Harvard Business Review on Corporate Ethics or Tragic Mountains

Harvard Business Review on Corporate Ethics

Author: Joseph L Badaracco

Harvard Business Review on Corporate Ethics

Resolving today's most pressing questions about business behavior has become a priority in today's corporate environment. In deciding how to act, managers reveal their inner values, test their commitment to those values, and ultimately shape their characters. Readers of this collection of articles will learn to identify the theoretical and practical issues of recognizing and responding to ethical dilemmas and will find the link between good ethics and good business.

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The series is designed to bring today's managers and professionals the fundamental information they need to stay competitive in a fast-moving world. From the preeminent thinkers whose work has defined an entire field to the rising stars who will redefine the way we think about business, here are the leading minds and landmark ideas that have established the Harvard Business Review as required reading for ambitious businesspeople in organizations around the globe.

Table of Contents:

	We Don't Need Another Hero	1
	Ethics Without the Sermon	19
	Why 'Good' Managers Make Bad Ethical Choices	49
	Ethics in Practice	67
	Managing for Organizational Integrity	85
	Values in Tension: Ethics Away from Home	113
	The Discipline of Building Character	139
	The Parable of the Sadhu	165
	About the Contributors	183
	Index	185

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Tragic Mountains: The Hmong, the Americans, and the Secret Wars for Laos, 1942-1992

Author: Jane Hamilton Merritt

Tragic Mountains tells the story of the Hmong's struggle for freedom and survival in Laos from 1942 through 1992. During those years, most Hmong sided with the French against the Japanese and Ho Chi Minh's Viet Minh, and then with the Americans against the North Viemamese.

This is a story of courage, tenacity, brutality, secrecy, incredible heroism by Hmong and Americans alike, international cynicism, betrayal, genocide, and resilience. The staunchest of allies, the Hmong were America's foot soldiers in the brutal secret Lao theater of the Vietnam War, risking all to defend their homelands and to rescue downed U.S. crews. Abandoned by the United States when it withdrew in 1975, the Hmong have been subjected to a campaign of genocide by communist Laos and Vietnam.

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This is a comprehensive history of American relations with the Hmong tribe of Laos, a relationship that began when the Hmong were contacted by the OSS in 1942 for anti-Japanese resistance activities, continued through the various wars in Southeast Asia in which the Hmong were staunchly anti-Communist, and persists during the post-Vietnam War period in which the Hmong have faced the alternatives of exile or genocide. This story is complex and requires some background in the general history of the Vietnam War. But it is also well told, with few villains, many ignorant, and hardly any heroes except the Hmong themselves. Recommended for large Vietnam collections.