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- February 2011
- Article
Blind Ethics: Closing One's Eyes Polarizes Moral Judgments and Discourages Dishonest Behavior
By: E. M. Caruso and F. Gino
Caruso, E. M., and F. Gino. "Blind Ethics: Closing One's Eyes Polarizes Moral Judgments and Discourages Dishonest Behavior." Cognition 118, no. 2 (February 2011): 280–285.
- February 2011
- Article
Bounded Ethicality in Negotiations
By: Max Bazerman
Routine and persistent acts of dishonesty prevail in everyday life, yet most people resist shining a critical moral light on their own behavior, thereby maintaining and oftentimes inflating images of themselves as moral individuals. We overview the psychology that...
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Keywords:
Behavior;
Values and Beliefs;
Strategy;
Goals and Objectives;
Reputation;
Negotiation;
Moral Sensibility
Bazerman, Max. "Bounded Ethicality in Negotiations." Negotiation and Conflict Management Research 4, no. 1 (February 2011): 811.
- 2011
- Working Paper
Memory Lane and Morality: How Childhood Memories Promote Prosocial Behavior
By: Francesca Gino and Sreedhari D. Desai
Four experiments demonstrated that recalling memories from one's own childhood lead people to experience feelings of moral purity and to behave prosocially. In Experiment 1, participants instructed to recall memories from their childhood were more likely to help the...
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Keywords:
Judgments;
Moral Sensibility;
Philanthropy and Charitable Giving;
Organizational Culture;
Behavior;
Emotions;
Personal Characteristics;
Welfare
Gino, Francesca, and Sreedhari D. Desai. "Memory Lane and Morality: How Childhood Memories Promote Prosocial Behavior." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 11-079, February 2011.
- January 2011 (Revised June 2012)
- Case
Joe Gifford in Tal Afar, Iraq (A)
By: Joseph Badaracco, Richard Burgess Jr., Robert Carpio III and William Wheeler
A Lieutenant leading a platoon in Iraq must make a complex ethical, military, and leadership decision: whether to risk his life and that of other soldiers to reenter a home rigged with an explosive and save three Iraqis.
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Keywords:
Decision Choices and Conditions;
Moral Sensibility;
Leadership;
Management;
Problems and Challenges;
Iraq
Badaracco, Joseph, Richard Burgess Jr., Robert Carpio III, and William Wheeler. "Joe Gifford in Tal Afar, Iraq (A)." Harvard Business School Case 311-085, January 2011. (Revised June 2012.)
- Article
Joint Evaluation as a Real World Tool for Managing Emotional Assessment of Morality
By: M. H. Bazerman, F. Gino, Lisa L. Shu and Chia-Jung Tsay
- 2010
- Other Teaching and Training Material
Note: Moral Decision-Making: Reason, Emotion & Luck (revised) 9-910-029
- June 2010 (Revised May 2017)
- Teaching Note
Sydney IVF: Stem Cell Research
By: Robert Simons and Kathryn Rosenberg
Teaching Note for 109017.
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Keywords:
Strategy And Execution;
Management Control Systems;
Levers Of Control;
Strategy;
Risk Management;
Decisions;
Cooperative Ownership;
Product Development;
Moral Sensibility;
Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms;
Expansion;
Science-Based Business;
Research;
Management Practices and Processes;
Business Subsidiaries;
Biotechnology Industry;
Sydney
- Article
Kidneys for Sale: Who Disapproves, and Why?
By: Stephen Leider and Alvin E. Roth
The shortage of transplant kidneys has spurred debate about legalizing monetary payments to donors to increase the number of available kidneys. However, buying and selling organs faces widespread disapproval. We survey a representative sample of Americans to assess...
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Leider, Stephen, and Alvin E. Roth. "Kidneys for Sale: Who Disapproves, and Why?" American Journal of Transplantation 10, no. 5 (May 2010): 1221–1227.
- April 2010 (Revised November 2010)
- Background Note
Moral Decision-Making: Reason, Emotion & Luck
By: Michael A. Wheeler and Julianna Pillemer
This extensive note synthesizes current psychological and neuroscientific research on how people make decisions with moral implications. Research summaries and scenarios illustrate critical issues.
