Center Faculty
Kellie McElhaney
Executive
Director, Center for Responsible Business
Adjunct Assistant Professor & John C. Whitehead Distinguished Faculty Fellow in Corporate Responsibility
Courses: Strategic CSR & Projects (MBA) & Strategic Corporate Social Responsibility
(Evening Weekend MBA)
Kellie is the John C. Whitehead Faculty Fellow of Corporate Responsibility and the Executive Director of the Center for Responsible Business at the Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley. She developed and launched this new center in January 2003, which has helped place corporate responsibility squarely as one of the core competencies and competitive advantages of the Haas School. In her five years at Haas, the Center has received global critical acclaim. The Financial Times rated Haas number one in the world in January 2008. The Wall Street Journal ranked Haas as the number two business school in the country for CSR in 2006 and 2007.
Professor McElhaney teaches courses on Strategic Corporate Social Responsibility, which include in-depth, experiential consulting engagements with companies on real-world, high-visibility strategic CSR challenges, in all of the MBA degree programs at Haas. She also teaches extensive Executive Education in this area. She is also a Visiting Professor at the Kenan-Flagler School of Business at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill and at the Institut d'Administration des Enterprises at the University of Poitiers in France.
Kellie was named a Faculty Pioneer by the Aspen Institute in 2005. Her research focus is in three areas: (1) Analyzing and developing companies’ CSR strategy and its alignment with corporate strategy, business objectives, core competencies, and business value; (2) Exploring the linkage between diversity and CSR and using CSR as a hook to re-engage women with business as employees, consumers, and investors; (3) The business value and opportunities in branding, communication and CSR, on which has written a book due out in Fall 2008 entitled, Just Good Business The Strategic Guide to Aligning Corporate Responsibility and Brand (pre-order available now on Amazon.com).
Kellie consults to several Global 1000 companies in developing integrated CSR strategy, bridging her academic focus with the practitioner world. Her client list includes HP, Gap, eBay, McDonalds, Ernst & Young, NVIDIA, Blue Cross Blue Shield, Nokia (Finland), Navigant, Volunteer Match, Ford Motor Company, Bernard Hodes Group (Great Britain), PG&E, Driscolls Berries, Triage Consulting Group, Ulster Bank (Ireland), StatoilHydro (Norway) and PG&E. She holds a Ph.D. from the University of Michigan, a M.A. from Ohio University, and a B.A. from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
Tony Kingsbury
Executive-In-Residence, Center for Responsible Business
Course: Metrics of Sustainability & Projects (MBA)
Tony joined the Center in September 2007 on secondment from The Dow Chemical Company to launch a new interdisciplinary program at UC Berkeley on sustainable products and innovations.
Prior to joining Haas, Tony worked out of Dow’s headquarters in Midland, Michigan where he lead a group responsible for plastics sustainability activities and industry affairs globally. He served as the key link between the $20+ billion plastics half of Dow and the corporate reputation and sustainability efforts. He has worked with value chains in markets ranging from packaging to toys, building products to footwear and consumer electronics to medical devices.
Tony is a recognized expert in global sustainability, environmentally preferred purchasing, plastics and chemical environmental issues and public policy. He is known for using his wide ranging knowledge of the whole supply chain from raw material extraction, to manufacturing, to final use and disposal, to distill complex messages into understandable language.
During his twenty-four year career with Dow, Tony has worked in a variety of roles, including plastics production engineer in Southern California, technical service & product development engineer covering packaging, electronics, medical, toys and consumer goods markets, product marketing manager for consumer electronics, and plastics sustainability, issues & industry affairs manager covering the world.
He represented Dow and held leadership positions on numerous organizations such as: American Chemistry Council’s Plastics Division, Environment & Plastics Industry Council of Canada, Ocean Futures Society & The Ocean Conservancy, Wal-Mart’s Packaging Sustainable Value Network, and the Sustainable Packaging Council.
Tony received his bachelor degree in Chemical Engineering from Oregon State University.
Lloyd Kurtz, CFA
Lecturer, Center for Responsible Business
Senior Portfolio Manager, Nelson Capital Management
Course: Social Investing: Recent Findings in Management & Finance (MBA)
Lloyd manages portfolios for institutional and high net worth clients at Nelson Capital, a Palo Alto money management firm affiliated with Wells Fargo. Prior to joining Nelson, Lloyd spent nine years as a research analyst and Director of Quantitative Research at Harris Bretall Sullivan & Smith, a San Francisco-based money management firm; and before that was Senior Research Analyst at KLD Research & Analytics in Boston.
