The annual Global Social Venture Competition, launched by students at Berkeley-Haas in 1999 and still run by students today, attracted 575 entries from 50 countries this year. The winners, determined in the finals here on…
It doesn’t get much attention, but the Obama administration has embraced a venture-capital approach for catalyzing innovative solutions to urgent social problems. Laura Tyson and Jonathan Greenblatt, director of the White House’s Office of Social…
NPR’s Morning Edition offered a fascinating look at research by the Institute’s Laura Kray on the gender gap on business ethics and why it discourages women from entering business school. Kray, professor of leadership in…
By Omar Romero-Hernández and Sergio Romero-Hernández Like many other nations, Mexico has been half-hearted about increasing its use of renewable energy. In theory, political leaders recognize the benefits – reduced carbon emissions and particulate pollution;…
William Fuchs Even at an institution like Berkeley-Haas, it’s not always easy to raise money for research projects. So when two of my colleagues and I had an idea last year for a project in…
Part of our mission at the Institute for Business and Social Impact is to shed light on the interplay between for-profit business, the public sector and urgent public problems. In a recent column for the…
By Laura Kray In 2014, is the gender glass half full or half empty? With Berkeley-Haas’s Janet Yellen recently sworn in as chair of the Federal Reserve, the most powerful job in global economics, the…
By Lisa Feldman It surprises me, but many people still assume that MBA students focus only on traditional business careers. For a long time, it is true, business schools attracted a high proportion of young…
By Dana Carney The architecture of the human mind has evolved to efficiently navigate us through a complex world. We make decisions constantly, and most of those decisions are almost unconscious. Which direction do we…
Nearly one year after more than 1,100 Bangladeshi workers died in the collapse of the Rana Plaza textile factory, corporations and governments are still struggling with how to enforce decent working conditions in global supply…