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- December 2018
- Article
Reserve Design: Unintended Consequences and the Demise of Boston's Walk Zones
By: Umut Dur, Scott Duke Kominers, Parag A. Pathak and Tayfun Sönmez
Admissions policies often use reserves to grant certain applicants higher priority for some (but not all) available seats. Boston’s school choice system, for example, reserved half of each school’s seats for local neighborhood applicants while leaving the other half... View Details
Keywords: Neighborhoods; Equal Access; School Choice; Affirmative Action; Desegregation; Marketplace Matching; Fairness; Local Range; Education; Policy
Dur, Umut, Scott Duke Kominers, Parag A. Pathak, and Tayfun Sönmez. "Reserve Design: Unintended Consequences and the Demise of Boston's Walk Zones." Journal of Political Economy 126, no. 6 (December 2018): 2457–2479.
- Article
Men as Cultural Ideals: Cultural Values Moderate Gender Stereotype Content.
By: Amy Cuddy, Elizabeth Baily Wolf, Peter Glick, Susan Crotty, Jihye Chong and Michael I. Norton
Four studies tested whether cultural values moderate the content of gender stereotypes, such that male stereotypes more closely align with core cultural values (specifically, individualism vs. collectivism) than do female stereotypes. In Studies 1 and 2, using... View Details
Keywords: Gender Stereotypes; Stereotype Content; Individualism; Collectivism; Prejudice and Bias; Values and Beliefs; Culture; Gender
Cuddy, Amy, Elizabeth Baily Wolf, Peter Glick, Susan Crotty, Jihye Chong, and Michael I. Norton. "Men as Cultural Ideals: Cultural Values Moderate Gender Stereotype Content." Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 109, no. 4 (October 2015): 622–635.
- December 2012
- Article
On the Efficiency-Fairness Trade-Off
By: Dimitris Bertsimas, Vivek F. Farias and Nikolaos Trichakis
This paper deals with a basic issue: How does one approach the problem of designing the "right" objective for a given resource allocation problem? The notion of what is right can be fairly nebulous; we consider two issues that we see as key: efficiency and fairness. We... View Details
Keywords: Decision Support; Cost vs Benefits; Fairness; Resource Allocation; Performance Efficiency; Air Transportation Industry
Bertsimas, Dimitris, Vivek F. Farias, and Nikolaos Trichakis. "On the Efficiency-Fairness Trade-Off." Management Science 58, no. 12 (December 2012): 2234–2250.
- June 2008 (Revised January 2012)
- Background Note
Solving a Problem or Sounding the Alarm? Guidelines on Blowing the Whistle
By: Lynn S. Paine and Lara Adamsons
Many of us will at some point in our professional lives encounter situations involving what we believe to be wrongful or injurious activities that may cause harm to innocent parties, our company, or the public. It may be necessary to bring the matter to the attention... View Details
Paine, Lynn S., and Lara Adamsons. "Solving a Problem or Sounding the Alarm? Guidelines on Blowing the Whistle." Harvard Business School Background Note 308-005, June 2008. (Revised January 2012.)
- February 2007 (Revised March 2007)
- Module Note
Antigone: The Challenge of Right Versus Right
By: Sandra J. Sucher
A summary of the major themes discussed in the second class of The Moral Leader (EC curriculum). View Details
Sucher, Sandra J. "Antigone: The Challenge of Right Versus Right." Harvard Business School Module Note 607-066, February 2007. (Revised March 2007.)
- July 1991 (Revised December 2018)
- Compilation
Slavery
By: Thomas K. McCraw
Explores the general history of slavery in the United States. Through detailed exhibits and a text consisting of excerpts from six first-hand observations of slavery, this note is designed to present the ethics, economics (especially the perverse incentive systems),... View Details
Keywords: Slavery; Human Capital; History; Ethics; Social Issues; Motivation and Incentives; United States
McCraw, Thomas K. "Slavery." Harvard Business School Compilation 792-001, July 1991. (Revised December 2018.)
