Dave Rochlin

Continuing Lecturer and Executive Director, Haas Innovation, Creativity, and Design Practice (ICDP)
Faculty Director, Innovation for Positive Impact Program (Geneva)

As a lecturer, Dave co-developed and teaches the MBA-level applied innovation project course (Haas@Work), the core Fundamentals of Design Thinking Course, and a cohort-wide foresight and exponential change design sprint. He is also the faculty director for Berkeley’s summer-abroad program in Geneva, Switzerland — focused on business innovation for sustainability, social responsibility, and positive impact — and teaches a related undergraduate course in Berkeley. Outside of Haas, he is a consultant social entrepreneur, focused on market-based approaches to social/environmental issues including deforestation, climate change, corporate social responsibility, sustainability business, and ethical globalization.

Prior to coming to Berkeley in 2010, he founded a hybrid social venture called ClimatePath, and was COO of the NGO FairTrade USA, a four-time winner of Fast Company/Monitor’s social capital award. He was also professional faculty member in the Executive MBA program at St. Mary’s College. He is a frequent writer and speaker, and author of the textbook Hunter or Hunted: Technology, Innovation, and Competitive Strategy (Thomson/Cengage 2006).

Dave has held key executive positions with several fast-growing internet pioneers, helping to build, grow, and eventually sell businesses to Hollywood Video and Earthlink, and placing companies on both the Deloitte 50 and INC 500 lists. He also has turned around smaller software and e-commerce firms where profitability took precedence over growth.

He earned his MBA (with distinction) at the J.L. Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University, and his B.S. from Berkeley Haas.