Kellie McElhaney, Ph.D.

Kellie McElhaney is the John C. Whitehead Faculty Fellow of Corporate Responsibility and the Executive Director of the Center for Responsible Business at the Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley. She developed and launched this new center in January 2003.

Kellie 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 also teaches extensive Executive Education in this area. She is a Visiting Professor at the Kenan-Flagler School of Business at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill and at the Institut d'Administration des Enterprises at the University of Poitiers in France.

A consultant to several Global 1000 companies in developing integrated CSR strategy, Kellie bridges her academic focus with the practitioner world. Her client list includes HP, Gap, eBay, McDonalds, Ernst & Young, NVIDIA, Blue Cross Blue Shield, Nokia (Finland), Navigant, Volunteer Match, Ford Motor Company, Bernard Hodes Group (Great Britain), PG&E, Driscolls Berries, Triage Consulting Group, Ulster Bank (Ireland), StatoilHydro (Norway) and PG&E. She holds a Ph.D. from the University of Michigan, an M.A. from Ohio University, and a B.A. from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.

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