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September 2024, Article. "ESG is at an inflection point. It has come to represent a broad and inchoate aspiration for what business should be doing beyond maximizing shareholder…
October 2023, Audio: "Michael Toffel, Senator John Heinz Professor of Environmental Management and Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School (HBS), discusses…
April 2021, Opinion: "The pandemic has placed a new spotlight on working conditions in factories that supply global companies. To avert problems, firms often impose codes of…
Shareholder Activism and Firms’ Voluntary Disclosure of Climate Change Risk. Michael Toffel, October 2019, Paper, "This paper examines whether—in the absence of mandated…
CSR Needs CPR: Corporate Sustainability and Politics. Michael Toffel, June 6, 2018, Paper, "Corporate sustainability has gone mainstream, and many companies have taken…
The Integrity of Private Third-Party Compliance Monitoring. Michael Toffel, January 5, 2017, Paper, "Government agencies are increasingly turning to private, third-party monitors…
Monitoring Global Supply Chains. Michael W. Toffel, March 2, 2015, Paper. "Firms seeking to avoid reputational spillovers that can arise from dangerous, illegal, and…
September 8, 2014, Paper: “Transnational business regulation is increasingly implemented through private voluntary programs—like certification regimes and codes of conduct—that…
Women Make More Rigorous Supply Chain Auditors. Michael Toffel, April 24, 2014, Opinion. "A year after the Rana Plaza factory collapse killed more than 1,100 garment workers, we…
Monitoring the Monitors: How Social Factors Influence Supply Chain Auditors. Michael Toffel, February 9, 2014, Paper. "Supply chain auditors provide companies with strategic…