Redefining Good Business: Spring 2007




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Revolution Foods Wins 2007 Global Social Venture Competition

Winning Revolution Foods Team Serving healthy home-style school lunches in the San Francisco Bay Area earned the Berkeley MBA team Revolution Foods the $25,000 grand prize at the eighth annual Global Social Venture Competition on Friday, April 13.

Revolution Foods, based in Emeryville and founded by Kristin Richmond-Groos and Kirsten Tobey, both Haas 2006 MBAs, has successfully replaced tater tots and mystery meats with meals such as spaghetti marinara, couscous, brown rice, and fresh fruit at nine charter schools since its founding in August 2006. The venture's deliveries have doubled to 1,500 meals per day since August and are expected to double again before the year's end. Revolution Foods also provides nutrition education and technical support to the schools they serve.


Despite using mostly organic foods, Revolution Foods is able to provide its service at prices comparable to larger competitors. Creating a scalable and profitable business that also returns a positive social impact — healthier foods, higher awareness of the foods children eat and, in the long run, less obesity — is the very definition of a social venture. Revolution Foods also engages in environmentally responsible practices such as composting, provides benefits to employees, and pays above-living wage compensation.


Three teams tied for second place, each winning $5,000:



Stanford's d.light also won the $5,000 prize for providing the best Sustainable Impact Assessment analysis for their venture. In addition to a business plan, all competing teams had to submit a Social Impact Assessment that was judged by the five partner schools.


The Global Social Venture Competition, started by Berkeley MBA students in 1999, is a partnership between the Haas School, Columbia Business School, London Business School, Yale School of Management and Indian School of Business. At the Haas School, the GSVC is co-sponsored by the Center for Responsible Business and the Lester Center for Entrepreneurship & Innovation. The University of Geneva and a consortium of business schools in Korea called Social Venture Competition Korea joined as affiliates.


A record 160 teams from 81 universities in 20 countries had entered this year's competition.


Omidyar Network gave a $300,000 gift to support the competition over the next three years. Other sponsors include Hewlett-Packard Company, Morrison & Foerster LLP, Opus Prize Foundation, Gray Matters Capital, and New Resource Bank.

More details about the competition are online at http://www.socialvc.net.

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Center Logs Record Breaking Year of CSR Experiential Consulting Projects

This spring, nearly 40 full-time MBA students in Kellie McElhaney’s Strategic CSR & Projects course were engaged in eighteen hands-on projects with companies ranging from Brown-Forman, The Dow Chemical Company, eBay, Hewlett-Packard, Intel, Levi Strauss & Co., Wells Fargo, and Williams-Sonoma. These eighteen projects - the largest number staffed in the five years of the course - were selected from a total of 45 project submissions, up from 28 proposals the previous year and the most ever received.

Team GrupoNueva Masisa during a site visit in ChileTeams created enviromental management systems, designed a viral marketing campaign for socially conscious shoppers, and re-examined the Bottom of the Pyramid (BOP) strategies. The projects generated specific actions plans and timelines for the clients to implement their recommendations, and the students look forward to seeing their ideas put to work in the coming months.

The 2007 course was highlighted with a number of firsts - as nearly 70% of the projects were with first-time companies. It was also the first time students worked and traveled on an international project, which was submitted by the Chilean multi-national GrupoNueva Masisa.


Also unique this year was a project sponsored by Staley Cates, owner of the NBA's Memphis Grizzlies professional basketball team, to support the Grizzlies Academy - a school in Memphis for students between the ages of 15 and 17 who are at least two years behind in school.

In addition to the project work, the students engaged with management of several companies in the classroom, including Rick Cronk, former president of Dreyer’s Inc., Stephen Burns from Chevron, and Diana Adair from Google.


Other project sponsors included AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals, Del Monte, Dreyer's Inc., Driscoll’s, Fulcrum Funds, Lori Bonn Design, Orchard Supply Hardware (OSH), and Perkins, Wolf, McDonnell and Company, LLC.


The projects course is a core element of the Center’s curriculum, allowing students to bring the theoretical frameworks developed in class to real-world, real-time issues faced by companies. Topics covered include brand communication and marketing, energy, nvironmental benchmarking, human rights, social metrics, sustainable packaging and green products, and sustainability reporting.


