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    Suraj Srinivasan

    Suraj Srinivasan is the Philip J. Stomberg Professor of Business Administration, a member of the Accounting and Management faculty unit, and chair of the View Details

    Keywords: accounting industry; financial services
    • 2020
    • Working Paper

    Improving Regulatory Effectiveness Through Better Targeting: Evidence from OSHA

    By: Matthew S. Johnson, David I. Levine and Michael W. Toffel
    We study how a regulator can best target inspections. Our case study is a US Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) program that randomly allocated some inspections. On average, each inspection averted 2.4 serious injuries (9%) over the next five years.... View Details
    Keywords: Government Administration; Working Conditions; Safety; Quality; Production; Analysis; Resource Allocation; Manufacturing Industry; United States
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      Robert S. Huckman

      Robert Huckman is the Albert J. Weatherhead III Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School, the Howard Cox Faculty Chair of the HBS Healthcare Initiative, and the Unit Head for View Details

      Keywords: biotechnology; health care; manufacturing; pharmaceuticals

        Robert H. Hayes

        Robert Hayes is the Philip Caldwell Professor of Business Administration, Emeritus, at the Harvard Business School. Prior to his appointment to the Harvard Faculty in 1966, he worked for I.B.M. and McKinsey & Company. He received his Ph.D. degree in 1966 from... View Details

          Alan D. MacCormack

          Alan MacCormack is the MBA Class of 1949 Adjunct Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School, a member of The Digital, Data, and Design (D^3) Institute at Harvard, and a core faculty member... View Details

          Keywords: automotive; communications; computer; e-commerce industry; electronics; high technology; information technology industry; internet; semiconductor; software; telecommunications; venture capital industry
          • 06 Aug 2013
          • First Look

          First Look: August 6

          document sources of value creation in mergers by analyzing novel data on the quality and price of goods sold by merging firms. When two competitors in a product market merge,... View Details
          Keywords: Anna Secino
          • 25 Jul 2019
          • Blog Post

          Advancing a More Sustainable World with an MBA/MPA-ID

          Working to protect the environment has been my passion for as long as I can remember. My father was my earliest inspiration. As an officer in the Indian Forest Service, he devoted his life to balancing day to day realities of economic... View Details
          • 06 Jan 2012
          • Op-Ed

          Where Green Corporate Ratings Fail

          News Corporation—a multinational media conglomerate that includes BSKYB, Dow Jones, Fox News, 20th Century Fox and Star, among other units—announced earlier this year that it has become climate neutral, meaning that its operations have no net impact on global climate... View Details
          Keywords: by Michael Toffel & Auden Schendler; Information; Publishing
          • 02 Jul 2024
          • Blog Post

          Climate Story #19: Nicole Neeman Brady (MBA 2008): The Critical Role of Business in Tackling Water Challenges

          aspects of water. For example, we have the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and even the National Oceanic and Atmospheric View Details
          • 10 Jun 2015
          • Research & Ideas

          The Transparency Revolution in Corporate Reporting

          40 or so years, SASB hopes to simplify and standardize how businesses report data from their environmental, social, and governance (ESG) initiatives. George Serafeim is the Jakurski Family Associate Professor of Business View Details
          Keywords: Re: George Serafeim

            Monique Burns Thompson

            Monique Burns Thompson is an accomplished social entrepreneur who returns to HBS (class of 1993) and brings her twenty years of successful start-up and organizational leadership experience to her research and teaching at HBS.  She has led as a co-founder, President,... View Details

            • 30 Sep 2008
            • First Look

            First Look: September 30, 2008

            http://papers.nber.org/papers/w14302 The Effect of Labor on Profitability: The Role of Quality Author:Zeynep Ton Abstract Determining staffing levels is an important decision... View Details
            Keywords: Martha Lagace
            • 21 May 2012
            • Research & Ideas

            OSHA Inspections: Protecting Employees or Killing Jobs?

            measures. When he and colleague David I. Levine heard of a program at California OSHA to conduct randomized inspections of workplaces, they realized they had the perfect... View Details
            Keywords: by Michael Blanding
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            Inside the State: Bureaucratic Norms and Primary Education in Rural India (Book manuscript in progress)

            When and how do poor democracies implement primary education effectively? India has earned accolades for its robust democracy. Yet the state’s historic... View Details
            Keywords: Education Reform; Bureaucracy; Policy Implementation; India
            • 02 Oct 2012
            • First Look

            First Look: October 2

            an instrumental variables and a simultaneous equations approach. Finally, we show that the relation is driven by both the social and the environmental dimension of CSR. Read the paper:... View Details
            Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
            • 24 Jun 2021
            • Blog Post

            Celebrating the Past, Crafting the Future Part 2: The First HBS/HKS Class

            The first MBA/MPP and MBA/MPA-ID joint degree programs are 10 years old! 89% of HBS | HKS joint degree alumni have told us that they worked in a role allowing usage of both... View Details
            • 19 Aug 2022
            • Blog Post

            Climate Stories Episode #8: The Role of Solar and Wind Farming (and Other Tools) in the United States’ Clean Energy Future

            less than those of nuclear and coal. Utility-scale solar costs less than gas-fired generation, and in many parts of the world, wind is less expensive, as well. The U.S. Energy Information View Details
            • 28 Apr 2009
            • First Look

            First Look: April 28, 2009

            premium quality carbon credits. But as the market evolves in the face of significant policy uncertainty, Sutter wonders what South Pole's strategy should be for the future. This case study can facilitate... View Details
            Keywords: Martha Lagace
            • 17 Apr 2013
            • Research Event

            Conference Challenges Gender Conventions

            still have a ways to go," added Ely, the Diane Doerge Wilson Professor of Business Administration and senior associate dean for Culture and Community. The conference, held from February 27 to March 1,... View Details
            Keywords: by Maggie Starvish
            • 23 Jan 2020
            • Research & Ideas

            Businesses Need a 'Catalyst' to Make CSR Practices Stick

            Many companies follow a tried-and-true approach to pursuing corporate social responsibility practices. They set aside a certain amount per year to fund a CSR office, which then tries to help clean up the environment or improve the quality of life of people in the areas... View Details
            Keywords: by Michael Blanding