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  • 05 Jan 2016
  • Working Paper Summaries

The Integrity of Private Third-party Compliance Monitoring

Keywords: by Michael W. Toffel & Jodi L. Short; Manufacturing; Public Administration; Accounting; Service
  • 26 Dec 2012
  • Working Paper Summaries

Reinforcing Regulatory Regimes: How States, Civil Society, and Codes of Conduct Promote Adherence to Global Labor Standards

Keywords: by Michael W. Toffel, Jodi L. Short & Melissa Ouellet
  • 04 Jun 2008
  • Working Paper Summaries

Coming Clean and Cleaning Up: Is Voluntary Disclosure a Signal of Effective Self-Policing?

Keywords: by Michael W. Toffel & Jodi L. Short
  • 03 Oct 2007
  • Working Paper Summaries

The Causes and Consequences of Industry Self-Policing

Keywords: by Jodi L. Short & Michael W. Toffel
  • 13 Oct 2006
  • Working Paper Summaries

Coerced Confessions: Self-Policing in the Shadow of the Regulator

Keywords: by Jodi L. Short & Michael W. Toffel
  • 06 Nov 2008
  • Working Paper Summaries

Extending Producer Responsibility: An Evaluation Framework for Product Take-Back Policies

Keywords: by Michael W. Toffel, Antoinette Stein & Katharine L. Lee; Chemical
  • 14 Nov 2013
  • Working Paper Summaries

What Shapes the Gatekeepers? Evidence from Global Supply Chain Auditors

Keywords: by Jodi L. Short, Michael W. Toffel & Andrea Hugill; Financial Services; Legal Services
  • 21 Jul 2017
  • Working Paper Summaries

Organizational Structures and the Improvement of Working Conditions in Global Supply Chains: Legalization, Participation, and Economic Incentives

Keywords: by Yanhua Z. Bird, Jodi L. Short, and Michael W. Toffel
  • 18 Jul 2016
  • Working Paper Summaries

Beyond Symbolic Responses to Private Politics: Examining Labor Standards Improvement in Global Supply Chains

Keywords: by Andrea R. Hugill, Jodi L. Short, and Michael W. Toffel; Manufacturing
  • 12 Sep 2016
  • Research & Ideas

What Brands Can Do to Monitor Factory Conditions of Suppliers

Adherence to Global Labor Standards and published in the journal Regulation & Governance, was authored by Toffel, UC Hastings Law Professor Jodi View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • 19 Oct 2015
  • Research & Ideas

Business Research that Makes for Smarter Public Policy

originated. “We are using data from regulators, writing studies, but seldom going back to the regulators to say, ‘This is what we learned,’” says Harvard Business School Professor Michael W. View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • 10 Jun 2008
  • First Look

First Look: June 10, 2008

benefit allied politicians. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/08-100.pdf Coming Clean and Cleaning Up: Is Voluntary Disclosure a Signal of Effective Self-Policing? Authors:Michael W. Toffel and View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 05 Mar 2019
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, March 5, 2019

Yanhua, Jodi L. Short, and Michael W. Toffel Abstract— Exploitive working conditions have spurred companies to pressure their suppliers to adopt... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 05 Nov 2013
  • First Look

First Look: November 5

through reduction of firm variability, we do not find this offsetting beneficial effect to be strong. Download working paper: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2252200 What Shapes the Gatekeepers? Evidence from Global Supply Chain Auditors By: Short, View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 18 Jul 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, July 18, 2017

Participation, and Economic Incentives By: Zhou, Yanhua, Jodi L. Short, and Michael W. Toffel Abstract—Exploitive working conditions have spurred... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 23 Feb 2021
  • Research & Ideas

COVID-19 Shines New Light on Working Conditions in Supply Chains

Tightly packed workers and other weak protections allowed COVID-19 to sweep through American slaughterhouses during the past year, infecting at least 45,000 employees and killing an estimated 240 people. To Harvard Business School Professor View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Apparel & Accessories
  • 09 Apr 2007
  • Research & Ideas

Industry Self-Regulation: What’s Working (and What’s Not)?

important questions to explore, according to Michael Toffel, a professor in the Technology and Operations Management Unit of Harvard Business School. Toffel has conducted extensive research and recently... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 18 Sep 2012
  • First Look

First Look: September 18

Buildings Authors:Timothy Simcoe and Michael W. Toffel Abstract We measure the impact of municipal policies requiring governments to construct green buildings on private-sector adoption of the U.S. Green... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 02 Sep 2015
  • What Do You Think?

What's Wrong With Amazon’s Low-Retention HR Strategy?

Comparison of Costco to Wal-Mart’s Sam’s Club,” Academy of Management Perspectives, August  2006. David Glass, in a comment confirmed by email on April 10, 2002. James L. Heskett, Earl View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett; Web Services; Retail; Apparel & Accessories; Consumer Products; Fashion
  • 26 Sep 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 26, 2017

worked are positively correlated with firm performance, and differences between family and non-family CEOs account for approximately 18% of the performance gap between family and non-family firms. We investigate the sources of the differences in CEO labor supply across... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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