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How Well Do Social Ratings Actually Measure Corporate Social Responsibility?

Ratings of corporations' environmental activities and capabilities influence billions of dollars of "Socially responsible" investments as well as some consumers, activists, and potential employees. In one of the first studies to assess these ratings, we examine how well the most widely used ratings - those of Kinder, Lydenberg, Domini Research...

Tags: Corporate Social Responsibility, Regulatory Compliance, Compliance, Pollution, Harvard College, Performance Management, Human Resources, Policies And Procedures, Leadership, Management, Workforce Management

White papers 2007-06-07

When Learning And Performance Are At Odds: Confronting The Tension

This paper explores complexities of the relationship between learning and performance. Paper starts with the general proposition that learning promotes performance, and then describes several challenges for researchers and managers who wish to study or promote learning in support of performance improvement. Psychological and interpersonal risks of learning behavior are...

Tags: Performance Management, Performance, Harvard College, Human Resources, Workforce Management

White papers 2006-11-01

Learning Tradeoffs In Organizations

Learning-curve research has found that rates of learning can vary across similar settings, such that cumulative experience is a necessary but insufficient predictor of learning-curve slope. One explanation for this finding is that how the learning process is managed affects rates of learning. An additional possibility is investigated. At any...

Tags: Human Resources, Workforce Management, Performance Management, Possibility, Harvard College

White papers 2006-05-02

Resolving Information Asymmetries In Markets: The Role Of Certified Management Programs

Firms and regulators are increasingly relying on voluntary mechanisms to signal and infer quality of difficult-to-observe management practices. Prior evaluations of voluntary management programs have focused on those that lack verification mechanisms and have found little evidence that they legitimately distinguish adopters as having superior management practices or performance. In...

Tags: Process Improvement, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Quality, Business Operations, Management Program, Management Practice, Harvard College, Iso standards, Performance Management

White papers 2006-02-01

Creativity - How Can I Get Some?

Creativity is the lifeblood of innovation and marketing, but where does it come from and how should a company nurture this elusive trait? How does one explore creativity on the job—and use it to one's advantage?

Tags: Harvard College, Creativity, Leadership, Recruitment & Selection, Strategy, Marketing Research, Management, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Marketing

White papers 2005-04-25

Young Leader, Veteran Team

The more you demonstrate true commitment and honesty, the more people trust you. The better you do your job, the more people respect you. If you are doing your job well by honestly addressing the status quo and having the group design working relationships, that bring out their best. This...

Tags: Team, President, Harvard College, Leader, Team Management, Leadership, Recruitment & Selection, Management, Human Resources, Workforce Management

White papers 2003-07-21

Recognizing Deviations From Normalcy for Brain Tumor Segmentation

A framework is proposed for the segmentation of brain tumors from MRI. Instead of training on pathology, the proposed method trains exclusively on healthy tissue. The algorithm attempts to recognize deviations from normalcy in order to compute a fitness map over the image associated with the presence of pathology. The...

Tags: Segmentation, Harvard College, Deviation, Normalcy, Training, Framework, Workforce Management, Human Resources

White papers 2002-11-13

Performance Issues in Shape Classification

Shape comparisons of two groups of objects often have two goals: to produce a classifier to separate the two groups and to provide information to show differences between the groups. The researchers examine issues that are important for shape analysis in a study comparing schizophrenic patients to normal subjects. They...

Tags: Workforce Management, Performance Management, Human Resources, Performance, Group, Harvard College

White papers 2002-11-13

Regional MRI Lesion Burden and Cognitive Function in MS: A Longitudinal Study

The objective of this paper is to investigate the relationship between magnetic resonance imaging MRI regional lesion burden and cognitive performance in multiple sclerosis MS over a four year follow-up period. MS lesions show a propensity for frontal and parietal white matter. Lesion burden in these areas was strongly associated...

Tags: Performance Management, Microsoft Corp., Harvard College, President, Workforce Management, Human Resources

White papers 2001-03-20

Level Set Based Segmentation With Intensity and Curvature Priors

A method is presented for segmentation of anatomical structures that incorporates prior information about the intensity and curvature profile of the structure from a training set of images and boundaries. Specifically, this paper models the intensity distribution as a function of signed distance from the object boundary, instead of modeling...

