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- 14 Nov 2019
- Book
Lifting the Lid on Turkey's Hidden Business History
Turkey’s economic development story has always been something of a black box for scholars to understand, perhaps in part because many of the most successful business enterprises there have been in family hands and largely closed to public scrutiny. The authors of a new... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- Profile
Jenny Tison
In fact, one of HBS’ greatest lessons, in Jenny’s estimation, has to do with the importance of structure. “Just because you’re a good person,” she says, “doesn’t preclude you from having to implement an infrastructure of ethical checks... View Details
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Two Presidents, One Goal: Building on the Club of Chicago
Business Statesman of the Year Dinner, which Mott describes as “the one we want the walls busted out for.” The event honors a member of the business community who “not only personifies success and ethics in business, but who also gives... View Details
Keywords: Amy Burton
- summer 2009
- Article
The Responsibility Gap
Margolis, Joshua D. "The Responsibility Gap." Hedgehog Review 11, no. 2 (summer 2009): 41–53.
- November 2006 (Revised May 2007)
- Background Note
Merton's Ethos of Science: Excerpts and Summaries
Robert K. Merton wrote a series of papers on the sociology of science in the 1940s and 1950s and is commonly recognized as the founder of the field. Merton laid out four norms that constitute the "ethos" of science: community-wide fundamentals that he proposed were... View Details
Fleming, Lee, and Christopher C. Liu. "Merton's Ethos of Science: Excerpts and Summaries." Harvard Business School Background Note 607-047, November 2006. (Revised May 2007.)
- December 1981 (Revised June 1984)
- Case
SafeCard Services, Inc.
SafeCard is a rapidly growing service company engaged in direct mail marketing. Professor Briloff is an outspoken accounting critic and accuses SafeCard of engaging in accounting "no-nos." Subsequent to Professor Briloff's analysis, SafeCard's stock price declined... View Details
Bartczak, Norman. "SafeCard Services, Inc." Harvard Business School Case 182-156, December 1981. (Revised June 1984.)
- 01 Oct 2009
- What Do You Think?
Can the “Masks of Command” Coexist with Authentic Leadership?
Summing Up Do authentic leaders need "masks of command"? Instructors seek case studies posing issues that provoke discussion on both sides of an issue and raise many questions. We seem to have found such an issue this month: Can the "masks of... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- February 2025
- Supplement
Slice Labs: Creating a Fraud-Free Online Insurance Platform (B)
By: Amit Goldenberg, Max Bazerman and Ruth Page
Keywords: Technology; Insurance; Digitization; Honesty; Trust; Negotiation; Fraud; Ethics; Negotiation Process; Negotiation Tactics; Negotiation Types; Social Psychology
Goldenberg, Amit, Max Bazerman, and Ruth Page. "Slice Labs: Creating a Fraud-Free Online Insurance Platform (B)." Harvard Business School Multimedia/Video Supplement 925-701, February 2025.
- August 2024 (Revised September 2024)
- Case
Dishoom: From Bombay with Love
By: Anjali M. Bhatt and Thomas J. DeLong
Shamil and Kavi Thakrar, co-founders of Dishoom, faced critical decisions as they looked to expand the UK-based restaurant group. Shamil, the CEO, was confident in Dishoom's potential for growth but he was concerned about preserving the culture and values centered... View Details
Keywords: Human Resource Management; Growth And Scaling; Organizational Culture; Values and Beliefs; Growth Management; Expansion; United Kingdom
Bhatt, Anjali M., and Thomas J. DeLong. "Dishoom: From Bombay with Love." Harvard Business School Case 425-025, August 2024. (Revised September 2024.)
- Working Paper
Group Fairness in Dynamic Refugee Assignment
By: Daniel Freund, Thodoris Lykouris, Elisabeth Paulson, Bradley Sturt and Wentao Weng
Ensuring that refugees and asylum seekers thrive (e.g., find employment) in their host countries is a profound humanitarian goal, and a primary driver of employment is the geographic
location within a host country to which the refugee or asylum seeker is... View Details
Freund, Daniel, Thodoris Lykouris, Elisabeth Paulson, Bradley Sturt, and Wentao Weng. "Group Fairness in Dynamic Refugee Assignment." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 23-047, February 2023.
- Article
Don't Let Power Corrupt You
By: Julie Battilana and Tiziana Casciaro
Although power is essential to taking charge and driving change, it makes leaders vulnerable to two traps that can not only erode their own effectiveness but also undermine their teams. Hubris—the excessive pride and self-confidence that can come with power—causes... View Details
Keywords: Humility; Empathy; Hubris; Leadership; Power and Influence; Moral Sensibility; Performance Effectiveness
Battilana, Julie, and Tiziana Casciaro. "Don't Let Power Corrupt You." Harvard Business Review 99, no. 5 (September–October 2021): 94–101.