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McDonald's Fellows Program 2007: Sustainable Fisheries

2007 McDonald's Fellows in Thai DelmarFollowing trips to Thailand and Boston, two Haas MBA students took a deep look at McDonald’s fish supply chain this spring, sharing their insights and making recommendations to senior executives at McDonald's on how to improve the company’s fish sustainability initiatives.

Full-time MBA students, Jamie Dean and Nick Pearson, advised the company as part of the McDonald's Research Fellows Program, a partnership between the Center for Responsible Business and McDonald's Corporation. Their efforts culminated with a report and presentation to McDonald's senior management in May.


The students spent three months interviewing stakeholder groups, meeting with non-governmental organizations, like Conservation International, talking to suppliers from Europe, Japan, and Thailand, and making on-site visits, including a trip to the Boston Seafood Show. McDonald's has been working on sustainable fisheries issues for the last five years with Conservation International.


"This was a great opportunity to see how a company the size of McDonald's manages its global supply chain," said McFellow, Nick Pearson.


Both Dean and Pearson entered the fellowship with a background in sustainable fisheries. Previously, Dean has worked with the Packard Foundation on a sustainable shrimp fishing program and Pearson had worked for the Marine Fish Conservation Network on fish conservation initiatives in the United States.


"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," said Center Executive Director, Kellie McElhaney, who advised the fellows on the study.


The fish project follows-up on a 2005 project, which explored the beef supply chain. The Center launched this new unique educational opportunity in 2005, in partnership with McDonald’s, with the goal of giving Haas MBA students first-hand exposure to the myriad CSR challenges businesses face on a daily basis. The fellows program is part of McDonald’s “Open Doors” program.

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The Berkeley Bottom Line: Haas MBAs Blog from the Skoll World Forum

The Berkeley Bottom Line Blogging TeamA team of second-year Haas MBA students, Rob Kaplan, Ellen Martin, and Edwin Ou, didn't spend their spring break on the beaches of Mexico or in the
mountains of Peru, but instead in the hallways of the 2007 Skoll World Forum on Social Entrepreneurship. Three out of of 17 bloggers participating in this annual invitation-only event, the trio were invited by the Forum to blog about the conference proceedings and future of social entrepreneurship.

Dubbed the Berkeley Bottom Line (BBL), this ex-investment banker, environmentalist, and educator blogging team aimed to blend the thoughts, feelings, and reflections of three distinct personalities much like the triple economic, environmental, and social bottom lines.


This year's Skoll World Forum on Social Entrepreneurship attracted nearly 700 social entrepreneurs, thought leaders, policy
makers, corporate representatives, financiers, philanthropists and students from more than 40 countries. Over three days, the Forum convened a series of plenaries, panel discussions, workshops and academic presentations designed for learning, problem solving and community building on the topic of "Social Innovation and Diffusion".


"The Forum was an amazing opportunity to meet inspiring practitioners, other MBAs, and people from the investment community," said BBL blogger Ellen Martin. "It was one of the rare opportunities when we as student journalists had a chance to engage people from all over the world who are working and thinking about issues that we care about. It was a mind-expanding moment."


Speakers at the 2007 Forum included: Jeff Skoll, founder and Chairman of the Skoll Foundation and Participant Productions; Muhammad Yunus, 2006 Nobel Peace Prize laureate and Grameen Bank founder and microfinance pioneer; Peter Gabriel, Musician, activist, and cofounder and Chair of WITNESS; Larry Brilliant, Executive Director of Google.org; and Queen Rania of Jordan.

Upon conclusion of the Forum, the BBL team was invited to participate in the Skoll staff and grantee dinner - a highlight of their trip. In this intimate setting, the team engaged in meaningful conversations with organizational leaders and heard them bounce ideas off of each other. It was inspiring to the team to connect with these impactful social entrepreneurs.


"What I learned at the Forum was that it is about the people," added BBL Blogger Edwin Ou. "Moreover, it's about the people and the power of their ideas."


The students' participation at the Forum was supported through the Center's Levi Strauss Small Grants Program, Bears Breaking Boundaries Competition, and The Skoll Forum.

