Anant Nyshadham
@AnantNyshadham
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Co-Founder and Chief Research Officer at Good Business Lab, Development Economics Professor and Musician
Boston, MA
Joined January 2017
How can improving the physical #workenvironment increase #productivity? @AnantNyshadham @BU_Tweets talks about how a reduction in the ambient working temperature increased output per worker across garment #factories in #India: https://t.co/WZMSRTZcNQ
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awesome discussion (starting around 57:00) of my recent NBER working paper on the long-run econ impacts of salt iodization in the US with #SteveBednar #TeresaMolina @AnantNyshadham and @quynhcnguyen -- https://t.co/h9wTDZCR1u 1/2
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Clothing factories in India can get pretty hot. How does that affect worker productivity? Researchers looked to the overhead lights and gained an unexpected insight https://t.co/44QFGkvum5
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GBL Co-Founder and Chief Research Officer @AnantNyshadham @BostonCollege explains in a nutshell the massive cost savings-energy benefits-worker welfare benefits flowing from #energyefficient lighting in factory floors in India #environment #productivity #labormarket #temperature
Video: Factories using energy-efficient lighting reduce ambient temperature on the factory floor by 2.5 degrees Celsius, causing a massive improvement in output per worker. https://t.co/qfbgjFREzZ
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The #gendergap in employment rate btwn men & #women w/children is 4X higher than men & women w/no children. How can policy help reduce gender inequality in the labour force? See https://t.co/UVQYDARKwv
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As history shows us, women's achievements can often be overlooked when it comes to handing out the correct amount of praise.
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.@GoodBusinessLab with support from #ShahiExports is planning to establish 10 #garment sector #skill enhancement centers for #women at rural locations.
economictimes.indiatimes.com
Achyuta Adhvaryu, assistant professor of business economics and public policy at Michigan's Ross School of Business, has studied the impact of soft skills in the garment industry in India over the...
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[I4I e-symposium on firm & labour #productivity] Low skill level key reason for low labour productivity. Adhvaryu et al. discuss research that bears upon 2 imp. Qs: Who shd conduct/pay for skilling? Wt kind of skills does workforce need?
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[I4I e-symposium on firm & labour #productivity] Role of pvt sector in holistic skilling of India’s workforce - Achyuta Adhvaryu @achadhvaryu Smit Gade @smitgade1 @GoodBusinessLab Lavanya Garg @garglavanya94 Anant Nyshadham @AnantNyshadham
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Fantastic video @vox_dev by @AnantNyshadham on his work with my awesome new @MITSloan colleague #NamrataKala & @achadhvaryu on productivity effects of energy efficient lighting in Indian firms. Gains in productivity are five times the energy cost savings!
voxdev.org
Factories using energy-efficient lighting reduce ambient temperature on the factory floor by 2.5 degrees Celsius, causing a massive improvement in output per worker
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Women in India earn far less than men compared to women in South Africa, Brazil, Chile. Indian women’s labour force participation is shrinking too. @goodbusinesslab is studying why, and looking for solutions. 9th in our women@work series
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"@Adhvaryu et al. put together some new and exciting research which aims at looking inside the black box of the firm to understand factors inhibiting #productivity and ways to alleviate them" Piece by GBL team @AnantNyshadham @smitgade1 @garglavanya94 coming up on @Ideas4India
I4I Editor Farzana Afridi (ISI Delhi) will be hosting an e-symposium all of this week on 'Firm & labour #productivity': https://t.co/jIyla8TrmX
@The_IGC @ilo @DIPPGOI @makeinindia @CimGOI @FollowCII @nasscom @WorldBankIndia @NITIAayog
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Our paper on soft skills training for female garment workers — @AnantNyshadham @GoodBusinessLab now for the hard work of convincing firm managers to read it ;)
A soft skills training program for female garment workers in India produced a 258 percent net return to the employees’ firm because the workers’ productivity rose more than 20 percent, while wages only rose 0.5 percent, from @AnantNyshadham
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Why aren't #IndianWomen going out & working? The big puzzle everyone is trying to solve. @GoodBusinessLab @EPoDHarvard
#FactFile: Of 144 nations, India ranked 15 on political empowerment; 139 on economic opportunity: Gender Gap Index: https://t.co/OVSeIWdwHG
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Find out how better worker welfare means better business, in our interview w/ Anant Ahuja of Shahi Exports, part of our exciting new content on #humanrights in business.
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GBL cofounder Anant Ahuja at #ISS2017 - Focus on the intersection of #sustainability and firm benefits @Centre4RespBiz
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The world needs #philanthropy to be data driven and backed by rigorous #research @livemint
https://t.co/5iZizmqqpN
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Inside the world of India's biggest #garment exporter. Get the inside perspective on their #workerwelfare initiatives and gold-standard research startup, the @GoodBusinessLab
https://t.co/sVvUJNKWno
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