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- 23 May 2000
- Research & Ideas
The Emerging Art of Negotiation
of ethical standards are also tightly linked with how negotiators understand and define the game. Laboratory research on ethics in negotiation is starting to reveal, for instance, just how flexible and... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Of Dugouts and Sweatshops
students at the student-organized Leadership and Ethics Forum last March. Under Reich's review was a labor inspector's ruling that a batboy for the minor-league Savannah Cardinals be removed from his dream job because of laws prohibiting... View Details
Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey
- 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
- 11 Jun 2012
- Research & Ideas
When Business Competition Harms Society
testing operations against those micro-markets that were peppered with facilities, reasoning that the more facilities in any given area, the higher the competition—and the higher the incentive to bestow leniency on customers. "We... View Details
- 08 Oct 2021
- Research & Ideas
How Newspaper Closures Open the Door to Corporate Crime
reputational costs. Saving local newspapers isn’t Heese’s specialty, but he points to a recent trend of hedge funds buying up distressed local media outlets as having the potential to stabilize the market and resurrect local news. And that makes him wonder: “Is this a... View Details
Keywords: by Avery Forman
- 13 May 2002
- Book
Bringing the Master Passions to Work
temperament." The workings of what we now call reason spring from a primitive emotion—our anxiety at being alive and thrust toward an end past which we cannot see with any of our senses. The impulse to explain is the impulse to... View Details
Keywords: by Mihnea C. Moldoveanu & Nitin Nohria
- 10 Jan 2005
- Research & Ideas
How to Put Meaning Back into Leading
reasons why the leadership literature has been recast so that it is solely focused on economic performance, but we believe probably the most important thing is that the obsession with shareholder value beginning in the 1980s led... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 17 Mar 2022
- Research & Ideas
Navigating Tradeoffs: How Purpose Becomes a Company's ‘Lighthouse in the Storm’
afford groceries is the reason we see so much plastic in grocery aisles today. “Despite our best efforts, Gotham Greens is a small company with limited influence in the packaging sector. Changing the landscape requires the collective... View Details
Keywords: by Ranjay Gulati
- 25 Jun 2001
- Lessons from the Classroom
Machiavelli, Morals, and You
They don't go on national stones. There's nothing really remarkable about them.' "The reason I put them at the end of the course is that I hope what students will do when they think about each of those words is understand what I've... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2020
ethical dilemma without fear of being mired in the consequences? How would you answer an inconvenient question? Courage and Conviction deals with the subject of ethical dilemmas in personal and work life.... View Details
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
Leng Lim: The Spiritual Face of Business
themselves fully heard and recognized.” This degree of openness is equally apparent when Lim describes the reasoning behind his application to HBS, where he has served as copresident of the Leadership & View Details
- 06 Mar 2006
- What Do You Think?
The China Dilemma for U.S. Firms: Comply, Resist, or Leave?
"I would be very happy if both Google and Yahoo resisted these constraints. The real bottom line is people, no matter where they reside. . . . Please do not limit this discussion to China." Nicole Herbots put it this way: "Our truest self-interest is in... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Dear Future Author…
disciplined approach.)” —Peter Pruzan (MBA 1959), professor emeritus, Copenhagen Business School, and author of Research Methodology: The Aims, Practices and Ethics of Science Gabriela Couturier (photo via LinkedIn) Gabriela Couturier... View Details
- 10 Sep 2014
- Research & Ideas
Become a Value Creator
them. They lose in the long run." During the seminar, Hall outlined three reasons executives should give great consideration to becoming value creators: What goes around comes around. Executives shouldn't look to create value only... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
The Sparkles in Our Skies
modern shoppers want is the sense of power and romance that has been associated with diamonds since the 15th century, but without the environmental and ethical concerns of mining. How to give them that is the $80 billion question for the... View Details
- 17 Feb 2009
- Research & Ideas
What’s Good about Quiet Rule-Breaking
rules but that used to be often tolerated. However, two important reasons suggest that moral gray zones are here to stay. First, moral gray zones involve tacit managerial approval. Thus, it is not because employees are more highly... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 10 Jan 2012
- First Look
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
- 29 Jun 2016
- News
Women of Wall Street Tell Their Story
these movies are also primarily about men, so they don’t accurately show who works on the Street either. Those two facts are part of the reason that Munger, along with fellow coproducer Cecilia Healy Herbert (MBA 1973) and Monica Mandelli... View Details
- 20 Apr 2016
- Research & Ideas
When CEOs Become Activists
passed the Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA), allowing businesses to cite religious freedom as a defensible reason to deny service to a customer. Critics, who included a number of high-profile CEOs, argued that the law granted... View Details
- 12 Feb 2013
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 12
Publication:Wiley Encyclopedia of Management Abstract Now in its third edition, this multi-volume Encyclopedia of Management has been revised and updated to chart the major developments that have occurred in digital technologies, ethics... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne