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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

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