Building With a Purpose: A Q&A With Dean Rich Lyons
What do you expect the impact of the new North Academic Building to be?There is a strong reputational case to be made for this new building. Over the past 20 years, our school has experienced a spike...
View ArticleHaas Crowdfunds to Teach Good Hygiene to Underprivileged Children
Campaign reaches 50% of goal with days left to donateLearn more and donate to the campaign.On any given day, a child’s little hands touch hundreds of surfaces and other people – all laden with germs...
View ArticleEvening & Weekend MBA Students Innovate at Inaugural BRAID Conference
Four teams of Evening & Weekend MBA students were recently challenged by PayPal to improve a task people dread: pumping gas.The project was one among many assigned by companies to EWMBA students...
View ArticleQ&A: Five Years of the Haas Defining Principles
When Dean Rich Lyons partnered with faculty, students, alumni, and staff to articulate Berkeley-Haas culture, the aim was to capture the school’s essence.What emerged were our four Defining Principles:...
View ArticleHaas Entrepreneur Sells Startup Krave to Hershey
Jon Sebastiani and his team came into the 2011 Berkeley Lean LaunchPad class with several key observations, Haas Lecturer Steve Blank writes in Forbes:Snack foods were a large ~$35 billion, but the...
View ArticleHaas Entrepreneur Sells Startup Krave to Hershey
Jon Sebastiani and his team came into the 2011 Berkeley Lean LaunchPad class with several key observations, Haas Lecturer Steve Blank writes in Forbes:Snack foods were a large ~$35 billion but the...
View ArticleFinancial Engineering Program to Graduate Class of '15
After a whirlwind of global internships, intense research projects, and international competitions, 67 students in the Berkeley Master of Financial Engineering (MFE) Program are expected to graduate...
View ArticleAll Three Berkeley MBA Programs Rank in Top 10
The Evening & Weekend MBA Program again ranked #1 among part-time programs in the US for the third year in a row in the annual US News & World Report, published March 10. The Full-time Berkeley...
View ArticleProf. Ulrike Malmendier Receives Top UC Berkeley Teaching Award
Ulrike Malmendier, the Edward J. and Mollie Arnold professor of finance at the Haas School of Business and a UC Berkeley professor of economics, is one of five professors to receive the 2015...
View ArticleIncentives that Lead to a Better-Trained Workforce
The push for a more globally competitive American workforce has led to calls for increased incentives for people to join educational and training programs.While critics question if the training efforts...
View ArticleContent Creators Leave Social Networks When Messaging Gets Too Easy
It’s not much harder or more expensive to send a tweet or a Facebook post to hundreds or even thousands of people than to just a handful. So you’d think that the ease of communicating with lots of...
View ArticleProf. Emeritus David Aaker Named to 2015 Marketing Hall of Fame
Haas Marketing Professor Emeritus David Aaker, widely considered the father of modern branding, has been selected for the 2015 Marketing Hall of Fame for his outstanding lifetime contributions to the...
View ArticleUndergrads Design Frameworks for Smarter Cities in India, Bay Area
Isabelle Lee, BS 16, and three classmates are working to make Ahmedabad, India, safer by making it smarter.With 6.5 million residents, Ahmedabad faces a high crime rate with an understaffed police...
View ArticleTwo Alumni CEOs to Speak at Commencements
Two Haas alumni CEOs--the former CEO of Jack in the Box and the CEO of networking giant Belden--are scheduled to speak at the Berkeley-Haas Undergraduate, Evening & Weekend, and Full-time MBA...
View ArticlePatrick Awuah, MBA 99, Receives Elise and Walter A. Haas International Award
Patrick Awuah, MBA 99, has received the 2015 Elise and Walter A. Haas International Award, for his work as an educational leader who founded Ashesi University in Ghana.The award is bestowed annually to...
View ArticleFrom Disruptive Drones to Global Innovation: New Haas Faculty Research In the...
Research from four Haas faculty members is featured in the latest issue of Berkeley-Haas’ quarterly management journal, the California Management Review (CMR). The issue includes contributions from...
View ArticleFrom Orientation to Graduation, a New Way to Teach Teamwork
It's a typical day in the Berkeley-Haas Innovation Lab, and teams of students are busy with Post-its and whiteboards, developing a “Collaborative Map” of their groups' strengths and challenges. At one...
View ArticleUC Berkeley Takes Lead in Understanding Crowdfunding Revolution
Crowdfunding is changing the future of finance by fostering the exchange of capital through new technology channels and by providing a more equal playing field for funding investors and recipients. A...
View ArticleStartup Roundup: WeFinance, California Artesian, TINE, and Honeit
This is part of an occasional series of articles spotlighting students and recent alumni who are working with Berkeley-Haas to start a new business or social enterprise.WeFinanceWilly Chu, MBA...
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