The Berkeley Bottom Line blog is available at
http://www.socialedge.org/blogs/the-berkeley-bottom-line.

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HP Brands Center Fellows for Cause-Marketing Project

A team of Haas MBAs had the unique opportunity this spring to blend technology, innovation, and social responsibility into strategic recommendations for Hewlett-Packard's Corporate Marketing group. These HP Brand Fellows - Simona Chin, Cedric Dupont, and Jesse Purewal, all Haas 2007 MBAs - advised the HP group on the efficacy of a cause-marketing program, from the standpoint of both social and business impact.

From January-April, the team drew on their respective backgrounds in technology, branding, and corporate social responsibility (CSR) to research best practices that were relevant to HP.


“It was a great chance to see how a leading company thinks strategically about branding issues, and to see just how relevant our knowledge and skills truly are,” said Cedric Dupont.


The Fellows devised a framework that will allow Corporate Marketing and the business groups to determine whether certain programs or initiatives, including HPs current Global Citizenship efforts, make sense for the company to pursue.


Added Jesse Purewal, "Our team was given meaningful opportunities by the HP team to both learn and contribute. It was incredibly beneficial to learn how to navigate within a large company with such diverse resources. "


In addition to developing this framework, the Fellows also developed several high-level alternative strategies for HP to consider, which may potentially help broker relationships between HP and public-sector organizations that share a common social impact agenda.


"We were challenged by the client, and were told at the end of the project that we’d delivered something of great value," said Simona Chin. "In large part, we had the skills to come through because we ’d been so well prepared in our CSR, branding, and strategy courses at Haas."

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Haas MBA Students Take First in Net Impact Case Competition

Haas Net Impact Winning TeamA Haas MBA team successfully balanced sustainability and profitability to take first place at the sixth annual Net Impact Case Competition, held at the University of Colorado’s Leeds School of Business in Boulder on February 23 and 24.

Rob Kaplan and Nick Spicer, both Haas 2007 MBAs, and Jeff Denby and Iris Rave, both Haas 2008 MBAs, impressed a panel of judges featuring senior executives from Shell, IBM, and Sun Microsystems with their two-year business development plan for Shell Wind Energy. The Haas team won the $3,000 top prize.

York University’s Schulich School of Business placed second and Michigan State University’s Broads School of Business placed third, out of a finalist field of 20 teams that included such schools as the University of Michigan’s Ross School of Business and Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management.

The Haas MBA team qualified for the finals with their "BREATHE" marketing campaign, which positions Honda as synonymous with environmental leadership. Theresa Finn, Haas 2008 MBA, participated in this preliminary round. Their winning strategy at the finals positioned Shell Wind as member of civil society through a triple bottom line framework, a tool learned in the Center for Responsible Business’ "Strategic CSR" course that assesses the financial, environmental, and social impact of business decisions.


The Center for Responsible Business sponsored two teams of Haas MBA students at this year's case competition through its Levi Strauss Small Grants Program.


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Haas Undergraduate Team Wins Annual Gap Inc. CSR Case Competition

A team of Haas School undergraduate students took first place at the Third Annual Gap Inc. Undergraduate CSR Case Competition sponsored by the Center for Responsible Business on April 25.


The competition challenged students to address real-life business issues in a socially responsible manner. The winning team developed a comprehensive corporate and marketing plan for a profitable line of driving gloves, called Benefit, made of 100% organic cotton for a fictitious company.


All juniors in the Haas Undergraduate Program, the four team members - Ara Cho, Andrea Lo, Lisa Murphy, and Uday Sandhu - developed a strategy and slogan, "Take control and offer a hand," that involved producing cotton in Peru and revitalizing the local economy there.


Eighteen UC Berkeley teams and two teams from San Francisco State University entered the competition on April 13 by submitting preliminary recommendations for their glove lines. The initial entries were judged by a group of four Haas MBA students. Six teams from the original 20 were selected for the final round.


At the finals held on April 25, the six teams each gave a ten-minute presentation in front of a panel of four judges. The judges were Haas & Center lecturer Kevin Sweeney; Haas MBA student, Rob Kaplan; associate director of the Center, Katharine Brewer; and Jessica Mickelson of Gap Inc. Dan Henkle, senior vice president of social responsibility at Gap Inc. and Haas MBA alum, gave the keynote address at the finals.


