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- 21 Jul 2010
- Research & Ideas
HBS Faculty Debate Financial Reform Legislation
such as certificates of deposit and consumer loans, but it will not be allowed to inspect most banks, since they are already examined by the banking agencies. At the same time, the CFPC's jurisdiction was narrowed to exclude many...
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- 31 Jan 2024
- Blog Post
Career Advice from the Guests of the HBS Climate Rising Podcast
to be in your job title for it to be incorporated into your work. They stressed that achieving the pace of transformation needed to decarbonize our economy will require collaboration across all functions and all sectors. All businesses and organizations will be...
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- 03 Jun 2008
- First Look
First Look: June 3, 2008
Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/08-099WP.pdf Evaluating the Impact of SA 8000 Certification Authors:Michael J. Hiscox, Claire Schwartz, and Michael W. Toffel Abstract SA 8000, along with other types of View Details
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Martha Lagace
- 02 Nov 2022
- Blog Post
Climate Stories Episode #11: Mary Jo Veverka (HBS 1978): Fostering Actionable Climate Literacy
than $10 million in grant funding each year to local organizations for hands-on projects that are greening coastal bays. Celebrating its 50th anniversary, the North American Association of Environmental Education is setting stringent requirements for professional View Details
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
low-wage workers or those who had been advanced explain their experience of employment. What help was effective from employers? What were employers actually doing in their view, versus areas where the employers might be either fooling...
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
networking skill set. And companies are looking to find those certificate programs. We think this is the way the world’s moving, to more skills-based hiring, where you’re able to clearly articulate what skills look like for career paths...
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- 06 Feb 2006
- Research & Ideas
Sorting Out the Patent Craze
April-May issue of the Journal of the European Economics Association. The paper addressed this central question: When does the certification provided by an SSO's endorsement sway users to adopt a standard? Lerner and coauthor Jean Tirole...
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Annual Report 2019 - Annual Report 2019
Economic Council Larry Summers—examined the decisions they made and steps they took to try to stabilize the financial system. Professors Robin Greenwood and David Scharfstein co-chaired the conference to, in Greenwood’s words, “better understand the past and prepare...
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- 23 Sep 2014
- First Look
First Look: September 23
Context: How States, Markets, and Civil Society Shape Adherence to Global Labor Standards By: Toffel, Michael W., Jodi L. Short, and Melissa Ouellet Abstract—Transnational business regulation is increasingly implemented through private voluntary programs-like View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
M.I.A. Boards
that boards and executives quickly find ways around, with the assistance of lawyers, accountants, lobbyists, and bankers. Billions of shareholders’ dollars are spent to forestall or circumvent more effective reforms. Even worse, people...
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- 26 May 2015
- First Look
First Look: May 26
Gilchrist, Duncan S., Michael Luca, and Deepak Malhotra Abstract— Do higher wages elicit reciprocity and lead to increased productivity? In a field experiment with 266 employees, we find that paying higher wages, per se, does not have a discernible View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
two weeks of studying the textbook. You did the work that you needed to do to ensure that you achieved the level of proficiency that you desired. Whereas you then end up spending more of your time on those courses and that you don’t have proficiency in. That is View Details
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
and an effective CEO have a reasonable amount in common, and the idea that you must always be prepared, but you never actually know what’s going to happen. You never actually know what conversation is going to take place. And so how you...
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- 27 Jun 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, June 27
they overcame huge obstacles to execute their strategies in industries as diverse as renewable energy, organic food, natural beauty, eco-tourism, recycling, architecture, and finance. The pioneering efforts to build certification schemes...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Aug 2016
- First Look
August 2, 2016
Michael W. Toffel Abstract—In response to stakeholders’ growing concerns, companies are joining voluntary environmental programs to signal their superior environmental management capabilities. In contrast to the literature’s focus on View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Jul 2006
- Research & Ideas
Competition the Cure for Healthcare
corporations, which makes no sense today because we want doctors and hospitals to work seamlessly as an integrated practice. Another example is physician certification by state, which means that when the Cleveland Clinic wants to offer a...
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- 28 Oct 2020
- Blog Post
Keep Your Weary Workers Engaged
traditional means such as raises and team outings. Uncertainty around the pandemic itself, and its effect on industries and governments, have increased people’s comprehension and defensive drives. The implicit, almost unconscious ways we...
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- 08 Dec 2020
- Blog Post
Keep Your Weary Workers Engaged
traditional means such as raises and team outings. Uncertainty around the pandemic itself, and its effect on industries and governments, have increased people’s comprehension and defensive drives. The implicit, almost unconscious ways we...
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
Google certificates. And we’re partnering with Coursera to deliver that. Those types of certificates are very, very much linked to different kinds of jobs. And increasingly, the certifications that we are...
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- 17 Nov 2022
- News
Alumni Leaders on Decarbonization Strategies for Combating Climate Change
– our scientists and engineers have delivered massive design improvements and our manufacturing and supply chain leaders have delivered unbelievable cost improvements. If you take the cost competitiveness of renewables, the increasing concern about global warming...
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