Tag: ESG
Impact Investing: Creating Strong Returns While Bettering the World
January 28, 2019
Written by Isabella Martin, MDP Candidate, Class of 2019 Impact Investing is an increasingly hot topic in the finance world with the industry set to grow to around $500 billion in the next decade. With so many ubiquitous terms floating around…
Business as Unusual: Reflections on the UN PRI Finance Roundup
October 21, 2018
Written by Katharine Hawthorne, CRB Student Advisory Board member and MBA ’20 candidate In September, the UN PRI in Person Conference took place in San Francisco, CA at the peak of the Global Climate Action Summit. One of the concluding…
Winners of the 2018 Investment for Impact Research Prize
July 31, 2018
Winners: Christopher Geczy, Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, Jessica S. Jeffers, Booth School of Business, University of Chicago, David K. Musto, Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania,…
Measuring Sustainability That Matters
July 09, 2018
Written by Maxwell Kushner-Lenhoff, MBA ’18 and former CRB Fellow Greenwashing is a real problem these days. Some companies either promote efforts that are insignificant when compared with industry progress or tout accomplishments that are…
Call for Papers: Moskowitz Research Prize in Responsible Investment
May 08, 2017
CALL FOR PAPERS Submissions for the Moskowitz Prize for Responsible Investment are now open. Now in its 22nd year, the Moskowitz Prize is the longest running global award recognizing quantitative research in the field of sustainable and responsible…
Socially Responsible Investing: The Next “Sweet Employee Perk?”
March 26, 2017
By Samantha Penabad, CRB Student Advisory Board & MBA ’18 Candidate Moving from Washington, D.C. – the mecca of dreary government buildings – to the Bay Area, it’s hard not to notice all the enviable perks businesses highlight to…
Learnings from the 2016 Berkeley Sustainable Business & Investment Forum (BSBIF)
November 29, 2016
By Samantha Penabad, CRB Student Advisory Board & MBA ’18 Candidate, and David Cogswell, CRB Student Advisory Board & MBA ’18 Candidate On October 27 and 28, business leaders and academics convened at UC Berkeley for the…
Corporate Sustainability & Moving Towards Materiality: Lessons from the Peterson Speaker Series
November 02, 2016
by Shanna Hoversten, MBA/MPH ’16 “When I started working in this area we probably would have needed just a few seats at a coffee table to have this conversation – certainly not this entire room,” remarked George Serafeim, Associate…
CRB Presents a New Course, “Corporate Governance: Shareholders, Stakeholders, and Corporate Control”
December 30, 2013
Christina Meinberg, CRB Associate Director, interviews Haas lecturer and Chief Investment Officer at Nelson Capital, Lloyd Kurtz, regarding his plans to teach a new MBA course this term, in governance (MBA 292T-1). [CM] We are excited to have you…