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8 Questions About Using AI Responsibly, Answered
Technology & Operations Big IdeaGenerative AI tools are poised to change the way every business operates. As your own organization begins strategizing which to use, and how, operational... -
How to Create a Stakeholder Strategy
Global Business Magazine ArticleLately companies have come to recognize the limitations of the view that they must create value only for shareholders. Recognizing that every stakeholder... -
Why Business Leaders Must Resist the Anti-ESG Movement
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleRetreat isn't just inadvisable; it's dangerous. -
AI Regulation Is Coming
Technology & Operations Magazine ArticleFor years public concern about technological risk has focused on the misuse of personal data. But as firms embed more and more artificial intelligence... -
Neuromarketing: What You Need to Know
Sales & Marketing Magazine ArticleThe field of neuromarketing, sometimes known as consumer neuroscience, studies the brain to predict and potentially even manipulate consumer behavior... -
A New Model for Ethical Leadership
Leadership & Managing People Magazine ArticleRather than try to follow a set of simple rules ("Don't lie." "Don't cheat."), leaders and managers seeking to be more ethical should focus on creating... -
Customer Data: Designing for Transparency and Trust
Sales & Marketing Magazine ArticleWith the help of technology, companies today sweep up huge amounts of customer data. But they tend to be opaque about the information they collect and... -
Building an Ethical Company
Organizational Development Magazine ArticleJust as people can develop skills and abilities over time, they can learn to be more or less ethical. Yet many organizations limit ethics training to... -
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... -
The Secrets to Successful Strategy Execution
Strategy execution Magazine ArticleResearch shows that enterprises fail at execution because they go straight to structural reorganization and neglect the most powerful drivers of effectiveness—decision rights and information flow. -
Three Questions Leaders Must Ask About Their Company
Leadership Digital ArticleToo often we see character, certainly in management circles, in reference to lack of it. That is, some CEO or CFO or senior executive has been caught with his hand in the kitty or in the knickers of some subordinate. Character, as our parents tell us, is what you do when you think no one […] -
Why You Need an AI Ethics Committee
Business ethics Magazine ArticleExpert oversight will help you safeguard your data and your brand. -
Lessons from Andy Pettitte: How Not To Apologize
Business communication Digital ArticleIn deciding to make a public statement about his use of human growth hormone, New York Yankees pitcher Andy Pettitte did the right thing — and the hard thing. Given his apparently more forthright approach to dealing with his situation than that of friend and teammate Roger Clemens, Pettitte went into his apology with a […] -
Algorithmic Nudges Don't Have to Be Unethical
Technology & Operations Digital ArticleThese tools often benefit companies at the expense of workers - but there's a better way. -
The Foreign Corrupt Practices Act
Finance and investing Magazine ArticleFor the first 40-plus years of their existence, the federal securities laws did not require or prohibit specific managerial practices in the operation of business, other than a business in one of a handful of closely regulated industries. But with the passage of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act of 1977, the SEC is equipped to […] -
When the Crowd Fights Corruption
Business ethics Magazine ArticleIn Russia, citizens are cleaning up business and government. -
Loyalty to a Leader Is Overrated, Even Dangerous
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleThe idea of insubordination is just as bad. -
The Great to Good Manifesto
Strategy Digital ArticleCEO: “So, I hear your forthcoming book’s kind of like Good to Great — right? That was my favorite biz book of the noughties!” UH: “Good to Great?! Dude, welcome to the 21st century. My book is the opposite: it’s more like ‘Great to Good.’” CEO: “Security!!” (Hurls $8000 pen at UH’s forehead) I exaggerate, […] -
DNA: Handle with Care
Government policy and regulation Magazine ArticleThe genetics boom is upon us, promising everything from cures for inherited diseases to smarter children. But companies must tread carefully as the ethical debate plays out. -
Is Your Company Using Employee Data Ethically?
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleThe trade-offs can be complex.
