Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 23, 2016

A few years ago, I was teaching a two-day program about ethics in India for entrepreneurs and business faculty who taught entrepreneurship. But this is India, and we are entrepreneurs — we can’t even get a driver’s license without paying a bribe.”

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2017

Our research in Egypt , Zimbabwe , and India shows that organizations should view the prospect of building a strong ethical reputation in such environments as an opportunity, and consider the costs of resisting corruption as an investment in building such a reputation. Ethics Can Be a Differentiator.

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Women on Business

AUGUST 26, 2011

Lead by Example. This person should be in the operations leg of your organization where organization and efficiency are responded to. Leadership is an elusive quality but interestingly enough the people who want it usually aren’t leaders.

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 18, 2015

And, the mission critical nature of credibility cannot be overstated, as it establishes a company or brand’s integrity, reliability, validity, soundness and a host of other image-including indicators of an entity’s moral and ethical code, and the standards by which it operates. Social media also presents tremendous image opportunity.

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Women on Business

NOVEMBER 22, 2010

If, for example, you are trying to find out from one of your team why their colleague didn’t include the requested statistics in a report you were just handed, something along the lines of, “Is he having trouble finding them? For example, “I understand if you want to check in with X. Had a family emergency?”

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Leading Blog

APRIL 16, 2021

For example, if your partner isn’t on board, many people might choose to avoid conflicts between “your-wife-or-your-life” or “your-man-or-your-plan.” For example, starting a lawn service with a mower and a truck will demand far less investment and risk than borrowing a lot of money to buy an existing landscaping company.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2013

This framework has the potential to reverse the typical role of CSR, currently viewed as a way to "give back" to communities that a business operates in. Consider these examples: 1. There are significant ethical issues with applying this model to HIV in the USA.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 24, 2011

But many businesswomen are so overwhelmed with running day-to-day operations, there is little or no time to do a good job at casting the net of promotional effort out—whether through community activities, donations, networking events, promotional campaigns, public relations initiatives, or advertising—it is NEVER enough!

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Coaching Tip

FEBRUARY 15, 2012

A good example of a corporate meme expressed during the financial crisis (even as the subprime crisis worsened) by Charles Prince, former CEO of Citigroup: "As long as the music is playing, you've got to get up and dance," he said. If you view yourself as a 'pragmatist,' for example, find a way to see voicing your values as pragmatic.".

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 28, 2011

If determining whether your employees are losing their ability to effectively process ideas and information costs next to nothing , aren't you ethically obligated to find that out? While personal and professional pain around the likely loss of one's faculties is unavoidable, the legal and ethical implications have only begun to be addressed.

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Venture Capitalist Ethics Human Capital Drucker 15

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 26, 2011

His skills and work ethic suggest that it would be reasonable to assume he could have been a world-class ice hockey player if he had dedicated himself to the sport as a youth. But a range of research has shown how successful entrepreneurs generally act differently from successful operators.*. That's no dig on James.

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Sports Christensen Innovation Class 13

Great Leadership By Dan

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

Jim Taggart , from Changing Winds , says “Every leader, whether in a management or staff role, entrepreneur or small business owner, should incorporate in their individual development plan (or learning plan as it’s often called) a clear statement on what they are passionate about , and what they see as their central purpose in life.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2015

And the result could be a formal statement from the CEO defining the organization’s culture or a list of operating cultural norms that govern the way staff interacts with one another — or both. It’s important to understand that hiring for culture fit doesn’t mean hiring people who are all the same.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 19, 2013

Let me share two examples of the Big Data opportunities we've seized at Benetech: a long-standing use of data that has global implications and a nascent one that has just launched. Second, Bookshare , a social enterprise operated by Benetech, last year processed requests for more than 1.3 Talk about Big Data!

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 21, 2017

Kalanick and other top executives signal by example what is and is not acceptable behavior, and they are clearly responsible for the company’s ethically and legally questionable decisions and practices. In normalizing violations, therefore, Uber has shifted the entire urban transport business and set an example for other sectors.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2016

While cars have been getting smarter and smarter, the removal of human operators is what will dramatically change the law. From the beginning, self-driving vehicles have proven to be better drivers than most human operators, since software is able to learn as it goes. traffic deaths. Lawmakers face a critical choice.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2011

They go by names like corporate social responsibility, sustainability, shareholder advocacy, social assessment and auditing, consumer action, government regulation, leadership development, ethics, realignment of incentives , attracting long-term investors , creating shared value , and more. Here are a few suggestions: Lead by Example.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 18, 2011

Still, there’s the example of great leaders for those who have “ears to hear&#.Ron I’ve seen several (entrepreneur) CEOs who suffer from this Jekyl/Hyde personality, most likely due to the extreme stresses of starting/running a self-funded business. Sadly this is no isolated example. How times have changed!

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 2, 2011

Since many are small business people, solo practitioners, sales force members and entrepreneurs, they make great sacrifices to network… usually much more than the payoff. Some commercial programs cater to this market but are usually populated by entrepreneurs on the way up. Niche Networkers. Spot them and avoid them.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 23, 2013

Since the publication of my HBR article on wearables , I’ve been asked a number of follow-up questions from executives, tech analysts, and most especially from entrepreneurs. However, as I suggest in my HBR piece, we should vigorously question the ethics and effectiveness of any “asymmetrical” uses of HUDs. Not necessarily.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 6, 2011

I was a young entrepreneur. For example, one day an employee lashed out at me, threatening to quit, for looking over his shoulder at a document that needed to go out looking just right. I could give you dozens of examples like this. It was a legion of demons. But I was working off of woefully incomplete information.

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Lead Change Blog

JUNE 23, 2016

Chris is a twenty-something entrepreneur in the midst of her start-up. Unfortunately, her title is a strategic, operational, financial, and cultural derailing eventuality to the intended track of her purpose, vision and values. Bill is frustrated with the work ethic and low levels of engagement within his management and employee ranks.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 28, 2014

As the founder and president of a new ethical bank focused on environmental sustainability, Jay McGuane realized that he and his board needed to set guidelines about which loans to approve and which to reject on “values” grounds. Ethical banking had seemed so benign when Jay had decided to enter the industry.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 11, 2011

This client was a prime example of a leading CEO who served his community, profession and firm well. Enron did not demand enough accountability, fairness, ethics and operational autonomy from its outside auditor. Maintaining too much of an entrepreneur and family business mindset. The Auditing Firm Employed by Enron.

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