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Written by Sona Senapati, Berkeley Haas Center for Responsible Business, Student Editorial Writer The Center for Responsible Business continuously strives to support the inception and launch of impact-focused startups. Whether it’s in the sustainable food, finance, or supply chain space, the CRB has been instrumental in the launch of young…
Read an extended overview of the CRB’s partnership to solve Patagonia’s most pressing sustainability challenges here. In 2016, the Berkeley Haas Center for Responsible Business embarked on a unique partnership with an industry leader in sustainability: Patagonia. Each year since then, Berkeley Haas and Patagonia have developed a case related…
Written by Sona Senapati, Berkeley Haas Center for Responsible Business, Student Editorial Writer The Center for Responsible Business is thrilled to introduce Nerjada Maksutaj as our 2018-2020 Fellow. The inception of the fellowship is rooted in the hope that developing emerging business leaders would lead to a burgeoning network of…
Written by Maxwell Kushner-Lenhoff, CRB Student Advisory Board, CRB Fellow & MBA ’18 Candidate “What’s your advice for fast-growing companies looking to do so sustainably?” I asked climbing legend and Patagonia Vice President of Environmental Affairs, Rick Ridgeway, at Berkeley Haas last week. His answer: “Don’t grow fast.” That was…
Flip flopping between the public and private sectors over the past decade granted me lots of time and food for thought on one of, if not the, most pressing question facing today’s business leaders: what, if any, is the social responsibility of companies? Historically, the multi-million-dollar question was, can businesses…