Center for Responsible Business at Berkeley-Haas

03/16/2022

Join us live NOW to hear from Ethan Brown, founder & CEO of Beyond Meat - you don’t want to miss this! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c-5VY3-KFRg

Co-sponsored by the Dean's Speaker Series. Beyond Meat Haas School of Business - UC Berkeley

Ethan Brown, founder & CEO of Beyond Meat, will be joining us for our next Dean’s Speakers Series on Weds., March 16 @ 12:30 p.m.! You don’t want to miss this!

Co-sponsored by the Center for Responsible Business.

10/06/2021

Welcome to the Berkeley Haas Center for Responsible Business! 🌱🌎

Our mission is to develop leaders who redefine business for a sustainable future. Want to learn more about our initiatives, courses, and events? Visit our website at: https://haas.berkeley.edu/responsible-business/.

09/22/2021

Join us today at 12:30 PM to hear from Dr. Mette Morsing, Head of Principles for Responsible Management Education (PRME) on how can address the global .

How will business schools help address the global climate crisis?

Join us for a fireside chat with Mette Morsing, head of the UN Principles for Responsible Management Education (PRME) and Robert Strand, executive director of the Center for Responsible Business at Haas, who will discuss the most pressing global sustainability issues of our time and how business schools can help address the climate crisis.

Wednesday, Sept. 22, 12:30-1:30 p.m. PDT. Register: https://haas.org/39tSSG9

04/21/2021

As bidding for EW and FT MBA heads underway, we invite you to check out our suite of new classes coming Spring 2022. 💡

Some of the following classes can be applied to the new graduate certificate in sustainable business!

Featured classes include:
• Carbon Footprinting*, Chris Jones
• Corporate Sustainability Measuring and Reporting*, Susanne Stormer
• Impact Investing Landscape, TBA**
• Business & Natural Resources – Sustainable Use of Ecosystems, Omar Romero-Hernandez
• Managing Human Rights in Business - Faris Natour and Roger McElrath
• Real estate finance and securitization - Nancy Wallace
• Applications due in the Fall for spring courses:
• Impact Investing Practicum
• Haas Impact Fund

*new course
** new instructor

More details on our website:

Issues of sustainability require all businesses around the world to question the status quo and to innovate. When you study at Berkeley Haas, you build a foundation in sustainability and corporate responsibility. Inside the classroom and out, we offer dynamic learning opportunities to undertake real...

04/20/2021

In January, Plant Futures hosted a weekend full of guest speakers from every corner of the world to unpack the plant-based industry.

Check out a video re-cap and a blog written by Madeline Wong, a member of our SAB who attended.

🎥: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCVFO6ArUYG_2tz2QKWQYl1A

📄: https://redefiningbusiness.org/revisiting-the-plant-futures-symposium/

To kick off the new year, Plant Futures launched into a weekend full of guest speakers from every...

04/15/2021

Tune in tomorrow (4/16) at 9:45am PT to watch our Associate Director, Seren Pendleton-Knoll moderate a panel at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Sustainability Summit! 🌎🌟🌱

This dynamic engagement will leverage the expertise and lived-experience of a few reputable panelists like Shannon Bouton, CEO of McKinsey.org and Sanjeev Chadha, ex-CEO of PepsiCo Asia and current Board Member of the Pacific Institute in order to explore how different actors come together to create more sustainable industries.

More info about the speakers and how to watch here: http://sustainabilitysummit.mit.edu

04/09/2021

💡Dean's/ Peterson Speaker Series in one hour!💡

Tune in at 12pm PT to hear from Berkeley Haas Alumni and Poshmark Founder & CEO Manish Chandra about the circular economy and innovative, sustainable business models in the apparel industry.

Manish Chandra, a graduate of our EWMBA program, has Questioned the Status Quo throughout his career and has been a driver of innovation in social shopping p...

04/08/2021

💡Dean's/ Peterson Speaker Series Tomorrow💡

Tune in at 12pm PT to hear from Berkeley Haas Alumni and Poshmark Founder & CEO Manish Chandra about the circular economy and innovative, sustainable business models in the apparel industry.

Manish Chandra, a graduate of our EWMBA program, has Questioned the Status Quo throughout his career and has been a driver of innovation in social shopping p...

04/07/2021

Madeline Wong, a member of our Student Advisory Board, calls on UC Berkeley to facilitate a cross-campus collaboration between Haas School of Business - UC Berkeley and the Rausser College of Natural Resources in order to advance sustainable business learnings.

Read more in our blog🌟🌿

The Rausser College of Natural Resources is the oldest college at the University of California, Berkeley and, since...

04/07/2021

CRB Student Advisory Board member, Mahon Walsh investigates what sustainability looks like in the apparel industry. 🌿👚

Read about it in our blog 💡
https://redefiningbusiness.org/the-fashion-industry-takes-steps-toward-circularity/

Written by Mahon Walsh, B.S. ’22 CRB Student Advisory Board member Fashion’s negative impacts are well known.  The...

04/05/2021

CRB Professor and the Executive Director of the Institute for South Asia Studies, Sanchita Saxena shared her thoughts on the unfair treatment faced by Bangladeshi garment workers despite their massive contribution to the country's GDP.

Read more here:

The economy has boomed and exports have soared but vulnerabilities remain

03/11/2021

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