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São Paulo’s Housing Movement Organizations: Activists Squat, Lobby, and Protest for Affordable Housing

Housing Movement Organizations (HMOs) in São Paulo, Brazil, work to solve homelessness where housing far outpaces wag...

  Berkeley Haas Case Series   01 Oct 2023
Social Enterprise

UK’s Embassy Village: Collaborating Across Public, Private, and Nonprofit Sectors to Tackle Rough Sleeping

Greater Manchester, England, has the third highest population of rough sleepers (people living on the streets) in the...

  Berkeley Haas Case Series   01 Jul 2023
Social Enterprise

Is Hydrogen the Future of Clean Energy for Business?

By 2023, companies of all sizes and across multiple industries had started to create and publicly announce Net Zero c...

  Berkeley Haas Case Series   01 Apr 2023
Social Enterprise

Net Zero Climate Commitments: Realistic Goal or Branding Exercise?

In 2022, companies of all sizes and across multiple industries started to create and publicly announce Net Zero clima...

  Berkeley Haas Case Series   01 Jan 2023
Social Enterprise

Carbon Capture, Utilization, and Storage: Separating Fact From Fiction

In 1992, 179 countries effectively agreed to end the fossil-fuel age at the United Nations Conference on Environment ...

  Berkeley Haas Case Series   01 Jan 2023
Social Enterprise

San Rafael: How Uncommon Stakeholder Alliances Reduced Chronic Homelessness

In early 2016, San Rafael, California, created a new position - Director of Homeless Planning and Outreach. The goal ...

  Berkeley Haas Case Series   01 Oct 2022
Social Enterprise

Corporate Greenwashing: Are Environmental Claims Just Empty Promises?

Greenwashing is a term that describes the situation where a company’s environmental claims exceed what the corporatio...

  Berkeley Haas Case Series   01 Oct 2022
Social Enterprise

Father Joe’s Villages: How a One-Stop-Shop Tackles Homelessness in San Diego

Father Joe’s Villages (FJV), a nonprofit in San Diego, California, seeks to prevent and end homelessness. FJV develop...

  Berkeley Haas Case Series   01 Oct 2022
Social Enterprise

Cancel Culture: Corporations Flock to Carbon Offsets to Solve their Climate Problem, but do Offsets Truly Reduce Emissions?

Companies can offset greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by, for example, funding a solar power plant in place of a planne...

  Berkeley Haas Case Series   01 Oct 2022
Social Enterprise

groupelephant.com 2021: Beyond Corporate Purpose

The groupelephant.com case focuses on CEO Jonathan Tager as he grapples with expanding his company's Beyond Corporate...

  Berkeley Haas Case Series   01 Jan 2022
Social Enterprise

Theaster Gates: Artist as Catalyst for Community Development

The case study describes the work of Theaster Gates to revitalize the South Side of Chicago. As an independent philan...

  Berkeley Haas Case Series   30 Jun 2014
 

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