Tag: social impact
AI for Social Impact: Designing for More Inclusive Artificial Intelligence
April 29, 2019
Written by Jeff Hartsough, MBA Candidate Class of 2019 and Ada Maksutaj, MBA Candidate Class of 2020 On March 7th, the Center for Responsible Business and the Human Rights Center, in collaboration with Microsoft, hosted the third annual conference…
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…
The Start of Something Great: CRB-incubated Startups
November 14, 2018
[perfectpullquote align=”full” bordertop=”true” cite=”” link=”” color=”#15284B” class=”” size=”12″]Join the CRB on November 27th to celebrate 15 years of lasting…
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…
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…
2017 Moskowitz Prize Winner: Who Benefits From Socially Responsible Governance?
October 30, 2017
By Nuria Marquez Martinez, Masters of Journalism candidate & CRB Editorial Writer In 1970, Milton Friedman wrote an op-ed in The New York Times Magazine which argued that the primary role of a corporation was to serve its shareholders, and…
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:…
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…
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…
Dara O’Rourke: How to Make Sustainability Less Like Spinach
October 15, 2015
By Edmund L. Andrews This post originally appeared on the Institute for Business & Social Impact Blog. When it comes to products that are “good” – healthier, safer for the environment, or produced by companies that treat workers…