Tag: Strategic and Sustainable Business Solutions
CSR: From Silo to Systems Thinking
March 09, 2016
By Megan Wong, MBA 16 This article originally appeared on LinkedIn as part of series of posts for Professor Robert Strand’s MBA class on Strategic and Sustainable Business Solutions. In 1947, twelve directors of the Krupp Group were tried for…
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…
A Game-Changing View of CSR through Strategic Consulting Projects
January 09, 2015
By Katarina Bagherian, Undergraduate Student at UC Berkeley, BA Political Science, ‘14 Taking Michael Kobori’s Strategic Corporate Social Responsibility class was a game-changer for me. It dispelled myths about sustainability in business. He…