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Making Meaningful, Personal Connections in the Workplace

Our research shows meaningful human connections can spark engagement. When employees say they felt like they were part of community they were more likely to be inspired at work.

Build Moral Muscle for Exceptional Outcomes

Moral leadership at the organizational level requires a critical mass of individuals willing to put in the effort to continually build their moral leadership muscle.

Key Moral Leadership Practice #1: Start With a Pause

Perhaps counterintuitively, the faster the world gets, the more we need to pause. Pausing is one of the most essential and most powerful moral practices leaders have to build self-knowledge, relate to the needs of their teams and stakeholders, and move forward in a more deliberate, purposeful, and inspired way.

Moral Leadership Inspires Exceptional Organizational Performance

Moral leaders don’t demonstrate moral leadership behaviors in order to generate success. Rather, they demonstrate moral leadership because it is the right thing to do and it creates space for success to find them.

Lessons From a Year of War in Ukraine

HOW Fellow Dana Born and other Harvard Kennedy School faculty members reflect on how the conflict has changed the way we think about vital global issues and what lessons it has taught us.

Moral Leaders Get Apologies Right

Authentic apologies are about a lot more than just saying you’re sorry, even if you mean it. When a leader breaks a promise, or damages a relationship, they need to earn back trust and change their behavior in a way that demonstrates, without question, that they mean it.

CEO Activism vs. Moral Leadership

CEO activism does not equal moral leadership. Social, environmental, geopolitical, biological, humanitarian, ethical, and moral issues that were once considered tangential to an organization’s agenda are increasingly viewed as inescapably at the center of it.

Moral Leaders Inspire Teams That Are Animated by High Ethical Standards, Respect, Learning, and Trust

Moral leadership is a feature of interpersonal networks in organizations. In other words: the energy that moral leaders exude is truly contagious.
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New Research: The State of Moral Leadership in Business

Our new report finds that the vast majority of U.S. employees want greater moral leadership from their managers and CEOs, but that demand outpaces supply.
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The Elie Wiesel Foundation for Humanity and The HOW Institute for Society Announce Student Winners of the 2021 Prize in Ethics Essay Contest

The Prize in Ethics Essay Contest, established in 1989 by Professor Elie Wiesel and his wife, Marion Wiesel, is an annual competition that challenges college students to address the urgent and complex ethical issues that confront the modern world. Since its inception, thousands of young people have written essays for consideration.
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New Research: Human Connection in the Virtual Workspace

Our new report found human connection was strained for all employees but for some more than others, particularly women and younger workers. Yet, employees who rated managers high on moral leadership scale were 150 percent more likely to feel meaningfully connected to their organization during the crisis.
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