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- 2023
- Book
Your True Moral Compass: Defining Reality, Responsibility, and Practicality in Your Leadership Moments
This book presents a new, powerful, and practical way of making final decisions on the hard, complex, uncertain problems of life and work. What if you have looked at the data, talked with trusted colleagues, and applied all the relevant managerial and ethical...
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- August 2023 (Revised August 2023)
- Case
Automating Morality: Ethics for Intelligent Machines
By: Joseph L. Badaracco Jr. and Tom Quinn
As autonomy became a more significant part of modern life – most notably in autonomous vehicles (AVs), such as Teslas – ethical debates about whether and how to impart ethics to machines heated up. Utilitarians pointed out that autonomous vehicles crashed much less...
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Keywords:
Cost vs Benefits;
Judgments;
Fairness;
Moral Sensibility;
Values and Beliefs;
Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues;
Disruptive Innovation;
Technology Adoption;
Risk and Uncertainty;
Cognition and Thinking;
Auto Industry;
Technology Industry;
Africa;
Asia;
Europe;
North and Central America;
Oceania;
South America
- June 2021
- Teaching Plan
Karin Vinik at South Lake Hospital
Teaching Plan for HBS Case Nos. 320-071, 320-072, 320-073, and 320-074.
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- June 2021
- Teaching Plan
PepsiCo, Profits, and Food: The Belt Tightens
Teaching Plan for HBS Case No. 314-055.
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- January 2021
- Supplement
Karin Vinik at South Lake Hospital (B)-(D)
By: Joseph L. Badaracco and Kim B. Clark
- December 2019 (Revised January 2023)
- Case
Karin Vinik at South Lake Hospital (A)
By: Joseph L. Badaracco and Kim B. Clark
A newly appointed hospital CEO must decide how aggressively she should pursue a sexual harassment accusation against a long-time senior hospital executive, who was also a rival for the CEO position.
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- December 2019
- Supplement
Karin Vinik at South Lake Hospital (B)
By: Joseph L. Badaracco and Kim B. Clark
Supplements the (A) case.
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- December 2019
- Supplement
Karin Vinik at South Lake Hospital (C)
By: Joseph L. Badaracco and Kim B. Clark
Supplements the (A) case.
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- December 2019
- Supplement
Karin Vinik at South Lake Hospital (D)
By: Joseph L. Badaracco and Kim B. Clark
Supplements the (A) case.
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- November 2018 (Revised January 2019)
- Module Note
Responsibilities to Investors (Abridged)
By: Lena G. Goldberg and Joseph L. Badaracco
This note focuses on managers’ responsibilities—economic, legal, and ethical—to investors. In capitalist and some socialist economies, these responsibilities traditionally have been grounded in fiduciary duties and are typically part of the common law or statutory law...
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- January 2017
- Background Note
Elements of Japanese Corporate Governance
By: Lena Goldberg and Joseph Badaracco
- December 2016 (Revised November 2017)
- Module Note
Responsibilities to Investors
By: Lena G. Goldberg and Joseph L. Badaracco
- Article
How to Tackle Your Toughest Decisions
The toughest calls managers have to make come in situations when they have worked hard to gather the facts and have done the best analysis they can, but they still don’t know what to do. Then judgment—a fusion of thinking, feelings, experience, imagination, and...
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- 2016
- Book
Managing in the Gray: Five Timeless Questions for Resolving Your Toughest Problems at Work
Part of a manager's job is making tough calls, and the hardest challenge can be resolving "gray area” problems—situations in which analysis of the numbers, facts, and data fails to provide a clear answer. Gray areas test not only managers’ skills but also their...
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- September 2015 (Revised January 2023)
- Background Note
Ethical Analysis: Situation versus Character
When we think of human behavior, especially from a moral perspective, we often rely on explanations based on character. We think that good decisions and responsible behavior require people with integrity and strong character and that immoral behavior originates within...
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- December 2014 (Revised December 2020)
- Course Overview Note
The Basic LCA Framework
By: Joseph L. Badaracco and Rebecca Henderson
- April 2014
- Teaching Note
iMatari
By: Joseph L. Badaracco and Matthew Preble
- March 2014
- Case
LGBT Issues at Exxon Mobil Corporation
By: Joseph L. Badaracco and Matthew Preble
In late September 2013, Exxon Mobil Corporation announced that it would begin offering benefits to the spouses of its employees in same-sex marriages. This short supplement touches upon what led Exxon Mobil to this decision, some insights into its previous relationship...
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- 2013
- Book
The Good Struggle: Responsible Leadership in an Unforgiving World
The question of how to lead successfully and responsibly is crucially important in our uncertain, high-pressure, turbulent world. In this book, Joseph Badaracco answers this question in practical and, at times, provocative ways.
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