Tag: social impact
Supply Chain Sustainability: Overcoming 5 Big Challenges Companies Face
May 12, 2015
By Rachel Dzombak, PhD Candidate, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Laboratory for Manufacturing and Sustainability, UC Berkeley This May, the Sustainable Products & Solutions (SPS) research program at UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business…
Are You Counting What Counts? Purposeful Metrics in the Era of Big Data
April 06, 2015
By Robert Strand, CRB Executive Director Metrics matter. They drive activities at organizations. Purposeful metrics have to do with the idea that the highest level metrics for an organization should be tied to its purpose. A session about…
Considering Social Impact in Big Business: Can pioneer companies spark a race to the top?
February 27, 2014
By Aarthi Rao, Berkeley-Haas MBA ’15 This post originally appeared on nextbillion.net Corporate social responsibility (CSR) is defined in many ways. Some use it as a catch-all to describe everything from employee volunteerism to company campaigns…
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…
Engage with the CRB in October
October 11, 2012
From the Peterson Series kick-off to the launching of Professor McElhaney’s new course, Women in Business, and beyond – fall semester is in full swing here at Haas. We enjoyed seeing many students at yesterday’s on-campus luncheon…