Nordic Capitalism Book Talk with Dr. Robert Strand

Join us for a book talk with Dr. Robert Strand featuring Nordic Capitalism: Lessons for Realizing Sustainable Capitalism. Strand is Executive Director of the Nordic Center at UC Berkeley, and the book stems from a Scandinavian corporate social responsibility course he launched two decades ago at the University of Minnesota. Enjoy networking and social hour before and after. FIKA Café will provide food and drink for purchase.

Event Schedule:

5:30-6:15pm: Pre-Event Social Hour

6:15-7:15pm: Book Talk

7:15-8:00pm: Post-Event Social Hour

About the Author

Dr. Robert Strand is the founding Executive Director of the Nordic Center at UC Berkeley, Executive Director of the Center for Responsible Business, and a Lecturer at the Berkeley Haas School of Business. He is also an Associate Professor at the Copenhagen Business School. His research and teaching focus on comparing U.S. and Nordic approaches to sustainable business and examining American and Nordic varieties of capitalism with the aim of contributing to realizing sustainable capitalism. Robert teaches the suite of courses “Sustainable Capitalism in the Nordics?” which leverage his book Nordic Capitalism: Lessons for Realizing Sustainability Capitalism (Cambridge University Press, 2026), available to read open access (free) at https://bit.ly/3MSvrOp.

Before joining Berkeley Haas in 2014, Robert was an Assistant Professor at the Copenhagen Business School in Denmark, following a decade in Corporate America, where he held various roles in manufacturing, supply chain, marketing, strategy, and investor relations at IBM and Boston Scientific. He holds a Ph.D. in corporate social responsibility from the Copenhagen Business School, an MBA in international business from the University of Minnesota Carlson School of Management, and a B.S. in industrial engineering from the University of Wisconsin. He was a U.S. Fulbright Scholar to Norway hosted at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU).

With his wife, Sarah, he is the proud parent of two wonderful children, Jonas and Mikkel. He values a good sense of humor and kindness above all else, and when that obituary is eventually written, Robert hopes those qualities could potentially be said about him.