Center Staff
Jo Mackness
Executive Director, Center for Responsible Business
Director, Center for Responsible Business
Co-Faculty Director &
Adjunct Assistant Professor
John C. Whitehead Faculty Fellow in Corporate Responsibility
Benjamin Hermalin
Co-Faculty Director & Professor, Haas Economic Analysis & Policy Group
Tony Kingsbury
Executive-in-Residence,
Sustainable Products & Solutions Program
Cecilia Pracher
Program Coordinator, Center for Responsible Business
Sherry Chao
Work Study Student, Center for Responsible Business
Center Faculty
Practitioners in the field of corporate social responsibility, social enterprise, and social responsible investing.
Prospective Student Advising Team
Current Haas MBA students engaged with the Center for Responsible Business.
Jo Mackness
Executive Director, Center for Responsible Business
email: mackness@haas.berkeley.edu
phone: 510.642.6099
Jo Mackness joined the Center for Responsible Business as the new Executive Director in September 2008. Jo was most recently the Corporate Responsibility Integration Leader at Ernst & Young, and she brings a breadth of corporate and consulting experience to this role. Jo is well positioned to build on the Center's success to-date and lead it to new heights, particularly in the areas of corporate engagement, program development, and academic integration. At E&Y, Jo worked to embed socially responsible thinking and action into core firm activities and to identify and execute on new opportunities that a responsible perspective brings. She is a strong supporter of environmental sustainability and was integral to the creation of a new function 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.
Jo is a Haas alumna and has worked closely with the Center for Responsible Business since its inception in 2003 - both as a corporate sponsor, and most recently as the instructor for the Strategic CSR & Consulting Projects course. Jo is also a national board member of Net Impact - an international organization whose mission is to make a positive impact on society by growing and strengthening a community of new leaders who use business to improve the world.
Kellie
A. McElhaney
Co-Faculty Director, Center for Responsible Business
Adjunct Assistant Professor & John C. Whitehead Distinguished Faculty Fellow in Corporate Responsibility
email: kmack@haas.berkeley.edu
phone: 510.643.5642
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 November 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.
Director, Center for Responsible Business
email: kbrewer@haas.berkeley.edu
phone: 510.642.5581
Katharine is managing director for the Center for Responsible Business responsible for developing and managing the Center's programs, leading the Center's marketing and communications functions, and overseeing operations. She originally joined the Center as Associate Director in January 2005. Prior to joining the Center, Katharine was a program officer with the Global Philanthropy Forum (GPF), a non-profit donor education network based in San Francisco. She has held positions at The World Bank, Arco Alaska, and Net Impact.
Katharine holds a B.A. from Syracuse University, a Master of Philosophy (MPhil) from the University of Cambridge in the UK, and an MBA from the University of Michigan Business School.
Tony Kingsbury
Executive-In-Residence,
Sustainable Products & Solutions Program
email: tkingsbury@haas.berkeley.edu
phone: 510.643.6013
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.
Program Coordinator, Center for Responsible Businessemail: cpracher@haas.berkeley.edu
phone: 510.643.7668
Cecilia joined the Center for Responsible Business in December 2007 and is responsible for all office coordination and programmatic support activities. Prior to joining the Center, she worked for two years in UC Berkeley's Engineering Research Support Organization (EROS). Cecilia earned her BS in Business Administration in December 2007 from Colorado Technical Online University and plans to pursue her master's degree in the near future.
Benjamin Hermalin
Co-Faculty Director, Center for Responsible Business
Professor, Haas Economic Analysis and Policy Group
email: hermalin@haas.berkeley.edu
Benjamin E. Hermalin has served as the Economics Department Chair since 2005. He holds professorships in both the Economics Department and in Berkeley's Haas School of Business, where he is the Thomas & Alison Schneider Distinguished Professor of Finance. He also serves on the editorial board of the Journal of Economic Literature. He recently completed a two-term appointment on the editorial board of the American Economic Review.
Professor Hermalin received his PhD from MIT in 1988, the same year he joined UC Berkeley as an assistant professor in the Department of Economics and the School of Business. He became a full professor in 1998. From 1999-2006 he was the Willis H. Booth Chair in Banking & Finance. He received the Schwabacher Award for outstanding teaching and research in 1993, and the Earl F. Cheit Outstanding Teaching Award in 1991. From 1999 to 2002, he served as the Haas School's Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Chair of the Faculty. He was the Interim Dean of the Haas School for most of 2002. His areas of research include corporate governance, the study of organizations, and law & economics.
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