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    Obstacles to Ethical Decision-Making in the Perception of Ethical Context

    In this essay Werhane et al expand a topic she first explored in “Why do good people do bad things” (2005). The suggestion here is that it may be easy to understand evil when it is done with deliberate intent,...

    Patricia H. Werhane, Laura P. Hartman in Systems Thinking and Moral Imagination (2019)

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    Social Constructivism, Mental Models, and the Problems of Obedience

    In this article, written with Hartman, Moberg, Parmar, Englehardt and Pritchard (2011), the authors argue that one of the problems of obedience to authority as depicted in the Milgram experiments, and later re...

    Patricia H. Werhane, Laura P. Hartman in Systems Thinking and Moral Imagination (2019)

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    Building Partnerships to Create Social and Economic Value at the Base of the Global Development Pyramid

    This article, written with Calton, Hartman and Bevan, develops the position that poverty, globally, can be alleviated if not eradicated if Western industrial companies and other commercial institutions will fo...

    Patricia H. Werhane, Jerry M. Calton in Systems Thinking and Moral Imagination (2019)

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    Building Partnerships to Create Social and Economic Value at the Base of the Global Development Pyramid

    This paper builds on London and Hart’s critique that Prahalad’s best-selling book prompted a unilateral effort to find a fortune at the bottom of the pyramid (BoP). Prahalad’s instrumental, firm-centered const...

    Jerry M. Calton, Patricia H. Werhane, Laura P. Hartman in Journal of Business Ethics (2013)

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    Social Constructivism, Mental Models, and Problems of Obedience

    There are important synergies for the next generation of ethical leaders based on the alignment of modified or adjusted mental models. This entails a synergistic application of moral imagination through collab...

    Patricia H. Werhane, Laura P. Hartman, Dennis Moberg in Journal of Business Ethics (2011)

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    The Ethics of Carbon Neutrality: A Critical Examination of Voluntary Carbon Offset Providers

    In this article, we explore the world’s response to the increasing impact of carbon emissions on the sobering threat posed by global warming: the carbon offset market. Though the market is a relatively new one...

    K. Kathy Dhanda, Laura P. Hartman in Journal of Business Ethics (2011)

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    A Modular Approach to Business Ethics Integration: At the Intersection of the Stand-Alone and the Integrated Approaches

    While no one seems to believe that business schools or their faculties bear entire responsibility for the ethical decision-making processes of their students, these same institutions do have some burden of acc...

    Laura P. Hartman, Patricia H. Werhane in Journal of Business Ethics (2009)

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    The End of Foreign Aid as We Know It: The Profitable Alleviation of Poverty in a Globalized Economy

    This chapter will defend the following thesis: poverty can be alleviated, if not eradicated, both locally and globally, but only if we change our narratives about global free enterprise and only if we rethink our...

    Scott Kelley, Patricia H. Werhane in Alleviating Poverty through Business Strat… (2008)

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    The Communication of Corporate Social Responsibility: United States and European Union Multinational Corporations

    This study explores corporate social responsibility (CSR) by conducting a cross-cultural analysis of communication of CSR activities in a total of 16 U.S. and European corporations. Drawing on previous researc...

    Laura P. Hartman, Robert S. Rubin, K. Kathy Dhanda in Journal of Business Ethics (2007)

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    Ethics, CSR, and Sustainability Education in the Financial Times Top 50 Global Business Schools: Baseline Data and Future Research Directions

    This paper investigates how deans and directors at the top 50 global MBA programs (as rated by the Financial Times in their 2006 Global MBA rankings) respond to questions about the inclusion and coverage of the t...

    Lisa Jones Christensen, Ellen Peirce, Laura P. Hartman in Journal of Business Ethics (2007)

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    Sony Online Entertainment: EverQuest® or EverCrack? Oxford Style Debate Presented at Tenth Annual International Conference Promoting Business Ethics

    Part C of this three part series is the presentation from the Oxford style debate held at the Tenth Annual International Conference Promoting Business Ethics between Laura Hartman, J.D., and Dr. Moses Pava on ...

    Laura P. Hartman, Moses L. Pava in Journal of Business Ethics (2005)

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    Introduction to the Issue

    Laura P. Hartman in Journal of Business Ethics (2000)