Creating Technology for Social Change

“How Firms Respond to Being Rated”

Aaron K. Chatterji and Michael W. Toffel of Harvard Business School are taking a closer look at how environmental practices change when companies are publicly rated for their performance.
Here’s what I took from their paper: (You can download their working draft here: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/08-025.pdf)
Businesses that understand that their profit motive is threatened […]