The Horizons Tracker

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Altruistic organizations undoubtedly perform their good deeds for their own sake, but research from the McCombs School of Business at the University of Texas at Austin suggests it might also influence whether job candidates negotiate on their salary or not.

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McCombs Human Resources Objective Proposal 59

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 29, 2016

Organizations sometimes make catastrophic mistakes. Consider NASA, an organization employing some of the nation’s brightest minds. Some people within the organization had concerns with a component (the O-rings) being affected by low temperatures. Why do organizations forget what they learn, even when stakes are so high?

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Organization McCombs Pharmaceuticals Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 16, 2014

I teach a course on ethics at the McCombs School of Business and have run the McCombs Speaker Series on Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility for the last seven years. Allowing employees to speak up and take an active part in the decisions of organizations has been shown to be an effective strategy across industries.

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Loyalty McCombs Ethics Follow-up 14