Tag: Student Perspective
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…
3 Reasons to Be Hopeful About the Future of Sustainable Finance
February 02, 2016
By Marie Klaeylé, MBA 16 Representing Berkeley-Haas CRB and MBA students, I attended the first Berkeley Sustainable Business and Investment Forum (BSBIF) which took place early November last year. This 2-day event brought together key executives…
From Movement to Mainstream: Exploring the Next Frontier in the SRI Revolution
December 01, 2015
By Eddie Gandevia, Fellow of the Center for Responsible Business, Entrepreneurial Finance Fellow, MBA 17 The annual SRI Conference, now in its 26th year, is a gathering of investors, advisors and intellectuals who are leading the charge in…
Benchmarking Sustainable Supply Chain Management
September 21, 2015
By Roshini R. Das, EMBA 15 According to Wikipedia, the word Benchmarking (in the business terms) means the process of comparing one’s business processes and performance metrics to industry bests or best practices from other companies.…
The Circular Economy
July 22, 2015
By Rachel Dzombak, PhD Candidate, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Laboratory for Manufacturing and Sustainability, UC Berkeley In our current economic system, most products end up landfilled after a single use, and only a small percentage are…
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…
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…
Creating a Community-Based Investment Strategy – A Case Study with Mission:Heirloom
March 04, 2015
By Seren Pendleton Knoll, Master of Development Practice, Class 2015 What investing options are available to socially-driven enterprises that need additional capital, want to maintain their mission, and also provide an opportunity to build a…
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…
Sustainable, Responsible, Impact Investing: The Next Wave
November 20, 2014
By Chad Reed, MBA ‘15 Representing the Haas Socially Responsible Investment Fund (HSRIF), I recently participated in the 25th Annual Conference on Sustainable, Responsible, Impact Investing. This year’s conference demonstrated both the breadth…