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How Leaders Can Be Stewards of “Good Tech”
Business ethics Digital ArticleFormer IBM CEO Ginni Rometty on driving positive, meaningful change for individuals, our organizations, and our world. -
How Companies Can Build Trustworthy AI Assistants
Business and society Digital ArticleAs they become more powerful, here’s what organizations need to do to ensure they’re deployed responsibly. -
Unifying Your Company Around a Moral Goal
Business ethics Digital ArticleThree strategies for building a “moral community.” -
To Prove Your Company Isn’t Greenwashing, Endorse Smart Regulation
Business history Digital ArticleIt’s the best way to show consumers that you practice what you preach. -
A Strong Purpose Can Make Your Company a Magnet for Talent
Business ethics Digital ArticleFive best practices to draw in committed employees and encourage them to do their best work. -
How Leaders Can Create a Purpose-Driven Culture
Business and society Digital ArticleArticulating what your organization stands for is not enough; you also need to live the message. -
What It Means to Be a Moral Leader
Business and society Digital ArticleLeading your team to do things right is only half the job. You also need to do the right things. -
Neurotech Is Coming to the Workplace. Here's How to Be Ready.
Management VideoThe era of brain surveillance has begun, and it's not a fad. It's a new way of living and thinking about ourselves and our well-being-personally and professionally.... -
Generative AI-nxiety
Risk management Digital ArticleLeaders are feeling disoriented and concerned about the new technology. Here are four key risks to understand — and advice on how to address them. -
Why Today’s Leaders Need to Be Perpetual Learners
Business and society Digital Article“Changing yourself in the job, especially if you’re doing well, is one of the hardest things to do.” -
A More Ethical Approach to Employing Contractors
Labor Digital ArticleBeyond doing the right thing, responsible contracting attracts and cultivates talent, lifts employee morale, generates returns, and bolsters your brand. -
Companies Need to Prove They Can Be Trusted with Technology
Business and society Digital ArticleConsumers have lost confidence in tech — and the companies who develop it. Here’s how organizations can restore digital trust. -
The Ethics of Managing People’s Data
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Accounting for Carbon Offsets
Accounting Magazine ArticleRobust reporting principles to improve today’s carbon-trading markets -
Managing the Risks of Generative AI
AI and machine learning Digital ArticleGuidelines for companies as they implement the next generation of AI tools. -
AI Can Be Both Accurate and Transparent
AI and machine learning Digital ArticleHistorically, tech leaders have assumed that the better a human can understand an algorithm, the less accurate it will be. But is there always a tradeoff? -
8 Questions About Using AI Responsibly, Answered
AI and machine learning Big IdeaHow to avoid pitfalls around data privacy, bias, misinformation, generative AI, and more. -
Ethics in the Age of AI
Management Digital ArticleThe next generations of generative AI, quantum computing, and other emerging technologies don't just pose a challenge for organizational operations and... -
How to Create a Stakeholder Strategy
Business and society Magazine ArticleA data-driven approach to design, measurement, and implementation -
Infusing Digital Responsibility into Your Organization
Technology and analytics Digital ArticleFour strategies based on in-depth studies of 12 large European firms.
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FJ Management Inc.
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details In late 2015, Crystal Call Maggelet, president and CEO of FJ Management, is working with her investment committee to help set the company's strategic... -
Atlanta Schools: Measures to Improve Performance
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details The widespread cheating scandal that rocked the Atlanta public school system in 2010 and 2011 illustrates how high-stakes performance pressure, without... -
X Fire Paintball & Airsoft: is Amazon a Friend or Foe? (A)
Technology & Operations Case Study8.95View Details Three years after launching his brick-and-mortar store, X Fire Paintball and Airsoft, Steve Herbert Sr. and his sons began selling products on Amazon.com's... -
iMatari
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details In late 2012, recent Harvard Business School graduate Hannah Lopez is given the opportunity to lead entry into a new market for Plámo, a company that... -
Anxious Alastair
Organizational Development Case Study8.95View Details The manager of a rapidly expanding tax and accounting services franchise had been impressed by the performance his right-hand man, but also worried about... -
Valley Farms International (A)
Organizational Development Case Study8.95View Details Valley Farms International (VFI) describes some of the problems and issues involved in selling and exporting dairy cattle to a middle-east country. The... -
Strive Asset Management
Management Case Study8.95View Details Strive Asset Management, which launched in 2022, was actively targeting several leading U.S. companies in the upcoming 2023 proxy voting season to stop... -
HH.ru (E): Epilogue
