As Dean of Harvard Business School, Nitin Nohria is charged with leading the development of some of the top business leaders of the future. This includes teaching students about business ethics. Nohria rejects the notion that there are simply bad people who do bad things. Rather, he argues that overconfidence in one's own "moral capacity" is often the key problem in ethical failures in the business world (and in life, in general, we presume). Nohria recently addressed this "capacity for moral failure" in an interview at Big Think:
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05-26-2011 5:26 AM
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Graham Griffith