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Faculty & Research - Business & Environment

January 2025 Teaching Material New Belgium Brewing and Climate Change By: Michael W. Toffel , Kenneth P. Pucker and Michael Norris Teaching Note... View Details
  • 25 Apr 2017
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First Look at New Research, April 25

nuanced relation between firm PC and SEC oversight than previously suggested. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52543 Assessing the Quality of Quality Assessment: The Role of Scheduling By: Ibanez, Maria, and View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 02 Aug 2016
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August 2, 2016

Michael W. Toffel Abstract—In response to stakeholders’ growing concerns, companies are joining voluntary environmental programs to signal their superior environmental... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Technology & Operations Management Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

Politics" (Summer 2018). Michael W. Toffel : Winner of the 2019 ComplianceNet Best Paper Award for his article with Yanhua Bird and Jodi View Details
  • 27 Sep 2011
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First Look: September 27

Michael W. Toffel Abstract Process-improvement ideas often come from frontline workers who speak up by voicing concerns about problems and View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Live from Klarman Hall - Alumni

Duerr Head of Product Management, Google Cloud Artificial Intelligence Google AI Regulation Join us for a panel moderated by Mitchell Weiss, the Richard L. Menschel Professor of Management Practice at HBS,... View Details
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Research - Global

Research February 2025 Teaching Material Preparing Business Leaders for an Era of Climate Instability: Understanding and Managing Physical Climate Risk By: Michael W. Toffel... View Details
  • 01 Oct 2013
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First Look: October 1

explore CEO decision making. Download working paper: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2326452 Government Green Procurement Spillovers: Evidence from Municipal Building Policies in California By: Simcoe, Timothy, and Michael View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Faculty & Research - Leadership

Management 119 results Boris Groysberg Organizational Behavior 93 results Nitin Nohria 67 results Amy C. Edmondson Technology and Operations Management 39 results Michael L. Tushman Organizational Behavior... View Details
  • September 2016
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Monitoring Global Supply Chains

By: Jodi L. Short, Michael W. Toffel and Andrea R. Hugill
Firms seeking to avoid reputational spillovers that can arise from dangerous, illegal, and unethical behavior at supply chain factories are increasingly relying on private social auditors to provide strategic information about suppliers' conduct. But little is known... View Details
Keywords: Monitoring; Transaction Cost Economics; Industry Self-regulation; Auditing; Codes Of Conduct; Supply Chains; Corporate Social Responsibility; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Supply Chain; Globalization
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Business & Environment - Faculty & Research

November 2017) Case Sustainability at IKEA Group By: V. Kasturi Rangan , Michael W. Toffel , Vincent Dessain and Jerome Lenhardt By 2014, IKEA... View Details
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Podcast - Business & Environment

Kenny interviewing HBS professors Willy Shih and Mike Toffel about their teaching case about Kenya-based Sian Flowers. They discuss the company’s efforts to create a “low-carbon rose” by shipping them to... View Details
  • May–June 2013
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Can Global Brands Create Just Supply Chains? Response: Promoting Political Mobilization

By: Jodi L. Short and Michael W. Toffel
Codes of conduct indicate that working conditions are improving overall at the factories being monitored by multinational corporations, and that these codes of conduct also create possibilities for political mobilization that can improve labor conditions more broadly. View Details
Keywords: Regulation; Auditing; Labor Relations; Occupational Safety; Environmental Operations; Environmental Regulation; Employees; Labor; Labor and Management Relations; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Manufacturing Industry; China; Bangladesh; India; Honduras; Nicaragua; Pakistan; Guatemala; Malaysia; Viet Nam
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  • August 2020
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Improving Working Conditions in Global Supply Chains: The Role of Institutional Environments and Monitoring Program Design

By: Jodi L. Short, Michael W. Toffel and Andrea R. Hugill
Activism seeking to improve labor conditions in global supply chains has led many transnational corporations to adopt codes of conduct and monitor suppliers for compliance. Drawing on thousands of audits conducted by a major social auditor, we identify structural... View Details
Keywords: Monitoring; Supplier Relationship; Sustainability; Sustainability Management; Sustainable Operations; Sustainable Supply Chains; NGO; Operations; Supply Chain Management; Governance Compliance; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Global Range; Working Conditions
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Faculty & Researchers - Managing the Future of Work

Program Director and Senior Researcher for the U.S. Competitiveness Project, co-chaired by Professor Michael E. Porter and Professor Jan W. Rivkin. In that capacity, she... View Details
  • 2012
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Robust Enforcement Should Complement Voluntary Regulation

By: Jodi L. Short and Michael W. Toffel
Spurred by the anti-regulation movement that started in the 1970s, voluntary self-regulation programs have emerged in many regulatory agencies, seeking to increase cooperation between government and industry to achieve greater and more cost-effective compliance.... View Details
Keywords: Governance Compliance; Business and Government Relations
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  • 2019
  • Working Paper

Improving Working Conditions in Global Supply Chains: The Role of Institutional Environments and Monitoring Program Design

By: Jodi L. Short, Michael W. Toffel and Andrea R. Hugill
Activism seeking to improve labor conditions in global supply chains has led transnational corporations to adopt codes of conduct and monitor suppliers for compliance, but it is unclear whether these formal organizational structures raise labor standards. Drawing on... View Details
Keywords: Monitoring; Supplier Relationship; Sustainability; Sustainability Management; Sustainable Operations; Sustainable Supply Chains; NGO; Globalization; Corporate Accountability; Operations; Supply Chain; Supply Chain Management; Labor; Working Conditions; Business Processes; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Performance Evaluation; Safety; Risk and Uncertainty; Apparel and Accessories Industry; Electronics Industry; China; Indonesia; India; Bangladesh
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HBS Entrepreneurship Summit - Alumni

Programs & Events HBS Entrepreneurship Summit NOV 4-5 4-5 NOVEMBER 2022 HBS ENTREPRENEURSHIP SUMMIT: LEADING HIGH-GROWTH VENTURES IN AN UNPREDICTABLE WORLD Brought to you by the Arthur Rock Center for Entrepreneurship and Alumni Relations... View Details
  • 02 Sep 2008
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First Look: September 3, 2008

Exercise of Leadership, a New Model Authors:Werner Erhard, Michael C. Jensen, Steve Zaffron, Kari L. Granger Abstract This paper is the (pre-course) introduction document to an experimental course developed... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • Fall 2016
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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; Safety; Conflict of Interests; Working Conditions; Labor; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Governance Compliance; Accounting Audits
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