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Research & Publications

  • "The Leader as Moderator: Toward an Ethic of Everything (Everywhere, All at Once)."

    Hafrey, Leigh. MIT Faculty Newsletter, February 2025.

  • "Leigh Hafrey: Why we all have a leadership role to play (Podcast #116)."

    Corinne M. Flick. In CONVOCO!, April 2024.

  • "Wann hat für Sie persönlich das 21. Jahrhundert begonnen?"

    Leigh Hafrey, Corrine M. Flick et al. In CONVOCO!, April 2024.

  • "Who’s Calling the Shots on Data and AI?"

    Hafrey, Leigh. MIT School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences: Great Ideas Change the World, February 18, 2019.

  • "Do Good Manners Matter? Protocol, Etiquette, and Ethics."

    Hafrey, Leigh. In 17th Annual International Protocol Education Forum, Boston, MA: July 2018.

  • "Asociación Chilena de Seguridad (ACHS) (A): Honoring a Legacy, Embracing Change."

    Leigh Hafrey and Cate Reavis. In MIT Sloan Case #15-162, Cambridge, MA: April 2016.

  • "Asociación Chilena de Seguridad (ACHS) (B): Sustaining Change."

    Leigh Hafrey and Cate Reavis. In MIT Sloan Case #15-163, Cambridge, MA: April 2016.

  • "Which Way to the Front?"

    Hafrey, Leigh. HuffPost, January 2016.

  • "Making Paternity Leave Pay."

    Hafrey, Leigh. Cognoscenti, January 20, 2015.

  • "The Ethics of Voicing One’s Values."

    Hafrey, Leigh. In Educating for Values-Driven Leadership: Giving Voice to Values Across the Curriculum, edited by Mary Gentile, New York, NY: Business Expert Press, 2013.

  • "Corporate Personhood, Business Leadership, and the U.S. Presidential Election of 2012."

    Leigh Hafrey and Cate Reavis. In MIT Sloan Case #11-134, Cambridge, MA: June 2012.

  • "Management Principles and the Washington, D.C., Public Schools (A): Choosing a Chancellor."

    Hafrey, Leigh and Cate Reavis. In MIT Sloan Case #10-100, Cambridge, MA: September 2011.

  • "Management Principles and the Washington, D.C., Public Schools (B): Race to the Top."

    Leigh Hafrey and Cate Reavis. In MIT Sloan Case #10-101, Cambridge, MA: September 2011.

  • "Management Principles and the Washington, D.C., Public Schools (C): Former D.C. Mayor Adrian Fenty Reflects."

    Leigh Hafrey and Cate Reavis. In MIT Sloan Case #10-123, Cambridge, MA: July 2011.

  • "Ancorapoint and Nigeria’s Primary Health Care Development Agency."

    Leigh Hafrey and Cate Reavis. In MIT Sloan Case #10-112, Cambridge, MA: 2011.

  • "Linking Inequality and Poverty."

    Hafrey, Leigh. IPA’s Business Today, September 2009.

  • "Leadership to Remember."

    Hafrey, Leigh. IPA’s Business Today, July 2009.

  • "A Different American Century."

    Leigh, Hafrey. IPA’s Business Today, April 2009.

  • "Imagine a Purpose."

    Hafrey, Leigh. IPA’s Business Today, September 2008.

  • "The $300 Skate."

    Hafrey, Leigh. IPA’s Business Today, July 2008.

  • "The Language of Dissent."

    Hafrey, Leigh. IPA’s Business Today, April 2008.

  • "Toxic Innovation."

    Hafrey, Leigh. IPA’s Business Today, January 2008.

  • "People or Profit."

    Hafrey, Leigh. IPA’s Business Today, September 2007.

  • "The New Generation Gap."

    Hafrey, Leigh. IPA’s Business Today, July 2007.

  • "Small Business Ethics."

    Hafrey, Leigh. IPA’s Business Today, March 2007.

  • "Surf’s Up."

    Hafrey, Leigh. IPA’s Business Today, January 2007.

