B-School Adds Socially Responsible Investing To The Curriculum

Wall Street Journal:

These days, more business schools are teaching students about corporate social responsibility, and more are establishing investment funds for M.B.A.s to manage. Now, the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley, is melding the two trends in what may be the first student-managed investment fund to focus on social and environmental responsibility. M.B.A. Track columnist Ron Alsop interviewed Kellie McElhaney, adjunct professor and executive director of the Center for Responsible Business at the Haas School, this month about the new fund.

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Comments

[leftLibertarian]

07:23 PM on 09/20/2007

It's still capitalism but with a make-over.

[andyg]

08:12 PM on 09/19/2007

social responsibility is a nother word for socialism.

[dadw5boys]

08:31 PM on 09/19/2007

Andy, All the highways, dams and public utulities were built with "the peoples" money and investment. Don't like a little socialism try living in Brazil where Private Security is the major industry. Seems people like to get to work and home alive. Now thats pure capitalism.

[dora rice]

12:34 PM on 09/19/2007

any teachings of responsibility will do and it should start in the grade school and progress up to the Universities.

[dadw5boys]

10:25 AM on 09/19/2007

I hope these student do some research into companies that make things like TULONE which is used made COCAINE. It is also a thinner used with glue in Tennis Shoes. So drug dealers own a lot of shoe companies so they can legally buy the chemical.
Things like that are not only Green Investing but RESPONSIBLE investing.
Why every investors does not research the companies past the financial sheets is beyond me.
What do they produce?
What Legal and Illegal useS are there for the product this company makes?
Does the company know about the Illegal uses and what are they doing to stop it?

[andyg]

08:10 PM on 09/19/2007

Cocaine comes the coco plant.

[dadw5boys]

08:27 PM on 09/19/2007

yeah, but do you know how it is turned into white powder?