Center Faculty

Faculty	Course

Tony Kingsbury	Metrics of Sustainability & Projects (MBA)
Lloyd Kurtz	Social Investing: Recent Findings in Management & Finance (MBA)
Kellie McElhaney	Strategic CSR & Projects (MBA) & Strategic Corporate Responsibility (CSR) (EW MBA)
Kevin Sweeney	Strategic CSR & Projects (Undergraduate)

Kellie McElhaney

Co-Faculty Director, Center for Responsible Business & Adjunct Assistant Professor
John C. Whitehead Distinguished Faculty Fellow in Corporate Responsibility

Courses: Strategic CSR & Projects (MBA) & Strategic Corporate Responsibility (CSR) (Evening Weekend MBA)

Kellie is the John C. Whitehead Faculty Fellow of Corporate Responsibility, founding Executive Director, and Co-Faculty Director at the Center for Responsible Business at UC Berkeley's 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 corporate responsibility in 2008 and 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, which is the focus of her new book, Just Good Business The Strategic Guide to Aligning Corporate Responsibility and Brand (November 2008).

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.

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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.

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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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Kevin Sweeney
Lecturer, Center for Responsible Business

Course: Strategic CSR & Projects (Undergraduate)

Kevin Sweeney is a management consultant with expertise in climate change issues, change processes, and corporate social responsibility. His clients have included Nike, Hewlett-Packard, Nokia, Chiquita, Ford Motor Company, Rhino Records, the University of California Office of the President, Rockefeller Family Fund, the David & Lucile Packard Foundation, and many others. As an executive at Patagonia, he directed the company’s environmental strategies and marketing efforts.

He served as chief of staff for the Alliance for Climate Protection, the group founded by Nobel Prize winner Al Gore. He directed the National Security and Climate Change Project, which released a report (with eleven retired admirals and generals) that assessed the security implications of climate change. He directed the Irish American Climate Project, which combined peer-reviewed science with observations from Irish poets, visual artists and others to explain climate issues in a cultural context.

As special assistant to the Secretary of the Interior, he played a leading role in protecting the Endangered Species Act and reintroducing wolves to Yellowstone. He has written speeches for the president, members of the cabinet, senators, members of congress and business leaders. He was press secretary to Sen. Gary Hart, in the Senate and on the presidential campaign trail.

His articles on business, political and social topics have appeared on Salon.com, and in the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Sustainable Industries Journal, and many other publications. His memoir, Father Figures, was first published in 2003. He was an on-air reporter and political analyst for CBS television’s Atlanta affiliate.

At the Center for Responsible Business, he has taught undergraduate and MBA courses on CSR and stakeholder engagement. A Cal political science graduate, he is thrilled to be back on campus. He is a dual citizen of the US and Ireland.

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