Tag: CRB News
Dow Prize: A New Strategy to Provide Safer Groundwater for Millions
February 01, 2016
By Edmund L. Andrews This post originally appeared on the Institute for Business & Social Impact Blog. Katya Cherukumilli, a Ph.D. candidate in environmental engineering at Berkeley, has won a prestigious prize for her work at the Gadgil…
Launching the Human Rights & Business Initiative at Berkeley-Haas
December 10, 2015
Dear Students, Colleagues and Friends, Today, December 10th, we celebrate International Human Rights Day and I am very excited to use this opportunity to announce the launch of the new Human Rights & Business Initiative at the Berkeley-Haas…
Haas MBAs Take First Place Win at Net Impact National Case Competition
May 04, 2015
By Christina Meinberg, CRB Associate Director Today’s forward-thinking companies tell us that they are in search of MBA graduates who are able to view and address pressing global and business challenges through an interdisciplinary lens. A…
Remembering John Whitehead: The Conscience of a Leader
February 20, 2015
By Richard Lyons Dean, Haas School of Business This post originally appeared on the Institute for Business & Social Impact blog Berkeley-Haas and the Center for Responsible Business lost a close friend two weeks ago, when John C. Whitehead…
Caitlyn Toombs, MBA ’16, Receives $20,000 Scholarship from Center for Responsible Business
August 27, 2014
By Christina Meinberg, CRB Associate Director The Haas School’s Center for Responsible Business (CRB) has awarded a $20,000 scholarship to Caitlyn Toombs, MBA 16, to support her focus on facilitating market development by creating smart and…
Coming Soon: Berkeley-Haas’ First Report to the United Nations on Management Education
May 05, 2014
By Amy Dinh, CRB Program Manager Christina Meinberg, Associate Director and Co-Interim Executive Director of the Center for Responsible Business (CRB), is spearheading the effort to create Berkeley-Haas’ first annual PRME report, which will be…
Launch of the Crowdfunding Campaign for the Haas Socially Responsible Investment (SRI) Fund
February 24, 2014
By Jo Mackness, Executive Director, Center for Responsible Business Last week, we gave you a preview into our new crowdfunding campaign that the Center for Responsible Business (CRB) is launching today to raise $100,000 for our groundbreaking,…
Haas Socially Responsible Investment (SRI) Fund: Invest in Student Learning
February 20, 2014
From its inception, the Haas Socially Responsible Investment (SRI) Fund has been lauded as both ambitious and groundbreaking. The first and largest student-led SRI fund within a leading business school, it offers Berkeley-Haas students…
Dow SISCA Awards $10k to Critical Agricultural Research for Developing World
January 16, 2014
By Amy Dinh, CRB Program Manager The world is facing a great food crisis, and its epicenter is in Sub-Saharan Africa. While the region is poised to have explosive population growth in the next several decades, today one-quarter of its population…
The Upcycle: Beyond Sustainability–Designing for Abundance Talk and Book Signing with Bill McDonough
May 20, 2013
By Christina Meinberg, CRB Associate Director CRB recently hosted a special on-campus event to hear from global thought leader, designer and sustainable growth pioneer William McDonough. He presented the ideas that can be found in his thought…