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How Will You Measure Your Life?
Leadership & Managing People HBR BestsellerHarvard 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, Spanish Version
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... -
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 Talk to Your Kids About Money When You Have a Lot of It
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleThey need to know work is still important. -
If You're Loyal to a Group, Does It Compromise Your Ethics?, Chinese Version
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleNew research on honesty. -
How One Person Can Change the Conscience of an Organization
Organizational transformation Digital ArticleThese four mindsets can help you transform the culture. -
How to Speak Up About Ethical Issues at Work
Leadership & Managing People Best PracticeFirst, decide whether you should say something at all. -
The Best Ways to Discuss Ethics
Business communication Digital Article[For more, visit the Communication Insight Center.] How we communicate about values and good conduct is a challenging task in the best of circumstances. And recent corporate history — Enron, WorldCom, Adelphia, Parmalat, Andersen — has not provided us with the best of circumstances. In addition to the big scandals, there’s a long and easily […] -
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... -
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... -
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... -
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. A Monster.com […] -
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,... -
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... -
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 to Be a Leader Who Stays True to Their Ethics
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleStart by having an honest conversation with yourself. -
Keep a List of Unethical Things You'll Never Do, Chinese Version
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticlePrevent moral lapses with a to-don't list.
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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... -
A Letter from Prison, Chinese Version
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details Stephen Richards, the former global head of sales at Computer Associates, Inc. (CA), is serving a seven year prison sentence for financial fraud. In the... -
Illustrative Transformations (A)
Organizational Development Case Study8.95View Details Susan, a first-year analyst at a trading firm, is the only woman among a tight-knit group of 30 analysts, now that Paulette has just been promoted to... -
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 (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... -
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... -
How Will You Measure Your Life? (Harvard Business Review Classics)
20.00View Details 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... -
Moral Complexity in Leadership: Empathy / "Mrs. Sen's," by Jhumpa Lahiri
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... -
Martha McCaskey, Spanish Version
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details Martha McCaskey, a project leader at a consulting firm, is asked to complete a project at a crucial point in her career. Successful completion of the... -
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... -
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... -
Negotiating for Equal Pay: The U.S. Women's National Soccer Team (B)
Sales & Marketing Case Study5.00View Details Supplements the (A) case and describes the events following it. -
The Kommon Goods: Creating Change Through Social Entrepreneurship
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details The online eco-lifestyle start-up The Kommon Goods, founded by Alvin Li, a young Hong Kong social consultant and entrepreneur, seeks to change consumer... -
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... -
A Dolphin Bullied: Jonathan Martin's NFL Experience in Miami (B)
Global Business Case Study5.00View Details This case should be used after students have read "A Dolphin Bullied: Jonathan Martin's NFL Experience in Miami (A) (UVA-E-0477). It provides a brief... -
Defining Moments: Leading When You're Being Followed (B)
Leadership & Managing People Case Study5.00View 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... -
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... -
Harvard ManageMentor: Persuading Others, French Version
Sales & Marketing Tool25.00View Details The ability to persuade people is critical to winning the all-important buy-in needed to accomplish goals. In this course, students will discover how... -
Chinese History and the National Humiliation Narrative
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details This note describes how the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), founded in 1949, has attempted to create and maintain an official narrative of the country... -
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,...
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How Will You Measure Your Life?
Leadership & Managing People HBR BestsellerHarvard 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, Spanish Version
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. -
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... -
A Letter from Prison, Chinese Version
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details Stephen Richards, the former global head of sales at Computer Associates, Inc. (CA), is serving a seven year prison sentence for financial fraud. In the... -
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 Talk to Your Kids About Money When You Have a Lot of It
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleThey need to know work is still important. -
The Big Idea Series: The Business of Inequality
Management Digital ArticleHarvard Business Review's Big Idea series addresses the most pressing topics facing business today. In this collection, you'll learn how rising pay gaps...