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    Joshua D. Margolis

    Joshua Margolis is James Dinan and Elizabeth Miller Professor of Business Administration and the Unit Head for the Organizational Behavior unit. He is also Faculty Chair of the Program for Leadership Development. His research and teaching revolve around leadership... View Details

    Keywords: furniture; health care; insurance industry; nonprofit industry; pharmaceuticals
    • 09 Jul 2001
    • Research & Ideas

    Does Misery Love Companies? How Social Performance Pays Off

    the empirical quest to link a firm's social investments to its financial returns has preoccupied researchers. Our goal in this paper is to reorient debate and research about social initiatives by business. We try to stimulate a fresh... View Details
    Keywords: by Joshua D. Margolis & James P. Walsh
    • 25 Oct 2006
    • Op-Ed

    Fixing Executive Options: The Veil of Ignorance

    insight was that the fair solution could be determined by creating uncertainty about the position the person choosing the outcome would find him- or herself in. In short, the person cutting the cake has to decide the size of the slices... View Details
    Keywords: by Mihir Desai & Joshua Margolis
    • 25 Jun 2014
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Does ‘Could’ Lead to Good? Toward a Theory of Moral Insight

    Keywords: by Ting Zhang, Francesca Gino & Joshua D. Margolis
    • 13 Aug 2009
    • Working Paper Summaries

    In Favor of Clear Thinking: Incorporating Moral Rules into a Wise Cost-Benefit Analysis

    Keywords: by Max H. Bazerman & Joshua D. Greene
    • 09 Apr 2009
    • Working Paper Summaries

    The Economics of Structured Finance

    Keywords: by Joshua D. Coval, Jakub Jurek & Erik Stafford
    • 13 Jul 2007
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Economic Catastrophe Bonds

    Keywords: by Joshua D. Coval, Jakub W. Jurek & Erik Stafford; Financial Services
    • 09 Oct 2008
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Dirty Work, Clean Hands: The Moral Psychology of Indirect Agency

    Keywords: by Neeru Paharia, Karim S. Kassam, Joshua D. Greene & Max H. Bazerman
    • 14 Nov 2011
    • Research & Ideas

    Creating a Global Business Code

    "Along the lines of Generally Accepted Accounting Principles, we were looking for 'Generally Accepted Conduct Principles,' " says Rohit Deshpandé, who conducted the research along with HBS colleagues Lynn S. Paine and Joshua... View Details
    Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
    • 17 Feb 2003
    • Research & Ideas

    Rating Fund Managers by the Company They Keep

    Many tools for rating the performance of mutual funds and their managers rely heavily on past performance. But what about the future? Now comes a system devised by Randolph B. Cohen and Joshua View Details
    Keywords: by Ann Cullen
    • 16 Mar 2015
    • Research & Ideas

    Advice on Advice

    realize that it involves skills that can be learned and refined, according to Harvard Business School professors David A. Garvin and Joshua D. Margolis. Highly skilled advisers pay close attention to how... View Details
    Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
    • 08 Aug 2016
    • Lessons from the Classroom

    Panic Management: Keep Your Eyes on the Road

    and look at it more clearly. Release your emotional grip on the problem: Based on a Harvard Business Review article “Pull the Plug on Stress,” by Bruce Cryer, Rollin McCraty, and Doc Childre, Margolis... View Details
    Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
    • 17 May 2004
    • Research & Ideas

    Why We Don’t Study Corporate Responsibility

    For too long, scholarship in the field of management has looked at economic performance rather than social welfare, argue HBS professor Joshua Margolis and colleagues James P. Walsh, of University of... View Details
    Keywords: by Manda Salls
    • Awards

    Academy of Management. Outstanding Publication in Organizational Behavior Award

    By: Joshua D. Margolis
    Won the 2009 Outstanding Publication in Organizational Behavior Award from the Academy of Management for the paper (with Andrew Molinsky) "Navigating the Bind of Necessary Evils: Psychological Engagement and the Production of Interpersonally Sensitive Behavior" in the... View Details
    • 28 Feb 2011
    • Research & Ideas

    The Importance of ‘Don’t’ in Inducing Ethical Employee Behavior

    what not to do? Harvard Business School professor Joshua D. Margolis draws a parallel to stage directions in a high-school play. "If you're always told when to enter, you... View Details
    Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
    • 28 Feb 2011
    • News

    The Importance of 'Don't' in Inducing Ethical Employee Behavior

    • Article

    Misery Loves Companies: Rethinking Social Initiatives by Business

    By: Joshua D. Margolis and James P. Walsh
    Keywords: Society; Business Ventures
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    • 06 Jul 2009
    • Research & Ideas

    Conducting Layoffs: ’Necessary Evils’ at Work

    be handled in a way that allows for the emotional cauldron that people experience when they are the ones who actually carry out these tasks. According to research by Joshua D.... View Details
    Keywords: by Martha Lagace
    • 14 Nov 2011
    • News

    Creating a Global Business Code

    • January 2008
    • Article

    Do Well by Doing Good? Don't Count on It

    By: Joshua D. Margolis, Hillary Anger Elfenbein and James P. Walsh
    Research over 35 years shows only a weak link between socially responsible corporate behavior and good financial performance. However, there's no evidence of risk in doing good, only in being exposed for misdeeds. View Details
    Keywords: Values and Beliefs; Profit; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Performance Effectiveness; Behavior
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