Advisory Boards
The Center for Responsible Business is supported by a senior advisory board, a faculty board, and many student volunteers who all play a vital role in our success. Founded in 2003, the Center was launched at Haas with the support and vision of a strong founding board.
Senior
Advisory Board
The Center's Senior
Advisory Board provides strategic guidance and oversight,
assists in securing operational funds, represents the Center
to their business networks for partnership and collaboration,
and provides the Center with a clear vision and mission.
Margo Alexander
Chair
Acumen Fund
Aron Cramer
President & CEO
Business for Social Responsibility
Carol Dudley
Senior Vice President, Basic Chemicals Division
The Dow Chemical Company
Gary Elliott
Vice President, Corporate and Brand Marketing
Hewlett-Packard
Manager of Global Issues and Policy
Matt Kistler
Senior Vice President, Sustainability
Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.
Art Peck
Executive Vice President, Strategy & Operations
Gap Inc.
Faculty
Board
The Center's Faculty
Advisory Board is comprised of multi-disciplinary Haas faculty
who are leaders within their own fields, and who have knowledge
and interest in the areas of corporate social responsibility.
Their roles include research, faculty recruiting, functional
expertise, and serving as internal champions within Haas to
help the Center create spheres of influence.
Severin Borenstein
Economics, Analysis & Policy
Earl Cheit
Emeritus, Business & Public Policy
Haas Business and Public Policy Group
Drew Isaacs
Management of Technology (MOT) Program
Benjamin Hermalin
Economics, Analysis & Policy (Co-Faculty Director, Board Chair)
Laura Kray
Organizational Behavior and Industrial Relations Group
David Levine
Economics, Analysis & Policy
John O'Brien
Master's in Financial Engineering (MFE) Program
Dara O'Rourke
Environmental & Labor Policy (UC Berkeley College of Natural Resources) (On Sabbatical)
Christine Rosen
Business & Public Policy
Philip Tetlock
Organizational Behavior & Industrial Relations
Founding
Board
The Center's Founding
Board provided intensive planning, programmatic, and start-up
guidance before and during the Center's launch in 2003. They include: Tom Campbell,
former Dean, Haas School of Business; Michael Dorsey, JP Morgan Chase; Rob Frederick, Browne-Forman formerly with the Ford Motor Company; Robert Haas, Levi Strauss & Co.; the late Mike Homer,
Haas Alum (BS 1981); Rob Jacoby,
Deloitte & Touche and
Haas Alum (MBA 2004); Dennis Muscato,
Hewlett-Packard Company; Kevin Sweeney,
CSR Consultant; Mal Warwick,
Mal Warwick & Associates; and Jeffrey Zalla,
Chiquita.
