Redefining Good Business: Fall 2006




OTHER NOTABLE NEWS



Wall Street Journal Ranks Haas #2 in CSR, #5 Overall


The Berkeley MBA LogoThe Haas School of Business has been named the #2 business school in the discipline of corporate social responsibility by The Wall Street Journal's national ranking of full-time MBA programs. Haas was also named the #5 MBA program overall – the first time the school has made the top five of any of the major rankings. The school ranked #7 overall in 2005.

Based on the perception of more than 4,100 corporate recruiters who hire full-time MBA graduates, this is first time The Journal's annual survey highlighted the discipline of corporate social responsibility (CSR), signifying its rapidly growing visibility and importance in the business world. Nearly 17% of recruiters said a graduate's commitment to corporate social responsibility is an attribute that is "very important" to them in the recruiting process.

“Since 2003, we have worked extremely hard to build the Center for Responsible Business and the Haas School's CSR presence and we are very proud of our #2 placement in these rankings,” said Kellie McElhaney, executive director and professor at the Haas School's Center for Responsible Business.

The Wall Street Journal bases its ranking entirely on feedback from corporate recruiters, who applauded Haas graduates for their creativity, collegiality, and entrepreneurial streak.

Adds McElhaney, “We are encouraged that The Wall Street Journal now counts corporate social responsibility among its substantive fields of recognition within management education, along with accounting, finance, marketing, and operations.”

The Center for Responsible Business works closely with a host of companies - including Gap Inc., Hewlett-Packard, McDonald's, Intel, eBay, and Levi Strauss - on strategic consulting engagements, research projects, case competitions, and fellowship opportunities.

“I am proud of the Center's deep partnerships with companies, including the completion of more than 100 CSR consulting engagements,” said Mike Homer, chair of the Center's senior advisory board and Haas School alum. “I believe it is one of the lead Centers for CSR in the country, and would refer any company to the Center for cutting-edge, serious CSR strategy work.”

Recruiters also named Haas the third best school for hiring women, the fifth best school for minorities, and the fifth best for hiring graduates with strong ethical standards.

“We're happy The Wall Street Journal has ranked us in the top five of the best MBA programs in the country and top two in CSR,” said Haas School Dean, Tom Campbell. “I congratulate our Berkeley MBA students who have prepared diligently for their career development and done an excellent job in creating positive impressions with recruiters.”

The top five schools in The Journal's ranking include the University of Michigan (Ross), Dartmouth College (Tuck), Carnegie Mellon University (Tepper), Columbia University, and the University of California, Berkeley (Haas).

The Wall Street Journal Full Report available at Career Journal. (Requires subscription)

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Center Launches Multi-client "CSR in the Tech Sector" Study

In collaboration with the Haas School's Management of Technology (MOT) program, the Center for Responsible Business launched an innovative multi-client study in Fall 2006 exploring the critical corporate social responsibility (CSR) issues facing the technology industry - from computer manufacturers to software and internet companies.


CSR Tech Fellow: Jamie DeanThe technology sector is often viewed as the undiscovered frontier in terms of CSR. This study will research, benchmark, and develop strategic CSR recommendations for the tech sector and a rating system for companies via-á-vis their CSR performance. This will include a discussion of risks, missed opportunities, trends, leaders, and laggards.


CSR Tech Fellow: Mira RubinThe study is led by a team of CSR Tech Fellows - Jamie Dean, Mira Rubin, and Juliana Terheyden - who are all second-year Haas MBA students. The fellows will develop a written report and deliver results in a meeting with tech leaders. They will receive independent study credit for their work. The project is overseen by Haas School faculty, Kellie McElhaney, Center Executive Director, and Drew Isaacs, MOT Executive Director, and industry expert, Mike Homer, Chair of the Center's advisory board.


CSR Tech Fellow: Juliana TerheydenStudy sponsors are Bill Campbell of Intuit, e-Bay, Hewlett-Packard, Mike Homer of Open Media Networks, Palm, Inc., and Larry Sonsini of Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati.


For more information, visit the CSR in the Tech Sector Study website.


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Victoria Hale and Sally Osberg Visit Haas for Social Entrepreneurship Speaker Series



Victoria Hale and Sally Osberg with Student Leaders

On September 27, two inspiring women in the field of social entrepreneurship, Dr. Victoria Hale and Sally Osberg, the former an obsessed reformer and the latter  a visionary executive, joined an audience of more than 120 students and guests at the Haas School as part of the Center's Social Entrepreneurship Speaker Series course. Both Hale, co-founder and CEO of the Institute for OneWorld Health, and Osberg, President of the Skoll Foundation, were invited by MBA students responsible for organizing a seven-week speaker series.


