Tag: human rights
Human Rights & Business Initiative: Advancing Respect for Human Rights Around the World
July 09, 2019
Business has an important role and responsibility in building respect for human rights around the world. From modern slavery to digital privacy, the Center for Responsible Business believes human rights considerations must be core to every business…
Negotiating Human Rights Solutions in Business: The Case of Politically Motivated Disinformation and the Responsibility of Platform Companies
December 11, 2018
Written by: Julia Russo, Political Economy Major at UC Berkeley Business can affect the realization of human rights along every point of the value chain. A new class offered by the Center for Responsible Business at Berkeley Haas, Negotiating Human…
Alumni Spotlight: Jeff Denby and Jason Kibbey Take Business From Responsible to Regenerative
November 21, 2018
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CRB’s New Fellow: Nerjada Maksutaj
August 07, 2018
Written by Sona Senapati, Berkeley Haas Center for Responsible Business, Student Editorial Writer The Center for Responsible Business is thrilled to introduce Nerjada Maksutaj as our 2018-2020 Fellow. The inception of the fellowship is rooted in the…
The Future of Work: Leveraging Technology and Bolstering Public-Private Partnerships to Create a More Sustainable Labor Market
April 02, 2018
By Antoine Orard, CRB Human Rights & Business Student Lead & Full-time MBA ’19 candidate Thinking about the future of work can be quite frightening. A recent McKinsey report estimated that automation could displace about 800 million jobs…
Happy Holidays from the Center for Responsible Business
December 12, 2017
Dear Friends, On behalf of all of us at the Berkeley Haas Center for Responsible Business (CRB), I wish you a peaceful and joyous holiday season. As I reflect upon this past year, two things provide me with great optimism: 1) my family and 2)…
Utilizing Technology to Advance Freedom of Expression
November 02, 2017
By Antoine Orard, CRB Human Rights & Business Student Lead & Full-time MBA ’19 candidate “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it…
The Sustainability and Human Rights Story Behind Your Jeans
April 27, 2017
Shanna Hoversten, CRB Student Advisory Board & MBA/MPH ‘17 I am a long-time Levi Straus & Company (LS&Co.) customer. As a Bay Area native, I’ve visited the company’s flagship store in San Francisco countless times, and…
The Role Of Business In Society: A Discussion Of Cuba’s Opportunity To Shape Its Budding Private Sector
February 13, 2017
By Samantha Penabad, CRB Student Advisory Board & MBA ’18 Candidate Having studied and worked at the intersection of business and society for the past ten years, I’ve been quoted Milton Friedman’s New York Times Magazine article…
A Concerned Center for Responsible Business
February 09, 2017
Dear Friends of the Center for Responsible Business, We’re writing to share our concerns with the recent actions of the current federal administration, our gratitude to many of our leading corporate partners of the Center for Responsible Business…
