Professional Faculty | Executive Director, Center for Social Sector Leadership
Center for Social Sector Leadership
About
Ben Mangan is Executive Director of the Center for Social Sector Leadership and is on the faculty at Berkeley Haas. He teaches two MBA classes: Strategy and Leadership for Social Impact and the Social Lean Launchpad. He brings more than 20 years of experience in social impact leadership and management, including executive roles in Ernst & Young’s Public Private Development Group, and at an early virtual currency tech firm called beenz.com where he led organizational strategy.
Before joining Haas, Mangan was the president, CEO, and co-founder of EARN, a nonprofit social venture which uses the power of micro-savings and technology to help low-income workers in all 50 US states spark new cycles of prosperity. He has served on several nonprofit boards and won numerous awards, including Fast Company Social Capitalist of the Year, James Irvine Foundation Leadership Award, and Tipping Point Community Award. He holds a Bachelor of Arts from Vassar College and a Master of Public Policy from Harvard University’s Kennedy School.
He is also a Senior Fellow at the Aspen Institute, and an appointee of the Community Advisory Council of the Federal Reserve Board.
Mangan currently serves on the boards of EARN and the Center for Financial Services Innovation. Ben is also an advisor to Kanarys, a startup using technology to increase diversity, equity and inclusion in the worksplace.
Expertise and Research Interests
- Fintech for Good
- Future of Work
- Future of Wealth
- Nonprofit, Private Sector and Government Collaboration
- Low Income Workers
- Behavioral Economics and Saving
- Social Entrepreneurship
- Social Sector Leadership
- Lean Principles For Social Impact
- Ben Mangan, Claire Markham, Kristiana Raube (March 2017). Three Ways Universities Can Dramatically Advance Social Enterprise. Stanford Social Innovation Review
- Ben Mangan (Jan. 2017). Will universal basic income end inequality? Maybe.. Ideas.Ted.Com
- Ben Mangan (2014). Is Your Nonprofit Really Ready to use the Lean Startup?. Stanford Social Innovation Review
- Ben Mangan (2013). The Ugly Truth About Scale. Stanford Social Innovation Review
- Ben Mangan and Eric Weaver (Feb. 2006). How America’s Poorest Can Save the Most. San Francisco Chronicle
- Ben Mangan and Anne Stuhldreher (2005). Joining the Ownership Society. Sacramento Bee
At Haas since 2011
2014 – present, Executive Director, Center for Social Sector Leadership, Haas School of Business
2011 – present, Lecturer, Haas School of Business
2001 – 2014, President, CEO and Cofounder, EARN
2000 – 2001 Director of Organizational Strategy, beenz.com
1998 – 2000, Midwest Public-Private Practice Leader, Ernst & Young Consulting
- Appointed Member, Federal Reserve Board Community Advisory Council
- Board Director, EARN
- Influencer, LinkedIn
- Active advisor and mentor to social ventures
- Senior Fellow, Aspen Institute, Financial Security Program
- Curriculum Committee Member, PhilanthropyU
- Board Director, Habitat for Humanity Greater San Francisco
- Board Director, SaveTogether
- Board Director, MEDA
- Board Director, San Francisco Private Industry Council, appointed by Mayor Gavin Newsom
Social Capitalist of the Year Award
Fast Company
2004
Leadership Award
James Irvine Foundation
Tipping Point Award
Tipping Point
- Startup loans to black entrepreneurs to ‘interject some balance in capitalism’, San Francisco Chronicle, 11/04/2018
- What Happens To Job Benefits In A Gig Economy?, International Business Times, 11/10/2017
- Will universal basic income end inequality? Maybe., TED Ideas, 01/13/2017
- California Today: $8 Million in Tech Money for the Bay Area Arts, NY Times, 01/10/2017
- RANKED: The World’s 25 Best Business Schools For Social Impact, Business Because, 10/13/2016
- Foundation turns into a liability for Hillary Clinton, SF Chronicle, 08/27/2016
- Social Lean Launchpad, MBA
- Social Impact Strategy and Leadership, MBA
- Management of Nonprofits and Social Ventures, UGBA