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- 2016
- Case
Advanced Leadership Pathways: Alberto Mora and the Costs and Consequences of Torture
By: Rosabeth M. Kanter and Benjamin Summers
Alberto Mora's time as General Counsel of the Navy from 2001–2006 greatly influenced his mission to illuminate the policy consequences of torture. Mora's drive to restore the nation's awareness and conscience against torture was gaining traction. Prominent... View Details
Keywords: Leadership Skills; Torture; Costs And Consequences; Humane; Restraint; Human Dignity; Treatment Of Prisoners; Prison; Repression; Opposition; Revolution; Democracy; Communism; International Affairs; Public Service; September 11; War On Terror; Operation Enduring Freedom; Guantanamo; Cuba; Coalition; Working Group; Cruelty; Interrogation; Memorandum; American Law; Authority; Authoritative; Quadrennial Defense Review; National Defense Authorization Act; Public Engagement; Advocacy; Law; Accountability; Center For The Victims Of Torture; Human Rights; Public Policy; Legality; Morality; Legal System; Tactical Military Operations; West Point; NGO; Human Rights First; American Civil Liberties Union; Human Rights Watch; Amnesty International; Constitution Project; Center For Constitutional Rights; Strategic Military Effect; National Security; Weapon; Terrorism; Prisoners Of War; Abu Ghraib; Pentagon; Ethics; Moral Sensibility; Leadership; Rights; Policy; Public Opinion; United States
Kanter, Rosabeth M., and Benjamin Summers. "Advanced Leadership Pathways: Alberto Mora and the Costs and Consequences of Torture." Harvard Business School Case 316-054, 2016. (Harvard Advanced Leadership Initiative.)
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Why Ordinary People Torture Enemy Prisoners
By: S.T. Fiske, L.T. Harris and A.J.C. Cuddy
Fiske, S.T., L.T. Harris, and A.J.C. Cuddy. "Why Ordinary People Torture Enemy Prisoners." Science 306, no. 5701 (November 26, 2004): 1482–1483.
- 09 Jul 2015
- News
On Quitting: How to Jump Ship without Drowning
- December 2011
- Article
Alchemy of Evidence: Mau Mau, the British Empire, and the High Court of Justice
By: Caroline Elkins
Restorative justice in various forms is a phenomenon that has swept across the globe over the last three decades. Most recently, it is unfolding in the High Court of Justice in London where five Kenyans have filed a claim against the British government, alleging that... View Details
Elkins, Caroline. "Alchemy of Evidence: Mau Mau, the British Empire, and the High Court of Justice." Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History 39, no. 5 (December 2011): 731–748.
- 05 Jul 2017
- News
Stop the Meeting Madness
- 2021
- Working Paper
Capitalism, Slavery, and the Legacy of Cesare Beccaria
The Milanese Marquis Cesare Beccaria (1738-1794) dedicated his life first to theorizing a more just and equal society grounded in individual rights, anchored in secular political economy rather than in religious dogma, then to realizing this bold vision... View Details
Reinert, Sophus A. "Capitalism, Slavery, and the Legacy of Cesare Beccaria." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 22-034, December 2021. (Revised January 2022.)
- 01 Mar 2024
- News
In Harmony
Kim at Seoul’s government-built Hoehyeon “Citizens’ Apartments.” Opened in 1970, it stands as a reminder of a Korea from a very different era. Like so many South Koreans of a certain age, Michael ByungJu Kim (MBA 1990) lives in a country where the past lingers,... View Details
- 09 Mar 2023
- Blog Post
Where Will You Be in 30 Years: Behind the Scenes of the 5 Big Life Decisions Documentary
experienced by women in the workforce. “We found that even starting from the five-year reunions, women were tortured by the tradeoffs of family and work,” said Singer. Peak parenting years and peak career years collided in their 30s and... View Details
- 11 Mar 2024
- News
In Harmony
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, my name is Julia Hanna; I’m an associate editor at the HBS Alumni Bulletin. Last November I flew to Seoul, South Korea to interview Michael Kim (MBA 1990) of MBK Partners. Often referred to as one of... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
L. Paul Bremer: In His Own Words
fathers.” Bremer: “The scars in Iraq run very deep. The secret police, the thugs, the informers, the torture chambers, they may have gone. But the people of Iraq will be coping with the horrors of the mass graves and the individual and... View Details
- Portrait Project
Dominique Baillet
I believe, but rather for the reckless delivery. I have never feared authority figures concerning matters of opinion. Although, as I have gotten older, I have experienced the harsher risks of speaking out. I have agonized in embarrassment. I have been View Details
- Portrait Project
Anjali Thakkar
naked, unresponsive body. I retreated into the furthest back corner, trying to understand. This is how the patient would die: with strangers pounding on his chest in a futile effort to create life from death. I felt sick. Forty-five View Details
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
Turning Point: Make Your Life Count
and my siblings took any jobs they could find: disinfecting shoes at a bowling alley, cleaning hotels, and serving free samples at Sam’s Club. I got busy learning English so I could become Mom’s interpreter. After two years of torture in... View Details
- 07 Jun 2017
- Research & Ideas
How an African History Scholar Became a Modern Righter of Wrongs
military conflict known as the Mau Mau Rebellion, which took place in Kenya throughout the 1950s, at the end of British colonial rule. The study revealed how the British government had secretly detained and tortured hundreds of thousands... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
Turning Point: Coming to Cambodia
Genocide Museum, site of the high school that became a torture prison. In his maniacal determination to turn the country into an agrarian utopia, Pol Pot killed off anyone who was educated, who was a musician or dancer, or who simply wore... View Details
- 19 Jul 2010
- Research & Ideas
How Mercadona Fixes Retail’s ’Last 10 Yards’ Problem
variable store traffic. What Mercadona shows is that all this torture isn't necessary. You can offer employees stability and still run a very successful supermarket chain." The Specialist Knows The Mercadona case, which Ton has... View Details
- 10 Sep 2007
- Research & Ideas
High Note: Managing the Medici String Quartet
research. Their apprenticeship under Curzon was very interesting, not least musically. Curzon insisted on proper English manners, including torturous English tea service and proper "breaking of the scone." What does breaking a... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Faster, Bigger, Stronger: Supersizing the NFL
former linebacker Isaiah Kacyvenski (MBA 2011), who suffered his share of head and other injuries during his eight-year NFL career. (See "A Source of Power" below) "Football can't be seen as grotesque, with mangled bodies tortured over... View Details