by Michael Toffel - Publications - Faculty & Research

Michael W. Toffel

Professor Toffel is the Senator John Heinz Professor of Environmental Management. His research examines how companies are addressing climate change (especially decarbonization) and other environmental and working condition issues in their operations and supply... View Details

10 Oct 2023
News

Private Sector Solutions for Climate Change: A Conversation with Michael Toffel

12 Jan 2022
Podcast

Climate Change Lessons from the U.S. Navy: Forest Reinhardt & Michael Toffel

Climate change poses two very different challenges to the U.S. Navy. First, the Navy has to buttress its billions of dollars of shoreline assets against rising sea levels. Second, it has to plan to be called on more often to address both military threats and... 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

05 Jun 2013
Op-Ed

Corporate Leaders Need to Step Up on Climate Change

temperatures will likely increase 6 degrees C by 2100, "which would have devastating consequences for the planet." This means more super droughts, floods, storms, fires, crop failures, sea-level rise, and other major... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Toffel & Auden Schendler

24 Sep 2014
Op-Ed

The Climate Needs Aggressive CEO Leadership

Corporations are facing great uncertainty. For the world to avoid the worst impacts of climate change, the United States eventually will have to put a price on carbon dioxide emissions, as has been done by Europe, parts of Canada, and... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Toffel & Auden Schendler; Energy; Utilities

28 May 2008
News

Harvard Professor Michael Porter Honored by U.S. Department of Commerce

15 Apr 2015
News

Review: Strategy Rules, by David Yoffie and Michael Cusumano

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

14 Dec 2021
News

To Change Your Company's Culture, Don't Start by Trying to Change the Culture

12 Jul 2004
Research & Ideas

Michael Porter’s Prescription For the High Cost of Health Care

is no villain here. Poor public-policy choices have contributed to the problem, but so have the bad choices made by health plans, hospitals, and the employers who buy their services. Decades of "reform" have failed, and attempts... View Details

Keywords: by Michael E. Porter; Health

19 Aug 2011
Working Paper Summaries

The Globalization of Corporate Environmental Disclosure: Accountability or Greenwashing?

Keywords: by Christopher Marquis & Michael W. Toffel

12 Feb 2016
Working Paper Summaries

Enhancing the Practical Relevance of Research

Keywords: by Michael W. Toffel; Education

01 Jul 2004
News

越过波特看到其他 (some thoughts inspired by Michael E. Porter’s theory)

07 Oct 2011
Working Paper Summaries

What Environmental Ratings Miss

Keywords: by Auden Schendler & Michael Toffel

Book Review

Review of The Chinese Connection, by Michael A. Goldberg

By: Louis T Wells Jr

Keywords: China

Citation

Find at Harvard

A Senior Lecturer at the Harvard Business School, Michael co-developed and teaches a second year MBA course, “Challenges and Opportunities in the Restaurant Industry.”

A founder and partner of Positive Strategy LLC, a management/strategy consulting... View Details

14 Oct 2009
News

Harvard's Michael Porter is interviewed by McGill's Karl Moore

Michael T. Moynihan

Michael Moynihan is a Lecturer of Business Administration in the Marketing Unit at Harvard Business School. Mike is currently teaching Creating Brand Value, an MBA elective course on brand strategy. He has also served as an Executive Fellow at Harvard Business... View Details

Michael I. Norton

Michael I. Norton is the Harold M. Brierley Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School. He holds a B.A. in Psychology and English from Williams College and a Ph.D. in Psychology from Princeton University. Prior to joining HBS, Professor... View Details

Keywords: advertising; consumer products; e-commerce industry; marketing industry; nonprofit industry

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