Tag: impact investing
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…
Winners of the 2018 Moskowitz Research Prize
December 10, 2018
Winners: Abigail B. Sussman, University of Chicago, Booth School of Business, Samuel M. Hartzmark, University of Chicago, Booth School of Business, for “Do Investors Value Sustainability? A Natural Experiment Examining Ranking and Fund…
A 29-year old’s take on the 29th Annual SRI Conference
November 21, 2018
Written by: Michelle Levinson, ERG/MPP ’19 In the aftermath of another round of divisive elections in the United States (and around the globe) many of us feel distraught about the ability and speed of our political systems to address urgent…
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…
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)…
2016-17 CRB Year in Brief: Letter from the Executive Director
October 04, 2017
Dear Friends of the Center for Responsible Business: The 2017-18 academic year is off and running. The campus is abuzz with students and the first year MBAs have been pounding down the CRB doors and filling our “Coffee with the CRB” chats to…
Investment for Impact Research Prize Winner: Workers Value Purpose and Meaningfulness at Work
June 30, 2017
By Sam Zuckerman This post originally appeared in Haas News. Here is the official announcement. Job applicants will accept lower wages in order to work for a socially responsible employer, according to research by the winner of the newly launched…
Launching the Investment for Impact Research Prize
December 05, 2016
By Ed Andrews This post originally appeared on the Institute for Business & Social Impact Blog. The Center for Responsible Business at UC Berkeley Haas School of Business has just launched a $5,000 research prize for work on the role of impact…