struggle to reach a peace agreement, there's much that can go wrong. But there's also much that... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

25 Feb 2020
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3-Minute Briefing: Ellen Pao (MBA 1998)

Tech has real social and ethical responsibilities, but we’ve seen that the current leadership of these platforms is not willing to make changes to promote a healthier ecosystem. When I was at Reddit, its culture needed a lot of work, and... View Details

Keywords: April White; photo by Eric Millette

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