ethics - Publications - Faculty & Research

18 Aug 2016
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Four Harvard Business School Faculty Members Named to Most Influential Black Corporate Directors List

03 Jun 2016
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An HBS Professor Argues Uber's API Restrictions Violate Antitrust Laws

01 Sep 2010
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An Encore for the MBA Oath

School and inspired over 4,000 MBAs in the United States and around the world to participate. The MBA Oath grew out of concern over the widespread criticism leveled at business schools and MBAs regarding the global economic crisis. The oath is an attempt to set... View Details

Keywords: MBA Oath

01 Oct 1999
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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

01 Sep 2008
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Faculty Research Online

governance and financial incentives as well as organizational processes that strengthen ethical discipline, says Professor Emeritus Malcolm Salter. His new book, Innovation Corrupted: The Origins and Legacy of Enron’s Collapse, is a deep... View Details

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

14 Oct 2014
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A man on a mission

also used my teaching as a recruiting vehicle for NASA, to inspire bright students out of high school to go into our apprenticeship program.” Since retiring, the indefatigable Earls has taught college-level ethics courses, launched a K–12... 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

Portrait Project

Kyle Caven

my life. I have personal and professional goals, yet I’m still searching for my calling. Nonetheless, I know that with my work ethic and the values my parents instilled, I will succeed. And, of course, I won’t embarrass them. View Details

01 Sep 2007
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Stem Cell Man

have one particular scientific domain, I’m not tied to viewing things through that lens. And at the same time, a lot of the challenges are not purely scientific, they are also organizational.” Reeve sees Harvard’s expertise in so many other fields as a real plus. For... View Details

Keywords: biology; stem cell science; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

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Punitive but Discerning: Reputation Can Fuel Ambiguously-Deserved Punishment, but Does Not Erode Sensitivity to Nuance

By: Jillian J. Jordan and Nour Kteily

The desire to appear virtuous can motivate people to punish wrongdoers, a desirable outcome when punishment is clearly deserved. Yet claims that “virtue signaling” is fueling a culture of outrage suggest that reputation concerns may inspire even potentially unmerited... View Details

Keywords: Outrage; Signaling; Ideology; Moralistic Punishment; Reputation; Moral Sensibility

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2022
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Interrogating Corporate Purpose: Values Based Firms and the Struggle to Build a Just and Sustainable World

By: Rebecca Henderson

Book Abstract: Defining a just economy in a tenuous social-political time. If we can agree that our current social-political moment is tenuous and unsustainable—and indeed, that may be the only thing we can agree on right now—then how do markets, governments, and... View Details

Keywords: Moral Sensibility; Social Issues

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1999
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Unternehmensethik im Zeitalter der Globalisierung

By: L. S. Paine

Keywords: Globalized Firms and Management; Ethics

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1980
Other Unpublished Work

Inventive Plans Related to Rawls' Theory of Justice - HBS Discussion Paper

By: J. Ronald Fox

Keywords: Innovation and Invention; Distribution; Ethics

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2010
Other Teaching and Training Material

Note: Moral Decision-Making: Reason, Emotion & Luck (revised) 9-910-029

By: Michael A. Wheeler

Keywords: Moral Sensibility; Emotions

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August 1992
Case

Procter & Gamble: What's the Story?

By: Ellen D. Herman and Stephen A. Greyser

Keywords: Crisis Management; Ethics; Communication; Strategy

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March 1984 (Revised August 1990)
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Petite Playthings, Inc.--1984 (A)

By: Benson P. Shapiro

Provides background information for the (B) case, in which a young sales person is asked for a bribe by an experienced children's wear buyer. View Details

Keywords: Crime and Corruption; Ethics; Information; Sales; Apparel and Accessories Industry

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