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How Will You Measure Your Life?
Leadership & Managing People Magazine ArticleHarvard Business School's Christensen teaches aspiring MBAs how to apply management and innovation theories to build stronger companies. But he also believes... -
The Most Important Leadership Competencies, According to Leaders Around the World
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleThey're all hard to improve because they run counter to our instincts. -
Building an Ethical Company
Organizational Development Magazine ArticleJust as people can develop skills and abilities over time, they can learn to be more or less ethical. Yet many organizations limit ethics training to... -
Why Be Honest If Honesty Doesn't Pay
Leadership & Managing People Magazine ArticleConscience explains why most business men and women keep their word and deal fairly with one another. There is no evidence that honesty pays, despite... -
Life's Work: An Interview with Martin Baron
Leadership & Managing People Magazine ArticleThe former top editor of the Boston Globe and the Washington Post talks about the Globe's investigation of the Catholic Church sex abuse scandal, attacks... -
Is Business Bluffing Ethical?
Leadership & Managing People Magazine ArticleBusiness, like poker, is often a game of strategic bluffs. The worlds of private and business life are separate and demand separate codes of ethics. The... -
How One Person Can Change the Conscience of an Organization
Organizational Development Digital ArticleThese four mindsets can help you transform the culture. -
If You're Loyal to a Group, Does It Compromise Your Ethics?
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleNew research on honesty. -
Parable of the Sadhu
Leadership & Managing People Magazine ArticleWhen does a group have responsibility for the well-being of an individual? And what are the differences between the ethics of the individual and the ethics... -
Why Ethics Matter in a Downturn
Business ethics Digital ArticleWhen times get tough, many companies reflexively play everything close to the vest. Executives often stop sharing information with anyone, fearing that any tidbit of data that shows weakness may cause employees to leave, customers to flee, and investors to sell. These fears distort thinking, damage relationships, and lead some managers down the slippery slope […] -
How to Be a Leader Who Stays True to Their Ethics
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleStart by having an honest conversation with yourself. -
Banks with More Women on Their Boards Commit Less Fraud
Organizational Development Magazine ArticleWhen researchers from Cass Business School compared data on board diversity with fines levied for misconduct, they found that banks with more female directors... -
How to Speak Up About Ethical Issues at Work
Personal ethics Best PracticeFirst, decide whether you should say something at all. -
Ethics in Practice
Business ethics Magazine ArticleAs the 1990s overtake us, public interest in ethics is at a historic high. While the press calls attention to blatant derelictions on Wall Street, in the defense industry, and in the Pentagon, and to questionable activities in the White House, in the attorney general’s office, and in Congress, observers wonder whether our society is […] -
The Ethics of Resume Writing
Business ethics Digital ArticleYou are an up and coming leader and have just found the perfect stretch job opportunity. How much can you “dress up” your resume to make yourself as strong a candidate as possible without crossing the ethical line of deception? Consider a few conflicting thoughts: • Over 50% of people lie on their resume. • […] -
How (Un)ethical Are You?
Organizational Development Magazine ArticleAnswer true or false: "I am an ethical manager." If you answered "true," here's an uncomfortable fact: You're probably wrong. Most of us believe we can... -
Can Ethics Classes Cure Cheating?
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleIs it the responsibility of schools to teach ethics? I think it is - but only if it's done the right way. MBA Students don't necessarily care about Kant's... -
Entrepreneurs and the Truth
Organizational Development Magazine ArticleChicanery is common in the start-up world: With so much at stake, founders are apt to exaggerate, obfuscate, and otherwise stretch the truth when courting... -
5 Signs Your Organization Might Be Headed for an Ethics Scandal
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleInterviews with 23 experts identify a pattern. -
Values in Tension: Ethics Away from Home
Global Business Magazine ArticleWhat should managers working abroad do when they encounter business practices that seem unethical? Should they, in the spirit of cultural relativism,...
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Netflix and Dave Chappelle (B)
Management Case Study8.95View Details In late 2021, Netflix leadership had to deal with some fierce employee and public blowback after airing The Closer, a comedy special by comedian Dave... -
Intersectionality
Management Case Study8.95View Details In late 2021, Netflix leadership had to deal with some fierce employee and public blowback after airing The Closer, a comedy special by comedian Dave... -
Gwen Berry and the Politics of Protest (A)
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details In the summer of 2019, notable track and field athlete Gwen Berry was representing Team USA at the Pan American Games in Peru when, having won the hammer... -
The Power of Persuasion and Influence
Communication Tool99.00View Details Persuasion is a powerful tool. Discover how to win support for your ideas and influence others to take action. -
A Dolphin Bullied: Jonathan Martin's NFL Experience in Miami (A)
Global Business Case Study8.95View Details In 2013, Jonathan Martin, a starting lineman for the Miami Dolphins, left the team. He cited the negative effects of the team's culture-specifically,... -
Facebook's Predicaments: Incidental, Inadvertent, or Intentional?
