Sustainability at Haas

The Haas School of Business educates entrepreneurial leaders to address society’s biggest challenges: innovation, inclusion, and sustainability, particularly the global climate crisis. Sustainability at Haas is about preparing business leaders to achieve environmental and social, as well as economic goals. Through research, teaching, and applied student projects, Berkeley Haas is leading the transition to a sustainable, low-carbon economy.

Haas Sustainability Highlights

Professor Nancy Wallace has won the Williamson Award

Professor Nancy Wallace has won the Williamson Award at Haas in recognition of her outstanding research and teaching. As co-chair of the Fisher Center for Real Estate and Urban Economics Nancy is leading a greater focus on the sustainable built environment in the research and teaching of the center, including research focused on the increasing risks to housing and mortgage markets from climate-related events such as wildfires. Her research also looks at the development of capital market innovations to promote sustainable mixed-use urban development and a long-standing partnership with colleagues at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and the Department of Energy to develop metrics to more accurately underwrite energy efficiency in commercial mortgages.

Congratulations to UC Berkeley for earning a Platinum rating from AASHE

The Sustainability Tracking, Assessment & Rating System (STARS) is a transparent, self-reporting framework for colleges and universities to measure their sustainability performance.

Faculty and Research

Faculty research interests span a wide range of environmental, ethical, governance and corporate social responsibility topics, from energy and environmental economics to sustainable supply chains to food sustainability to impact investing.

Faculty and Research

Curriculum

Our curriculum boasts an increasing amount of sustainable innovation courses and opportunities, led and taught by some of the most accomplished minds at the intersection of business and sustainability.

Sustainability Curriculum

Zero Carbon, Zero Waste

We are committed to leading the way in zero waste infrastructure, as can be seen at Chou Hall, the first certified TRUE Zero Waste academic building in the world.

Zero Waste

Student Opportunities

There are numerous opportunities to get involved in Haas and campus sustainability initiatives beyond the classroom.

Student Opportunitites

The Climate Imperative for Business

Business as usual is no longer an option. Business firms of all kinds must adopt the climate imperative as a principle to guide their behavior. The potential of this transition is our sustainability mission here at Berkeley Haas. Read more about the Climate Imperative for Business.

Frank Cooper, CMO, BlackRock

“When Blackrock hires new MBA graduates we expect them to be aware of and understand the key issues, challenges and framework of sustainability, particularly climate change, to create enduring, sustainable value for all of our stakeholders.”