A Letter to the Community
A Note from Laura D. Tyson, Kristiana Raube, Ben Mangan and Robert Strand Dear Friends, As the year draws to a close, at the Institute for Business and Social Impact, we reflect on the election,…
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Letter from Bangkok: The 2016 GSVC Finals
By Cameron Scherer GSVC Student Fellow Re-posted from impactmba None of us expected the night to end with a water gun fight – but I’ll get there later. Last month, three classmates and I had…
David Vogel in Wall Street Journal: Virtuous Companies Don’t Earn Higher Returns
By Edmund L. Andrews Investment funds that focus on social and environmental responsibility have enjoyed explosive growth over the past decade, amassing $5 trillion in assets by the end of 2014. As a general matter,…
Green Chemistry: From Blue Jeans to 3-D Printing
By Edmund L. Andrews When people talk about “green” business, they often think about renewable energy and products that have a smaller carbon footprint. But there is also a burgeoning business interest in “green…
Philanthropy U In the National Spotlight
The New York Times offers an in-depth look today at Philanthropy University, the new Berkeley-Haas partnership that provides free-online training to social sector leaders around the world. Paul Sullivan, author of the Times’ Wealth…
Dara O’Rourke: How to Make Sustainability Less Like Spinach
When it comes to products that are “good” – healthier, safer for the environment, or produced by companies that treat workers fairly – what consumers say they want is often very different from what…
Philanthropy University: 150,000 Enrollees and Climbing
By Laura D. Tyson Philanthropy University, our new partnership to provide a global training and innovation platform for social impact leaders, is off to a very fast start. More than 150,000 aspiring change-makers have already…
Laura Tyson: Making Higher Education Pay
In a new column for Project Syndicate, Laura D. Tyson lays out a strategy for using “progressive federalism” to increase the returns from higher education. Tyson and co-author Lenny Mendonca, a former director at McKinsey…
Laura Tyson: How to Fix the Incarceration Economy
In a new column published Monday by Project Syndicate, Laura D. Tyson and Lenny Mendonca outline a two-pillar framework for reducing both mass incarceration and recidivism in the United States. As Tyson and Mendonca point…
Kellie McElhaney: Women’s Power at the Oakland Raiders
For one of the more improbable case studies of women in business leadership – and how it can make a big difference — read Kellie A. McElhaney’s account of the Oakland Raiders in the San…