In the days prior to her talk, Dr. Hale won the MacArthur Foundation’s prestigious “genius” award and the government of India announced approval of OneWorld Health’s first low-cost drug designed to cure visceral leishmaniasis (VL), a deadly disease that is transmitted through bites of infected sand flies and diagnosed in more than 500,000 people each year.


Ms. Osberg’s foundation, which was started by entrepreneur and eBay co-founder Jeffrey Skoll, is responsible for granting more than $15 million each year to social entrepreneurs who are dedicated to creating systemic social change through their work.


Students in the class described the speakers as “incredibly inspirational” and the class itself as “the best class [I am] taking this semester.”

This year, the speaker series has attracted many notable leading social entrepreneurs and social investors, including:


Jim Fruchterman, CEO of Benetech, who has also been honored with this year’s MacArthur Fellowship and is a Skoll Foundation awardee. Benetech incubates technological innovations with clear social benefits and market demand, but may not have an immediate profitable business model.

Paul Rice, Founder and CEO of Transfair USA. Transfair is the only certifier of fair trade goods in the United States. Paul received his MBA from Haas.

Mike McConnell, Founder of The Husbandry Institute and Former CEO of Niman Ranch

Kristin Richmond and Kirsten Tobey, Co-Founders of Revolution Foods, a social venture dedicated to providing healthy and tasty food service to school children. Kristin and Kirsten received their MBAs from Haas in May 2006.

Mal Warwick, Chairman of Social Venture Network, and recent co-author with Ben Cohen (Ben & Jerry’s) of Values-Driven Businesses.

Mark Finser, President of RSF Innovations in Social Finance and partner in New Resources Bank, a community investment financial institution.

Penelope Douglas, President & Co-Founder of Pacific Community Ventures, a nonprofit that provides resources and capital to businesses that have the
potential to bring significant economic gains to low and moderate income communities in California.

Jim Schorr, Executive Director of Juma Ventures. Juma provides job training, financial literacy, and college preparation services to low-income youth in the San Francisco Bay Area. Juma recently partnered with ballpark concessions vendor Aramark to replicate their model nationwide.


The series has historically been organized by students at Haas who are also leading the Global Social Venture Competition as a way to introduce MBAs to social entrepreneurship as a for-profit or nonprofit model for building a business around social or environmental benefit.


The speaker series complements another seven-week course on Social Venture Development, taught by lecturer and entrepreneur Will Rosenzweig, which follows the series beginning on mid-October.


Contributed by Ellen Martin, Student Leader for the Social Entrepreneurship Speaker Series course and Co-Chair of the Global Social Venture Competition (GSVC).


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Alumni Spotlight: Leading through Innovation at Revolution Foods


After months of planning, pitching, and prognosticating, two Haas MBA 2006 alums – Kristin Groos Richmond and Kirsten Tobey – officially launched their own social venture this summer, Revolution Foods, following their dream of bringing quality meals to kids.



Tobey and Richmond of Revolution Foods Richmond and Tobey developed the idea to target low-income communities while at the Haas School, where Richmond led the student-run Global Social Venture Competition (GSVC) and Tobey led Net Impact and was one of the Center’s McDonald’s CSR Fellows.

Their motto? Healthy foods equal healthy kids. With the belief that fatty, high-calorie school lunches are contributing to the nation's battle of the bulge particularly in low-income areas, Revolution Foods aspires to give all children access to nutritious, tasty food to support the development of healthy minds and bodies.

Last spring, during their final semester at Haas, Richmond and Tobey tested their idea with a successful pilot lunch program for 10 weeks at Lighthouse Community Charter School. Elementary school kids enjoyed healthy lunches every Tuesday during the pilot program.

Since then, JPMorgan Chase & Co.'s Bay Area Equity Fund, a $75 million fund which invests in technologies that benefit the region's low and moderate income neighborhoods, has invested in the Oakland-based start-up. Revolution Food forged a partnership with Whole Foods to gain access to the health food supermarket giant's network of organic farms and dairies.

As of August, Revolution Foods began delivering meals to four Oakland schools – Lighthouse Community Charter School, East Bay Conservation Corps Charter School, North Oakland Community Charter School, and Aspire's Monarch Academy – providing meals daily to nearly 1000 students.

