Tag: finance
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,…
Embedding Values & Taking an Active Stance – Haas Socially Responsible Investment Fund in 2018
May 21, 2018
Praised as ambitious and groundbreaking, the Haas Socially Responsible Investment Fund (HSRIF) is the first and largest student-led SRI fund within a leading business school. It offers our MBA students real-world experience in delivering both strong…
Divestment vs. Engagement: Activism in Investing
December 10, 2017
On November 16, 2017, headlines across major business and finance news outlets led with stories that Norway’s $1 trillion sovereign wealth fund proposed to sell off all oil and gas stocks from their index. This was just the latest in a series of…
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…
Haas Socially Responsible Investment Fund (HSRIF) Update
September 30, 2016
The Haas Socially Responsible Investment Fund (HSRIF) is the world’s first and largest student-led SRI fund within a leading business school. HSRIF offers our Berkeley-Haas MBA students real-world experience in delivering both strong financial…
Adventures from the Front Lines of SRI Investing
November 09, 2012
By Emilie Deng, Haas MBA ‘13 Earlier this month, I attended the SRI Conference on Sustainable, Responsible Impact Investing, which is the largest annual gathering of responsible investors and investment professionals in North America. You might…
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…