Outreach
Center Outreach Activities
The Center believes
that a critical factor in our success is carrying the CSR
message out into the larger world, and bringing in leaders
in CSR to teach us from their experience. The Center accomplishes
this in a variety of innovative ways:
Peterson Lecture
Series in Corporate Responsibility
Levi Strauss Small Grants
Program
Moskowitz Research
Program
Corporate Responsibility
(CSR) Working Paper Series
Other Outreach Activities
Berkeley
Net Impact Club
Net
Impact is an international organization of MBAs driven
to make a positive social or environmental impact through
business careers. With more than 100 chapters internationally,
Net Impact is the most progressive and influential network
of MBAs today and the Berkeley chapter is one the largest
and most active clubs at the Haas School of Business. The mission of the Berkeley Net Impact Club is to develop
and inspire a network of leaders who promote innovative and
socially responsible practices that succeed in the global
marketplace. The club accomplishes this by providing Berkeley
graduate students with the knowledge, support, and career
network that will help them pursue careers in socially responsible
businesses, nonprofit organizations, and public management.
Activities include: Annual Firm Night, Speaker Series, Board
Fellows Program, and the annual Net Impact Conference.
Students for Responsible Business Club
Students for Responsible
Business (SRB) is an undergraduate student group that works
to coalesce business and non-business students interested
in tackling the ethical, social, and environmental consequences
of business actions and/or in using business as a tool for
social change. SRB's main goals are to broaden the undergraduate
business education, to catalyze the development of business
leaders with financial, social, and environmental management
skills, and increase campus awareness regarding the responsibility
of business.
Global Social Venture Competition
The Global Social Venture Competition (GSVC) is an annual business plan competition for social ventures that began in 1999 as a student-led initiative at the Haas School of Business. Sponsored by the Lester Center for Entrepreneurship & Innovation at the Haas School, the GSVC partners with Columbia Business School, London Business School, Yale School of Management, the Indian School of Business, and IMBA at Thammasat University on the competition. This unprecedented partnership - the largest social venture competition in the world - brings together the academic and financial worlds to support the creation of social ventures - enterprises that successfully combine a profitable bottom line or self-sufficiency with a social or environmental mission. Teams that include business students from around the world compete each year for prizes and the chance to pitch to a judging panel of venture capitalists, socially responsible investors, social venture funds, and progressive philanthropists.
