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- 2021
- Working Paper
Does Observability Amplify Sensitivity to Moral Frames? Evaluating a Reputation-Based Account of Moral Preferences
By: Valerio Capraro, Jillian J. Jordan and Ben Tappin
A growing body of work suggests that people are sensitive to moral framing in economic games involving prosociality, suggesting that people hold moral preferences for doing the “right thing”. What gives rise to these preferences? Here, we evaluate the explanatory power...
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- March 2021
- Article
On the Direct and Indirect Real Effects of Credit Supply Shocks
By: Laura Alfaro, Manuel García-Santana and Enrique Moral-Benito
We explore the real effects of bank-lending shocks and how they permeate the economy through buyer-supplier linkages. We combine administrative data on all Spanish firms with a matched bank-firm-loan dataset of all corporate loans from 2003 to 2013 to estimate...
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- February 2021
- Case
The Tulsa Massacre and the Call for Reparations
By: Mihir Desai, Ruth Page, Suzanne Antoniou and Leanne Fan
How should historic social injustices be addressed? Survivors of the 1921 Tulsa Massacre and their descendants, including Representative Regina Goodwin of Tulsa, believe they should be addressed through reparations and have consequently continued to push the government...
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Keywords:
Decision Choices And Conditions;
Costs And Consequences;
Decisions;
Judgment And Decision-making;
Race;
Fairness;
Moral Sensibility;
Values And Beliefs;
Corporate Accountability;
Corporate Governance;
Policy;
Governing Rules, Regulations, And Reforms;
Government Legislation;
Government And Politics;
Government Administration;
Lawsuit;
Leading Change;
Mission And Purpose;
Corporate Social Responsibility And Impact;
Conflict Resolution;
Conflict Management;
Motivation And Incentives;
Perspective Taking;
Prejudice;
Bias;
Civil Society Or Community;
Social Issues;
Decision Making;
Cost Vs Benefits;
Judgments;
Race;
Ethics;
Fairness;
moral Sensibility;
Governance;
Corporate Accountability;
Corporate Governance;
Governing Rules, Regulations, And Reforms;
Policy;
Government And Politics;
Government Legislation;
History;
Lawsuits And Litigation;
Legal Liability;
Oklahoma;
Tulsa;
United States
- 2021
- Working Paper
Information Avoidance and Image Concerns
By: Christine L. Exley and Judd B. Kessler
A rich literature finds that individuals avoid information, even information that is instrumental to their choices. A common hypothesis posits that individuals strategically avoid information to hold particular beliefs or to take certain actions--such as behaving...
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- 2021
- Working Paper
False Signaling and Personal Moral Failings: Two Distinct Pathways to Hypocrisy with Unequal Moral Weight
By: Jillian J. Jordan and Roseanna Sommers
Moral engagement is a key feature of human nature: we hold moral values, condemn those who violate those values, and attempt to adhere to them ourselves. Yet moral engagement can make us appear hypocritical if we fail to behave morally. When does moral engagement risk...
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- 2020
- Working Paper
Virtuous Victims
By: Jillian J. Jordan and Maryam Kouchaki
How do people perceive the moral character of victims? We find, across a range of transgressions, that people frequently see victims of wrongdoing as more moral than non-victims who have behaved identically. Across 15 experiments (total n = 9,355), we document this...
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- 2020
- Working Paper
Reputation Drives Morally Questionable Punishment
By: Jillian J. Jordan and Nour Kteily
Critics of outrage culture allege that reputation fuels morally questionable punishment, but is this actually true? Across three studies, we investigated the willingness of liberal subjects to punish a university professor facing sexual harassment allegations. In our...
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- January 2021
- Article
Veil-of-Ignorance Reasoning Mitigates Self-Serving Bias in Resource Allocation During the COVID-19 Crisis
By: Karen Huang, Regan Bernhard, Netta Barak-Corren, Max Bazerman and Joshua D. Greene
The COVID-19 crisis has forced healthcare professionals to make tragic decisions concerning which patients to save. Furthermore, the COVID-19 crisis has foregrounded the influence of self-serving bias in debates on how to allocate scarce resources. A utilitarian...
