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- August 2024
- Background Note
Your True Moral Compass
This note explores the concept of a "moral compass" for making difficult decisions in leadership roles. It argues that the standard view of a moral compass as a simple, internal guide is inadequate for complex situations. Instead, it proposes that our true moral... View Details
- February 2024 (Revised May 2024)
- Case
Lina Khan at the FTC: Redefining Antitrust in the Age of Big Tech
By: Joseph L. Badaracco Jr. and Susan Pinckney
In 2023 and 2024, the Federal Trade Commission and U.S. Department of Justice sued Google, Amazon, and Apple claiming antitrust violations. These lawsuits marked a shift in U.S. antitrust enforcement away from the Chicago School and towards the New Brandeis school of... View Details
- 2023
- Book
Your True Moral Compass: Defining Reality, Responsibility, and Practicality in Your Leadership Moments
This book presents a new, powerful, and practical way of making final decisions on the hard, complex, uncertain problems of life and work. What if you have looked at the data, talked with trusted colleagues, and applied all the relevant managerial and ethical... View Details
- August 2023 (Revised December 2023)
- Case
Automating Morality: Ethics for Intelligent Machines
By: Joseph L. Badaracco Jr. and Tom Quinn
As autonomy became a more significant part of modern life – most notably in autonomous vehicles (AVs), such as Teslas – ethical debates about whether and how to impart ethics to machines heated up. Utilitarians pointed out that autonomous vehicles crashed much less... View Details
Keywords: Cost vs Benefits; Judgments; Fairness; Moral Sensibility; Values and Beliefs; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Disruptive Innovation; Technology Adoption; Risk and Uncertainty; Cognition and Thinking; Technological Innovation; Auto Industry; Technology Industry; Africa; Asia; Europe; North and Central America; Oceania; South America
- 2013
- Book
The Good Struggle: Responsible Leadership in an Unforgiving World
The question of how to lead successfully and responsibly is crucially important in our uncertain, high-pressure, turbulent world. In this book, Joseph Badaracco answers this question in practical and, at times, provocative ways. View Details
- March 2013 (Revised March 2015)
- Case
iMatari
By: Joseph L. Badaracco and Matthew Preble
In late 2012, recent Harvard Business School graduate Hannah Lopez is given the opportunity to lead entry into a new market for Plámo, a company that created startup companies in Europe and emerging markets based upon existing successful business models. She had only... View Details
- September 2006
- Teaching Note
Models of the Corporation (TN)
By: Joseph L. Badaracco Jr. and Aldo Sesia
Keywords: Corporate Governance
- September 2006 (Revised June 2007)
- Teaching Note
Note on Human Behavior: Character and Situation (TN)
By: Joseph L. Badaracco Jr. and Aldo Sesia
Teaching Note to 9-404-091. View Details
- May 2006 (Revised September 2006)
- Teaching Note
Two Tough Calls (TN) (A) and (B)
- March 2006
- Article
Leadership in Literature
- November 2005 (Revised July 2006)
- Case
Two Tough Calls (A)
A young female manager must decide whether to terminate two poorly performing managers who work for her. Shows the practical and ethical issues involved in firing decisions. View Details
- November 2005 (Revised July 2006)
- Supplement
Two Tough Calls (B)
- January 2004 (Revised April 2005)
- Background Note
Personal Values and Professional Responsibilities
Describes some of the classic conflicts managers face in trying to live and work by their personal values and uses Hirschman's "exit, loyalty, and voice" framework to suggest ways for resolving these conflicts. View Details
- 2003
- Class Lecture
Defining Moments: A Framework for Moral Decisions
- May – June 2002
- Article
The Anything-But Unremarkable Lessons of the Quiet Leader
Keywords: Leadership
- October 2001
- Teaching Note
Individual and the Corporation, The: Kathy Levinson and E*Trade (A) and (B) TN
Teaching Note for (9-301-057) and (9-301-058). View Details