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- 24 Aug 2020
- Blog Post
My Journey to Joining the first MS/MBA Biotechnology: Life Sciences Cohort
couldn’t have hand crafted a more perfect program. Its mission is to cultivate leaders who can assess potential therapeutic value, create sustainable business models, and understand the ethical implications...
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Ryan L. Raffaelli
Ryan Raffaelli is the Marvin Bower Associate Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. He created and teaches the MBA course "Leadership: Execution and Action Planning" (LEAP) and serves... View Details
- October 1987 (Revised October 1998)
- Case
CVD, Inc. vs. A.S. Markham Corp. (A)
Describes the legal odyssey of two engineers who left their old employer to start a company that was directly competitive. The issues include employment contracts, technology licenses, antitrust, trade secrets, and confidential information. Provides a good opportunity...
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Keywords:
Business Strategy;
Human Resources;
Contracts;
Knowledge Use and Leverage;
Intellectual Property;
Ethics;
Legal Liability;
Business Startups;
Monopoly
Roberts, Michael J. "CVD, Inc. vs. A.S. Markham Corp. (A)." Harvard Business School Case 388-041, October 1987. (Revised October 1998.)
- 2017
- Chapter
Corporate Moral Agency, Positive Duties, and Purpose
By: Nien-hê Hsieh
A long-standing question in business ethics is whether business enterprises are themselves moral agents with distinct moral responsibilities. To date, the debate about corporate moral agency has focused on responsibility for past wrongdoing that involves violating...
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Hsieh, Nien-hê. "Corporate Moral Agency, Positive Duties, and Purpose." In The Moral Responsibility of Firms, edited by Eric Orts and N. Craig Smith. Oxford University Press, 2017.
- January 2009 (Revised February 2009)
- Case
Sydney IVF: Stem Cell Research
By: Robert L. Simons, Kathryn Rosenberg and Natalie Kindred
This case examines the strategy implementation and risk management decisions at Sydney IVF, a research-based in vitro fertilization and stem cell company based in Australia. Drs. Robert Jansen and Jock Anderson, who co-founded Sydney IVF in 1986, developed novel...
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Keywords:
Ethics;
Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms;
Innovation and Management;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Risk Management;
Genetics;
Commercialization;
Health Industry;
Australia
Simons, Robert L., Kathryn Rosenberg, and Natalie Kindred. "Sydney IVF: Stem Cell Research." Harvard Business School Case 109-017, January 2009. (Revised February 2009.)
- 31 Dec 2018
- News
The year of the last action hero
- 2014
- Chapter
Corporate Social Responsibility and Multinational Corporations
By: Nien-he Hsieh and Florian Wettstein
A central question that arises from the perspective of global ethics is what standards ought to apply to the activities of multinational corporations (MNCs). This chapter surveys the contemporary theoretical literature on this question. The first section provides...
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Keywords:
Multinational Corporation;
Multinational Firms and Management;
Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact;
Standards
Hsieh, Nien-he, and Florian Wettstein. "Corporate Social Responsibility and Multinational Corporations." Chap. 19 in The Routledge Handbook of Global Ethics, edited by Darrel Moellendorf and Heather Widdows, 251–266. London: Routledge, 2014.
- November 2018 (Revised January 2019)
- Module Note
Responsibilities to Investors (Abridged)
By: Lena G. Goldberg and Joseph L. Badaracco
This note focuses on managers’ responsibilities—economic, legal, and ethical—to investors. In capitalist and some socialist economies, these responsibilities traditionally have been grounded in fiduciary duties and are typically part of the common law or statutory law...
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Keywords:
Responsibilities To Investors;
Investors;
Responsibility;
Business and Shareholder Relations;
Management;
Ethics
Goldberg, Lena G., and Joseph L. Badaracco. "Responsibilities to Investors (Abridged)." Harvard Business School Module Note 319-066, November 2018. (Revised January 2019.)
