What is the way to increasing the number of female engineers? Maybe it’s to give them more reason to be interested. Lina Nilsson, Innovation Director at UC Berkeley’s Blum Center for Developing Economies, argues…
Christopher Tang View image | gettyimages.com This Friday, April 24, marks the two-year anniversary of the catastrophic garment factory collapse at Rana Plaza in Bangladesh. Killing more than 1,000 workers and injuring hundreds more, Rana…
How do you measure social impact? What about a low-cost filteration system that could protect untold millions of people from poisoning by arsenic in their water? Drinkwell, a two-year-old social enterprise that took first place…
By Robert Strand rstrand@berkeley.edu Metrics matter. They drive activities at organizations. Purposeful metrics have to do with the idea that the highest level metrics for an organization should be tied to its purpose. A…
By Jennifer Walske and Laura D. Tyson In our previous two posts, we discussed two of three key factors that led to scaling up a social startup: raising significant capital at the outset and building…
By Jennifer Walske & Laura D. Tyson In our research, we took a deep dive into eight successful social enterprises in order to identify the critical elements of their success. In our previous post, we…
By Jennifer Walske and Laura D. Tyson As more and more social entrepreneurs launch new ventures to address social and environmental challenges, it has become increasingly important to understand the factors that have allowed a…
By Richard Lyons Dean, Haas School of Business Berkeley-Haas and the Center for Responsible Business lost a close friend two weeks ago, when John C. Whitehead passed away at the age of 92. To the…
Writing for the McKinsey Global Institute, Laura D. Tyson offers a list of steps that would increase the economic participation of women and increase long-term global growth. Tyson notes that women account for half the…
Christopher Tang Generations X and Y are passionate about starting social businesses to address pressing social problems, from alleviating poverty to improving access to clean water. Every social entrepreneur hopes that these businesses will be…