Management Case Study8.95View Details By October 2021, the US social media giant Facebook Inc. had been dominating the social media market globally with the highest number of active users.... -
Fool Me Once: Scams, Stories, and Secrets from the Trillion-Dollar Fraud Industry
Finance & Accounting Book30.00View Details A riveting look at the perpetrators, victims, and whistleblowers behind financial crimes, from forensic accounting expert and documentarian Kelly Richmond... -
From Farm Boy to Financier: Eiichi Shibusawa and the Creation of Modern Japan
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details This case describes the career of Eiichi Shibusawa (1840-1931), a serial entrepreneur who is widely known as the "father of Japanese capitalism" and as... -
Darden Investment Sales
Management Case Study8.95View Details TJ, a manager at an investment company, is alarmed when, during an evening out with Leslie, his female colleague, and five male prospective clients, the... -
Piracy in Somalia (A)
Global Business Case Study8.95View Details A Somali fisherman stands on a beach in early 2011, considering his options: should he embark in his tiny fishing vessel, or join a nearby pirate crew?... -
Defining Moments: Leading When You're Being Followed (A)
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details This case set follows Alex Stewart, who has built and runs a green energy development firm in the United States. After finding success finding and using... -
Gwen Berry and the Politics of Protest (B)
Strategy & Execution Case Study5.00View Details This case is a follow-up to ""Gwen Berry and the Politics of Protest (A)"" (UVA-E-0479). Gwen Berry did protest at the Pan American Games in the summer... -
Netflix and Dave Chappelle (A)
Management Case Study8.95View Details In late 2021, Netflix leadership had to deal with some fierce employee and public blowback after airing The Closer, a comedy special by comedian Dave... -
Moral Complexity in Leadership: Empathy / "A Small, Good Thing," by Raymond Carver
Management Case Study8.95View Details The "Moral Complexity in Leadership" series of cases and teaching notes help business instructors harness the power of fiction to prepare students for... -
Moral Complexity in Leadership (Greed): How Much Land Does a Man Need? by Leo Tolstoy
Management Case Study8.95View Details The "Moral Complexity in Leadership" series of cases and teaching notes help business instructors harness the power of fiction to prepare students for... -
Pink, White, and Blue: A Transgender Sailor, the U.S. Navy, and a Right vs. Right Ethical Dilemma
Management Case Study8.95View Details Pink, White and Blue is appropriate for undergraduate or graduate courses in management, business ethics, organizational behavior, leadership, or human... -
Analyst's Dilemma (A)
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details A young investment banker returns home one night to find that her roommate and best friend has been laid off from Universal Bank because Universal is... -
How Will You Measure Your Life? (Harvard Business Review Classics)
In the spring of 2010, Harvard Business School's graduating class asked HBS professor Clay Christensen to address them--but not on how to apply his principles... -
Employee Activism
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details Liz O'Sullivan, an employee at a fast-growing technology company called Clarifi, had a moral dilemma: She disagreed with Clarifi's decision to sell its... -
When is Pricing Unethical? Pharmaceuticals, Rideshares, Soft Drinks, and Travel
Sales & Marketing Case Study8.95View Details This case provides many different examples of pricing with ethical concerns that are spread across two common pricing contexts-value pricing and dynamic...
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How Will You Measure Your Life?
Leadership & Managing People Magazine ArticleHarvard Business School's Christensen teaches aspiring MBAs how to apply management and innovation theories to build stronger companies. But he also believes... -
The Most Important Leadership Competencies, According to Leaders Around the World
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleThey're all hard to improve because they run counter to our instincts. -
Building an Ethical Company
Organizational Development Magazine ArticleJust as people can develop skills and abilities over time, they can learn to be more or less ethical. Yet many organizations limit ethics training to... -
Why Be Honest If Honesty Doesn't Pay
Leadership & Managing People Magazine ArticleConscience explains why most business men and women keep their word and deal fairly with one another. There is no evidence that honesty pays, despite... -
What I Wish I Had Known About My Mother
Personal purpose and values First PersonWhat may feel like unrequited love between immigrant parents and their first-generation children is often rooted in misunderstandings. -
Netflix and Dave Chappelle (B)
Management Case Study8.95View Details In late 2021, Netflix leadership had to deal with some fierce employee and public blowback after airing The Closer, a comedy special by comedian Dave... -
Harvard ManageMentor: Persuading Others, Facilitator Guide
Sales & Marketing Digital ArticleFacilitator Guide for 7177. -
Intersectionality
Management Case Study8.95View Details In late 2021, Netflix leadership had to deal with some fierce employee and public blowback after airing The Closer, a comedy special by comedian Dave... -
Defining Your Values: Our Favorite Reads
Personal purpose and values ListicleWhen you know what’s important to you, work is easier to navigate. -
Life's Work: An Interview with Martin Baron
Leadership & Managing People Magazine ArticleThe former top editor of the Boston Globe and the Washington Post talks about the Globe's investigation of the Catholic Church sex abuse scandal, attacks...