Tags: Workforce Management, Business Operations, Human Resources, Research & Development, Curvature, Harvard College, Intensity, Method

White papers 2000-04-18

Statistical Shape Influence in Geodesic Active Contours

A novel method of incorporating shape information into the image segmentation process is presented. This paper introduces a representation for deformable shapes and defines a probability distribution over the variances of a set of training shapes. The segmentation process embeds an initial curve as the zero level set of a...

Tags: Segmentation, Harvard College, Workforce Management, Human Resources

White papers 2000-04-18

Additional Resources

Deirdre P. Connelly Joins Macy's, Inc. Board of Directors

CINCINNATI -- Macy's, Inc. (NYSE:M) today announced that Deirdre P. Connelly, president of U.S. operations at Eli Lilly and Company, has been elected to the company's board of directors, effective Jan. 1, 2008. "Deirdre Connelly is an accomplished business executive with deep insight into building...

Articles 2007-12-12

Workplace & Careers III/Labor Day 2007 Feature Releases

NEW YORK -- The following releases focus on the topic Workplace & Careers III/Labor Day ALL TIME-OFFS ARE IN EASTERN TIME NEW YORK--New Research Reveals 85% of Women Agree Going Overseas Accelerated Their Careers (08/21/07, 04:35) SOURCE: Perry Yeatman NORFOLK, Va.-The...

Articles 2007-08-21

Prestigious Advisory Board Signs on with Pembrook Capital's Real Estate Investment Management Firm

Harvard's Joint Center for Housing Nicolas Retsinas, Former Assistant Secretary HUD; Freddie Mac's Adrian Corbiere, Oversees $93 Billion Portfolio; Mariner Investment Group's Lee Sachs, Former Assistant Secretary of Treasury; Denise Kiley, Former Chief Credit Officer for CharterMac's $24+ Billion NEW YORK -- Pembrook Capital Management...

Articles 2006-11-15

IDC's Human Resources Forum Brings Together HR and IT Executives to Discuss Latest Strategies for Talent Management in a Competitive Marketplace

FRAMINGHAM, Mass. -- As the economy shows solid growth and we face a shrinking workforce, the war for talent is heating up with fewer knowledgeable candidates available to fill key positions and fewer workers entering the job market to replace retirees. The inaugural IDC Human Resources Forum,...

Articles 2006-08-09

Robert E. Rich, founder of Rich Products dies at 92.(Obituary)

After 92 years of innovation, passion and commitment to his family, business, industry and community, Robert E. Rich, founder and chairman of Rich Products Corp., passed away peacefully on February 15, 2006, surrounded by his loving family. While Mr. Rich's...

Articles 2006-02-01

The career development of African Americans in training and organizational development.(Current Practices)

As population diversity increases rapidly in the 21st century, organizations everywhere are experiencing rapid transition. Academic, business, and popular literature are proliferated with statistics, forecast assumptions, predictive scenarios, and analysis regarding the potential challenges of valuing and managing this emerging cultural mosaic...

Articles 2005-03-01

E-sources on women & gender.

Our website (http://www.library.wisc.edu/libraries/WomensStudies/) includes all recent issues of this column, plus many bibliographies, core lists of women's studies books, and links to hundreds of other websites by topic. Information about electronic journals and magazines, particularly those with numbered or...

Articles 2005-01-01

The perfect storm: the future of retention and engagement.

Over the last half of the 1990s, discussion centered around the so-called war for talent and the problems employers had retaining and engaging skilled, young, more diverse workers. The recent economic downturn seems to have stopped this talk and in some cases reversed it,...

Articles 2004-09-01

Fleet Named a 'Best Place to Work' for Working Mothers; Fleet Makes the List for the Fifth Consecutive Year

Business Editors BOSTON--BUSINESS WIRE--Sept. 23, 2003 FleetBoston Financial announced today that it has been recognized among the "100 Best Companies for Working Mothers" by Working Mother Magazine. "100 Best Companies for Working Mothers" is an annual compilation of corporations that best recognize the...

Articles 2003-09-23