Skip to Main Content
HBS Home
  • About
  • Academic Programs
  • Alumni
  • Faculty & Research
  • Baker Library
  • Giving
  • Harvard Business Review
  • Initiatives
  • News
  • Recruit
  • Map / Directions
Faculty & Research
  • Faculty
  • Research
  • Featured Topics
  • Academic Units
  • …→
  • Harvard Business School→
  • Faculty & Research→
Publications
Publications
  • September 2011
  • Article
  • Harvard Business Review

A Global Leader's Guide to Managing Business Conduct

By: Lynn S. Paine, Rohit Deshpandé and Joshua D. Margolis
  • Format:Electronic
ShareBar

Abstract

An extensive global survey by three Harvard Business School professors finds that employees agree on core standards of corporate behavior. But meeting those standards will require new approaches to managing business conduct. The compliance and ethics programs of most companies today fall short of addressing multinationals' basic responsibilities, let alone such vexing issues as how to stay competitive in markets where rivals follow different rules. Companies must bring to the management of business conduct the same performance tools and concepts that they use to manage quality, innovation, and financial results.

Keywords

Leadership; Management; Ethics; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Globalized Firms and Management; Standards; Corporate Accountability; Corporate Governance

Citation

Paine, Lynn S., Rohit Deshpandé, and Joshua D. Margolis. "A Global Leader's Guide to Managing Business Conduct." Harvard Business Review 89, no. 9 (September 2011). (Online edition.)
  • Register to Read

About The Authors

Lynn S. Paine

General Management
→More Publications

Rohit Deshpande

Marketing
→More Publications

Joshua D. Margolis

Organizational Behavior
→More Publications

More from the Authors

    • December 2022
    • Faculty Research

    Brief Note on Staggered Boards

    By: Lynn S. Paine and Will Hurwitz
    • 20 Oct 2022
    • Faculty Research

    4 Business Ideas That Changed the World: Shareholder Value

    By: Adi Ignatius, Lynn Paine, Mihir Desai and Carola Frydman
    • August 2022
    • Faculty Research

    Arts and Cultural Entrepreneurship

    By: Rohit Deshpandé
More from the Authors
  • Brief Note on Staggered Boards By: Lynn S. Paine and Will Hurwitz
  • 4 Business Ideas That Changed the World: Shareholder Value By: Adi Ignatius, Lynn Paine, Mihir Desai and Carola Frydman
  • Arts and Cultural Entrepreneurship By: Rohit Deshpandé
ǁ
Campus Map
Harvard Business School
Soldiers Field
Boston, MA 02163
→Map & Directions
→More Contact Information
  • Make a Gift
  • Site Map
  • Jobs
  • Harvard University
  • Trademarks
  • Policies
  • Accessibility
  • Digital Accessibility
Copyright © President & Fellows of Harvard College