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- 20 Apr 2021
- Working Paper Summaries
The Emergence of Mafia-like Business Systems in China
Keywords: by Meg Rithmire and Hao Chen
- August 2011 (Revised December 2013)
- Case
Albert 'Jack' Stanley in Nigeria (A)
By: Lena G. Goldberg and Chad M. Carr
The international joint venture that successfully bid for $6 billion in contracts to build LNG trains on Nigeria's Bonny Island became entangled in a widening bribery and corruption probe triggered by an unrelated accusation against an employee of one of the JV... View Details
Keywords: Crime and Corruption; Ethics; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Globalization; Governance Compliance; Energy Industry; Nigeria; Europe; United States
Goldberg, Lena G., and Chad M. Carr. "Albert 'Jack' Stanley in Nigeria (A)." Harvard Business School Case 312-034, August 2011. (Revised December 2013.)
- 12 Feb 2015
- Video
The Real Rick's Cafe – Building a Business in Casablanca
- 13 Mar 2014
- HBS Seminar
Karthik Ramanna, Harvard Business School
- 07 Jun 2012
- Working Paper Summaries
How Short-Termism Invites Corruption--And What to Do About It
Keywords: by Malcolm S. Salter
- August 2012
- Supplement
Albert 'Jack' Stanley in Nigeria (C)
By: Lena G. Goldberg and Annelena Lobb
The international joint venture that successfully bid for $6 billion in contracts to build LNG trains on Nigeria's Bonny Island became entangled in a widening bribery and corruption probe triggered by an unrelated accusation against an employee of one of the JV... View Details
Keywords: Ethics; Crime and Corruption; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Governance Compliance; Law; Joint Ventures; Business Subsidiaries; Government Legislation; Rail Industry; Nigeria; United States; United Kingdom
Goldberg, Lena G., and Annelena Lobb. "Albert 'Jack' Stanley in Nigeria (C)." Harvard Business School Supplement 313-019, August 2012.
- Article
Cut from the Same Cloth: Similarly Dishonest Individuals Across Countries
By: Heather E. Mann, Ximena Garcia-Rada, Lars Hornuf, Juan Tafurt and Dan Ariely
Norms for dishonest behaviors vary across societies, but whether this variation is related to differences in individuals’ core tendencies toward dishonesty is unknown. We compare individual dishonesty on a novel task across 10 participant samples from five countries... View Details
Keywords: Morality; Decision-making; Dishonesty; Cultural Psychology; Country; Decision Making; Culture
Mann, Heather E., Ximena Garcia-Rada, Lars Hornuf, Juan Tafurt, and Dan Ariely. "Cut from the Same Cloth: Similarly Dishonest Individuals Across Countries." Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology 47, no. 6 (July 2016): 858–874.
- 17 Jan 2011
- Research & Ideas
Being the Boss
the person up the chain be most responsible for whether you have a healthy relationship, but you're equally responsible. If you don't manage that relationship right, your team is not going to be able to do what it needs to do. Powerlessness View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- March 2022
- Article
Revealing Corruption: Firm and Worker Level Evidence from Brazil
By: Emanuele Colonnelli, Spyridon Lagaras, Jacopo Ponticelli, Mounu Prem and Margarita Tsoutsoura
We study how the disclosure of corrupt practices affects the growth of firms involved in illegal interactions with the government using randomized audits of public procurement in Brazil. On average, firms exposed by the anti-corruption program grow larger after the... View Details
Colonnelli, Emanuele, Spyridon Lagaras, Jacopo Ponticelli, Mounu Prem, and Margarita Tsoutsoura. "Revealing Corruption: Firm and Worker Level Evidence from Brazil." Journal of Financial Economics 143, no. 3 (March 2022): 1097–1119.
