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Members

  • Hunt Allcott
  • Matt Amengual
  • Jill Bunting
  • Greg Disselhurst
  • Erica Dobbs
  • Jens Hainmueller
  • Jennifer Holk
  • Jason Jay
  • Andrew King
  • Gabi Kruks-Wisener
  • Amy Lehr
  • Janet Lewis
  • Akshay Mangla
  • Timea Pal
  • Sanjay Patnaik
  • Erin Reid
  • Hiram Samel
  • Claire Schwartz
  • Kyoung Mun Shin
  • Sandra Sequeira
  • David Vermijs

Michael Hiscox
Website: http://www.people.fas.harvard.edu/~hiscox/

Michael J. Hiscox is the Clarence Dillon Professor of International Affairs at Harvard University. He received his B. Econ. (First Class Honours) from the University of Sydney in 1989 and his Ph.D in Government from Harvard University in 1997. He was Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of California, San Diego, from 1997 to 2001. From 2001 until 2005 he was the John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Social Sciences at Harvard. His research focuses on international trade, foreign investment, immigration, development, and private sector standards for ethical and environmentally responsible practices. He has written a number of articles for leading scholarly journals, including the American Political Science Review, International Organization, and the Journal of Economic History. He is also the author of two books. The first book, International Trade and Political Conflict, was published by Princeton University Press in 2002 and won the William H. Riker Prize for the best book in political economy that year. His second book, High Stakes: The Political Economy of U.S, Trade Sanctions, 1950-2000, will be published in 2009 by Cambridge University Press. His recent papers have addressed the measurement of barriers to international trade, attitudes toward trade and immigration among voters, connections between globalization and democratization, and questions concerning labor and environmental standards and the ethical labeling of traded products. Current projects include field experiments testing the impact of ethical certification and labeling programs in developing countries and consumer demand for ethically labeled products.

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Richard Locke
Website: http://rlocke.scripts.mit.edu/

Richard Locke is Alvin J. Siteman (1948) Professor of Entrepreneurship and Professor of Political Science at MIT. He joined the MIT community as a PhD student and has been teaching for 20 years. He pioneered the Global Entrepreneurship Laboratory at MIT Sloan and serves as the faculty chair for the MIT Sloan Fellows Program in Innovation and Global Leadership. He is currently leading the MIT Sloan Sustainable Business and Society Initiative.

Locke's current research is focused on improving labor and environmental conditions in global supply chains. Working with leading firms like Nike, Coca Cola, and HP, Locke and his students have been showing how corporate profitability and sustainable business practices can be reconciled.

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Michael Toffel
Website: http://people.hbs.edu/mtoffel/

Mike Toffel is an Assistant Professor at the Harvard Business School. His research focuses on environmental and safety management, and how firms manage these issues in their supply chains. He is studying how environmental and labor standards and government voluntary programs affect companies' environmental performance and occupational safety outcomes. His research also examines the extent to which voluntary and mandatory information disclosure programs can substitute for more traditional regulatory approaches. His work has been published in the Strategic Management Journal, the Journal of Economics and Management Strategy, the Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization, and California Management Review. He received a Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley, and an MBA and Master's in Environmental Management from Yale University. Before becoming an academic, Toffel was the Director of Environment, Health and Safety for Jebsen & Jessen (SEA) Group of Companies that operates throughout Southeast Asia, and has consulted for Motorola, Arthur Andersen, Xerox Corporation, and Arthur D. Little.

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