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| Sara Olsen is the founder of SVT Consulting, where she has conducted SROI analyses and developed social impact assessment systems for numerous for-profit startups and venture funds. She is also the co-founder of the Global Social Venture Competition. Sara has lectured internationally and co-authored a number of papers about SROI and social impact assessment. She has an MBA from UC Berkeley, an MASW from the University of Chicago, and did her BA at Dartmouth in Studio Art. She loves dancing, is a budding telemark skier, and enjoys trading drawings with her two nieces. |
| Joshua Newman is technical consultant to Social Metrics. He received his MD from the University of Illinois at Chicago, and his BA from Northwestern University in Religion. He is currently a Family Medicine Resident at Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center in Chicago where he has developed practice management and residency management software and serves on several committees helping to implement electronic patient management systems for hospitals throughout the Advocate system. He is a proponent of open source software for the medical community. Although Sara believes he is a renaissance man, he has yet to learn Italian and Portuguese, travel through Morocco, or make more than $40k a year. |
| Advisors | |
| David Levine is a professor at the Haas School Business, UC Berkeley, where he is spearheading a project on measurement in the field of corporate sustainability. He is the editor of Industrial Relations and associate director of the Institute of Industrial Relations. His research focuses on labor markets and workplaces. One stream examines what combinations of management policies lead to effective workplaces, a second examines the determination of wages and inequality in the United States, and the third involves the intersection of organizations and investments in children. He received his Ph.D. in economics from Harvard University in 1987 and his BA from Berkeley. In addition to his position on the faculty at Berkeley, he has had visiting positions at the Sloan School of Management at MIT, the U.S. Department of Labor, and the Council of Economic Advisers. |
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| Robert Tolmach is the founder of Glasses for Humanity, a startup nonprofit whose mission is to provide primary vision care and affordable eyeglasses to tens of millions of people each year in the US and abroad. Robert has worked as an architect, investment banker, real estate developer and entrepreneur. He was a principal at Arquitectonica International Corporation, a nationally-prominent architectural firm; the senior real estate manager for James D. Wolfensohn, Incorporated; a Managing Director of Zebra Fund LLC, which manages a $45 million fund to invest in properties with environmental issues; and President of New York City Expo |
| Academic Council | |
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| Yale Braunstein, Professor, School of Information Management, UC Berkeley. |
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| Lisa Cook, National Fellow, Research Fellow, Stanford University Hoover Institution. Post Doctoral Student, Harvard University. Faculty, Kennedy School of Government. Deputy Director, Africa Research, Center for International Development at Harvard University. |
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| Tom d'Aunno, Professor of Healthcare Management and Organizational Behavior, INSEAD. Director, INSEAD Healthcare Management Initiative. |
