Harvard Business

OCTOBER 6, 2016

This has been studied in different contexts. For example, one study showed that participants who selected green products over conventional products were more likely to cheat on a future task. We conducted six studies on diverse samples with over 450 participants, from undergraduate students to working adults.

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Tom Spencer

OCTOBER 25, 2024

Governance Metrics: These assess the quality of a company’s leadership, executive compensation, and adherence to ethical standards. Starbucks, with its commitment to ethical sourcing and community engagement, has cultivated a loyal customer base that values sustainability.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 12, 2018

At the same time, the need to win can blind us to ethical considerations. In one study, we asked 164 MBA students to read a hypothetical scenario (based on a true story) about an investment banker facing an ethical dilemma, and to estimate the likelihood that this banker would indulge in unethical behavior. Our Studies Study 1.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

Many of these studies, however, only look at the unethical actions people take on behalf of themselves. My research suggests that people acting on behalf of others can be influenced by the values and perceived expectations of those they’re representing—specifically when it comes to acting ethically. vs. 72.2%).

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Strategy+Business

MAY 14, 2017

This year's CEO Success study shows that boards of directors, institutional investors, governments, and the media are holding chief executive officers to a far higher level of accountability for corporate fraud and ethical lapses than in the past. percent of all successions in 2007-11 to 5.3 percent in 2012-16.

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Harvard Business

JULY 2, 2019

Eugene Soltes, associate professor at Harvard Business School, studies white-collar crime and has even interviewed convicts behind bars. He shares practical tools for managers to identify pockets of ethical violations to prevent them from ballooning into serious reputational and financial damage.

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Harvard Business

MAY 18, 2016

We found evidence of unethical amnesia across nine experimental studies involving diverse sample populations, ranging from undergraduate students to online panels of adults. In another study, we asked participants to read a detailed story of an unethical act. We then measured their memory a few days later.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 6, 2017

Larger companies are more at risk than smaller ones, as are companies where the CEO has been in office for a long time, and companies where the CEO is also the board chair, according to PwC’s Strategy& recent CEO Success study. From 2007-2011, forced turnovers due to ethical lapses were 3.9% and Canada (from 1.6% to 8.8%).

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Harvard Business

APRIL 20, 2017

Editor's Note This fictionalized case study will appear in a forthcoming issue of Harvard Business Review, along with commentary from experts and readers. “When I saw him speak, he talked about how important ethics were in this field.” Moon’s team, but there had been complications with her visa.

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Harvard Business

JULY 3, 2024

The leadership questions surrounding new Washington Post CEO Will Lewis serve as a case study in the challenges of bringing in an outsider to lead an organization, highlighting the importance of transparency and alignment with company values.

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Harvard Business

MAY 25, 2016

The swift discipline of employees who violate ethical standards is recommended. This is the case even in organizations that on the whole are considered highly ethical. In our third study, we took into account the organization’s ethical environment and still found the same pattern of results.

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Harvard Business

MAY 12, 2017

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. Indeed, based on our procedure, 2.5%

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Steve Shu Consulting

NOVEMBER 10, 2015

And more generally, we cannot avoid many other types of biases and influences studied in behavioral science. For example, it is hard to really explore management considerations of behavioral science and ethics without delving into areas like System 1 versus System 2 thinking, nudge controllability, moral psychology, and the like.

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Harvard Business

JULY 19, 2018

Relatedly, managers tend to hold on to long-held assumed truths that often management scholars’ studies have dispelled. Third, evaluating professors’ scholarly contributions by counting their “A” journal publications incentivizes scholars to produce as many published studies as possible.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 28, 2016

These are still two of the most popular case studies taught in business schools, and because of them, we believe we know why organizations self-inflict crises. Countless executives and MBAs have studied the key lessons, learning about individual and institutional biases that warp our world views.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 28, 2017

Companies have tried many different ways to limit unethical behavior, from creating codes of conduct to implementing ethical training. ” We thought the latter might force employees to be more cognitively alert and deliberative, which could lead them to behave more ethically simply by avoiding automatic, self-interested decision making.

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 3, 2025

A new study suggests that employers overestimate how informed employees feel when they agree to policies, contracts, and even extra tasks at work — which can result in disengagement and turnover.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 28, 2023

Four strategies based on in-depth studies of 12 large European firms.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

Given the ethical issues surrounding deception, how can one be sure when telling a well-meaning lie is the right thing to do — and when it’s not? Some would argue that deceiving others is never ethical, especially in today’s corporate climate. Importantly, not all lies bring about these negative judgments.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

In a series of studies, recently published in The Journal of Positive Psychology , we directly asked thousands of people (ages 18 to 81) about their preference between experienced and remembered happiness. We conducted a few more studies to test the robustness of our results. their next day or hour).

