Human Rights - Publications - Faculty & Research

23 Apr 2007
Research & Ideas

Are Great Teams Less Productive?

instruction manual to follow for guaranteed results. Also, performance gains won't show up instantaneously. In a learning mode, it's awkward. It's a transition, or we hope it is anyway, because there is no guarantee we are doing the right... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert

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Marketing AI Guidelines | About

of audio and video for video production YouTube video descriptions (for SEO optimization) Drafts of articles (before further human refinement) Social media copy Modifying or enlarging the backgrounds of photographs (while preserving the... View Details

January 1992 (Revised December 1994)
Background Note

Note on E-Mail and Privacy: U.S. Law and Company Policies

By: Lynn S. Paine

Describes the legal landscape of employee privacy as it applies to e-mail interception: the various legal theories on which a privacy claim might be based and proposed federal legislation relevant to the subject. Also describes the policies companies like UPS,... View Details

Keywords: Risk and Uncertainty; Information; Rights; Government Legislation; Internet and the Web; Interpersonal Communication; Ethics; Theory; Policy; Employees

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07 Jan 2015
Research & Ideas

The Quest for Better Layoffs

companies, on communities, and, most of all, on employees. "The initial drive was to build empathy around the decisions that are so core on a human level," Sucher says. "They wanted people to learn about that." Green... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Manufacturing

16 Jul 2008
Op-Ed

What Should Employers Do about Health Care?

delivery reveals some powerful, and ultimately optimistic, principles. First, the best way truly to reduce health care cost is to improve its quality—better diagnoses, more timely treatment, less invasive methods, getting the right... View Details

Keywords: by Michael E. Porter, Elizabeth O. Teisberg & Scott Wallace; Health

03 Feb 2016
What Do You Think?

How Do You Hire an 'Impostor'?

the right coaching in order to help to achieve a high self esteem...” Having inspired the question in the title, Joel then seemed to answer it by saying, “I think the answer lies in the demands of the role you hoped they’d fill. As a... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

01 Dec 2010
News

Chaotic Funding Derails Research

"Of course it would be a different story entirely if we could extract crude oil from stem cells." © Jack Ziegler/The New Yorker Collection/www.cartoonbank.com In light of the latest developments of the on-again, off-again, on-again government funding of View Details

Keywords: William Sahlman; Science funding; stem cell research; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

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Statement on Supreme Court Decision | About

Title VI of the Civil Rights Act. The Court also ruled that colleges and universities may consider in admissions decisions “an applicant’s discussion of how race affected his or her life, be it through discrimination, inspiration, or... View Details

Portrait Project

Jimmy Tran

nature as I tinker behind facts and figures to determine the right course of action. Yet even in the most technical problems, I seek out the human element of my work. No matter where life takes me, I will... View Details

19 Apr 2016
First Look

April 19, 2016

Guiding Principles into Action: Human Rights at Barrick Gold (A) In 2010, Human Rights Watch, a well-regarded international NGO, approached... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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The Ownership Project | Institute for Business in Global Society

The Ownership Project More Research Projects The Ownership Project explores how structuring ownership of key elements in the economy can help businesses and communities address pressing societal challenges and support human values in the... View Details

22 Jan 2018
Sharpening Your Skills

Why You Are Unhappy at Work

jobs for the right mix of organizational support and responsibility. Why Can't Organizations Engage Their Employees? Who is responsible for generating employee engagement? asks James Heskett The employee or the employee's managers? What's... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

08 Dec 2008
Research & Ideas

Thinking Twice About Supply-Chain Layoffs

availability, having the right product in the right place at the right time with the right label and of course with the View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Retail

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Ai Weiwei Strength 2019 | About

Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany (2009). Ai Weiwei has received numerous awards and honors, including the lifetime achievement award from the Chinese Contemporary Art Awards in 2008, and he was made Honorary Academician at the Royal Academy of Arts, London, in 2011. His... View Details

04 Sep 2019
News

Accelerating Scientific Discovery

reduce human disease and suffering influences his work as a health care economist and researcher. “I imagine a world where we have treatments, ideally cures, for diseases where right now we have nothing,” he... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

03 Sep 2024
Research & Ideas

Is It Even Possible to Dam the Flow of Misleading Content Online?

and the actions a platform will take to enforce those policies—works but is difficult to achieve. If users trust the platform to know the right thing to do and then it consistently does the right thing, then... View Details

Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald; Information Technology; Technology

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Artist Support | Baker Library

Artist Support Photo: Ansel Adams and Gerry Sharpe, test photograph by Ansel Adams, 1958, © The Ansel Adams Publishing Rights Trust. Polaroid Corporation Corporate Archives Records, b. IX.42, f. 4. Meroë Morse served as Polaroid’s liaison... View Details

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Other Unpublished Work

The Efficacy of Shareholder Voting: Evidence from Equity Compensation Plans

By: Ian D. Gow, Christopher S. Armstrong and David F. Larcker

This study examines the effects of shareholder support for equity compensation plans on subsequent chief executive officer (CEO) compensation. Using cross-sectional regression, instrumental variable, and regression discontinuity research designs, we find little... View Details

Keywords: Voting; Equity; Executive Compensation; Rights; Performance Effectiveness; Business and Shareholder Relations; Mathematical Methods; Motivation and Incentives