Tag: MBA
The Patagonia Case Competition: Finding an Eco-Friendly Water Repellent
April 15, 2016
By Edmund L. Andrews Few companies have tied their identities more closely to environmental responsibility than Patagonia, the outdoor apparel manufacturer founded decades ago by the rock climber Yvon Choinard. Patagonia’s mission statement is…
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…
A Student Initiative Leads to Path-Bending New Course at Berkeley-Haas
July 17, 2014
By Yonathan Shiran, MBA ’14 Yonathan helped to develop, and then enrolled in, a new CRB course on global mega-trends for MBAs; here, he writes about the experience of building the course and the great need for it in management education. Most…
Alumni Perspective on a Career Advising Non-profits and Foundations
September 10, 2013
By Deborah Fleischer, CRB Communications Consultant, and Christina Meinberg, CRB Associate Director. This is the third in a series of blog posts highlighting CRB alumni. In this post we focus on Amy Dickie, Haas MBA ’07. Amy Dickie, Haas MBA…
Alumni Perspectives From the Front Line of Impact Investing
August 16, 2013
By Deborah Fleischer, CRB Communications Consultant, and Christina Meinberg, CRB Associate Director. This is the first in a series of blog posts highlighting CRB alumni. In this post we focus on Margot Kane, MBA ’08. According to a recent…
Intrapraneurship for Sustainability: a Conversation with New CRB Lecturer Emma Stewart
August 05, 2013
Christina Meinberg, CRB Associate Director, interviews Haas lecturer and Head of Sustainability Solutions at Autodesk, Dr. Emma Stewart, regarding her plans to teach one of our new MBA courses for this fall: “Intrapraneurship for…
From Straight Jackets to Stewards: Bringing Values Back into the Management Education Culture
July 19, 2013
By Christina Meinberg, Associate Director I give a lot of credit to Anand Anandalingam, Dean and Professor at University of Maryland, Smith School of Business, who recently said what had been assumed in numerous conversations at the recent AACSB…