"People keep telling us kids won't eat healthy food, but we're finding that they do," Tobey said. "Younger kids are trying everything. They are trying broccoli, cauliflower, and even brown rice."


The meals, usually more than 60% organic, couple seasonal fresh produce with homemade chicken quesadillas, soft tacos, sandwiches, and pasta dishes, and each features a carton of high quality hormone-free milk from Clover Stornetta Dairy. The meals at the charter schools are free for children from low-income families.

In addition to offering healthy school meals, Revolution Foods also has a nutrition education offering to complement its food offerings – a series of educational postcards addressing balanced eating and healthy choices, food groups, nutrition, and fitness. Revolution also plans to expand its nutrition education offering to include a Parents' Corner in school newsletters, a video curriculum, and an online resource center.


Say Richmond and Tobey, "We talk every day about how well Haas prepared us to launch a social venture - between the classes, the support from faculty, and the network of professionals in the Bay Area who are interested in socially-conscious business, we owe a huge amount of our success to Haas. Not the mention, the two of us connected as business partners ar Haas!"


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Haas McDonald's Fellows Featured in 'Open Doors' Podcast


Berkeley MBA Students Help Make 50 Million Daily Meals More Sustainable


Following field trips to feedlots and slaughter houses, six Berkeley MBA students shared their insights on the beef supply chain with senior executives of McDonald's, making recommendations that could result in cleaner streams, safer cattle feed, and improved working conditions for laborers.

Full-time MBA students Renu Bhatt, Jennifer Feldman, Eric Potts, and Kirsten Tobey, all MBA 06, Francois Perrot, MBA fall 05, and David Kwok, MBA 06, from the Evening & Weekend program, advised the company as part of the McDonald's Research Fellows Program in Corporate Social Responsibility, a partnership between the Haas School's Center for Responsible Business and McDonald's Corporation. Their efforts culminated with a report and presentation to McDonald's senior management in April 2006.

McDonald's featured the students' recommendations as a special "Fork to Farm" report in the company's newly issued 2006 Worldwide Corporate Responsibility Report. The report also featured a response from Catherine E. Adams, McDonald's corporate vice president of worldwide quality, food safety and nutrition, who noted, "We take the recommendations in the CSR Fellows' report seriously and pledge to look into each one."


In conjunction with the report, McDonald's produced a video podcast, "Open Doors: The McDonald's You Don't Know", documenting the McDonald's Fellows experiences. (Requires Windows Media Player)


The students spent three months interviewing stakeholder groups, such as suppliers, non-governmental organizations, and trade organizations, and making on-site visits. The resulting recommendations include implementing preferred purchasing partnerships with suppliers that prevent runoff pollution and meeting certain standards for the care and feeding of cattle. These would build upon on existing McDonald's efforts such as its supplier code of conduct for labor and its animal welfare audits.

"It was extraordinary to work closely with such a highly visible multinational corporation to help it tackle a key business challenge," says Berkeley MBA graduate Potts. "This was the pinnacle of the experiential learning that Haas encourages and that CRB offers."

The Center's Executive Director, Kellie McElhaney, also played a key role with McDonald's this past year, facilitating a roundtable discussion among the company's top executives on corporate responsibility. The Haas School's partnership with McDonald's will be underway again next year, as McElhaney continues to work in an advisory capacity and four full-time MBA students will be selected as fellows for the Fall 2007 semester. The Haas School is the only business school to offer the McDonald's Research Fellows Program.


"There may well be no better place for MBA students to learn firsthand the power and challenges of a large multinational corporation and its ability to have profound positive social impact while managing financial profit," says McElhaney.


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Patagonia’s Rick Ridgeway Tells All


Rick RidgewayOn September 21, the Berkeley Net Impact and the Haas Marketing Clubs co-hosted Rick Ridgeway, Executive Vice-president of Marketing and Environ- mental Programs at Patagonia, Inc. As a world renowned mountaineer and award-winning writer, photographer, and filmmaker, Ridgeway embodies the authentic commitment to the outdoors and the environment that has differentiated the Patagonia brand.


The session paired Ridgeway with Kevin Sweeney, one time leader of Patagonia’s brand strategy group and now an independent consultant and visiting faculty member at Haas’s Center for Responsible Business.

Ridgeway and Sweeney traded anecdotes topics ranging from climbing K2 to the challenges Patagonia faced when they were the first to launch a fleece material manufactured from recycled plastic bottles.