  • "Gender, Ethics, and Leadership."

    Hafrey, Leigh. WomensBiz, December 2005.

  • "Where Have All the Dollars Gone?  A Paradigm for Business Ethics."

    Hafrey, Leigh. The Manchester Review, April 1996.

  • "At Cyberspace University Press, Paperless Publishing Looks Good."

    Hafrey, Leigh. NYTimes Book Review, October 1994.

  • "What’s In a Book?"

    Hafrey, Leigh. Harvard Review, September 1993.

  • "Tourists in Our Very Souls."

    Hafrey, Leigh. Harvard Review, September 1992.

  • "War Stories for a New Generation."

    Hafrey, Leigh. Harvard Review, April 1992.

  • "He Found Himself Transformed to a Giant Modernist."

    Hafrey, Leigh. Review of Franz Kafka: Representative Man, by Frederick Karl. NYTimes Book Review, February 23, 1992.

  • "He’s Back Home, But Is It the Real Robert Wilson?"

    Hafrey, Leigh. New York Times, Sunday Arts and Leisure, February 1991.

  • "By Candlelight, Martha Clarke Creates Three-Ring Theater."

    Hafrey, Leigh. New York Times, Arts and Leisure, July 1990.

  • "Nervous Laughter."

    Hafrey, Leigh. Review of Masquerade and Other Stories, by Robert Walser. NYTimes Book Review, June 3, 1990.

  • "Snatching the Grail from the Nazis."

    Hafrey, Leigh. Review of Parsifal, by Peter Vansittart. NYTimes Book Review, July 16, 1989.

  • "An end or a beginning."

    Hafrey, Leigh. Review of Frank Kafka: The necessity of form, by Stanley Korngold. TLS, June 16, 1989.

  • "Crazy in Vienna."

    Hafrey, Leigh. Review of Wittgenstein’s Nephew: A Friendship, by Thomas Bernhard. NYTimes Book Review, February 19, 1989.

  • "Striving to be a science."

    Hafrey, Leigh. Review of A Dictionary of Narratology, by Gerald Prince. TLS, January 13, 1989.

  • "You Can’t Lie to a Dog."

    Hafrey, Leigh. Review of The White German Shepherd, by Vicki Hearne. NYTimes Book Review, June 26, 1988.

  • "Business Science?"

    Hafrey, Leigh. Management Berater, May 1988.

  • "They Will Hear Silvio Ayala."

    Hafrey, Leigh. Review of Imagining Argentina, by Lawrence Thornton. NYTimes Book Review, September 20, 1987.

  • "Write About What You Know:  Big Bang or Grecian Urn."

    Hafrey, Leigh. NYTimes Book Review, December 1986.

  • "Eyeless with Breugel."

    Hafrey, Leigh. Review of The Parable of the Blind, by Gert Hofmann. NYTimes Book Review, January 26, 1986.

  • "Freedom, Necessity, and Dogs I Have Known."

    Hafrey, Leigh. NYTimes Book Review, December 1985.

  • "In the Spirit of ’68."

    Hafrey, Leigh. Review of Footsteps: Adventures of a Romantic Biographer, by Richard Holmes. NYTimes Book Review, October 20, 1985.

  • "The Bottom Line."

    Hafrey, Leigh. The Times Higher Education, April 15, 1983.

  • "The Gilded Cage:  postmodernism and beyond."

    Hafrey, Leigh. TriQuarterly, January 1983.

Translated Books

  • "The North China Lover," by Marguerite Duras (trans. Leigh Hafrey), New Press, 1992.
  • "The German Comedy," by Peter Schneider (trans. Leigh Hafrey and Phillip Boehm), Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1991.
  • "Parrot's Perch," by Michel Rio (trans. Leigh Hafrey), Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1985.
  • "The Wall Jumper," by Peter Schneider (trans. Leigh Hafrey), Pantheon, 1984.
  • "A Night in Distant Motion," by Irina Korschunow, (trans. Leigh Hafrey), Godine, 1983.