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Wheeler, Michael A., and Julianna Pillemer. "Moral Decision-Making: Reason, Emotion & Luck." Harvard Business School Background Note 910-029, April 2010. (Revised November 2010.)
- March 2010
- Article
In Favor of Clear Thinking: Incorporating Moral Rules into a Wise Cost-benefit Analysis
By: Max Bazerman and Joshua D. Greene
Bennis, Medin, and Bartels (2009) have contributed an interesting paper on the comparative benefit of moral rules versus cost-benefit analysis (CBA). Many of their specific comments are accurate, useful, and insightful. At the same time, we believe they have...
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Keywords:
Cost vs Benefits;
Moral Sensibility;
Adoption;
Performance Effectiveness;
Decision Making;
Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques
Bazerman, Max, and Joshua D. Greene. "In Favor of Clear Thinking: Incorporating Moral Rules into a Wise Cost-benefit Analysis." Perspectives on Psychological Science 5, no. 2 (March 2010): 209–212.
- 2010
- Book
Wealth and Justice: The Morality of Democratic Capitalism
By: Peter Wehner and Arthur C. Brooks
Popular opinion would have us believe that America's free market system is driven by greed and materialism, resulting in gross inequalities of wealth, destruction of the environment, and other social ills. Even proponents of capitalism often refer to the free market as...
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Wehner, Peter, and Arthur C. Brooks. Wealth and Justice: The Morality of Democratic Capitalism. Washington, DC: AEI Press, 2010.
- July 2009
- Journal Article
Dirty Work, Clean Hands: The Moral Psychology of Indirect Agency
By: Neeru Paharia, Karim Kassam, Joshua Greene and Max Bazerman
When powerful people cause harm, they often do so indirectly through other people. Are harmful actions carried out through others evaluated less negatively than harmful actions carried out directly? Four experiments examine the moral psychology of indirect agency....
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Keywords:
Judgments;
Ethics;
Moral Sensibility;
Behavior;
Motivation and Incentives;
Power and Influence
Paharia, Neeru, Karim Kassam, Joshua Greene, and Max Bazerman. "Dirty Work, Clean Hands: The Moral Psychology of Indirect Agency." Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes 109, no. 2 (July 2009): 134–141.
- 2009
- Working Paper
In Favor of Clear Thinking: Incorporating Moral Rules into a Wise Cost-benefit Analysis
By: Max H. Bazerman and Joshua D. Greene
Bennis, Medin, and Bartels (2009) have contributed an interesting paper on the comparative benefit of moral rules versus cost-benefit analysis. Many of their specific comments are accurate, useful, and insightful. At the same time, we believe they have misrepresented...
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Bazerman, Max H., and Joshua D. Greene. "In Favor of Clear Thinking: Incorporating Moral Rules into a Wise Cost-benefit Analysis." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 10-001, July 2009.
- 2009
- Chapter
See No Evil: When We Overlook Other People's Unethical Behavior
By: Francesca Gino, Don A. Moore and M. H. Bazerman
It is common for people to be more critical of others' ethical choices than of their own. This chapter explores those remarkable circumstances in which people see no evil in others' unethical behavior. Specifically, we explore 1) the motivated tendency to overlook the...
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Keywords:
Decision Choices and Conditions;
Ethics;
Moral Sensibility;
Behavior;
Motivation and Incentives
Gino, Francesca, Don A. Moore, and M. H. Bazerman. "See No Evil: When We Overlook Other People's Unethical Behavior." Chap. 10 in Social Decision Making: Social Dilemmas, Social Values, and Ethical Judgments, edited by R. M. Kramer, A. E. Tenbrunsel, and M. H. Bazerman, 241–263. Routledge, 2009.
- April 2009 (Revised July 2009)
- Module Note
Delivering Personally on Responsibility
How can individuals equip themselves to exercise leadership in the face of moral adversity? This six-session module aims to prepare students to meet moral responsibility when it is simultaneously most essential and most difficult. Moral adversity refers to situations...
