Publications

2009
Working Paper

Dishonest Deed, Clear Conscience: Self-Preservation through Moral Disengagement and Motivated Forgetting

By: Lisa L. Shu, Francesca Gino and Max H. Bazerman

People routinely engage in dishonest acts without feeling guilty about their behavior. When and why does this occur? Across four studies, people justified their dishonest deeds through moral disengagement and exhibited motivated forgetting of information that might... View Details

Keywords: Ethics; Moral Sensibility; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Behavior

Portrait Project

Lincoln Alabaster

manner, the character traits I gained from my parents, such as a relentless work ethic and a passion for life, will continue to be a part of this Earth. To produce, write, direct, and star in a thought-provoking film that endures (think... View Details

Portrait Project

Anonymous

a killer instinct and I frequently go out on a limb, only to embarrass myself, but then laugh, rather than regret not trying. I hope to reflect the same values and ethics in every aspect of my life. I am the same person wherever I am, so... 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

01 Oct 1999
News

Culture Clash: Exploring Cross Cultural Conflicts in Business

has developed for the course so far - "Siam Cement Group: Corporate Philosophy" and "The Haier Group" - take place in Thailand and China, respectively. Named Asia's most ethical company several years ago in a survey of the region's... View Details

Keywords: Judith A. Ross

February 2007
Module Note

The Secret Sharer Summary: Earning Legitimacy

By: Sandra J. Sucher

A summary of the major themes discussed in the tenth class of The Moral Leader (EC curriculum). View Details

Keywords: Ethics; Power and Influence; Moral Sensibility

Purchase

01 Oct 2002
News

Sam Hayes

interest, and we've seen companies stray over the edge of ethical impropriety before. This time, however, the tendency to test the limits was exacerbated by the enormous surge in stock values, profits, and economic activity during the... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

2022
Working Paper

Values as Luxury Goods and Political Polarization

By: Benjamin Enke, Mattias Polborn and Alex A Wu

Motivated by novel survey evidence, this paper develops a theory of political behavior in which values are a luxury good: the relative weight voters place on values rather than material considerations increases in income. The model predicts (i) voters who are... View Details

Keywords: Political Polarization; Government and Politics; Moral Sensibility; Luxury; Values and Beliefs; Voting

22 Nov 2015
News

Start-Up Leaders Embrace Lobbying as Part of the Job

ethical and business-oriented, and that means engaging in Washington early.” The article goes on to note that while Hello Alfred is unique among recent startups in its employment approach, offering benefits and job training, “[Sapone]... View Details

01 Mar 2011
News

Alumni Books

we be good? How can we understand financial managers' ethical failings, which destroyed lives and brought nations and the global economy close to collapse? Das seeks answers to these questions in the Mahabharata, the 2,000-year-old... View Details

Portrait Project

David Frankel

Ethics of the Fathers: "If I am not for myself, who will be for me? But if I am only for myself, what am I? And if not now, when?" Give back. With a loving family, a privileged education and great partners I helped create the... View Details

January 1998
Case

Sideco Americana S.A. (B)

By: Lynn S. Paine and Harold F. Hogan Jr

Supplements the (A) case. View Details

Keywords: Change; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Culture; Values and Beliefs; Moral Sensibility; Ethics; Argentina

Article

Your Visual System Provides All the Information You Need to Make Moral Judgments about Generic Visual Events

By: Julian De Freitas and George A. Alvarez

To what extent are people's moral judgments susceptible to subtle factors of which they are unaware? Here we show that we can change people’s moral judgments outside of their awareness by subtly biasing perceived causality. Specifically, we used subtle visual... View Details

Keywords: Moral Judgment; Perceived Causality; Visual Illusions; Moral Sensibility; Judgments

December 2016
Article

Deal Process Design in Management Buyouts

By: Guhan Subramanian

Management buyouts (MBOs) are an economically and legally significant class of transaction: not only do they account for more than $10 billion in deal volume per year, on average, but they also play an important role in defining the relationship between inside and... View Details

Keywords: Management Buyout; Deal Structuring; Acquisition; Design; Fairness

2012
Other Unpublished Work

Towards Efficiencies in Canadian Internet Traffic Exchange

By: Benjamin Edelman and Bill Woodcock

Canadian Internet access is heavily and unnecessarily dependent upon foreign infrastructure, especially U.S. infrastructure. This dependence imposes significant burdens upon Canadian Internet users:

* Service prices are higher than would be the case if... View Details

Keywords: Networks; Canada; Privacy; Technology Networks; Rights; Communication Technology; Internet; Ethics; Telecommunications Industry; Canada

August 2014
Article

Religion, Politician Identity and Development Outcomes: Evidence from India

By: Sonia Bhalotra, Irma Clots-Figueras, Guilhem Cassan and Lakshmi Iyer

This paper investigates whether the religious identity of state legislators in India influences development outcomes, both for citizens of their religious group and for the population as a whole. Using an instrumental variables approach derived from a regression... View Details

Keywords: Politician Identity; Infant Mortality; Primary Education; India; Muslim; Fairness; Religion; Government and Politics; India

February 2007
Article

The Formation of Beliefs: Evidence from the Allocation of Land Titles to Squatters

By: Rafael Di Tella, Sebastian F. Galiani and Ernesto S. Schargrodsky

We study the formation of beliefs in a squatter settlement in the outskirts of Buenos Aires exploiting a natural experiment that induced an allocation of property rights that is exogenous to the characteristics of the squatters. There are significant differences in the... View Details

Keywords: Values and Beliefs; Property