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February 1999
Case

Guaranty Trust Bank PLC Nigeria (D)

By: Lynn S. Paine and Hal Hogan

Supplements the (A) case. View Details

Keywords: Growth and Development; Trends; Moral Sensibility; Ethics; Organizational Culture; Law; Banking Industry; Nigeria

Educators

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Nathalie du Preez

"I'm strengthening my moral and ethical compass by being here," says Nathalie. "I'm learning to see the best in people, and through them, the best insights in so many aspects of business: marketing, finance, ethics, and... View Details

19 Oct 2016
Blog Post

Reflections From My First Month at HBS

takes time, conversation, and vulnerability to build these type of relationships. Leadership. This is a topic we often talk about, a topic we always think about. At first it’s quite surprising that it appears even in an Operations or Accounting class. It’s subtle, and... View Details

01 Oct 2021
News

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

01 Dec 2004
News

Ideas: Books

Fair edited by Carrie Menkel-Meadow and Michael Wheeler (Jossey-Bass) Professor Wheeler and his coeditor have assembled a collection of essays from experts on ethics in negotiation. The editors and contributors examine why View Details

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

17 Jan 2007
Op-Ed

Learning from Private-Equity Boards

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: by Malcolm Salter; Financial Services

25 Sep 2007
First Look

First Look: September 25, 2007

practices. The paper explicates a number of conventions that are being institutionalized in the operational risk area. The case studies draw attention to the conflicts between the demands of these multiple conventions, and how organizations struggle to resolve them.... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

September 2004 (Revised November 2012)
Module Note

Module I: Moral Challenge Class Summaries

By: Sandra J. Sucher

What is a moral challenge? Explores four main types of moral challenge: the challenge of survival, the conflict between "two rights," a moral dilemma—or situation in which it is impossible to satisfy conflicting moral obligations and commitments—and the challenge of... View Details

Keywords: Decision Choices and Conditions; Moral Sensibility; Values and Beliefs; Leadership; Problems and Challenges; Conflict of Interests

10 Jul 2016
News

Georgetown Dean Thomas Returns to Teaching

Business Experience elective for undergraduates and the Global Fellows Program. He also developed an online Master of Science in finance degree and opened centers of study on markets and ethics and global business. Thomas also led a $30... View Details

November 1981
Case

Questionable Payments Abroad: Gulf in Italy

By: Christopher A. Bartlett

Gulf Oil in Italy was confronted by the need to increase the authorized capacity at a refinery in the face of substantial opposition. Raises the issue of their use of "facilitating gratuities" to minor officials, payments to influence news reports, and the employment... View Details

Keywords: Ethics; Energy Industry; Mining Industry; Italy

Educators

September 1996
Case

HBS Honor Code, The: A Delicate Experiment?

By: Henry B. Reiling, Susan Emery, Myer Joy and Joe Sigelman

Keywords: Ethics

16 Oct 2002
Keynote Speech

Value Shift: The Need for a New Corporate Ethic." Speaker. "Harvard Institute for Learning in Retirement

By: Lynn S. Paine

Keywords: Ethics

11 Jul 2017
News

The Right Thing to Do

Playing by the Rules, Ethics at Work, a new series of video case studies of business ethics, aims to teach people that there’s a direct link between morality and the bottom line. Joe Badaracco, the John Shad Professor of Business View Details

Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Finance; Mining (except Oil and Gas); Mining

July–August 2019
Article

Where Is Your Company Most Prone to Lapses in Integrity?

By: Eugene F. Soltes

Every sizable organization has integrity gaps—areas where what’s considered appropriate behavior diverges from the norms set by its leaders. Within these pockets, things like offensive language, overly aggressive sales practices, or conflicts of interest may be... View Details

Keywords: Integrity; Organizational Culture; Ethics

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2018
Book

Varieties of Green Business: Industries, Nations and Time

By: Geoffrey Jones

Published at a time of ever-increasing warnings that the pace of climate change and other environmental changes risk making the Earth unsustainable within our own lifetimes, this book looks at the past of green business to identify lessons for the future. It provides... View Details

Summer 2016
Article

Motivated Bayesians: Feeling Moral While Acting Egoistically

By: Francesca Gino, Michael I. Norton and Roberto A. Weber

A growing body of research yields ample evidence that individuals’ behavior often reflects an apparent concern for moral considerations. Using a broad definition of morality—to include varied non-egoistic motivations such as fairness, honesty, and efficiency as... View Details

Keywords: Behavior; Ethics