- Web
Isha Puri | MBA
interest: Artificial intelligence, language models, fintech, product management, ethical technologies. Formative experience at the intersection of technology and business: Early in college, I had built a successful AI-driven platform that... View Details
- Web
Generative AI for Business Leaders - Course Catalog
delves into critical questions at the heart of this transformation: How will GenAI reshape modern enterprise? What strategies should businesses adopt to integrate this technology effectively? How can existing data be leveraged to unlock new opportunities? What are the... View Details
- 12 Feb 2014
- Research & Ideas
Private Sector, Public Good
Should business play a role in supporting public institutions, and perhaps addressing the world's social challenges? When Harvard Professor Rebecca Henderson asked her colleagues and business executives that question over the last few years, the reaction was often... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- Forthcoming
- Article
Public Perception and Autonomous Vehicle Liability
By: Julian De Freitas, Xilin Zhou, Margherita Atzei, Shoshana Boardman and Luigi Di Lillo
The deployment of autonomous vehicles (AVs) and the accompanying societal and economic benefits will greatly depend on how much liability AV firms will have to carry for accidents involving these vehicles, which in turn impacts their insurability and associated... View Details
De Freitas, Julian, Xilin Zhou, Margherita Atzei, Shoshana Boardman, and Luigi Di Lillo. "Public Perception and Autonomous Vehicle Liability." Journal of Consumer Psychology (forthcoming). (Pre-published online January 12, 2025.)
- 2014
- Working Paper
The Contaminating Effects of Building Instrumental Ties: How Networking Can Make Us Feel Dirty
By: Tiziana Casciaro, Francesca Gino and Maryam Kouchaki
To create social ties to support their professional or personal goals, people actively engage in instrumental networking. Drawing from moral psychology research, we posit that this intentional behavior has unintended consequences for an individual's morality. Unlike... View Details
Keywords: Networking; Morality; Dirtiness; Power; Networks; Moral Sensibility; Personal Development and Career; Power and Influence
Casciaro, Tiziana, Francesca Gino, and Maryam Kouchaki. "The Contaminating Effects of Building Instrumental Ties: How Networking Can Make Us Feel Dirty." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 14-108, April 2014.
- January 2011 (Revised June 2012)
- Case
Joe Gifford in Tal Afar, Iraq (A)
By: Joseph Badaracco, Richard Burgess Jr., Robert Carpio III and William Wheeler
A Lieutenant leading a platoon in Iraq must make a complex ethical, military, and leadership decision: whether to risk his life and that of other soldiers to reenter a home rigged with an explosive and save three Iraqis. View Details
Keywords: Decision Choices and Conditions; Moral Sensibility; Leadership; Management; Problems and Challenges; Iraq
Badaracco, Joseph, Richard Burgess Jr., Robert Carpio III, and William Wheeler. "Joe Gifford in Tal Afar, Iraq (A)." Harvard Business School Case 311-085, January 2011. (Revised June 2012.)
- 2007
- Book
America the Principled: 6 Opportunities for Becoming a Can-Do Nation Once Again
This book draws on the author's multiple research projects and field observations to analyze problems facing the United States in recent years and to create an agenda for renewing American strengths through returning to core American principles—but in new ways suitable... View Details
Keywords: Values and Beliefs; Policy; Leadership; Civil Society or Community; Cooperation; United States
Kanter, Rosabeth M. America the Principled: 6 Opportunities for Becoming a Can-Do Nation Once Again. New York: Crown, 2007.
- 2006
- Chapter
Corporate Philanthropy: Taking the High Ground
By: Michael E. Porter and Mark R. Kramer
Keywords: Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Social Entrepreneurship; Ethics
Porter, Michael E., and Mark R. Kramer. "Corporate Philanthropy: Taking the High Ground." In The Accountable Corporation, Vol. 3: Corporate Social Responsibility, edited by Marc J. Epstein and Kirk O. Hanson. Praeger, 2006.
- 1 Jan 1986
- Conference Presentation
Attitudes Toward Women in Groups with Male and Female Leaders
By: R. Ely
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Action Plan: Net Proceeds
Philippines are a few countries where they operate, ensuring chain of custody of materials and ethical collection, with no child or forced labor. OceanCycle has worked with Patagonia, Herman Miller, and Dell Computer to make products out... View Details
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Accelerating Scientific Discovery
development—regenerative biology, as well ethical issues such as “playing God” by virtue of DNA editing. “When we write the history of the early 21st century, I think we will remember this time as being a period when we achieved... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Alumni Books
Odds by Peter D. Johnston (MBA ’90) (Negotiation Press) How do you negotiate with Wal-Mart or with an intimidating boss about an ethical issue? How do you negotiate a capital infusion for a struggling start-up or better health care for... View Details
- 15 Aug 2017
- Blog Post
Where Work Meets Passion: A Summer In Community Development
secure more homeownership, entrepreneurship, and financial security. One of the questions I’ll spend my career answering is: how do you develop for-profit residential and commercial property in an inclusive and ethical way that doesn’t... View Details
Keywords: Nonprofit / Government
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
End of Campaign Celebrated
managerial decisions they will confront in business. Said Paine, “It’s not just a matter of teaching. Ethics must be built into the culture to work. That is the challenge we’re helping our students grapple with.” Building World-Class... View Details