Tag: Sustainable Investment
Impact Investing: Creating Strong Returns While Bettering the World
January 28, 2019
Written by Isabella Martin, MDP Candidate, Class of 2019 Impact Investing is an increasingly hot topic in the finance world with the industry set to grow to around $500 billion in the next decade. With so many ubiquitous terms floating around…
Winners of the 2018 Moskowitz Research Prize
December 10, 2018
Winners: Abigail B. Sussman, University of Chicago, Booth School of Business, Samuel M. Hartzmark, University of Chicago, Booth School of Business, for “Do Investors Value Sustainability? A Natural Experiment Examining Ranking and Fund…
Alumni Spotlight: Rob Kaplan on Finding (and Sticking to) a Career with Impact
September 27, 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…
Winners of the 2018 Investment for Impact Research Prize
July 31, 2018
Winners: Christopher Geczy, Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, Jessica S. Jeffers, Booth School of Business, University of Chicago, David K. Musto, Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania,…
Measuring Sustainability That Matters
July 09, 2018
Written by Maxwell Kushner-Lenhoff, MBA ’18 and former CRB Fellow Greenwashing is a real problem these days. Some companies either promote efforts that are insignificant when compared with industry progress or tout accomplishments that are…
Embedding Values & Taking an Active Stance – Haas Socially Responsible Investment Fund in 2018
May 21, 2018
Praised as ambitious and groundbreaking, the Haas Socially Responsible Investment Fund (HSRIF) is the first and largest student-led SRI fund within a leading business school. It offers our MBA students real-world experience in delivering both strong…
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…
Welcome Newest Members of 2017 CRB Student Advisory Board
October 23, 2017
The Center for Responsible Business is pleased to announce the newest members of our Student Advisory Board*. The Student Advisory Board is composed of students who help the CRB continue to question the status quo, as a sounding board for new…
How CEOs Decided Trump Is a Bad Investment
August 18, 2017
By Robert Strand, Executive Director at the Berkeley-Haas Center for Responsible Business This post was originally published 8/16/17 at Fortune. CEOs have been rapidly fleeing President Trump’s business councils. The CEOs of Merck, Intel, Under…
Learnings from the 2016 Berkeley Sustainable Business & Investment Forum (BSBIF)
November 29, 2016
By Samantha Penabad, CRB Student Advisory Board & MBA ’18 Candidate, and David Cogswell, CRB Student Advisory Board & MBA ’18 Candidate On October 27 and 28, business leaders and academics convened at UC Berkeley for the…