- 2017
- Article
True Happiness: The Role of Morality in the Concept of Happiness
By: Jonathan Phillips, Julian De Freitas, Christian Mott, June Gruber and Joshua Knobe
Recent scientific research has settled on a purely descriptive definition of happiness that is focused solely on agents' psychological states (high positive affect, low negative affect, high life satisfaction). In contrast to this understanding, recent research has... View Details
Phillips, Jonathan, Julian De Freitas, Christian Mott, June Gruber, and Joshua Knobe. "True Happiness: The Role of Morality in the Concept of Happiness." Journal of Experimental Psychology: General 146, no. 2 (2017): 165–181.
- 2020
- Book
Le Manifeste travail: Démocratiser, démarchandiser, dépolluer [The Working Manifesto: Democratize, Decommodify, Decarbonize]
By: Isabelle Ferreras, Julie Battilana and Dominique Méda
Authored at the height of the 2020 coronavirus pandemic, this book is the result of an international collaboration between twelve female academics who apply their expertise to offer a blueprint for a more resilient, dignified, and sustainable society. The extension of... View Details
Ferreras, Isabelle, Julie Battilana, and Dominique Méda, eds. Le Manifeste travail: Démocratiser, démarchandiser, dépolluer [The Working Manifesto: Democratize, Decommodify, Decarbonize]. Paris: Éditions du Seuil, 2020, French ed. (English edition is forthcoming in 2022 by University of Chicago Press.)
- Article
The Social Purpose of Corporations
By: Nien-he Hsieh, Marco Meyer, David Rodin and Jens van ‘t Klooster
To think about the purpose of corporations is to think about what corporations are for. In this article, we argue that the concept of a purpose has an important role in thinking about the moral evaluation of corporations. We make three contributions. First, we... View Details
Keywords: Social Purpose; Corporate Purpose; The Corporation; Market Failures; Measurement Of Purpose; Organizations; Mission and Purpose; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Ethics
Hsieh, Nien-he, Marco Meyer, David Rodin, and Jens van ‘t Klooster. "The Social Purpose of Corporations." Journal of the British Academy 6, no. s1 (2018): 49–73. ( DOI: https://doi.org/10.5871/jba/006s1.049.)
- 2013
- Working Paper
Networks as Covers: Evidence from an On-Line Social Network
By: Mikolaj Jan Piskorski
This paper proposes that networks give actors a cover by giving them the excuse of sociability to engage in normatively prohibited market behaviors. I apply this hypothesis to actors in long-term exclusive relationships who are surreptitiously seeking new relationships... View Details
Piskorski, Mikolaj Jan. "Networks as Covers: Evidence from an On-Line Social Network." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 13-083, March 2013.
- August 2001 (Revised March 2008)
- Case
NerveWire, Inc.
By: Nitin Nohria and Anthony Mayo
NerveWire, a management consulting and systems integration provider based in Newton, MA, was closing in on its second anniversary. In the beginning days of NerveWire, the major challenge was recruiting--finding the right people who embodied its values and business... View Details
Nohria, Nitin, and Anthony Mayo. "NerveWire, Inc." Harvard Business School Case 402-022, August 2001. (Revised March 2008.)
- March 2001 (Revised February 2009)
- Case
HDFC (A)
By: Lynn S. Paine, Carin-Isabel Knoop and Suma Raju
The top management team at India's leading home finance company must decide how to deal with the emergence of intense competition at the end of the 1990s. Having founded the industry and dominated it for nearly 20 years, the well-respected company faces a bevy of new... View Details
Keywords: Values and Beliefs; Management Style; Management Teams; Competition; Financial Services Industry; India
Paine, Lynn S., Carin-Isabel Knoop, and Suma Raju. "HDFC (A)." Harvard Business School Case 301-093, March 2001. (Revised February 2009.)
- August 1981
- Case
West Point: The Cheating Incident (C)
An outline of the Secretary of the Army's decision in the matter of the 1976 cheating scandal at West Point. View Details
Keywords: Higher Education; Ethics; Judgments; Government Administration; Public Administration Industry; Education Industry
Schlesinger, Leonard A. "West Point: The Cheating Incident (C)." Harvard Business School Case 482-006, August 1981.
- 12 Jul 2017
- Book
What Jane Austen and Mel Brooks Can Teach Us About Finance
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- Article
Confronting Failure: Antecedents and Consequences of Shared Beliefs About Failure in Organizational Work Groups
By: M. Cannon and A. Edmondson
Cannon, M., and A. Edmondson. "Confronting Failure: Antecedents and Consequences of Shared Beliefs About Failure in Organizational Work Groups." Special Issue on Shared Cognition. Journal of Organizational Behavior 22, no. 2 (March 2001).