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Harvard Business

MARCH 13, 2017

Last spring Equilar, an executive compensation firm, released a headline-grabbing study on gender and CEO pay. But these findings are supported by two rigorous academic studies: One found that women who hold, or are likely to hold, senior management positions earn up to 10% more than their male peers.

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Harvard Business

MAY 19, 2016

Another study , by researchers at Imperial College London, showed that Modafinil helped sleep-deprived surgeons become better at planning, redirecting their attention, and being less impulsive when making decisions. After the study was published, media reports began to refer to Modafinil as the world’s first safe smart drug.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 20, 2018

In this study and the others we conducted, we looked at whether men responded differently than women, whether older individuals responded differently than younger individuals, and whether experts responded differently than non-experts. In a second study, we asked 164 U.S. We ran a final study to test this interpretation.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 27, 2017

As brands assume more and more AI functionality, businesses must proactively manage any potential ethical and legal concerns. To study those issues and others, we surveyed how AI is being implemented at more than 1,000 global companies. And then there are ethical challenges. Beyond Chatbots.

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Clarity Consultants

MAY 27, 2024

Companies across various sectors are adopting AI-driven solutions to maintain their competitive edge while thought leaders and experts discuss the ethical implications and future possibilities of this rapidly evolving technology. Click to read the Case Study!

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Harvard Business

JUNE 2, 2017

If you go to job-searching workshops — and I went to more than 50 in the course of studying the contemporary hiring landscape in 2013 and 2014 — you will be told weak ties are the key. This advice originated in a groundbreaking study by sociologist Mark Granovetter in the early 1970s. said they found out through a weak tie.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 4, 2018

However, in a set of studies forthcoming in the Journal of Applied Psychology, we found that this is not necessarily true: Some leaders feel bad and try to make amends. For example, a 2014 study found that people who made an unethical decision were more likely to donate to charity.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

The city of New York recently assembled a task force to study possible biases in algorithmic decision systems. It should integrate professional skepticism with social science methodology and concepts from such fields as psychology, behavioral economics, human-centered design, and ethics.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

The recent study we reviewed suggests that doing so will actually boost your engagement levels (as measured by surveys ) more than any intervention designed to improve leadership, or to craft the perfect job for people. A recent meta-analysis provides some much needed data-driven answers.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 16, 2018

Studies show that it’s also counterproductive resulting in lower profit margins, return on equity , and employee morale ; costly delays as players haggle over the size of the kickback; and poverty and poor governance in the markets where they’re paid. MirageC/Getty Images. “That’s enlightened management.”

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Rick Conlow

JANUARY 6, 2021

Recent studies say 82% of managers fail. Furthermore, you become a better leader by serving others ethically and with vision. This leadership training will give you 3 strategies to accelerate your career development and team success. Unfortunately, leadership failures litter organizations across the globe. Great leadership is a choice.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 8, 2017

Sean was one of 42 senior leaders from organizations throughout the world who practice mindfulness and whom one of us (Matt Lippincott) studied at the University of Pennsylvania. This connection with emotional intelligence was underscored in the interviews Matt conducted with the study participants themselves.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 11, 2017

We have found this “leader integrity effect” in multiple studies. In one study, 131 students participated in an online experiment in an office setting. Participants were told that they would take part in an online discussion with others in the office regarding a new rule about alcohol and drugs on campus.

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IMC USA

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

Leverage Ethics for Professional Success. Surveys of consultants and clients confirm that ethics are the foundation of what it means to be a “trusted advisor.” Prominently displaying a copy of the IMC USA Code of Ethics in each proposal affirms that commitment. Visit the IMC USA Ethics page here.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 18, 2017

Some studies have found that diversity can erode trust among individuals and social cohesion within societies. At the same time, diversity in societal norms, customs, and ethics can nurture technological innovation and the diffusion of new ideas, and thus the production of a greater variety of goods and services.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

The school summarized its decision in a revealing 23-page investigation report , which serves as a useful case study for the way organizations, leaders, and individuals fall victim to moral biases — rationalizations for behaving unethically usually due to one’s self-interest. Performance over principles. Blind loyalty.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 30, 2024

Former Best Buy chairman and CEO Hubert Joly discusses his leadership case study.

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