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- September 1995 (Revised March 1997)
- Case
Bob Reiss and Valdawn (A): November 1994
Bob Reiss, a seasoned entrepreneur, "accidentally" started Valdawn in 1988 and in six years built the company into a $7 million marketer of "fun and fashion" watches. Valdawn, a "virtual" company, has very few employees or fixed assets and enjoys attractive profit... View Details
Keywords: Business or Company Management; Business Growth and Maturation; Ethics; Decision Making; Entrepreneurship; Apparel and Accessories Industry
Bhide, Amar. "Bob Reiss and Valdawn (A): November 1994." Harvard Business School Case 396-063, September 1995. (Revised March 1997.)
- 16 Dec 2014
- News
The Future of Green China
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Andrews, Raymond Remembered
increasingly interested in the study of ethics and personal values in the workplace and encouraged practicing managers to write about this subject for the magazine. Raymond was a member of the HBS faculty from 1950 to 1987. As faculty... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Letters to the Editor
ready to move beyond their self-interest to the interests of others, such as patients, clients, students, parishioners, the nation (in the case of military professionals), etc. Professionals adopt publicly announced ethical standards for... View Details
- 2020
- Working Paper
Spreading the Health: Americans' Estimated and Ideal Distributions of Death and Health(care)
By: Sorapop Kiatpongsan and Michael I. Norton
The 2010 Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act intensified debates over the role of government in the distribution of healthcare. A nationally-representative sample of Americans reported their estimated and ideal distributions of healthcare (unmet need for... View Details
Keywords: Healthcare; Mortality; Inequality; Justice; Equity; Health; Health Care and Treatment; Equality and Inequality; Fairness; Public Opinion; United States
Kiatpongsan, Sorapop, and Michael I. Norton. "Spreading the Health: Americans' Estimated and Ideal Distributions of Death and Health(care)." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 20-114, April 2020.
- November 2007
- Case
Differences at Work: Ben (A)
By: Sandra J. Sucher and Rachel Gordon
During a casual conversation one of Ben's professional colleagues unexpectedly makes an anti-Semitic remark. What should Ben do? View Details
Sucher, Sandra J., and Rachel Gordon. "Differences at Work: Ben (A)." Harvard Business School Case 408-012, November 2007.
- 11 Jun 2012
- Research & Ideas
When Business Competition Harms Society
Last winter, a senior admissions officer at Claremont McKenna College resigned, after admitting to inflating reported SAT scores of the incoming class for six years and sending the falsified reports to U.S. News and World Report. “It's very cheap to get a second... View Details
- Article
Preventing Fairness Gerrymandering: Auditing and Learning for Subgroup Fairness
By: Michael J Kearns, Seth Neel, Aaron Leon Roth and Zhiwei Steven Wu
The most prevalent notions of fairness in machine learning are statistical definitions: they fix a small collection of pre-defined groups, and then ask for parity of some statistic of the classifier (like classification rate or false positive rate) across these groups.... View Details
Kearns, Michael J., Seth Neel, Aaron Leon Roth, and Zhiwei Steven Wu. "Preventing Fairness Gerrymandering: Auditing and Learning for Subgroup Fairness." Proceedings of the International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML) 35th (2018).
- June 2012
- Article
Sweeping Dishonesty under the Rug: How Unethical Actions Lead to Forgetting of Moral Rules
By: Lisa L. Shu and Francesca Gino
Dishonest behavior can have various psychological outcomes. We examine whether one consequence could be the forgetting of moral rules. In four experiments, participants were given the opportunity to behave dishonestly, and thus earn undeserved money, by over-reporting... View Details
Shu, Lisa L., and Francesca Gino. "Sweeping Dishonesty under the Rug: How Unethical Actions Lead to Forgetting of Moral Rules." Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 102, no. 6 (June 2012): 1164–1177.
- 2008
- Working Paper
'Fair Marriages:' An Impossibility
By: Bettina-Elisabeth Klaus
For the classical marriage model (introduced in Gale and Shapley, 1962) efficiency and envy-freeness are not always compatible, i.e., fair matchings do not always exist. However, for many allocation of indivisible goods models (see Velez, 2008, and references therein),... View Details
Klaus, Bettina-Elisabeth. "'Fair Marriages:' An Impossibility." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 09-053, October 2008.
- 20 Aug 2021
- News
The New Work Ethic: From Remote Offices To "The Great Resignation"
- 07 Jun 2016
- News
Digital Discrimination in a Sharing Economy
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Sam Hayes
interest, and we've seen companies stray over the edge of ethical impropriety before. This time, however, the tendency to test the limits was exacerbated by the enormous surge in stock values, profits, and economic activity during the... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 2022
- Working Paper
Values as Luxury Goods and Political Polarization
By: Benjamin Enke, Mattias Polborn and Alex A Wu
Motivated by novel survey evidence, this paper develops a theory of political
behavior in which values are a luxury good: the relative weight voters place
on values rather than material considerations increases in income. The model
predicts (i) voters who are... View Details
Keywords: Political Polarization; Government and Politics; Moral Sensibility; Luxury; Values and Beliefs; Voting
Enke, Benjamin, Mattias Polborn, and Alex A Wu. "Values as Luxury Goods and Political Polarization." Working Paper, April 2022. (Revised April 2023.)
- 23 May 2011
- Research & Ideas
Corporate Sustainability Reporting: It’s Effective
sample of 42 others that didn't. The researchers focused on several measures that capture socially responsible management practices including the social responsibility of business leaders, sustainable development, employee training, efficiency of corporate boards,... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 18 Jul 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, July 18, 2017
Sandra J., and Matthew Preble Abstract—The article discusses an intern for the technology security company Zantech addressing her concerns about her boss in Seoul, South Korea, regarding an inappropriate suggestion on misrepresenting her identity. An overview of the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 May 2018
- News
HBS Fellowship Program Puts an MBA Within Reach
Had her mother not gone back to school to earn her college degree while raising two young children, Diamond Richardson (MBA 2019) might not have pursued higher education. “It taught me that you can do anything if you really put the effort into it. That’s where I get my... View Details
- 21 Nov 2017
- News
Rushing Yards
it’s clear that Howard’s earliest influencers were his parents, who grew up the children of sharecroppers yet both graduated from college. That same work ethic and love of education would take Howard to Oxford University as a Rhodes... View Details
- 09 Jun 2015
- News
Building change from the ground up
as the Taliban-influenced south, operating under a firm policy of cultural sensitivity and ethical transparency in a country ranked as one of the most corrupt in the world. When Roshan launched, police were called in to control the crowds... View Details