Management Case Study5.00View Details The HH.ru case series tracks the development of a respected NASDAQ-listed Russian technology company as it struggles with the fallout of the Russian invasion... -
Mastercard's ethical approach to governing AI
Global Business Case Study8.95View Details Mastercard, the global payments company, is known as a leader in privacy by design; senior leaders promote data responsibility and employees follow strict... -
How To Use Virtue in Business: Part A
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details How important are virtue and character when the future of a company is on the line? How does the leader decide between two pressing options? Set in 1981,... -
Negotiation Analysis: An Introduction
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details Provides an overview of the seven elements of negotiation analysis. These elements include BATNAs (nonagreement walk-aways), parties, interests, value-creation,... -
NASCAR and the Confederate Flag (A)
Global Business Case Study8.95View Details In May 2020, in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic and the protests that followed the death of George Floyd while in Minneapolis police custody, leadership... -
PAREXEL International Corp.: Adjusting the Business Model to Changing Six Factors
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details Through the lens of biopharmaceutical contract research organization (CRO) PAREXEL, this case traces the evolution of the firm as it reinvents itself... -
Manan Publishing: Raising Funds for Not-for-profit
Management Case Study8.95View Details Subir Shukla, the Principal Coordinator in Ignus Pahal, was involved in improving education for marginalized children. After working for many years at... -
Valley Farms International (B)
Organizational Development Case Study5.00View Details The partner describes some of the problems and issues involved in selling and exporting dairy cattle to a middle-east country. He must decide whether... -
Grounding of the Boeing 737 MAX 8 (A): What Went Wrong?
Organizational Development Case Study8.95View Details In the short time between October 2018 and March 2019, two new Boeing 737 MAX 8 airplanes in different parts of the world were involved in deadly crashes.... -
IKEA's Global Sourcing Challenge: Indian Rugs and Child Labor (A)
Technology & Operations Case Study6.95View Details Traces the history of IKEA's response to a TV report that its Indian carpet suppliers were using child labor. Describes IKEA's growth, including the importance... -
Envision Healthcare and Out-of-Network Billing
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details The Envision Healthcare (EVHC) case examines the operations of one of EVHC's divisions, EmCare, a national physician services outsourcing company. The... -
Wetherill Associates, Inc.
Organizational Development Case Study8.95View Details Top managers of Wetherill Associates, Inc., a small, privately held distributor of electrical parts to the automotive aftermarket, are considering whether... -
Recommendation Algorithms and Politics on Social Media (A)
Management Case Study8.95View Details This case set 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....
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8 Questions About Using AI Responsibly, Answered
Technology & Operations Big IdeaGenerative AI tools are poised to change the way every business operates. As your own organization begins strategizing which to use, and how, operational... -
How to Create a Stakeholder Strategy
Global Business Magazine ArticleLately companies have come to recognize the limitations of the view that they must create value only for shareholders. Recognizing that every stakeholder... -
Why Business Leaders Must Resist the Anti-ESG Movement
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleRetreat isn't just inadvisable; it's dangerous. -
AI Regulation Is Coming
Technology & Operations Magazine ArticleFor years public concern about technological risk has focused on the misuse of personal data. But as firms embed more and more artificial intelligence... -
Neuromarketing: What You Need to Know
Sales & Marketing Magazine ArticleThe field of neuromarketing, sometimes known as consumer neuroscience, studies the brain to predict and potentially even manipulate consumer behavior... -
A New Model for Ethical Leadership
Leadership & Managing People Magazine ArticleRather than try to follow a set of simple rules ("Don't lie." "Don't cheat."), leaders and managers seeking to be more ethical should focus on creating... -
Customer Data: Designing for Transparency and Trust
Sales & Marketing Magazine ArticleWith the help of technology, companies today sweep up huge amounts of customer data. But they tend to be opaque about the information they collect and... -
Building an Ethical Company
Organizational Development Magazine ArticleJust as people can develop skills and abilities over time, they can learn to be more or less ethical. Yet many organizations limit ethics training to... -
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... -
The Secrets to Successful Strategy Execution
Strategy execution Magazine ArticleResearch shows that enterprises fail at execution because they go straight to structural reorganization and neglect the most powerful drivers of effectiveness—decision rights and information flow.