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- December 2020 (Revised February 2021)
- Supplement
The Tulsa Massacre and the Call for Reparations
By: Mihir A. Desai and Suzanne Antoniou
How should historic social injustices be addressed? Survivors of the 1921 Tulsa Massacre and their descendants, including Representative Regina Goodwin of Tulsa, believe they should be addressed through reparations and have consequently continued to push the government...
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Keywords:
Cost Vs Benefits;
Decision Choices And Conditions;
Decisions;
Judgments;
Race;
Fairness;
moral Sensibility;
Values And Beliefs;
Corporate Accountability;
Corporate Governance;
Policy;
Governing Rules, Regulations, And Reforms;
Government Legislation;
Government And Politics;
Government Administration;
Lawsuits And Litigation;
Legal Liability;
Leading Change;
Mission And Purpose;
Corporate Social Responsibility And Impact;
Conflict And Resolution;
Conflict Management;
Loss;
Motivation And Incentives;
Perspective;
Prejudice And Bias;
Civil Society Or Community;
Social Issues;
Welfare;
Tulsa;
Oklahoma;
United States
- December 2020 (Revised February 2021)
- Teaching Note
The Tulsa Massacre and the Call for Reparations
By: Mihir A. Desai and Suzanne Antoniou
How should historic social injustices be addressed? Survivors of the 1921 Tulsa Massacre and their descendants, including Representative Regina Goodwin of Tulsa, believe they should be addressed through reparations and have consequently continued to push the government...
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Keywords:
Cost Vs Benefits;
Decision Choices And Conditions;
Decisions;
Judgments;
Race;
Fairness;
moral Sensibility;
Values And Beliefs;
Corporate Accountability;
Corporate Governance;
Policy;
Governing Rules, Regulations, And Reforms;
Government Legislation;
Government And Politics;
Government Administration;
Lawsuits And Litigation;
Legal Liability;
Leading Change;
Mission And Purpose;
Corporate Social Responsibility And Impact;
Conflict And Resolution;
Conflict Management;
Loss;
Motivation And Incentives;
Perspective;
Prejudice And Bias;
Civil Society Or Community;
Social Issues;
Welfare;
Tulsa;
Oklahoma;
United States
- December 2020
- Article
Why Connect? Moral Consequences of Networking with a Promotion or Prevention Focus
By: F. Gino, T. Casciaro and M. Kouchaki
Networks are a key source of social capital for achieving goals in professional and personal settings. Yet, despite the clear benefits of having an extensive network, individuals often shy away from the opportunity to create new connections because engaging in...
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Keywords:
Networking;
Impurity;
morality;
Motivation;
Regulatory Focus;
Networks;
Attitudes;
moral Sensibility
- December 2020
- Supplement
France Télécom (B): A Wave of Staff Suicides
In the B case we learn that at least 19 France Telecom employees took their own lives between 2006 and 2009, 12 others attempted suicide, and eight suffered from serious depression for reasons reportedly related to work. Some of these deaths occurred in public places,...
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Keywords:
Change;
Crime And Corruption;
Ethics;
Health;
Human Capital;
Human Resources;
Labor And Management Relations;
Labor Unions;
Law;
Social Psychology;
Strategy;
Leadership Style;
Organizations;
Problems And Challenges;
Relationships;
Crisis Management;
Employees;
Well-being;
Telecommunications Industry;
Europe;
European Union
- October 2020 (Revised February 2021)
- Case
The Tulsa Massacre and the Call for Reparations
By: Mihir A. Desai, Suzanne Antoniou and Leanne Fan
How should historic social injustices be addressed? Survivors of the 1921 Tulsa Massacre and their descendants, including Representative Regina Goodwin of Tulsa, believe they should be addressed through reparations and have consequently continued to push the government...
