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Twelve Finance Fellowships Awarded to MBA Students
As an undergraduate student at the University of New South Wales, Eddie Gandevia started and sold a tech company that developed learning tools for high school students in Australia.Intrigued by the...
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Haas Students Team with Facebook for Tech Challenge
Students from eight top MBA programs will be using data to solve a business problem in a socially responsible way for Facebook at the 5th annual Haas Tech Challenge Case Competition.This year’s...
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Moskowitz Prize Awarded to Study Finding Markets Value Transparent Reporting...
The Berkeley-Haas Center for Responsible Business has awarded its 2015 Moskowitz Prize to a paper by University of Geneva Asst. Prof. Philipp Krüger that found the stock market values companies that...
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Haas to Honor Novartis CEO Joseph Jimenez, MBA 84, at Nov. 13 Gala
Joseph Jimenez, MBA 84, the CEO of Novartis AG who has positioned the company to anticipate future health care trends and to make momentous strides against various forms of cancer, will be honored as...
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Prof. Vissing-Jorgensen Wins International Finance Award
Professor Annette Vissing-Jorgensen has won the Swiss Finance Institute’s Outstanding Paper Award for a study on how government debt crowds out financial sector short-term debt, the institute announced...
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Three Berkeley-Haas Leaders Make Thinkers50 List
Three Berkeley-Haas leaders have made the 2015 Thinkers50 global ranking of management pioneers: Lecturer Steve Blank, (#20), Adj. Prof. Henry Chesbrough, (#24) and Affiliated Prof. Morten Hansen...
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Big Give Fundraising Blitz Begins Wednesday
The Big Give 24-hour campus-wide online fundraising blitz, kicks off on Wednesday, Nov. 18, at 9 p.m. PST—and Haas is aiming to beat its 2014 results.During last year's inaugural Big Give,...
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Classified: Game Theory Class Turns to “Survivor” for Life Lessons
By Krysten CrawfordThe soulful sounds of Amy Winehouse’s “Rehab” reverberated through Cheit 125 as second-year MBA students filed in on a recent Monday for Prof. John Morgan’s Game Theory class. For...
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Prof. Severin Borenstein Wins Lifetime Achievement Award
By Krysten CrawfordProf. Severin Borenstein was 28 and pumping gas in Ann Arbor, Michigan, when his career path suddenly shifted gears.It was 1986 and Borenstein, then an assistant professor of...
View ArticleBerkeley-Haas Raises Record Amount During Big Give
Berkeley-Haas raised just under $700,000 during the 2015 Big Give, a 24-hour campus-wide online fundraiser held Nov. 19.With a total of 561 gifts, Berkeley-Haas donors topped last year’s total of...
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Infographic: Hiring Strong, Entrepreneurship on the Rise for Full-time MBAs
More than 95 percent of job seekers in the Full-time Berkeley MBA Class of 2015 received offers—and 94 percent accepted offers—within three months of graduation. The class, which showed a strong bent...
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Faculty Bring Top Execs to Class
By Krysten CrawfordPaul Crandell had them at “Go Bears!” The room erupted into cheers as the senior vice president for global marketing at GoPro began his nearly two-hour presentation this month on the...
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Prof. Malmendier Honored with Prestigious Grant
By Krysten CrawfordFor Ulrike Malmendier, the accolades are piling up. The Haas finance professor’s groundbreaking insights into how ego and other personality traits of business leaders influence...
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Center for Entrepreneurship & Development in the Middle East Joins Haas
In a move that brings an enhanced focus on development in a critical world region, the Center for Entrepreneurship & Development in the Middle East is now part of Berkeley-HaasThe new center,...
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First Berkeley-Haas Startups Receive Seed Funding
By Charles CooperDriving back from San Diego to the Bay Area last year, Saharnaz Safari, MBA 16, pondered the ravages of the California drought on the parched farmland she passed.Safari and Sohrab...
View ArticleWomen Have the Edge in Crowdfunding
By Sam Zuckerman For women, the business playing field is still not level despite their mass entry into the workforce decades ago. That’s the case not only in terms of employment, but also when it...
View ArticleWhy Entrepreneurs Don't Lose
Even when a startup fails, the risk pays off.Tempted to launch a new business?Entrepreneurs statistically fail more often than not, but new research suggests that the financial risk is not as great as...
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Professor Advises World's Largest Government-Owned Investment Fund
By Sam ZuckermanBerkeley-Haas finance Prof. Richard Stanton was handed a unique assignment last year that, when completed, had the potential to shake stock, bond, and property markets from New York to...
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Berkeley-Haas Launches Human Rights & Business Initiative
By Krysten CrawfordCompanies are taking more responsibility for combatting human rights violations worldwide and Berkeley-Haas is taking bold steps to help businesses achieve their goals.Late last year...
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Mortgage and Finance Expert Dwight Jaffee Passes Away
Real estate and finance professor Dwight M. Jaffee passed away peacefully on Thursday, January 28, 2016, in San Francisco, CA, at the age of 72.He lived in Berkeley, CA.Jaffee was the Willis Booth...
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