When prompted by Sweeney to define what made the Patagonia brand successful, Ridgeway’s answer was clear. Patagonia’s environmental mission represented more than just their corporate identity - it represented the company’s core values, instilled in the company by legendary founder, Yvon Chouinard. The strength of their environmental mission drove business choices such as switching completely to organic cotton, donating a percentage of sales to non-profits around the world, and developing a line of fully recyclable clothing.

In talking about Patagonia’s marketing strategy, Ridgeway described how “Green marketing,” as it has come to be known, simply became Patagonia. According to Ridgeway, “…if you live the mission, it’s no longer marketing.” Patagonia simply began projecting exactly who they were.


In a particularly telling story, Sweeney and Ridgeway recalled how certain religious groups threatened to protest outside Patagonia’s stores because of Patagonia’s financial support for Planned Parenthood. Rather than back down from their values, Patagonia decided that for every protester found at a store, they would donate $1000 to Planned Parenthood. The protesting groups backed down.

For all of Patagonia’s brand success, Ridgeway highlighted a number of challenges the brand faces in the future. Ridgeway stressed Patagonia’s need to constantly innovate in the space of environmentally responsible business practice. He described how competitors were seizing upon the success of the Patagonia brand and catching up with their own “green marketing” strategies. Ridgeway also highlighted on the question of maintaining the values of environmentalism and social responsibility as the leadership of the company changes and the company grows.


In 1999, Yvon Chouinard stepped down as CEO of Patagonia and was replaced by a veteran of the outdoor industry, Michael Crooke. To this point, Chouinard’s vision of a company that could “inspire and implement solutions to the environmental crisis” continues as Patagonia leads the way in environmental responsibility.


Contributed by Jit Bhattacharya, Berkeley Net Impact Member.


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New Additions to CSR Working Paper Series


Check out two new additions to the Center's CSR Working Paper Series:


Laura Guiliano, David I. Levine, and Jonathan Leonard, "Manager Race and the Race of New Hires" (October 16, 2006). Center for Responsible Business. Working Paper Series. Paper 35.


Abstract: Using personnel data from a large U.S. retail firm, we examine whether the race of the hiring manager affects the racial composition of new hires. We exploit manager changes at hundreds of stores to estimate models with store fixed effects. We find significant effects of manager race and ethnicity. First, all non-black managers, i.e., whites, Hispanics, and Asians, hire more whites and fewer blacks than do black managers. The differences between non-black and black managers are especially large in the South. Second, in locations with large Hispanic populations, Hispanic managers hire more Hispanics and fewer whites than white managers.

David Vogel, "The Private Regulation of Global Corporate Conduct" (September 11, 2006). Center for Responsible Business. Working Paper Series. Paper 34.


Abstract: This paper explores the dimension of transnational governance associated with civil business regulation. Civil regulations employ private, non-state, or market-based regulatory frameworks to govern multinational firms and global supply networks. While the notion that companies have a responsibility to ‘society’ is more than a century old, historically corporate social responsibility (CSR) was associated with initiatives by firms to address social problems at the community level, often through corporate philanthropy. More recently, CSR has become more international in scope; it now increasingly focuses on the impact of global firms and markets on working conditions, environmental quality, community development, and human rights, especially in developing countries. Civil regulations seek to imbed international markets and firms in a framework of global rules and norms by establishing standards for responsible business conduct as well as mechanisms for promoting compliance with them.


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Berkeley Net Impact's "Days on the Job" - November 3


Berkeley Net Impact students are currently planning the second annual "Days on the Job" (DoJ) event where approximately 75 students will choose to spend a half-day at eight to ten Bay Area organizations on November 3rd. DoJ is an opportunity for Net Impact members to visit local companies and nonprofits to learn what day-to-day life is like at a nonprofit, social enterprise, corporate social responsibility department, or other NI-related career function.


If you are interested in hosting a group of 10-15 Net Impact students to educate them about your typical day on the job, please contact Wes Selke at selke@haas.berkeley.edu.



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New Sustainable Finance Seminar - Spring 2007


Next Spring, the Center will add a new “Sustainable Finance Seminar” to its MBA course offerings. The course will deal with unique financial valuation and management issues faced by a sustainable business – defined as a business that achieves an optimal balance between profit and shareholder value, on the one hand, and broader economic, social, and environmental values, on the other. Students will study the efficacy of traditional and modern financial methods in enabling corporations to develop and implement sustainable strategies.


Taught by a renowned, visiting finance professor, the course will be offered over three weekend sessions during the semester. We’ll post more details on the Center’s website as they become available.


