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Kathryn McNeil (A) (Spanish version)
Badaracco, Joseph L., Jr.; Useem, JerryCase HBS-304S16Business Ethics and Corporate Social ResponsibilityCharles Foley, vice president of the computer retailing firm Sayer MicroWorld, must decide whether or not to fire his employee, Kathryn McNeil, a 37-year-old product manager who has been unable to work as many hours as her colleagues due to her status as a single parent of a six-year-old boy. The company's recent risk-laden acquisition of another ailing firm has intensified the office's already high-pressure environment by necessitating that all ...Starting at €8.20
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Analyst's Dilemma (A) (Spanish version)
Badaracco, Joseph L., Jr.; Useem, JerryCase HBS-309S37Business Ethics and Corporate Social ResponsibilityA young investment banker returns home one night to find that her roommate and best friend has been laid off from Universal Bank because Universal is shutting down its capital finance group. Her roommate makes her promise to keep this information confidential because the news is not to be disclosed to the market for several days. The protaganist knows, however, that Universal's capital finance group is collaborating with her own investment bank o...Starting at €8.20
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Ethical Analysis: Situation versus Character (Spanish version)
Nohria, Nitin; Sucher, Sandra J.; Badaracco, Joseph L., Jr.; Gurtler, BridgetCase HBS-324S05Business Ethics and Corporate Social ResponsibilityWhen we think of human behavior, especially from a moral perspective, we often rely on explanations based on character. We think that good decisions and responsible behavior require people with integrity and strong character, and immoral behavior originates with people with little integrity and weak character. However, important research in recent decades strongly suggests that situational factors often dominate character in ethical decision-maki...Starting at €8.20
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Automating Morality: Ethics for Intelligent Machines
Badaracco, Joseph L., Jr.; Quinn, TomCase HBS-324007-EBusiness Ethics and Corporate Social ResponsibilityAs autonomy became a more significant part of modern life - most notably in autonomous vehicles (AVs), such as Teslas - ethical debates about whether and how to impart ethics to machines heated up. Utilitarians pointed out that autonomous vehicles crashed much less often than human-driven cars, making their adoption a net positive in terms of lives saved; deontologists worried about the implications of programming a car to swerve to kill its pass...Starting at €8.20
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Protect Your Company or Your Cousin? (HBR Case Study and Commentary)
Badaracco, Joseph L., Jr.Article HBS-R2102M-EBusiness Ethics and Corporate Social ResponsibilityIn this fictional case, a customer experience manager is torn between loyalty to her family and to her employer after she gets inside information from her cousin suggesting that one of the company's suppliers might not be able to make good on its contractual obligations. If she shares what she's learned with her manager, her company might elect not to renew its contract with the supplier. But passing along the information would mean betraying a p...Starting at €8.20
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Protect Your Company or Your Cousin (HBR Case Study)
Badaracco, Joseph L., Jr.Article HBS-R2102X-EBusiness Ethics and Corporate Social ResponsibilityIn this fictional case, a customer experience manager is torn between loyalty to her family and to her employer after she gets inside information from her cousin suggesting that one of the company's suppliers might not be able to make good on its contractual obligations. If she shares what she's learned with her manager, her company might elect not to renew its contract with the supplier. But passing along the information would mean betraying a p...Starting at €8.20
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Protect Your Company or Your Cousin (Commentary for HBR Case Study)
Badaracco, Joseph L., Jr.Article HBS-R2102Z-EBusiness Ethics and Corporate Social ResponsibilityIn this fictional case, a customer experience manager is torn between loyalty to her family and to her employer after she gets inside information from her cousin suggesting that one of the company's suppliers might not be able to make good on its contractual obligations. If she shares what she's learned with her manager, her company might elect not to renew its contract with the supplier. But passing along the information would mean betraying a p...Starting at €8.20
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Discipline of Building Character (Spanish version)
Badaracco, Joseph L., Jr.Article HBS-98201Business Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibilityone we know to be right and another we know to be wrong. A defining moment challenges us in a deeper way by asking us to choose between two or more ideals in which we deeply believe. Such decisions rarely have one "correct" response. Taken cumulatively over many years, they form the basis of an individual's character. Defining moments ask executives to dig below the busy surface of their lives and refocus on their core values and principles. Onc...Starting at €8.20
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Discipline of Building Character
Badaracco, Joseph L., Jr.Article HBS-98201-EBusiness Ethics and Corporate Social ResponsibilityThis article includes a one-page preview that quickly summarizes the key ideas and provides an overview of how the concepts work in practice along with suggestions for further reading. What is the difference between an ethical decision and what the author, Harvard Business School Professor Joseph Badaracco, Jr., calls a defining moment? An ethical decision typically involves choosing between two options: one we know to be right and another we kn...Starting at €8.20
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Conflict on a Trading Floor (A) (Spanish version)
Badaracco, Joseph L., Jr.; Useem, JerryCase HBS-313S01Business Ethics and Corporate Social ResponsibilityA junior salesperson on FirstAmerica Bank's trading floor is assisting a top salesperson, Linda, on a deal to finance the construction of a new cruise ship for Poseidon Cruise Lines. While the terms of the deal are being worked out, he realizes Linda has taken advantage of the Poseidon executives' unfamiliarity with complex financial structures to build an outrageously high profit margin into the deal. When the executives become suspicious of the...Starting at €8.20