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Help your company and professional immigrants…
May 11, 2010
Helping others enhance their careers has long been a passion of mine. I am especially dedicated to assisting professional immigrants with restarting their careers in the US. Being an immigrant myself, I deeply associate with this cause and having…
eBay Green and Social Media
May 11, 2010
Throughout the semester, working with the eBay green team was an incredible experience. For me, the experience was especially interesting because our team had the opportunity to work within the fresh field of Social Media and its growing relation to…
My UGBA 192P Experience
May 10, 2010
My Experience UGBA 192P, Strategic Corporate Social Responsibility and Consulting Projects, is one worthwhile experience. One of the many reasons is because of the semester client project. I discover and learned first hand that having a live client…
eBay Green Project
May 10, 2010
This blog post is a follow-up posting to my teammate’s prior blog posting (see Shauli Raz). After reviewing a diverse selection of green opportunities with eBay, our Haas team has decided to pursue a comprehensive program of initiatives that are…
Socially Responsible Investing
May 09, 2010
This year I’ve had the opportunity to learn about CSR from multiple perspectives. Initially somewhat skeptic of the level of impact in this field, I decided to join a Fund that manages investments following Socially Responsible Investing (SRI)…
The Morality of CSR, Should Companies Impose Their CSR On Others?
May 08, 2010
Having done quite a heavy load of literature research on many companies’ initiatives in CSR, notably after natural disasters, I have come to realize one thing: the company does not always know what’s best. Many companies, even the big ones I…
Budgeting for CSR?
May 08, 2010
This semester my team and I were exposed to an inherent incongruity well established in the CSR space, as evidenced by the activities at our own client and at those of many of our classmates. This pervasive anomaly has, in my opinion, significant…
“Owned by Cocoa Farmers. Made for Chocolate Lovers.”
May 07, 2010
Did you know that 14% of the world’s chocolate is made in Ghana? Did you also know that 90% of the world’s cocoa is grown on small family farms of twelve acres or less? Last week, I had the pleasure of hearing two people from Divine Chocolates…
The Big Day
May 05, 2010
What would you do if, not even five minutes into your 1.5 hour presentation at a client’s site, a Senior Vice President would storm into the room and put the presentation on hold? What if he would ask you to go directly to the recommendations and…
The Importance of Consumer Education
May 05, 2010
When a consumer walks into a store to buy a bag of chips, he faces a myriad of choices: which flavor should he buy? How much money should he spend? And now thanks to the new SunChips compostable bag, is the packaging sustainable? During our…