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Open to the Haas Community: Levi Strauss Small Grants Program


Striving to expose all Haas stakeholders to the CSR field, the Levi Strauss Small Grants Program aims is to empower the Haas community to define, investigate, and execute sustainable concepts of CSR and advance the CSR agenda at the Haas School. Open to all members of the Haas community – students, faculty, and staff, the program awards small grants to support research, teaching, experiential learning, and outreach activities. Individuals may apply for small grants to fund a variety of opportunities, including support of:


• Faculty research in the area of CSR;
• Purchase or development of CSR cases for course teachings;
• CSR specific class speakers and teachers;
• Haas student team participation in national CSR case competitions;
• Student teams working with social enterprise start-ups; and
• Other innovative CSR activities within the Haas student, staff, faculty, and alumni communities (e.g. producing a CSR report).

For more information and to apply for a grant, please check out the Levi Strauss Small Grant Program website.


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New CSR Job Posting Process


In an effort to coordinate CSR job postings with the Haas School’s Career Services Office (CSO) and to better serve the needs of our current students and alumni, the Center will no longer be posting job opportunities on its website or distributing them to our alumni group.


We will now direct all job opportunities to the CSO for posting on its jobs database, and will disconnect use of our MBA and Undergraduate alumni email lists. If you have a job opportunity to share with Haas Alumni or are looking for a new job opportunity, here is the new process:

Posting Job Opportunities

Targeting current MBA candidates - Send your job posting directly to Rich Wong in the Haas Career Services Office at rwong@haas.berkeley.edu or 510.643.4211. He will share your job posting with the right target groups and post it to the Haas School’s password-protected database.

Targeting Haas MBA alumni - Please post your job directly to our alumni jobs database (password-protected). Positions should be targeted to mid- to senior-level business professionals. Once you have registered, you may post, view, modify and deactivate your positions as the need arises.



Searching for Job Opportunities


Haas Alumni Jobs Database - Haas alumni can search for job opportunities through their Haas@Cal account.

Additional CSR Career Resources - The Center has posted several CSR Career Resources on our website and we encourage you to utilize them in your job search.


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Coming Soon: RFP for MBA Strategic CSR & Projects Course

Request for Projects (RFP) for our highly popular capstone Spring 2007 MBA “Strategic CSR & Projects” course, taught by Professor Kellie McElhaney, will be heading your way at the end of November. With more than 85 successful projects “under our belts”, we are pleased to offer companies the opportunity to work with Haas MBA students between January and May 2007 on a strategic corporate social responsibility project of your choice. This project will be embedded in a three-unit, full-semester theory- and case-based course in corporate strategy and corporate responsibility. This is a great opportunity to benefit from our CSR strength, and our students’ energy, talent, and commitment to CSR.

Having been oversubscribed for three years running, we will give preference and priority to our Center Corporate Partners for 2007. We will move to fee-for-service for our non-corporate partners ($5,000 per project). We hope you will take the time to develop a strategic, challenging, high impact project for our talented MBA students and support the Center’s work.

If you are interested in becoming a Corporate Partner, please contact the Center’s Associate Director, Katharine Brewer, at kbrewer@haas.berkeley.edu or 510-642-5581.


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UPCOMING EVENTS OF INTEREST (OTHER ORGANIZATIONS)


October 23-November 3 - E-Conference on “ICT for Economic Development”
The World Bank Institute’s Business, Competitiveness and Development (BCD) Team and the RiOS Institute would like to invite you to a global e-conference on “ICT for Economic Development: Exploring Possibilities for Multisector Technology Collaborations,” which will take place October 23 to November 3, 2006. For more information, visit http://www.developmentandbusiness.org/ICT.


October 27-26 - 14th Annual Net Impact Conference: Navigating Global Change (Chicago, IL)


The 2006 Net Impact Conference is designed to help you expand your vision of the possible as you set your course through the world of business. It mobilizes students and professionals through an exciting array of keynotes, panels, case studies, simulations, and special events. You will leave with a fresh perspective on the role of business in society, a new appreciation for your individual role as an emerging business leader, and a strong connection with a network of like-minded colleagues. The 2006 conference includes specialized student sessions and a Professional Summit, with both groups coming together for various networking events. We invite you to explore our website to learn more about the conference and the opportunities it presents to help us all navigate global change. For more information, visit: www.netimpact.org.