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New Study on the CalPERS Effect Wins 2006 Moskowitz Prize for SRI Research

The 2006 Moskowitz Prize for Socially Responsible Investing has been awarded to a new study that explores the motivation and impact of institutional activism by reviewing the stocks on CalPERs Focus List from 1992-2005. The study finds a positive 25 basis point positive benefit from the CalPERS program, which translated into wealth creation of $3.1 billion.


The winning paper – “Monitoring the Monitor: Evaluating CalPERS' Shareholder Activism” – by Brad Barber of the University of California at Davis reviews the theory and empirical evidence underlying the motivation for institutional activism by public pension funds. Barber analyzed the gains from CalPERS activism linked to their focus list firms and theorizes that CalPERS has generally pursued reforms at focus list firms that increase shareholder rights.


Over the years, there have been numerous studies exploring the impact of CalPERS' corporate governance program on stock prices. Some have argued that the program has added significant value, while others have found a less powerful effect, and still others have questioned whether there is a 'CalPERS Effect' at all.


Based on conservative short-term announcement reactions, Barber shows CalPERS activism has resulted in total wealth creation of $3.1 billion. But, he argues, institutional activism should be limited to situations where there is strong theoretical and empirical evidence indicating the proposed reforms will increase shareholder value. Full text of the 2006 winning paper is available online at Social Science Research Network.


Awarded by the Center for Responsible Business at the Haas School of Business, in cooperation with the Social Investment Forum, the Prize promotes the concept, practice, and growth of socially responsible investing.


“Brad Barber's study of how CalPERS' shareholder activism affects stock returns addresses some of the most important issues related to socially responsible investment, and his results are of great importance to SRI practitioners, ” said David Levine, professor of economics at the Haas School of Business and one of the Moskowitz Prize judges.


Lloyd Kurtz, Moskowitz Prize administrator and senior portfolio manager at Nelson Capital Management, an investment advisory affiliate of Wells Fargo, added, “Both social investors and corporate governance experts are concerned that corporate managements need to be held more accountable to shareholders – this study shows that CalPERS actually derived an investment performance benefit by doing so.”


“Most of the SRI research literature has examined how SRI affects investors, and the smaller literature that looks at the effects of SRI on companies has emphasized possible changes to companies' cost of capital. Barber's study is the most careful and encompassing to look at how investor engagement can affect a company’s management and valuation,” added Levine.


Honorable mentions were also awarded to two other outstanding studies this year. The first honorable mention is presented to Harrison Hong and Marcin Kacperczyk for their Princeton University Working Paper, “The Price of Sin: The Effects on Social Norms on Markets” – one of the most thorough reviews of tobacco stock performance ever done, with detailed analysis of returns since the 1920s. The second is presented to Baruch Lev, Christine Petrovits, and Suresh Radhakrishnan for “Is Doing Good Good for You? Yes, Charitable Contributions Enhance Revenue Growth”. This Working Paper from New York University’s Stern School of Business investigates the relationship between companies’ charitable giving and growth dynamics, and is the first major study of this topic in over a decade.


The sponsors of the Moskowitz Prize are: Calvert Group, First Affirmative Financial Network, Nelson Capital Management, KLD Research & Analytics, Inc., Rockefeller and Co., and Trillium Asset Management.


For more information, visit the Moskowitz Research Program website.

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Haas MBA Students “Do Good” in JPMorgan Good Venture Competition

Haas JPMorgan Winning TeamDo you know of a worthy cause that deserves serious investment? The answer to this question was a resounding yes for 65 socially conscious teams from 41 business schools who entered JPMorgan’s U.S.-based Good Venture competition this Fall.

The winning team from UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business pitched a proposal for Lenders for Community Development, a San Jose-based non-profit that invests in people who are working to build financial, personal, and shared assets in low-income communities throughout the Bay Area. Winning $25,000 in funding for LCD, the team included second-year MBA students, Shaolee Sen, Rob Kaplan, and Julia Gilfillan, and Ellie Kelly from Lenders for Community Development.


