Tag: corporate social responsibility
Microsoft, Humanity United, and Berkeley-Haas Partner to Advance Human Rights in Management Education and Practice
December 09, 2016
In celebration of International Human Rights Day, the Human Rights & Business Initiative (HRBI) coordinated through the Center for Responsible Business (CRB) at Berkeley-Haas is excited to announce new partnerships with Microsoft and Humanity…
Post-Election Call to Action For Business
November 21, 2016
by Robert Strand Executive Director, Berkeley-Haas Center for Responsible Business As the dust begins to settle after a rather unusual – and frankly troubling – U.S. presidential election it is time for us to assess where we are and what to…
CSR: From Silo to Systems Thinking
March 09, 2016
By Megan Wong, MBA 16 This article originally appeared on LinkedIn as part of series of posts for Professor Robert Strand’s MBA class on Strategic and Sustainable Business Solutions. In 1947, twelve directors of the Krupp Group were tried for…
Peter Drucker on the Purpose of Business
February 09, 2016
By Jim Rossi, UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism This post originally appeared on LinkedIn. In their classic Enron post-mortem The Smartest Guys in the Room, authors Bethany McLean and Peter Elkind recount a prescient story about…
3 Ways Companies Can Improve Workers’ Lives: Lessons Learned from this Semester’s Peterson Series
May 19, 2015
By Kate Alper, CRB Program Manager The Peterson Series at the Berkeley-Haas Center for Responsible Business continues to initiate important conversations about business that extend well beyond the Berkeley campus. In February, we expanded upon…
Inclusive Innovation: A Conversation About the Future of Finance
March 23, 2012
By Jo Mackness, Executive Director, Center for Responsible Business (MBA ‘04) More than three years from its most serious crisis in decades, the global banking and financial services sector still faces an uncertain future. Its central role to…
Engage with the CRB in March!
March 17, 2012
The CRB is redefining good business this month with students, professionals and faculty engaged at all levels! Join us at one of our upcoming events: Thurs, 3/8 – the CRB’s Omar Romero-Hernandez exposes 20 undergraduate students to corporate…
A New Way To Think About Disaster Management In CR
May 11, 2010
As I worked with my client this semester to develop an understanding of what best practices exist in CSR and disaster relief programs, I came across an interesting quote that truly redefined the way that I thought about CSR. Some experts believe…
Budgeting for CSR?
May 08, 2010
This semester my team and I were exposed to an inherent incongruity well established in the CSR space, as evidenced by the activities at our own client and at those of many of our classmates. This pervasive anomaly has, in my opinion, significant…
Thoughts on CSR
May 04, 2010
As I look back through the semester, thoughts of corporations and their impact on society runs through my head. Like many in my generation, I have always believed that corporations collectively have the greatest power to influence society at large.…