During his tenure at KLD, Lloyd did much of the initial quantitative work on the development of the Domini Social Index, the first broad-based social investment benchmark, and co-authored two chapters of the book The Social Investment Almanac. His quantitative analysis of Domini Social Index performance, co-authored with Dan DiBartolomeo, was later published in The Journal of Investing. He also authored the chapter on social investment in the 2008 Oxford Handbook of Corporate Social Responsibility.
Lloyd maintains an online annotated bibliography of studies of socially responsible investing at www.sristudies.org. In 1997 and 2005, he published reviews of this literature in The Journal of Investing. Lloyd is the program administrator for the Moskowitz Prize. He holds an MBA from Babson College and a B.A. from Vassar College. In 1999 he received the SRI Service Award for his contributions to social investing.
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Jo Mackness
Lecturer, Center for Responsible Business
CSR Integration Leader, Ernst & Young
Course: Strategic CSR & Projects: 2 units (MBA) & Strategic CSR & Projects (Undergraduate)
Jo Mackness works to embed corporate social responsibility into core business processes and activities. As Ernst & Young’s CSR Integration Leader, Jo’s incorporates a CSR perspective into internal and external communications, people processes, key stakeholder engagement, supply chain, and emerging issue risks and opportunities. During her time at EY, Jo has also been a strong supporter of environmental responsibility and has been integral to the creation of a new position focused on minimizing EY’s environmental footprint.
Prior to EY, Jo was a human capital consultant working in the US and the UK, primarily serving professional services and financial services firms on transactions, corporate governance and executive compensation issues. Clients Jo has served include Fuji Bank, MetLife Capital, New Balance, PricewaterhouseCoopers, PepsiCo, Starbucks and St. Supery Winery.
Jo holds an MBA from the University of California at Berkeley Haas School of Business. She continues to work closely with the Center for Responsible Business at Berkeley where she was a teaching assistant for both undergraduate and graduate classes in the area of corporate social responsibility. Jo is also a national board member of Net Impact, a network of new leaders who are using the power of business to make a positive net social, environmental, and economic impact.
A dual citizen of the UK and US, Jo lives in San Francisco with her Danish husband and toddler son.
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Dara O'Rourke
Assistant
Professor, Department of Environmental Science, Policy,
and Management, University of California, Berkeley
Course: Governance
of Global Production (MBA)
Dara is an assistant professor in the Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management and an affiliate of the Center for Labor Research and Education at the University of California, Berkeley. Prior to returning to Berkeley, Dara was an assistant professor in the Department of Urban Studies and Planning at MIT. He completed his Ph.D. at the University of California at Berkeley in 1999, and completed his undergraduate studies in Mechanical Engineering and Political Science at MIT in 1989.
While conducting his Ph.D. research, Dara lived in Vietnam, and still regularly conducts research there. Prior to his Ph.D., Dara lived in Thailand and worked for the United Nations Environment Programme. Before that, he lived in Seattle and worked for a small non-profit called the Pollution Prevention Research Center.
Dara has worked recently as a consultant to the United Nations Industrial Development Organization, the United Nations Development Programme, the World Bank, and the US Environmental Protection Agency on pollution prevention, cleaner production, industrial ecology, sustainable development, and corporate social responsibility issues. His current research focuses on the environmental and social impacts of a number of global supply chains - including garments, shoes, paper, coffee, electronics, and petrochemicals - from resource extraction, to manufacturing, to use and disposal. He is interested in governmental and non-governmental strategies for monitoring and accountability over these production systems, and new models of public participation in environmental and labor policy regulation.
Jim Schorr
Lecturer, Center for Responsible Business
Former Executive Director, Juma Ventures
Course: Social Enterprise: Business as a Vehicle for Social Impact (MBA)
Jim Schorr’s experience at the intersection of business and the social sector spans a variety of activity over the past 15 years. Since 2000, Schorr has led Juma Ventures, one of the world’s leading social enterprises. Juma develops business enterprises to create employment opportunities for at-risk youth and was the 1st nonprofit organization in the US to operate a corporate business franchise (Ben & Jerry’s shops in San Francisco). As an MBA student at Kellogg in 1993, Jim was a co-founder of Net Impact. In recent years, Jim has been published in the Stanford Social Innovation Review, has guest lectured at Haas and several other MBA programs, and has served as a judge for the Global Social Venture Competition since 2001. Currently, Jim serves on the Board of Directors of Net Impact, Social Enterprise Alliance, and Evergreen Lodge, an innovative for-profit social venture he helped launch in 2001.
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