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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

For more than a decade, I have had the great good fortune,

personally and professionally, of working with a remarkable

group of colleagues on an important challenge. Together, we

have designed and taught a course called Leadership and

Corporate Accountability. This is a required course for all

nine hundred students in the first year of the Harvard MBA

program, and it teaches them about the economic, legal, and

ethical responsibilities they will take on as managers.

For me, working with the LCA group has been a decade-

long seminar in the conceptual, historical, legal, and practical

aspects of making hard, important decisions in organiza-

tions. Some of my colleagues in this group came from a range

of traditional academic dis ...