November 2 - Clean Technology: A Case Study in Innovation and Disruptive Technology (San Francisco, CA)
The San Francisco Chapter of the Haas Alumni Network invites you to an engaging discussion on the role innovation plays in disruptive technologies and economic growth. With clean technology as the backdrop, we will discuss how innovation has propelled the greening of technology and how organizations will rely on innovation to facilitate the continued growth of this nascent industry to become a key driver of economic activity.


Date: Thursday, November 2, 2006
Time: 6:30-8:30 PM
Location: PG&E, 245 Market St, San Francisco, CA


Contact: Scott Lipera at scott@lipera.net.


November 7 - Corporate Social Responsibility and
Employee Volunteering, a Powerful Connection (New York City)
Join VolunteerMatch and Deloitte for an inside look into Corporate Social Responsibility and Employee Volunteering, a Powerful Connection presented by Professor Kellie McElhaney, Executive Director of the Center for Responsible Business at UC Berkeley's Haas School of Business

Date: Tuesday, November 7, 2006
Time: 8:30-11:30 AM
Location: 1633 Broadway, 36th Floor, New York, NY (Deloitte offices)



RSVP: Lara Rafton at lrafton@volunteermatch.org or 415-241-6883 by Friday, October 27, 2006. Limited space available, by invitation only.

Learn the latest CSR research, how volunteering and philanthropy can play an active role in corporate reputation and brand, and the importance of aligning your core business with your CSR strategy. Hear from your colleagues on their strategies for enhancing corporate image through philanthropic programs.


If you are attending the Business for Social Responsibility (BSR) 2006 conference in New York that week, this is a great networking opportunity prior to the conference.


November 7-10 - 2006 BSR Conference: Innovative Strategies — Measurable Impacts (New York, NY)
Business for Social Responsibility (BSR) responds to the challenge of measuring CSR results with a Conference agenda and speakers that address both the internal and external work behind sustainable business practices. Keynote speakers this year include the CEOs of Coca-Cola, Institute for OneWorld Health, Novartis AG, Rocky Mountain Institute, and Time Warner, plus the executive director of Sustainable South Bronx. The Center for Responsible Business’ executive director Kellie McElhaney will moderate the session New Skills for New Challenges: Infusing Environmental, Social & Governance Skills in the MBA Core Curriculum on Nov. 10. For details and registration go to: www.bsr.org/conference.


November 14 - Procurement Guidelines Coalition: Working Together to Purchase Energy Technologies and Services (San Francisco, CA)


Pacific Gas and Electric Company invites you to participate in a meeting of
the Procurement Guidelines Coalition: Working Together to Purchase Energy Technologies and Services


Date: Tuesday, November 14, 2006


Time: 8:30 AM - 12:00 PM
Location: Pacific Energy Center (HVAC Room), 851 Howard St, San Francisco


Contact: Carmen Baskette, Ecos Consulting, at cbaskette@ecosconsulting.com or 415-399-9399 x202


Mr. Nils Borg, Borg & Co., Stockholm, Sweden joins us to share his two decades of experience in developing guidelines and programs for energy efficiency procurement. As the Secretariat for the European Council for an Energy Efficient Economy, and consultant to consortia of businesses and governments, Mr. Borg brings a unique perspective and wealth of information.


For more information, visit www.procurementcoalition.net.


November 16 - Silicon Valley Challenge Summit (Santa Clara, CA)
The Center for Science, Technology, and Society at Santa Clara University and the RiOS Institute invite you to the Silicon Valley Challenge Summit, which will take place on November 16, 2006 at Santa Clara University in the heart of Silicon Valley. The Summit is a call to action for Silicon Valley to take up the challenge posted by U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan to harness ICT (Information and Communication Technology) for global development. It will feature thought-provoking panel discussions and interactive workshops by experts on both existing and emerging ICTs who challenge conventional wisdom by identifying how Silicon Valley institutions can create relevant, sustainable development initiatives to address social and economic inequalities worldwide.

For more information about the Summit, including the agenda, please visit http://www.riosinstitute.org/public-events.html.


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Support the Center's Mission: Become a Corporate Partner


Corporate Partners - A select group of companies who provide financial support to the Center, helping to further our mission by creating opportunities for education and innovative scholarship at the Haas School. With their support, the Center's Corporate Partners receive a series of benefits, including various , unique partnership-building opportunities. If you are interested in becoming a Corporate Partner, please contact the Center's Associate Director, Katharine Brewer, at kbrewer@haas.berkeley.edu or 510-642-5581.


Individual Partners - You may also make an individual gift to support the Center's mission to educate all of our stakeholders on the roles and responsibilities of business in society. Visit our Give to Cal website now to lend your support!


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