- 28 Sep 2015
- News
Healthcare Inequality
- 17 Nov 2011
- News
Practicing Moral Humility
- October 1988
- Case
Agrico, Inc.: A Software Dilemma
An information systems vice president has one hour to make an ethical decision: should a software program, left inadvertently on the company's computer, be copied and stored? Copying the program would protect clients' assets, but it seems to violate the vendor...
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Keywords:
Decision Choices and Conditions;
Ethics;
Contracts;
Business and Stakeholder Relations;
Business and Shareholder Relations;
Information Technology Industry
McFarlan, F. Warren. "Agrico, Inc.: A Software Dilemma." Harvard Business School Case 189-085, October 1988.
- March 2001 (Revised September 2002)
- Case
Merck Latin America (A)
By: Michael Beer and James Weber
Introduces Grey Warner, the vice president of Merck's Latin America region, and his efforts to improve the organizational effectiveness of the region and to introduce a more global business culture and values. Discusses Merck's ethics and values, its Latin American...
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Keywords:
Organizational Culture;
Ethics;
Business Processes;
Strategic Planning;
Change Management;
Values and Beliefs;
Globalized Firms and Management;
Employee Relationship Management;
Business Strategy;
Government and Politics;
Economy;
Pharmaceutical Industry;
Latin America
Beer, Michael, and James Weber. "Merck Latin America (A)." Harvard Business School Case 401-029, March 2001. (Revised September 2002.)
- 28 Apr 2010
- Research & Ideas
Earth Day Reflections
Below are the views that faculty shared with the HBS community on Earth Day. 1. Robert G. Eccles Senior Lecturer of Business Administration and author of One Report: Integrated Reporting for a Sustainable Strategy (This article, titled,...
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- 03 Apr 2007
- First Look
First Look: April 3, 2007
Working PapersNone this week Cases & Course MaterialsCommon Agricultural Policy and the Future of French Farming Harvard Business School Case 707-027 Presents the history and evolution of the EU Common Agricultural Policy, from...
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Martha Lagace
- February 1994 (Revised July 2005)
- Case
Competitive Information Policy at Pratt & Whitney
By: Lynn S. Paine
Officials at United Technologies Corp. (UTC) must decide on an ethics policy to govern competitive intelligence gathering. The flow of competitor information into the Pratt & Whitney division has declined sharply since adoption of UTC's code of ethics. A rewritten...
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Keywords:
Policy;
Corporate Governance;
Ethics;
Competition;
Information Management;
Business or Company Management;
Law
Paine, Lynn S. "Competitive Information Policy at Pratt & Whitney." Harvard Business School Case 394-154, February 1994. (Revised July 2005.)
- 05 Feb 2014
- News
CVS’s smart no-smoking strategy
- 15 Feb 2021
- News
Revealed: The Army of Big Tech Lobbyists Targeting Capitol Hill
- January 2004 (Revised October 2006)
- Case
Texas Gulf Sulphur: The Timmins Ontario Mine
By: Henry B. Reiling and Maria Mercedes Camargo
Employees, officers, and directors of Texas Gulf Sulphur acquired or tipped off others to acquire common stock or options before and concurrent with the announcement of a major discovery of ore. The question is whether any of these acquisitions violated either federal...
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Reiling, Henry B., and Maria Mercedes Camargo. "Texas Gulf Sulphur: The Timmins Ontario Mine." Harvard Business School Case 204-114, January 2004. (Revised October 2006.)
- February 1992 (Revised September 2003)
- Case
Beech-Nut Nutrition Corporation (A-1)
By: Lynn S. Paine
The CEO of Beech-Nut Nutrition Corp. must decide what to do when he receives information that the company's supply of apple juice concentrate may be adulterated. The concentrate is used in many of the company's juice products. It appears that others in the company may...
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Keywords:
Quality;
Law;
Ethics;
Nutrition;
Management Teams;
Decisions;
Business or Company Management;
Communication;
Governance Compliance;
Information Management;
Corporate Finance;
Food and Beverage Industry;
United States
Paine, Lynn S. "Beech-Nut Nutrition Corporation (A-1)." Harvard Business School Case 392-084, February 1992. (Revised September 2003.)