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Being an Ethical Business in a Corrupt Environment

Harvard Business

Our research in Egypt , Zimbabwe , and India shows that organizations should view the prospect of building a strong ethical reputation in such environments as an opportunity, and consider the costs of resisting corruption as an investment in building such a reputation. Ethics Can Be a Differentiator.

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It’s Time to Make Business School Research More Relevant

Harvard Business

In an Academy of Management Journal editorial, we described two problems that contribute to this challenge. Researchers have found that managers tend to be unaware of research-supported management insights reported in academic journals, and that such insights are typically excluded in practitioner-oriented journals.

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When Competition Between Coworkers Leads to Unethical Behavior

Harvard Business

At the same time, the need to win can blind us to ethical considerations. In our research, recently published in the journal Human Resource Management, we found that performance evaluation schemes based on peer comparison can encourage unethical behavior. Our Studies Study 1. We invited 160 participants of U.S.

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CEOs Who Began Their Careers During Booms Tend to Be Less Ethical

Harvard Business

Based on these previous findings, we wondered: Would CEOs who began their careers during boom times be less ethical? Our question stemmed from the idea that prosperous times are often linked to ethical missteps. Our work suggests that they may be more ethical, too.

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Consulting Ethics Concern, Once Again

The Consultants Peer Group

Lack of consulting ethics once again. Over the past week both NPR and Wall Street Journal have reviewed the book, The Big Con: How the Consulting Industry Weakens Our Businesses, Infantilizes Our Governments, and Warps Our Economies , by authors Mariana Mazzucato and Rosie Collington in which they skewer the consulting industry.

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Staffing and Certified Management Consultant Wayne Outlaw Receives Service Award

IMC USA

Outlaw has been acknowledged by The Wall Street Journal as a "staffing expert" and quoted in publications such as Fast Company, Nations Business, Newsweek, Entrepreneur, and Investor’s Business Daily. He has published numerous articles on strategic staffing, leadership and sales in trade and business journals.

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Conflict-of-Interest Rules Are Holding Back Medical Breakthroughs

Harvard Business

Within the last five to 10 years, several major professional societies considered banning or did ban industry scientists from presenting their research at annual meetings or publishing in the society’s journal regardless of the merits of the research. And continued vigilance is prudent.