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The IRS Just Sent Me $160,000. Can I Keep It?

Harvard Business Review

This begs an interesting question: Do we act more ethically when we become leaders of companies because of the tacit expectations (and heightened risks)? Life is full of ethical dilemmas. In the July-August 2010 edition of HBR, Clay Christensen wrote a remarkable article, How Will You Measure Your Life?

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When Good People Work for Bad Companies

Harvard Business Review

After earning a master's degree in ethics at Yale, Gregor became the first director of corporate consciousness for Burlington, Vermont-based Seventh Generation , the nation's leading manufacturer of environmentally-friendly household and personal care products. What was it that he was here to do? Was he doing it? How could he do it better?".

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How to Build a Meaningful Career

Harvard Business Review

Nathaniel Koloc, the CEO of ReWork , which provides recruiting services to companies that offer purposeful work, says that’s because no one really ever teaches us how: “Very few parents, teachers, and mentors urge us to think about this or give us mental models to use,” he says. Ethics Feature. Christensen.

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When Success is Born Out of Serendipity

Harvard Business Review

My own publisher, HBS Press, published two the very same month as my book — one of them co-authored by heavyweight Clay Christensen. What, they asked her, was the most powerful argument for promoting diversity — outside of ethical and legal ones? That single conversation changed everything for me.