If the United States government wants to promote or require responsible business practices by American corporations operating abroad, what combination of carrots and sticks should it bring to the task? That was a core issue…
On Feb. 6, at the request of the White House, the Berkeley-Haas Center for Responsible Business will host one of four regional dialogs on President Obama’s call for a National Action Plan on Responsible Business…
Policy makers and economic scholars are increasingly searching for measures of national success that go beyond gross domestic product, and many are looking at measures of happiness and well-being. The problem is defining “happiness.” The…
Editor’s Note: This post was excerpted from the Center for Responsible Business. By Robert Strand, Executive Director of the Center for Responsible Business The holidays have the great potential to bring out the best between…
The White House has selected the Berkeley-Haas Center for Responsible Business to host one of four national dialogue sessions to help develop a National Action Plan for responsible practices by American corporations operating in other…
It’s been more than 40 years since Milton Friedman famously declared that “the only social responsibility of corporations is to make money,” and business experts still debate the link between doing good and doing well….
Christopher S. Tang When something bad happens at a contract manufacturer in a developing country such as Bangladesh or China, the press and consumer watchdogs often take the western customers to task. Just last month,…
By Ben Mangan (This article is adapted from an article by the author on LinkedIn.) If you ask fifty smart people how to measure social good, I would bet that you’ll hear fifty very different…
By Robert Strand I am an American and I began my career as an industrial engineer with IBM in the U.S., but I have spent the better part of the past decade in Scandinavia studying…
By Laura Tyson Greetings to all as we begin a new academic year at the Berkeley-Haas Institute for Business and Social Impact. There are many exciting developments to share with the IBSI community. *New leaders…