On March 3rd Lab fellow Dr. Julia Lee presented a collaborative project with Professor Bobby Parmar from the University of Virginia and Professor Francesca Gino from the Harvard Business School. Their research project is on learning how cheating and dishonest behavior affects how one thinks about one’s social network and how this could potentially trigger more dishonest behavior. The broader implications of this research are to better understand the mechanisms of how cheating and dishonesty become repetitive and institutionalized in the culture of an organization. ...
Conflicts of interest have emerged as a core ethical challenge in business, government, law, medicine, and academia, among others, undermining public confidence and breeding public cynicism. Typically, under the constructs of traditional economics, conflicts of interest are thought about purely as an issue of...
The March 23, 2011 seminar was led by Francesca Gino, Associate Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. She presented her paper "Bringing Ethics into Focus: How Regulatory Focus and Risk Preferences influence (un)Ethical Behavior," co-authored with Joshua Margolis. Francesca opened the seminar by reviewing some of the models (economic, psychological, social) that attempt to explain why honest people act dishonestly. She then went on to describe the studies from her paper, which demonstrate how...
Bringing Ethics Into Focus: From Conflicts of Interest to Dishonest Behavior"-Francesca Gino: "Disclosing Conflicts of Interests can Exacerbate Bias"- Don Moore; "The Burden of Disclosure"- Sunita Sah"
