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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
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleThey're all hard to improve because they run counter to our instincts. -
Building an Ethical Company
Personal ethics Magazine ArticleCreate an organization that helps employees behave more honorably. -
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... -
How to Speak Up About Ethical Issues at Work
Personal ethics Best PracticeFirst, decide whether you should say something at all. -
How One Person Can Change the Conscience of an Organization
Organizational Development Digital ArticleThese four mindsets can help you transform the culture. -
Values in Tension: Ethics Away from Home
Personal ethics Magazine ArticleWhen is different just different, and when is different wrong? -
Can Ethics Classes Cure Cheating?
Business ethics Digital ArticleIs it the responsibility of schools to teach ethics? I think it is – but only if it’s done the right way. MBA Students don’t necessarily care about Kant’s third formulation of the categorical imperative — they need a simple values toolkit that they can understand and have at the ready, not an impression that […] -
Rupert Murdoch and the News about Honor (or the Lack Thereof)
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleThe frail, forlorn face of Rupert Murdoch in the news exposes the vulnerability at the heart of his News Corporation media empire: his reputation for... -
Why Are Some Whistleblowers Vilified and Others Celebrated?
Organizational Development ResearchPeople expect leaders to be the moral voice of the organization. -
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. • […] -
Keep a List of Unethical Things You'll Never Do
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticlePrevent moral lapses with a to-don't list. -
Talking About Ethics Across Cultures
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleFive ways to help people act on their values, no matter the context. -
If You’re Loyal to a Group, Does It Compromise Your Ethics?
Business ethics Digital ArticleNew research on honesty. -
How (Un)ethical Are You?
Organizational Development HBR BestsellerAnswer 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... -
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 […] -
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... -
Life's Work: An Interview with Martin Baron
Leadership & Managing People Magazine ArticleThe former top editor of the Boston Globe and the Washington Post talks about the Globe's investigation of the Catholic Church sex abuse scandal, attacks... -
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 […] -
The HBR Debate Week 3: What About Ethics?
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleIn a shocking study published in 2006, Don McCabe of Rutgers University and fellow researchers found that MBAs cheat more than other graduate students...
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Toxic for Teens? Navigating a Career in the Social Media Industry (B)
Leadership & Managing People Case Study5.00View Details This case is part of the Giving Voice to Values (GVV) curriculum. To see other material in the GVV curriculum, please visit http://store.darden.virginia.edu/giving-voice-to-values.... -
Chris and Alison Weston (A), Chinese Version
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details Chris and Alison Weston describe how they, a well-educated middle class couple, ended up committing mail fraud, for which they each served a year and... -
Illustrative Transformations (B)
Organizational Development Case Study5.00View 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... -
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... -
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... -
A Letter from Prison, Spanish 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... -
The Constitutional Roots of Freedom of Speech
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details This note, written to accompany "The NBA, China, and Social Media: What Are the Rules of the Game?" (UVA-E-0459) but useful in tandem with other cases,... -
Facebook's Predicaments: Incidental, Inadvertent, or Intentional?
Management Case Study8.95View Details By October 2021, the US social media giant Facebook Inc. had been dominating the social media market globally with the highest number of active users.... -
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. -
Analyst's Dilemma (A)
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details A 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... -
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... -
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... -
Urban Spring: Building a Sustainable Social Enterprise
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details Urban Spring is a successful social enterprise. Every day, people in Hong Kong buy around 2.5 million bottles of water. Until Urban Spring marketed its... -
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... -
Contract Cheating Lands Close to Home
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details In late 2020, an instructor at a Canadian university received an email from a concerned student about contract cheating (i.e., a student submitting someone... -
How Will You Measure Your Life? (Harvard Business Review Classics)
9.99View 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... -
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... -
Ethics: Awareness
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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...
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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
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleThey're all hard to improve because they run counter to our instincts. -
Building an Ethical Company
Personal ethics Magazine ArticleCreate an organization that helps employees behave more honorably. -
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. -
How to Speak Up About Ethical Issues at Work
Personal ethics Best PracticeFirst, decide whether you should say something at all. -
How One Person Can Change the Conscience of an Organization
Organizational Development Digital ArticleThese four mindsets can help you transform the culture. -
Toxic for Teens? Navigating a Career in the Social Media Industry (B)
Leadership & Managing People Case Study5.00View Details This case is part of the Giving Voice to Values (GVV) curriculum. To see other material in the GVV curriculum, please visit http://store.darden.virginia.edu/giving-voice-to-values.... -
Chris and Alison Weston (A), Chinese Version
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details Chris and Alison Weston describe how they, a well-educated middle class couple, ended up committing mail fraud, for which they each served a year and... -
Illustrative Transformations (B)
Organizational Development Case Study5.00View 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...