Tag: sustainable apparel
Now more than ever: Collaboration for Sustainable Innovation in Fashion
April 27, 2021
Written by: Na Wang, EW MBA ‘23 and Kokei Otosi, FT MBA ‘22. CRB Sustainable Innovation Student Leads. It’s no secret that the fashion industry was dealt a huge blow by the pandemic. The industry severely contracted and millions of dollars in…
The Fashion Industry Takes Steps Toward Circularity
March 29, 2021
Written by Mahon Walsh, B.S. ’22 CRB Student Advisory Board member Fashion’s negative impacts are well known. The apparel industry emits about 1.2 billion metric tons of carbon per year, or 10% of the global carbon footprint. In…
Announcing Winning Teams of the 2020 Patagonia Case Competition
June 16, 2020
Congratulations to the outstanding top six finalist teams of the 2020 Patagonia Case Competition! As a company, Patagonia consistently stands at the forefront of sustainable business, implementing environmental solutions to its mission statement and…
Meet Namrata Gummalla: 2019 Patagonia Case Competition Finalist and Patagonia Corporate Development Intern
December 13, 2019
Beginning in 2016, the Berkeley Haas Center for Responsible Business and industry leader in sustainability, Patagonia, came together to bring next generation thinking to Patagonia’s most pressing sustainability challenges. The partnership is a…
Building Sustainable Chemistry with Levi Strauss & Co.
July 26, 2019
Levis Strauss is a longtime partner of both the Haas School of Business and the Center for Responsible Business. As a leader in the sustainable apparel industry, Levi’s has challenged and inspired many of the students who pass through Haas. Their…
Alumni Spotlight: Jeff Denby and Jason Kibbey Take Business From Responsible to Regenerative
November 21, 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…
A Day of Sustainability Innovation with Levi’s
January 28, 2016
By Alyssa Jeong Perry, UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism Kyle Rudzinski, a 2014 Haas alum and a former Center for Responsible Business fellow, landed at Levi Strauss and Co. on their Sustainability Innovation Leadership Team. For the past…
Ingredients for Success: Lessons in Building Industry-Wide Coalitions for Change
August 02, 2012
By Corinna Kester & Dana Ledyard (Haas MBAs ’12) The apparel industry has been under the corporate responsibility microscope for over a decade, starting with public upsets over factory labor conditions in the 1990s. After all, supply chains…