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Dirty Hands

By: Joseph L. Badaracco Jr.
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Abstract

A one-paragraph excerpt from a play by Jean-Paul Sartre. Describes in the words of one character, the ethical problem of "dirty hands": the problem that doing the morally superior thing in some circumstances inevitably involves doing some things that are morally wrong. This excerpt is for use as a supplement to cases in which the "dirty hands" problem arises.

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Moral Sensibility; Management; Problems and Challenges; Personal Characteristics; Value

Citation

Badaracco, Joseph L., Jr. "Dirty Hands." Harvard Business School Background Note 390-213, May 1990. (Revised April 1991.)

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Joseph L. Badaracco

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