Robert Strand

Robert Strand

Lecturer | Executive Director, Center for Responsible Business
Center for Responsible Business

Leading expert on Nordic sustainable business and Nordic capitalism

About

Robert Strand is the Executive Director of the Center for Responsible Business and Lecturer at the Berkeley Haas School of Business. His research and teaching compares U.S. and Nordic approaches to sustainable and socially responsible business. He has more recently turned attention to contrast varieties of capitalism in the U.S. and Nordic contexts and is currently working on the book project “Sustainable Vikings.” He was a United States Fulbright Scholar to Norway.

Prior to joining academia as a professor with the Copenhagen Business School, Strand spent a decade in industry with IBM and Boston Scientific in a range of roles in manufacturing, supply chain, marketing, strategy, and investor relations. He holds a PhD in corporate social responsibility from the Copenhagen Business School, an MBA in international business from the University of Minnesota (completed at HEC-Paris), and a BS in industrial engineering from the University of Wisconsin. With his wife Sarah, he is the proud parent of two wonderful boys.

Expertise and Research Interests

  • Corporate Social Responsibility
  • Corporate Governance of Sustainability
  • Ethics of the Corporation
  • Scandinavian Approaches to Sustainability
  • Metaphors of Strategic Management
  • Empathy and the Corporation