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This site, developed by Professor Mike Toffel<\/a> at Harvard Business School, provides researchers and business practitioners with a curated set of resources on how to assess and improve working conditions in supply chains. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Professor Toffel is the Senator John Heinz Professor of Environmental Management, Faculty Chair of the HBS Business and Environment Initiative<\/a>, and teaches the Technology & Operations Management core MBA course. His research<\/a> examines companies’ management of environmental affairs and occupational safety, identifying which types of management programs and regulations improve environmental and safety performance. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

For the latest updates on this project, please follow Professor Toffel’s Twitter page<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Additionally, Toffel is a Co-Principal Investigator for the Climate and Sustainability Impact Lab<\/a> at the Digital Data Design Institute at Harvard. This lab advances research at the intersection of technology, climate, and sustainability, and how companies can decarbonize.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This site, developed by Professor Mike Toffel at Harvard Business School, provides researchers and business practitioners with a curated set of resources on how to assess and improve working conditions in supply chains.  Professor Toffel is the Senator John Heinz Professor of Environmental Management, Faculty Chair of the HBS Business and Environment Initiative, and teaches the Technology & Operations Management core MBA course. His research examines […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19383,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_trash_the_other_posts":false,"rkv_hide_featured_image":false,"rkv_hide_page_title":false,"rkv_hide_abstract_shapes":true,"rkv_reduce_header":false,"hbsd3_featured_media_url":"","hbsd3_featured_media_url_autoplay":false,"editor_notices":[],"footnotes":""},"rkv-people-shadow":[],"class_list":["post-75","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"yoast_head":"\nAbout - Working Conditions in Supply Chains<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Curated by HBS Prof. Mike Toffel, this site offers tools to assess and improve supply chain working conditions through research insights.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/d3.harvard.edu\/working-conditions-in-supply-chains\/about\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"About - 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