Personal ethics

Harvard Business School's Christensen teaches aspiring MBAs how to apply management and innovation theories to build stronger companies. But he also believes...

They're all hard to improve because they run counter to our instincts.

Just 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...

Conscience explains why most business men and women keep their word and deal fairly with one another. There is no evidence that honesty pays, despite...

Five ways to help people act on their values, no matter the context.

When 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 […]

[For more, visit the Communication Insight Center.] How we communicate about values and good conduct is a challenging task in the best of circumstances....

When researchers from Cass Business School compared data on board diversity with fines levied for misconduct, they found that banks with more female directors...

What should managers working abroad do when they encounter business practices that seem unethical? Should they, in the spirit of cultural relativism,...

These four mindsets can help you transform the culture.

Chicanery 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...

Interviews with 23 experts identify a pattern.

Ethics are an innate part of business.

As 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 […]

You 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 […]

Prevent moral lapses with a to-don't list.

Business, 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...

Virtue matters too.

The 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...

A simple intervention could help taxpayers be more truthful.