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Margolis, Joshua D. "Delivering Personally on Responsibility." Harvard Business School Module Note 409-093, April 2009. (Revised July 2009.)
- April 2009 (Revised October 2010)
- Case
Golden Rule
By: Andrew Wasynczuk, Katherine Dowd and Sara del Nido
Jim Golden wants to radically change how catastrophic trucking accident lawsuit claims are handled by his trucking company. He wants to “do the right thing” for both the claimant and his company. Golden is a former litigator with 16 years of experience defending...
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Keywords:
Business Ethics;
Business Law;
Law;
Executives;
Management Education;
Management;
Negotiator's Dilemma;
Negotiations;
Value;
Moral Compass;
Moral Leadership;
Lawsuits and Litigation;
Ethics;
Moral Sensibility;
Corporate Accountability;
Negotiation;
Conflict and Resolution;
Value Creation
Wasynczuk, Andrew, Katherine Dowd, and Sara del Nido. "Golden Rule." Harvard Business School Case 909-017, April 2009. (Revised October 2010.)
- 2009
- Working Paper
Dishonest Deed, Clear Conscience: Self-Preservation through Moral Disengagement and Motivated Forgetting
By: Lisa L. Shu, Francesca Gino and Max H. Bazerman
People routinely engage in dishonest acts without feeling guilty about their behavior. When and why does this occur? Across four studies, people justified their dishonest deeds through moral disengagement and exhibited motivated forgetting of information that might...
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Shu, Lisa L., Francesca Gino, and Max H. Bazerman. "Dishonest Deed, Clear Conscience: Self-Preservation through Moral Disengagement and Motivated Forgetting ." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 09-078, January 2009. (Revised April 2009.)
- November 2008
- Supplement
Differences at Work: Sameer (B)
By: Sandra J. Sucher and Rachel Gordon
In Differences at Work: Sameer (B) HBS Case No. 9-609-054, Sameer leaves the firm at the summer's end without confronting his employer about the jokes and wondering whether he made the right choice. Later Sameer's former employer calls him to apologize for their...
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Keywords:
Decision Choices and Conditions;
Moral Sensibility;
Resignation and Termination;
Working Conditions;
Opportunities;
Behavior
Sucher, Sandra J., and Rachel Gordon. "Differences at Work: Sameer (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 609-054, November 2008.
- October 2008
- Article
Navigating the Bind of Necessary Evils: Psychological Engagement and the Production of Interpersonally Sensitive Behavior
By: Joshua D. Margolis and Andrew Molinsky
We develop grounded theory about how individuals respond to the subjective experience of performing "necessary evils" and how that influences the way they treat targets of their actions. Despite the importance and difficulty of delivering just, compassionate treatment...
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Keywords:
Interpersonal Communication;
Fairness;
Moral Sensibility;
Problems and Challenges;
Behavior;
Power and Influence;
Welfare
Margolis, Joshua D., and Andrew Molinsky. "Navigating the Bind of Necessary Evils: Psychological Engagement and the Production of Interpersonally Sensitive Behavior." Academy of Management Journal 51, no. 5 (October 2008): 847–872. (Winner of Academy of Management. Outstanding Publication in Organizational Behavior Award presented by Academy of Management.)
- 2008
- Working Paper
Dirty Work, Clean Hands: The Moral Psychology of Indirect Agency
By: Neeru Paharia, Karim S. Kassam, Joshua D. Greene and Max H. Bazerman
When powerful people cause harm, they often do so indirectly through other people. Are harmful actions carried out through others evaluated less negatively than harmful actions carried out directly? Four experiments examine the moral psychology of indirect agency....
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Keywords:
Judgments;
Ethics;
Moral Sensibility;
Behavior;
Motivation and Incentives;
Power and Influence
Paharia, Neeru, Karim S. Kassam, Joshua D. Greene, and Max H. Bazerman. "Dirty Work, Clean Hands: The Moral Psychology of Indirect Agency." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 09-012, August 2008. (Conditionally Accepted at Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes.)