Tag: Milton Friedman
Profits vs. progress? Times have changed.
February 20, 2018
Flip flopping between the public and private sectors over the past decade granted me lots of time and food for thought on one of, if not the, most pressing question facing today’s business leaders: what, if any, is the social responsibility of…
Motivating Your Employees Beyond A Dollar Sign
July 10, 2017
By Robert Strand, Executive Director at the Berkeley-Haas Center for Responsible Business This post originally appeared in the San Francisco Chronicle and Media Planet. How do you motivate someone to work? For many the response is quite simple:…
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…
Peter Drucker on the Purpose of Business
February 09, 2016
By Jim Rossi, UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism This post originally appeared on LinkedIn. In their classic Enron post-mortem The Smartest Guys in the Room, authors Bethany McLean and Peter Elkind recount a prescient story about…
Strategic & Sustainable Business Solutions: Putting Theory into Practice
April 01, 2015
By Zeina Fayyaz, MBA, ‘16 This spring, Robert Strand opened his course, “Strategic & Sustainable Business Solutions” (SSBS), with a reading from an oldie-but-goodie, The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith. Published in 1776, The Wealth of…