Ethics - Publications - Faculty & Research

22 Apr 2017
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Survey Roundup: Gender Disparity on Boardroom Diversity

07 Feb 2017
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This activist group is trying to oust Mark Zuckerberg as Facebook’s chairman

08 Dec 2016
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Airbnb: 1M listings use booking service that stems discrimination on platform

28 Nov 2016
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’Inside the Mind of the White-Collar Criminal’

05 Oct 2016
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My pen pals, the white-collar criminals in jail

01 Mar 2016
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What if we had a Secretary of the Future?

01 Dec 1996
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Intellectual Debate: The Business of Business

Leadership, Ethics, and Corporate Responsibility initiative. Professors Thomas R. Piper and Lynn Sharp Paine emphasized the importance of both ethics and economics for outstanding organizations. They argued that the only zone of... View Details

01 Oct 2021
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New Biotech Joint Degree Program Kicks Off

Frontiers in Therapeutics is an ethics and management course on the world’s most pressing unsolved medical challenges. The impetus for the program came from recognizing that the biotech sector needs strong, View Details

Business of Emerging Markets

During my fellowship year, I audited and participated in the preparation of two history-based courses—it was extraordinary to see how these classes sparked the imagination of MBA students while guiding them through ethical dilemmas. Now,... View Details

10 Jan 2012
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First Look: January 10

judged the ethically questionable behavior of others more harshly, suggesting that childhood memories lead to altruistic punishment. Finally, in Experiment 4, compared to a control condition, both positively valenced and negatively... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

21 May 2016
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The Age of Consignment

“Ethical elimination” is the necessary corollary of ethical consumption, writes the New York Times, and HBS alumni are leading the way with online resell companies that make it easy to get rid of—and even make a profit from—your old... View Details

October 1981 (Revised April 1984)
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H.J. Heinz Co.: The Administration of Policy (B)

Summarizes the investigation conducted by outside legal and accounting firms under the Heinz audit committee. Improper practices were found at three of the five Heinz domestic divisions and at a number of foreign operations. Presents restated financial data for the... View Details

Keywords: Ethics; Accounting Audits; Manufacturing Industry; Consumer Products Industry

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How Beliefs about Self-creation Inflate Value in the Human Brain

By: Raphael Koster, Tali Sharot, Rachel Yuan, Benedetto De Martino, Michael I. Norton and Raymond J. Dolan

Humans have a tendency to overvalue their own ideas and creations. Understanding how these errors in judgement emerge is important for explaining suboptimal decisions, as when individuals and groups choose self-created alternatives over superior or equal ones. We show... View Details

Keywords: fMRI; Amygdala; Hippocampus; Medial Temporal Lobe; Caudate Nucleus; Values and Beliefs

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2008
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The Normative Study of Business Organizations: A Rawlsian Approach

By: Nien-he Hsieh

Keywords: Ethics; Business Ventures; Research

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November–December 1983
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Control with Fairness in Transfer Pricing

By: Robert G. Eccles Jr.

Keywords: Fairness; Price

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2007
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Fair (and Not So Fair) Division

By: John W. Pratt

Drawbacks of existing procedures are illustrated and a method of efficient fair division is proposed that avoids them. Given additive participants' utilities, each item is priced at the geometric mean (or some other function) of its two highest valuations. The... View Details

Keywords: Fairness; Price

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