MBA Courses
First Year Ethics
First Year Strategy
Seminar in Strategy
Executive Education Courses
Navy Corporate Business Course
Emerging Political Leaders
Leadership Development Program, AES
Biography
Assistant Professor Jared Harris teaches both Ethics and Strategy courses in Darden’s MBA program and a doctoral seminar on corporate governance and ethics. His research centers on the interplay between ethics and strategy, with a particular focus on the topics of corporate governance, business ethics and interorganizational trust. His work on corporate financial misrepresentation won the 2007 Best Dissertation award in one division of the Academy of Management (social issues in management) and qualified him as one of six finalists in another division (business policy and strategy). His work has been published in Organization Science and Business Ethics Quarterly and has been featured in the New York Times, the Washington Post and The New Yorker as well as other media outlets in the United States, Canada, Germany, India, Portugal and the United Kingdom.
Prior to joining the Darden faculty in 2006, Harris taught at the University of Minnesota’s Carlson School of Management. Previously, he worked as an certified public accountant and consultant for several leading public accounting firms in Boston and Portland, Oregon, and served as the CFO of a small technology firm in Washington, D.C.
A fellow with the Business Roundtable Institute for Corporate Ethics and a senior fellow with Darden’s Olsson Center for Applied Ethics, Harris is also a research partner of OCEG (Open Ethics and Compliance Group) and the IMA (Institute of Management Accountants). He consults with several leading financial services companies on the topics of strategic management, ethics and compliance.
Publications
Harris, Jared, Harry Sapienza, and Norman Bowie. 2009. “Ethics and Entrepreneurship,”
Journal of Business Venturing, 24(5):407-418.
PDFFreeman, R. Edward and Jared Harris. 2009. “Creating Ties that Bind,”
Journal of Business Ethics, 88:685-692.
PDFHarris, Jared. 2009. “What’s Wrong with Executive Compensation?”
Journal of Business Ethics, 85:147-156.
PDFHarris, Jared and Ed Freeman. 2008. “The Impossibility of the Separation Thesis,”
Business Ethics Quarterly, 18(4): 541-548.
PDFHarris, Jared. 2008. “Financial Misrepresentation: Antecedents and Performance Effects,” extended (15 page) abstract of doctoral dissertation,
Business & Society, 47(3): 390-401.
PDFHarris, Jared. 2007. “Do Firms Do ‘Worse’ by Doing ‘Bad’? Financial Misrepresentation and Subsequent Firm Performance,”
Academy of Management Best Paper Proceedings, BPS: 1-6.
PDFHarris, Jared and Philip Bromiley. 2007. “Incentives to Cheat: The Influence of Executive Compensation and Firm Performance on Financial Misrepresentation,”
Organization Science, 18(3): 350-367.
PDFHarris, Jared. 2006. “How Much is Too Much? A Theoretical Analysis of Executive Compensation from the Standpoint of Distributive Justice,” in R. Kolb (Ed.),
The Ethics of Executive Compensation, 67-86. Blackwell: Malden, Massachusetts.
PDFZaheer, Aks and Jared Harris. 2006. “Interorganizational Trust,” in O. Shenkar and J. Reuer (Eds.),
Handbook of Strategic Alliances, 169-197. Sage Publications: Thousand Oaks, California.
PDFBromiley, Philip and Jared Harris. 2006. “Trust, Transaction Cost Economics, and Mechanisms,” in R. Bachmann and A. Zaheer (Eds.),
Handbook of Trust Research, 124-143. Edward Elgar: Northampton, Massachusetts.
PDFHarris, Jared. 2005. “Hybrid Vehicles, Consumer Choice and the Ethical Obligation of Business,”
Business and Professional Ethics Journal, 24(1): 163-170.
PDFHarris, Jared and Philip Bromiley. 2005. “Financial Misrepresentation, Executive Compensation and Firm Performance: An Empirical Study,”
Academy of Management Best Paper Proceedings, BPS: CC1-CC6.
PDFHarris, Jared and David Souder. 2004. “Bad Apples or Bad Bushel? Ethics, Efficiency and Capital Market Integrity,”
Business and Professional Ethics Journal, 23(1): 201-222.
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Expertise
Business Ethics
Corporate Governance
Interfirm Trust
Course Information
GBUS 738, Business Ethics (Required MBA course, Darden first year program)
GBUS 740, Strategic Thinking and Action (Required MBA course, Darden first year program)
GBUS 887, Topics in Strategic Management
A second year MBA elective, this course has several objectives: (1) to make you conversant with contemporary issues in the field of strategic management – both theory and practice; (2) to treat ideas in greater depth and rigor than possible in a traditional case course; (3) to enable you to develop a pluralistic view of strategy; (4) to sharpen your strategic thinking abilities, instincts, and judgment as a potential executive and decision-maker.
As opposed to approaching strategy through case analyses, as in the first year program at Darden, this is a readings seminar. We spend the course focusing on different ways to think about strategy, and what insights these might provide to you as a strategist and business leader. For instance, we’ll focus on strategy as a science, on strategy as an art, on analogical thinking in strategy. Throughout the course we will tie our discussions to some contemporary issues in strategic management and business leadership.
GBUS 974, Ph.D. Seminar in Business Ethics and Corporate Governance
A doctoral seminar on business ethics and corporate governance, this course is designed to: 1) familiarize graduate students with the basic theoretical, empirical, and methodological approaches from the social science tradition that pertain to business ethics, 2) expose students to foundational and current research in specific streams of inquiry, and 3) help students think about how to put together a fruitful ethics/governance-themed research program that includes an empirical/theoretical component in addition to any related normative or philosophical work.