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Keywords:
Cost Vs Benefits;
Decision Choices And Conditions;
Decisions;
Judgments;
Race;
Fairness;
moral Sensibility;
Values And Beliefs;
Corporate Accountability;
Corporate Governance;
Policy;
Governing Rules, Regulations, And Reforms;
Government Legislation;
Government And Politics;
Government Administration;
Lawsuits And Litigation;
Legal Liability;
Leading Change;
Mission And Purpose;
Corporate Social Responsibility And Impact;
Conflict And Resolution;
Conflict Management;
Loss;
Motivation And Incentives;
Perspective;
Prejudice And Bias;
Civil Society Or Community;
Social Issues;
Tulsa;
Oklahoma;
United States
- September–October 2020
- Article
A New Model for Ethical Leadership
By: Max Bazerman
Rather 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 the most value for society. This utilitarian view, Bazerman argues, blends philosophical thought with business school...
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- September 2020
- Article
The Rise of the Investor State: State Capital in the Chinese Economy
By: Meg Rithmire and Hao Chen
The nature and extent of the role of the Chinese state in the economy is fundamental to many empirical and theoretical debates about that country’s political economy. We document and explain the rise of a novel form of intervention on the part of the Chinese state: the...
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- 2020
- Book
Better, Not Perfect: A Realist's Guide to Maximum Sustainable Goodness
By: Max Bazerman
Every day, you make hundreds of decisions. They’re largely personal, but these choices have an ethical twinge as well; they value certain principles and ends over others. Bazerman argues that we can better balance both dimensions—and we needn’t seek perfection to make...
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- Fall 2020
- Article
Climate in the Boardroom: Struggling to Reconcile Business as Usual & the End of the World as We Know It
How does one witness to businesspeople about climate change? Climate change is a problem for the collective and the long term, whereas business often requires a ruthless focus on the individual and the quarter. Climate change is an ethical catastrophe whose solution...
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- August 2020
- Case
This Old House of Worship: St. Anthony Shrine (A)
By: Ryan Raffaelli
This multimedia case asks students to consider how leaders of non-profit organizations manage difficult financial, operational, and cultural turnarounds. Since its founding in 1947, St. Anthony Shrine had been a central partner in serving the Downtown Boston community....
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- June 2020 (Revised October 2020)
- Case
What Went Wrong with Boeing's 737 Max?
By: William W. George and Amram Migdal
This case describes the development of the Boeing 737 Max airplane model and the events leading up to two tragic plane crashes, in which a total of 346 people died: the crash of Lion Air flight 610 on October 29, 2018, in Indonesia, and the crash of Ethiopian Airlines...
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Keywords:
Communication;
Communication Intention And Meaning;
Communication Strategy;
Forms Of Communication;
Announcements;
Decision Making;
Decision Choices And Conditions;
Judgments;
Ethics;
moral Sensibility;
Values And Beliefs;
Globalization;
Global Strategy;
Governance;
Corporate Accountability;
Governance Controls;
Human Resources;
Resignation And Termination;
Leadership;
Leadership Style;
Management;
Business Or Company Management;
Crisis Management;
Management Practices And Processes;
Management Skills;
Management Style;
Management Systems;
Risk Management;
Time Management;
Markets;
Demand And Consumers;
Market Platforms;
Supply And Industry;
Duopoly And Oligopoly;
Industry Structures;
Operations;
Product Development;
Organizations;
Organizational Change And Adaptation;
Organizational Culture;
Outcome Or Result;
Failure;
Success;
Planning;
Strategic Planning;
Problems And Challenges;
Relationships;
Business And Community Relations;
Business And Government Relations;
Business And Stakeholder Relations;
Risk And Uncertainty;
Safety;
Strategy;
Transportation;
Air Transportation;
Aerospace Industry;
Air Transportation Industry;
Africa;
Ethiopia;
Asia;
Indonesia;
North And Central America;
United States;
Seattle;
Chicago
- June 2020 (Revised November 2020)
- Case
Vanguard Retail Operations (A)
By: Willy C. Shih and Antonio Moreno
The first two cases in this series are set in the financial services industry, and explore whether it is better for back-office workers to be generalists who provide the flexibility of being able to handle the complete range of transactions that the company faces or...
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