Sustainable Business Leadership Forum
Hanson Bridgett's Sustainable Business Leadership Forum features monthly presentations and networking focused on advancing sustainable businesses. Past topics have included legislation, venture capital, cleantech, green building, microfinance and energy management among others. These topics are complimented with expert speakers from various sectors of the sustainable movement to discuss private/public sector initiatives, political advocacy, and corporate social responsibility. At our forums, you will get in-depth information about the opportunities, challenges, and profits associated with going green. The forum provides attendees the opportunity to learn and connect with like-minded business people who can help you advance your venture or area of interest in the sustainability movement.
SEPTEMBER EVENT:
Power of Social Technology for Good
Panelists:
Kellie A. McElhaney, PhD
Consultant, Professor & Faculty Director at the Center for Responsible Business, Haas School of Business,
University of California - Berkeley
Dr. McElhaney is the Alexander Faculty Fellow and the founding Faculty Director of the Center for Responsible Business at the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley. She launched this center in 2003, which has helped place corporate responsibility squarely as one of the core competencies and competitive advantages of the Haas School. Her Center has received global critical acclaim with The Financial Times rating Haas #1 in the world in 2008. 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 is developing a new course on using the Power of Social Technology for Good (PoST4Good). She also teaches extensive Executive Education in this area. 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 she has written a book entitled Just Good Business: The Strategic Guide to Aligning Corporate Responsibility and Brand.
Moderated by Leslie Keil, Hanson Bridgett Associate
in the Business and Sustainable Business practice groups.
Additional speakers TBD
Thursday, September 16th, 2010
5:30pm – 8:00pm
Hanson Bridgett LLP
425 Market Street, 26th Floor
San Francisco, California
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Pre-registration is required.
Space is limited.
Cost: $45.00
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