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  • 12 Feb 2014
  • Research & Ideas

Private Sector, Public Good

shareholder funds or as trying to subvert democratic institutions, she said. She suggested, however that there are three reasons to at least explore the topic including: Growing global corruption, particularly when business gets close to... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • 27 Feb 2006
  • Research & Ideas

Corporate Values and Employee Cynicism

intentions. When employees witness a leader acting in ways that could be seen as threatening cherished values, they are quick to conclude that he or she is a hypocrite. But leaders who take the time to carefully explain the reasons behind... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 19 May 2011
  • Research & Ideas

Empathy: The Brand Equity of Retail

Clinic had been consistently ranked No. 1 by US News & World Report for heart surgery survival rates, her father opted to go to the No. 2 ranked Mayo Clinic. The reason for his choice: doctors at the Cleveland Clinic had a reputation... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Health
  • 13 Nov 2007
  • Research & Ideas

Six Steps for Reinvigorating America

community was very involved. But in this century, businesses have had other priorities. We're behind in green technologies, and one of the reasons is an unwillingness on the part of the current administration, for a long time, to... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 20 Jan 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Fixing Corporate Governance: A Roundtable Discussion at Harvard Business School

mission—indeed, our imperative—for ninety-four years. Hall: I teach a compensation course, and yet I always begin it with the idea that organizations exist to create value for society. I want to try to center things around the core reason... View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons
  • 06 May 2015
  • What Do You Think?

Are You Ready for Personalized Predictive Analytics?

factors will be mitigated (by) leaders who are short on ethics and morality ." Others, most of whom assumed that the technologies would successfully be applied, were less sanguine about the results, expanding on Levine's concerns.... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 30 Jan 2006
  • Research & Ideas

Looking Behind Bad Decisions

strategies that reasonable members of both major political parties should see as superior to the current state. We are currently in a political environment where beating the other side is valued over making wise decisions. We hope that... View Details
Keywords: by Manda Salls
  • 25 Aug 2015
  • First Look

First Look Tuesday

foreign officials, and the packaging and sale of toxic securities to naïve investors-require ethically problematic judgments and behaviors. However, dominant models of workplace unethical behavior fail to account for what we have learned... View Details
  • 05 Oct 2009
  • Research & Ideas

The Vanguard Corporation

progress on these issues. One reason is that he keeps reminding Americans of our higher moral purpose. He doesn't get dragged down into the mud when people attack him on all sides. That kind of leadership is necessary to deal with... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 08 Apr 2014
  • First Look

First Look: April 8

dead wrong. And when the rules failed, the reason was always the same: Companies trip up when they try to attract large volumes of customers without understanding (1) the strength of mutual attraction among various customer groups and (2)... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 28 Apr 2009
  • First Look

First Look: April 28, 2009

  Working PapersNo Harm, No Foul: The Outcome Bias in Ethical Judgments (revised) Authors:Francesca Gino, Don A. Moore, and Max H. Bazerman Abstract We present six studies demonstrating that outcome information biases View Details
Keywords: 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
  • 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
  • 22 Aug 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 23

https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52978 July 2017 Business and Human Rights Journal Business Responsibilities for Human Rights: A Commentary on Arnold By: Hsieh, Nien-hê Abstract—Human rights have come to play a prominent role in debates about the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 24 Nov 2009
  • First Look

First Look: Nov. 24

due to the mere presence of communication. In two experiments, we find that non-binding talk of fairness within a three-party, complete-information game leads toward off equilibrium, equal division payoffs, while non-binding talk focusing on competitive View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 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
  • 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
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Technology; Publishing
  • 10 Feb 2009
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First Look: February 10, 2009

discussing a number of questions, including the following: should GAP include environmental and social aspects beyond food safety; what was GLOBALGAP's role outside of Europe; and how GLOBALGAP is a 'hidden asset' compared to ethical... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 13 Jul 2022
  • Book

Reimagining the Economy: What Would It Take to Put People First?

transformative. “I feel like I have a superpower,” she told me. “I am my own boss. I make my own schedule. I can’t express how important this is. I now have time to take care of my son, and he is the reason I immigrated in the first... View Details
Keywords: by Avery Forman
  • 05 Dec 2005
  • What Do You Think?

Is Growth Good?

actually enable the kind of economic growth that we generally measure and read about. It's reasonably obvious, for example, that growth in such things as the rule of law, so-called transparency, and ethical... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett

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