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Social Enterprise April 21, 2014
Pioneering Social Ventures from 50 Nations
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…
Public Policy, Social Enterprise April 21, 2014
The White House Embraces a Venture Capital Strategy to Social Innovation
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…
Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility, Gender Parity and Inclusive Growth April 14, 2014
Are Men Less Ethical than Women? Part 2.
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…
Public Policy, Social Enterprise, Sustainable Business April 7, 2014
Could Mexico Lead the World in Renewable Energy?
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;…
Social Enterprise, Sustainable Business March 27, 2014
Crowd-Funding for Research: What I Learned the Hard Way
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…
Social Enterprise March 17, 2014
Tyson: Minimum Wage is a Working Women's Issue
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…
Gender Parity and Inclusive Growth March 10, 2014
No, Men are Not from Mars and Women are Not from Venus
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…
Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility, Social Enterprise, Sustainable Business March 6, 2014
Millennial MBAs: Charting New Career Paths
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…
Gender Parity and Inclusive Growth February 25, 2014
How to Tame Your Hidden Prejudices
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…
Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility, Public Policy February 19, 2014
Laura Tyson on Cleaning up Global Supply Chains
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…
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