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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Unleashing the Full Potential of Microenterprises for Inclusive Growth
By Laura D. Tyson Re-posted from the MasterCard Center for Inclusive Growth February 16, 2016 Economist Laura Tyson, the Center’s new senior advisor for microentrepreneurship, offers three insights for how governments, non-governmental organizations, multinational corporations…
Dow Prize: A New Strategy to Provide Safer Groundwater for Millions
By Edmund L. Andrews Katya Cherukumilli, a Ph.D. candidate in environmental engineering at Berkeley, has won a prestigious prize for her work at the Gadgil research lab on a novel strategy to protect…
Pay-for-Success: Big Strides in Doing Well By Doing Good
In their latest column for Project Syndicate, Laura D. Tyson and Lenny Mendonca outline the accelerating pace of pay-for-success pilot projects in Republican and Democratic states alike. The projects are testing promising new strategies to…
Laura D. Tyson: Preserving the Social Contract in a Gig Economy
In a new column published by Project Syndicate, Laura D. Tyson and Lenny Mendonca argue that the rise of digital, on-demand work platforms – from Uber and TaskRabbit to Freelancer.com – requires new policies to…
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…
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…
Policy Paralysis: When Buying Robots Seems Easier Than Letting Women or Immigrants Work
By Kristiana Raube Japan has long had a love affair with electronic gadgetry, but this is a new twist: robots as a possible solution to its demographic crisis of a shrinking workforce and a…
Look Who’s Innovating on Health Care!
By Kristiana Raube View image | gettyimages.com Last month, the nation received some encouraging news about the potential of the Affordable Care Act (“Obamacare”) to tame the spiraling rise of health care spending. The…
Al Gore at Haas: Seeing the “Full Value Spectrum”
Former Vice President Al Gore delivered an impassioned call at Berkeley-Haas last week about recognizing the “full spectrum of value” and his own optimism about addressing global challenges such as climate change and inequality. By…