- 2011
- Book
Blind Spots: Why We Fail to Do What's Right and What to Do about It
By: Max H. Bazerman and Ann E. Tenbrunsel
When confronted with an ethical dilemma, most of us like to think we would stand up for our principles. But we are not as ethical as we think we are. In Blind Spots, leading business ethicists Max Bazerman and Ann Tenbrunsel examine the ways we overestimate our ability... View Details
Keywords: Crime and Corruption; Moral Sensibility; Values and Beliefs; Failure; Performance Evaluation; Sales; Consumer Products Industry
Bazerman, Max H., and Ann E. Tenbrunsel. Blind Spots: Why We Fail to Do What's Right and What to Do about It. Princeton University Press, 2011.
- 06 Sep 2017
- News
Financial Wisdom
- 25 Apr 2000
- Research & Ideas
Adjusting the Fit for Government
Corruption Boat Ezekwesili agreed that it is important to make government more efficient to do "what it ought to be doing." Citizens should reduce the level of discretionary power that government officials hold, she said,... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
Rafael M. Di Tella
I received my first degree in Economics in 1990 from the Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina and a D.Phil in Economics from Oxford University in 1996. After a short stay in Argentina I joined Harvard Business School in July 1997, where I... View Details
- Article
Is It Time for Auditor Independence Yet?
By: M. H. Bazerman and D. A. Moore
Well before the collapse of Enron and Arthur Andersen, we argued that the auditing system had been corrupted by the incentives auditors face to please their clients. We stated that even honest auditors were incapable of independence within the current regulatory... View Details
Keywords: Accounting Audits; Change; Crime and Corruption; Customer Satisfaction; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Failure; Motivation and Incentives
Bazerman, M. H., and D. A. Moore. "Is It Time for Auditor Independence Yet?" Accounting, Organizations and Society 36, nos. 4-5 (May–July 2011): 310–312.
- November 2013 (Revised September 2015)
- Supplement
GlaxoSmithKline in China (B)
By: John A. Quelch and Margaret L. Rodriguez
In 2013, Chinese investigators detained four GSK employees for allegedly bribing health care staff to sell GSK pharmaceuticals. A month later, GSK's Asia Pacific regional president, Abbas Hussain, said the company would help identify corrupt practices. Two days later,... View Details
Keywords: Public Health; Pharmaceuticals; China; Bribery; CSR; Hong Bao; Health Care; Drug; GlaxoSmithKline; GSK; Witty; Government; Marketing; Health; Health Care and Treatment; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Corporate Strategy; Corporate Governance; Business and Government Relations; Ethics; Pharmaceutical Industry; China; United Kingdom; United States
Quelch, John A., and Margaret L. Rodriguez. "GlaxoSmithKline in China (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 514-050, November 2013. (Revised September 2015.)
- 11 Mar 2013
- News
Bridging the gap, digitally
- 18 Jul 2011
- News
Rupert Murdoch and the News about Honor (or the Lack Thereof)
- 18 Dec 2015
- News
Trucks stop, but Putin rolls on
- April 2023 (Revised April 2025)
- Case
Eike Batista: Making or Breaking Brazil
By: Geoffrey Jones, Pedro Magalhães, Daniel Tong and Marcel Anduiza
This case explores the meteoric rise and fall of Eike Batista, once Brazil’s richest person and the world’s seventh wealthiest in 2012. Batista began his career by investing in gold mining in the Amazon, using the network his father had built after years serving as... View Details
Keywords: Crime and Corruption; Entrepreneurship; Investment; Energy Industry; Mining Industry; Brazil
Jones, Geoffrey, Pedro Magalhães, Daniel Tong, and Marcel Anduiza. "Eike Batista: Making or Breaking Brazil." Harvard Business School Case 323-111, April 2023. (Revised April 2025.)
- October 2016 (Revised April 2017)
- Case
Succession Planning at Samsung: The Merger Formula of Cheil Industries and Samsung C&T
By: Gwen Yu and Tim Gray
A merger deal of two Samsung group companies becomes a center of a corruption scandal. The merger of Cheil Industries and Samsung C&T was seen as a crucial step to transfer power to Lee Jae Yong, the heir of Samsung group. The deal was criticized to purposefully... View Details
Yu, Gwen, and Tim Gray. "Succession Planning at Samsung: The Merger Formula of Cheil Industries and Samsung C&T." Harvard Business School Case 117-036, October 2016. (Revised April 2017.)