A total of 172 MBA students from across the U.S. competed in the competition, with each team creating a compelling case as to why JPMorgan should invest in their chosen nonprofit organization. The student’s proposals championed programs ranging from a community microfinance initiative in California (Lenders for Community Development) to funding rural schoolhouses in India. JPMorgan designed the initiative to provide students with an opportunity to contribute to the greater good by supporting nonprofit organizations about which they are passionate.


After careful review of the 65 proposals, six teams were chosen as finalists. JPMorgan flew the finalists to New York, where they spent time with members of the investment banking team on November 30 and December 1. Finalists gave team presentations to a panel of senior JPMorgan executives from the equity capital markets, leveraged finance, financial institutions, and community relations groups, and attended an awards ceremony afterward where the winning team from Haas was announced.


“All of our team agreed that the one class that prepared us to win the JPMorgan competition was Professor McElhaney’s Strategic CSR class,” said Rob Kaplan (MBA ’07). “Kellie taught us how to make to business case and that is exactly what we did. The best part is that we were competing for real money to help a real organization that needed it, a unique aspect of the event.”


“Lenders for Community Development is thankful to have been represented by such an outstanding team and is very proud to accept the JPMorgan Good Venture Award”, said Eric Weaver, Executive Director of Lenders for Community Development. “This award means a lot to us, both because it recognizes the impact of our work and it will support our clients as they gain financial management skills, build assets, and create long-term financial independence.”


The Good Venture competition comes at a time when investment banks are looking for new and innovative ways to attract top talent in an increasingly competitive marketplace for graduate recruits.


“It is clear that social responsibility is important to students. It is becoming a critical factor as companies try to stay competitive and be ahead of the recruiting game,” said JPMorgan’s Danielle Domingue. “At JPMorgan it’s about building business and building communities.”


To learn more about Good Venture go to www.goodventure.org.


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Center Welcomes Wholefoods CEO, John Mackey, to Haas

As part of the Peterson Lecture Series on Corporate Responsibility, the Center hosted John Mackey, CEO and Chairman of Whole Foods Market, Inc. to a standing room only crowd in the Wells Fargo Room on February 26th.

Mr. Mackey discussed his Conscious Capitalism philosophy and touched on the role Haas students, and future business leaders, should play in co-creating this new business paradigm. As Chairman and CEO, he has built a $3.5 billion Fortune 500 company that is now one of the top 12 supermarket companies in America.

The event was attended by Haas students, faculty, and staff, as well as members of the business community. Ryan Trammell, a Haas 2005 MBA graduate and Whole Foods team member, introduced Mr. Mackey.

The full video of Mr. Mackey's presentation is available at: John Mackey, CEO of Whole Foods Market (Feb 26) (Requires Real Media Player)


The Peterson Lecture Series on Corporate Responsibility brings thoughtful and diverse leaders to Haas to address topics related to business ethics, corporate responsibility, the environment, and social entrepreneurship. Through the Series, the Center creates a unique opportunity for provocative dialogue about the evolving role of business in society with engaging, high profile speakers. The Series was created in 1997 through a generous gift from Rudolph Peterson, a 1925 UC Berkeley graduate and former CEO and President of Bank of America.

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Center Alumni in the News

Many Haas alumni are leading corporate social responsibility (CSR) efforts at a diverse array of companies, as well as integrating CSR strategies into traditional brand, marketing, strategy, and finance roles. Check out some of the Center Alumni who have made the news:


More information on Center alumni is available: http://www.haas.berkeley.edu/responsiblebusiness/Alumni.html

If you are a Haas alum with news to share with the Center, please send an email to Katharine Brewer at kbrewer@haas.berkeley.edu.


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Two New Fall MBA Courses: Social Enterprise & Social Investing

The Center will add two new MBA courses in the Fall semester - a 2-unit course on Social Enterprise, exploring the convergence of business & the social sector, and a 1-unit course on Social Investing.

Social Enterprise: The Convergence of Business & the Social Sector
Taught by Jim Schorr, Executive Director of Juma Ventures, this course will explore the spectrum of activity in the emerging “ fourth sector”, where business models and activities are applied to address social issues. Topics covered will include private and nonprofit social ventures, social entrepreneurship, and social investing. Course content will include a combination of lecture, readings, guest speakers, and a group project that can be related to plan development for the Global Social Venture Competition, if desired.

