Responsible Business Blog
Democratizing the Impact Investing Roadmap: How Individuals Can Progress the Movement Forward
April 13, 2018
By Samantha Penabad, CRB Student Advisory Board & MBA ’18 Candidate On March 20, the The Global Impact Investing Network launched the Roadmap for the Future of Impact Investing, setting vision, a course, and a call to action for…
The Rise of Blockchain Has Been Remarkable. Is There Also a Sustainability Story?
April 06, 2018
By David Sternlicht, Full-time MBA ’18 & CRB Student Advisory Board member A few weeks ago, I attended the second edition of Blockchain Unlocked at UC Berkeley’s Law school. It’s a newly launched executive education program designed to…
The Future of Work: Leveraging Technology and Bolstering Public-Private Partnerships to Create a More Sustainable Labor Market
April 02, 2018
By Antoine Orard, CRB Human Rights & Business Student Lead & Full-time MBA ’19 candidate Thinking about the future of work can be quite frightening. A recent McKinsey report estimated that automation could displace about 800 million jobs…
Sowing the Seeds of Regenerative Agriculture
March 27, 2018
By Adrian Rodrigues, MBA 18 candidate & CRB Student Advisory Board member I first met Dan Barber in 2014 at his east village restaurant Blue Hill. I was there for a client meeting and, despite being a self-proclaimed “foodie”, didn’t know…
The Individual as the Changemaker: Liz Lowe, MBA ‘15, AACSB Influential Leader
February 26, 2018
By Nuria Marquez Martinez, Masters of Journalism candidate & CRB Editorial Writer Liz Lowe, MBA ‘15, has practiced yoga for years. Among her many extracurriculars during her time at the Haas School of Business, Lowe was a yoga instructor. She…
Profits vs. progress? Times have changed.
February 20, 2018
Flip flopping between the public and private sectors over the past decade granted me lots of time and food for thought on one of, if not the, most pressing question facing today’s business leaders: what, if any, is the social responsibility of…
Happy Holidays from the Center for Responsible Business
December 12, 2017
Dear Friends, On behalf of all of us at the Berkeley Haas Center for Responsible Business (CRB), I wish you a peaceful and joyous holiday season. As I reflect upon this past year, two things provide me with great optimism: 1) my family and 2)…
Divestment vs. Engagement: Activism in Investing
December 10, 2017
On November 16, 2017, headlines across major business and finance news outlets led with stories that Norway’s $1 trillion sovereign wealth fund proposed to sell off all oil and gas stocks from their index. This was just the latest in a series of…
“Much Is Expected” – Reflecting on the 2017 Net Impact Conference
November 29, 2017
Days before being sworn in as the 35th President of the United States, John F. Kennedy urged, “To whom much is given, much is required… At some future date the high court of history sits in judgment on each of us—recording whether in our brief…
Utilizing Technology to Advance Freedom of Expression
November 02, 2017
By Antoine Orard, CRB Human Rights & Business Student Lead & Full-time MBA ’19 candidate “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it…
