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How Will You Measure Your Life?
Leadership & Managing People Magazine ArticleHarvard 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... -
Talking About Ethics Across Cultures
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleFive ways to help people act on their values, no matter the context. -
Research: We Make More Virtuous Choices When Using Pen and Paper
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleA hard copy makes a decision feel more real. -
When We Don't Blame People for Their Bad Deeds
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleMoral judgments rest on both intent and control. -
Entrepreneurs and the Truth
Organizational Development Magazine ArticleChicanery is common in the start-up world: With so much at stake, founders are apt to exaggerate, obfuscate, and otherwise stretch the truth when courting... -
How One Person Can Change the Conscience of an Organization
Organizational Development Digital ArticleThese four mindsets can help you transform the culture. -
Why Ethics Matter in a Downturn
Business ethics Digital ArticleWhen times get tough, many companies reflexively play everything close to the vest. Executives often stop sharing information with anyone, fearing that any tidbit of data that shows weakness may cause employees to leave, customers to flee, and investors to sell. These fears distort thinking, damage relationships, and lead some managers down the slippery slope […] -
How (Un)ethical Are You?
Organizational Development Magazine ArticleAnswer 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... -
Keep a List of Unethical Things You'll Never Do
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticlePrevent moral lapses with a to-don't list. -
The Ethics of Resume Writing
Leadership & Managing People 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... -
How to Speak Up About Ethical Issues at Work
Leadership & Managing People Best PracticeFirst, decide whether you should say something at all. -
Banks with More Women on Their Boards Commit Less Fraud
Organizational Development Magazine ArticleWhen researchers from Cass Business School compared data on board diversity with fines levied for misconduct, they found that banks with more female directors... -
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... -
Values in Tension: Ethics Away from Home
Global Business Magazine ArticleWhat should managers working abroad do when they encounter business practices that seem unethical? Should they, in the spirit of cultural relativism,... -
Ethics in Practice
Business ethics Magazine ArticleAs the 1990s overtake us, public interest in ethics is at a historic high. While the press calls attention to blatant derelictions on Wall Street, in the defense industry, and in the Pentagon, and to questionable activities in the White House, in the attorney general’s office, and in Congress, observers wonder whether our society is […] -
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. • […] -
How to Talk to Your Kids About Money When You Have a Lot of It
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleThey need to know work is still important.
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How Will You Measure Your Life? (Harvard Business Review Classics)
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... -
Moral Complexity in Leadership: Empathy / "Mrs. Sen's," by Jhumpa Lahiri
Management Case Study8.95View Details The "Moral Complexity in Leadership" series of cases and teaching notes help business instructors harness the power of fiction to prepare students for... -
Analyst's Dilemma (A)
Leadership & Managing People Case Study6.95View 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... -
Netflix and Dave Chappelle (A)
Management Case Study8.95View Details In late 2021, Netflix leadership had to deal with some fierce employee and public blowback after airing The Closer, a comedy special by comedian Dave... -
Chris and Alison Weston (A)
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... -
Gwen Berry and the Politics of Protest (B)
Strategy & Execution Case Study5.00View Details This case is a follow-up to ""Gwen Berry and the Politics of Protest (A)"" (UVA-E-0479). Gwen Berry did protest at the Pan American Games in the summer... -
Darden Investment Sales
Management Case Study8.95View Details TJ, a manager at an investment company, is alarmed when, during an evening out with Leslie, his female colleague, and five male prospective clients, the... -
Raymond Jefferson: Trial by Fire
Management Case Study8.95View Details In the spring of 2021, Raymond (Ray) Jefferson applied for a job in President Joseph Biden's administration. Ten years earlier, false allegations were... -
Employee Activism
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details Liz O'Sullivan, an employee at a fast-growing technology company called Clarifi, had a moral dilemma: She disagreed with Clarifi's decision to sell its... -
Illustrative Transformations (A)
Organizational Development Case Study8.95View 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... -
Martha McCaskey
Leadership & Managing People Case Study6.95View 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... -
The Power of Persuasion and Influence
Communication Tool99.00View Details Persuasion is a powerful tool. Discover how to win support for your ideas and influence others to take action. -
A Dolphin Bullied: Jonathan Martin's NFL Experience in Miami (A)
Global Business Case Study8.95View Details In 2013, Jonathan Martin, a starting lineman for the Miami Dolphins, left the team. He cited the negative effects of the team's culture-specifically,... -
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... -
Toxic for Teens? Navigating a Career in the Social Media Industry (A)
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View 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.... -
Ethics: Awareness
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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... -
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... -
Pink, White, and Blue: A Transgender Sailor, the U.S. Navy, and a Right vs. Right Ethical Dilemma
Management Case Study8.95View Details Pink, White and Blue is appropriate for undergraduate or graduate courses in management, business ethics, organizational behavior, leadership, or human... -
Moral Complexity in Leadership: Empathy / "The Paper Menagerie," by Ken Liu
Management Case Study8.95View Details The "Moral Complexity in Leadership" series of cases and teaching notes help business instructors harness the power of fiction to prepare students for...
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How Will You Measure Your Life?
Leadership & Managing People Magazine ArticleHarvard 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. -
Defining Your Values: Our Favorite Reads
Personal purpose and values ListicleWhen you know what’s important to you, work is easier to navigate. -
Moral Complexity in Leadership: Empathy / "A Small, Good Thing," by Raymond Carver, Teaching Note
Management Digital ArticleTeaching note for case KE1274. -
Talking About Ethics Across Cultures
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleFive ways to help people act on their values, no matter the context. -
Research: We Make More Virtuous Choices When Using Pen and Paper
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleA hard copy makes a decision feel more real. -
How Will You Measure Your Life? (Harvard Business Review Classics)
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...