Social Investing: Recent Findings in Management & Finance
Taught by Lloyd Kurtz, Senior Profolio Manager at Nelson Capital Management, this course will review eight strong recent studies of issues in social investing from different academic fields including management, finance, and economics. Once considered a sideshow in the investment world, social investing has begun to attract significant attention from academics. Some of the issues raised by social investors bring fresh light to controversies in investment and management theory. Moreover, concerns over globalization and climate change have challenged the widely-held view that social and environmental concerns must be subordinated to financial ones in capital allocation decisions.


For a complete list of Center Course offerings, visit:
http://www.haas.berkeley.edu/responsiblebusiness/Teaching.html
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Haas Students Compete in Spring CSR Competitions

In addition to Haas wins at the Net Impact Case Competition and JPMorgan's Good Venture Competition, Haas MBA students have had a busy spring semester representing Haas and the Center at various competitions:


Haas MBA Students Place Second in Sustainable Venture Capital Competition

A team of Haas MBA students took second prize at the invitation-only Sustainable Venture Capital Investment Competition (SVCIC), held March 30 and 31 at the University of North Carolina's Kenan-Flagler Business School.

Full-time MBA students Takufumi Kawane, Luke Dunnington, Michael Pearce, and Danae Ringelmann, joined with Evening & Weekend MBA student Hitesh Parashar to beat out Harvard Business School and Wharton for the $1,000 second prize. The Kellogg School of Management won first place.

The competitors played the role of venture capitalists, implementing double and triple bottom line evaluation techniques, which assess business, social, and environmental impact, to make investment decisions on the real business plans of social entrepreneurs. The students evaluated four companies from a range of industries and social impact and were judged by venture capitalists on their investment decisions.

Haas Students Place Fourth in Annual Ethics Case (and Downhill Ski Race) Competition


Haas Team at 2007 Race & CaseThe Center sponsored a team of MBA students at the 4th Annual Daniels Race & Case Competition on February 9-12. The competition was held at Daniels College of Business at the University of Denver and Vail Mountain Resort. The Haas MBA team of Henrique Ceribelli, Amy Dickie, Ellie Kelly, and Steve Shanks developed recommendations for a case involving Cascade Inc.’s environmental strategy. While the team did not make it to the final round of case judging, they did fare well on the slopes, coming in fourth overall in the competition.


Center Sponsors Second Haas Team at Net Impact Case Competition

Haas Team at 2007 Net Impact Case CompetitionIn addition to the Haas winning team, the Center also sponsored another Haas MBA team at the sixth annual Net Impact Case Competition, held at the University of Colorado’s Leeds School of Business in Boulder on February 23 and 24. The team of Jeff Boortz, Jamie Dean, Elizabeth Lombardi, and Jackie Pohl made it to the final round of the competition, competing against 20 teams from 15 different business schools. The team developed recommendations for Royal Dutch Shell’s Wind Energy group, creating a strategy for business development for the next two years.

For a complete list of Haas student success in external competitions, click here.

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Upcoming Event: Economic Summit 2007 on Entrepreneurship and Sustainability (June 11)

Economic Summit 2007, presented by the Cal State East Bay Small Business Development Center (SBDC), brings together a new and exciting generation of companies and leaders who are changing the global economic landscape.Over the course of four sessions throughout 2007, 1500 attendees take part in workshops and interactive panel discussions that focus on critical global, regional and industry issues.


The first session in the series, Entrepreneurship and Sustainability, will be held on Monday, June 11 from 12:30-8:00 PM at the de Young Museum in San Francisco. The session will focus on how your organization can improve its competitive position, reduce costs, and increase profits while becoming a more environmentally and socially responsible business. The keynote panel will feature Center Executive Director, Kellie McElhaney.


Economic Summit 2007 is presented in partnership with the United Nations Global Compact, IDEO, Citibank, Pacific Gas & Electric Company, Microsoft Corporation, and Fast Company Magazine.

For more information and to register, visit www.economicsummit2007.org or call (510) 208-0410. Advance Registration: $50; At the Door: $75.


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Support the Center's Mission: Become a Corporate Partner


Center 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!

For more information on supporting the Center, click here.


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