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- 25 Feb 2022
- Blog Post
Climate Stories Episode #1: Kameale C. Terry
programs: one week in Los Angeles to secure Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) and National Fire Safety Protection Association (NFPA) safety licenses and... View Details
- 15 Oct 2021
- Blog Post
Coming Out Calculus: A Reflection in Honor of National Coming Out Day
obvious. I’ve stopped holding a partner’s hand in public at night because I see those around looking a little too closely and looks can easily turn to violence. If it appears safe, the second question is—do I want to deal with the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Faculty Research Online From HBS Working Knowledge
What Companies Lose from Forced Disclosure Increased corporate financial reporting may benefit many parties but not necessarily the companies themselves. New research by Assistant Professor Romana Autrey and her coauthors looks at the relationship between executive... View Details
- 24 Aug 2016
- Research & Ideas
Can Obamacare Be Saved?
On August 15th, Aetna announced that it would reduce by 80 percent its participation in the Obama administration’s public exchanges for health insurance policies in 2017, citing significant financial losses. The move came just a few weeks... View Details
- 08 Nov 2010
- Research & Ideas
How to Fix a Broken Marketplace
their true order," Roth says. Safety: Meanwhile, the Boston Public Schools faced an issue of safety with its school choice system, although administrators were initially unaware of that. Ostensibly, the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Faculty Books
University Press) Associate Professor Maurer and his coauthor chronicle the canal’s economic and political history, from the great economic dividends of its first quarter-century to the turnover of the canal to Panama in 1999. The United States had run the canal as a... View Details
- Fast Answer
Challenges and Opportunities in the Restaurant Industry
Resources Company Analysis and Financing Company profiles on project sponsors Financial fundamentals for valuation Executive bios Size of organization, i.e., number of employees, revenue Capital... View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
The End of Cows?
from a lab rather than a living animal, Alvarez believes consistency—not the myriad environmental or safety benefits of replacing factory farming—may become the main reason consumers adopt it. Once a lab-grown hamburger is perfected,... View Details
- Profile
Kanwaljit Bakshi
public service. She was recruited by the Department of Justice to work on computer crime in national security, but Brochu's knowledge of computer security, plus her earlier experience as a volunteer legal aid for families and children,... View Details
Keywords: Nonprofit / Government
- 30 Aug 2010
- Research & Ideas
Turning Employees Into Problem Solvers
Ten years ago, the Institute of Medicine published To Err is Human, a groundbreaking report that pushed the issue of medical errors into the public spotlight. That we all make mistakes was certainly nothing new: Operational failures occur... View Details
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
One-on-One with Jeff Hicks
Jetta ads use real-time crashes to emphasize the car’s safety. How would you respond to critics? The two permissible ways to demonstrate safety in commercials in the past involved crash dummies or showing a car weaving to avoid an... View Details
- 11 Jul 2017
- News
The Right Thing to Do
Ronnie and Larry Ackman (MBA 1963) and produced by New York public broadcaster WNET. The three episodes in the series premiered on WNET and are now being offered to some 400 business schools in the United States and Great Britain “in hope... View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
3-Minute Briefing: Wick Moorman (MBA 1989)
important thing. And I also believe that over the next 10 years it’s going to become more important. I view what I’m doing as a form of public service. The number one thing we need to work very hard on is creating a better View Details
Keywords: April White
- 31 Oct 2014
- Op-Ed
Ebola’s Call To Arms About Disaster Preparedness
and we're seeing some real heroes in our public health system, too. Once we get beyond the individual heroics, however, we should be quite concerned about breakdowns of protocol in the nation's hospitals. Ironically, part of the problem... View Details
- 2015
- Working Paper
The Integrity of Private Third-party Compliance Monitoring
By: Jodi L. Short and Michael W. Toffel
Government agencies are increasingly turning to private, third-party monitors to inspect and assess regulated entities’ compliance with law. The integrity of these regulatory regimes rests on the validity of the information third-party monitors provide to regulators.... View Details
Keywords: Regulation; Compliance; Compliance Policies; Conflict Of Interest; Independent Third Party; Inspection; Audit Quality; Auditor; Audit; Environment; Production; Supply Chain; Quality; Government Administration; Working Conditions; Safety; Labor; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Governance Compliance; Public Administration Industry; Public Administration Industry; Public Administration Industry; Public Administration Industry; United States
Short, Jodi L., and Michael W. Toffel. "The Integrity of Private Third-party Compliance Monitoring." Harvard Kennedy School Regulatory Policy Program Working Paper, No. RPP-2015-20, November 2015. (Revised December 2015.)
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
Ask the Expert: Delivering the Goods
Ickis (MBA 1971, DBA 1978) REISNER: One of the hottest areas of investment growth is in cross-border shipping, but there are two core problems: In an age of terrorism, customs are commercial constraints and also valuable public View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- Web
Social Media Guidelines for Faculty and Staff | About
following guidance—as a form of best practice; for your personal safety and well-being; so as to be aware of (and to avoid where appropriate) the potential for confusion between personal and professional viewpoints and to protect Harvard... View Details
- 19 May 2015
- News
Getting Ready for Success
nonetheless. She cofounded Minds Matter, a now-nationwide mentoring and college preparatory nonprofit that launched her on a lifelong mission to improve public education. Named Woman of the Year by the California State Assembly in 2014... View Details
- 12 Sep 2016
- Research & Ideas
What Brands Can Do to Monitor Factory Conditions of Suppliers
poor conditions exposed. In other words, the more concerned they are, the more likely they have more incentives to maintain better conditions. “Press freedom empowers journalists and labor activists to investigate and publicize poor... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 05 Feb 2019
- News
Protecting the Power Grid
first started attending its public meetings, he says, the lawyers and lobbyists in the room were shocked when he told them he was just “a private citizen concerned about a long-term collapse of the US electric grid.” An attorney told... View Details