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Stock Market’s “Spare Tire” Keeps Economy Churning During Banking Crises
Stories about corrupt CEOs raiding the corporate piggy bank would appear to be the best argument for shareholder protection laws known as “anti-self-dealing laws.” But there’s another bonus. A new...
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New Evening & Weekend Class Arrives on Campus for We LAUNCH
The 2018 class of Evening & Weekend MBA students arrived on campus July 31 for a whirlwind weekend of work sessions, an introduction to the Haas Defining Principles, cohort skits, and team-building...
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Finance Prof. Ben Hermalin Named Academic Senate Chairman
Finance Prof. Ben Hermalin has been named the new chairman of UC Berkeley’s Academic Senate.Hermalin, the Thomas & Alison Schneider Distinguished Professor of Finance at Haas and a UC Berkeley...
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Haas Launches Tusher Center to Study Intellectual Capital Management
UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business has inaugurated a new center to promote the school’s thought leadership in the vibrant, complex field of intellectual capital management.The new Tusher Center for...
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EMBA Class of 2014 Startups: 16 and Counting
Joe Inkenbrandt was on a routine run with his jogging buddy in 2013 when he was struck by a great idea for a tech company.The idea “was more of a pipe dream,” he says. “Neither of us had any experience...
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New Full-Time MBA Students Welcomed With Surprise Guests, Volunteer Work,...
By Kim GirardThe 246 students in the Full-time Berkeley MBA Class of 2017 were immersed in Haas culture this week with interactive games, leadership and diversity sessions, volunteer work, and alumni...
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Gender Equity Efforts Fuel Full-Time MBA Demographic Shift
By Laura CountsWhen classes start next week, the women who make up 41 percent of the incoming Full-time Berkeley MBA Class of 2017 will join last year's record-breaking class, bringing the total number...
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Prof. Patricia Dechow Wins Prestigious American Accounting Association Award
Prof. Patricia Dechow has won the 2015 Distinguished Contribution to Accounting Literature Award, for research that developed a measure to determine the quality of earnings.Dechow co-authored the...
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New Undergrads Immersed in Haas Culture
A new class of undergraduate students—ranging in age from 18 to 58—arrived at Haas Monday for orientation, where they were immersed in school culture, absorbed career advice, and met their new...
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Meet Berkeley-Haas’ Nine New Professors
A diverse group of nine new assistant professors is joining the Haas School of Business this fall.New faculty members, whose research spans from studying cardiac surgeons' performance reports to...
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Startup Roundup: Seniorly, Crayon Crunch and Realiteer
This is part of an occasional series of articles spotlighting students and recent graduates who are working with Berkeley-Haas to start a new business or social enterprise.SeniorlyCo-founders: Arthur...
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Saatchi & Saatchi Exec to Launch Dean’s Speaker Series
The fall Dean’s Speaker Series kicks off next week with a high-profile lineup of seven leaders with ties to Berkeley-Haas and the Bay Area—including the former U.S. Secretary of Energy, a top Golden...
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Berkeley-Haas and Philanthropy U Debut Free Online Initiative
UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business has announced its entry into a cooperative arrangement with Philanthropy U, which provides free online training to thousands of people and organizations working to...
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Patrick Awuah, MBA 99, Named "MacArthur Genius"
Education pioneer Patrick Awuah, MBA 99, founder of Ghana’s Ashesi University, has been named a fellow of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.Awuah, 50, is one of 24 fellows to receive...
View ArticleFrequently Discounting Maximizes Retailer Revenues
JC Penney implemented a “best price” strategy in 2012, assuming consumers prefer fair, everyday prices as opposed to sale prices that are discounted from original, inflated prices. It was wrong....
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Haas to Provide Seed Funding, Enhanced Entrepreneurship Support to Students
Berkeley-Haas will strengthen entrepreneurship support for its students, including providing $100,000 in seed funding for Haas student startups this year, Dean Rich Lyons announced today.In addition to...
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Haas Healthcare Conference to Bridge Industry and Innovation
What if technology could help doctors forecast spikes in particular illnesses—say, the flu—and prepare them to provide better care? There could be an app for that, which is why a team of students have...
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Asst. Prof. Ming Hsu: Bringing Brains to Marketing
By Charles CooperResearchers recently gathered in the basement lab of the Li Ka-Shing Center for Biomedical and Health Sciences at UC Berkeley to catch a glimpse into the future of marketing. From all...
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Financial Leaders Gather for Inaugural Clausen Conference
Influential financial leaders — including the chief economist of the IMF, one of President Clinton’s key former economic advisers, and the president of the SF Federal Reserve Bank — will gather Nov. 21...
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New Cleantech Startup Competition Offers $100K Prize & Mentoring
There's a new startup competition underway on campus: entrepreneurs pursuing environmentally friendly technologies are vying for the $100K Berkeley Cleantech University Prize (CUP).Seven teams—which...
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