eHAN 2-16-05 - Haas Alumni Network e-newsletter

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Dean Sets Ambitious Strategic Goals Acting Dean Rich Lyons declared the Haas School in "wonderful shape" and called upon the entire community to supply "some radically innovative thinking" to meet a series of ambitious goals he set forth at a State of the School address. FULL TEXT Future Optometrists Get Business Edge UC Berkeley optometry students are getting a leg up in basic business skills from Haas School faculty as part of a special program to prepare future optometrists to manage a private practice. FULL TEXT Annual HAN Celebration at the Menlo Circus Club Haas graduate students and South Bay alumni will make new connections at the sixth annual Haas Alumni Network Celebration in Silicon Valley on Wed., Feb. 23, at the Menlo Circus Club in Atherton. FULL TEXT "Top 100" Investor to Keynote Asia Conference Wu-Fu Chen, ranked by Forbes Magazine as one of the Top 100 Venture Investors in the US, will join the fifth annual Asia Business Conference as the keynote speaker on Sat., Feb. 26, at the Haas School of Business. FULL TEXT U.S. Economic Outlook from Janet Yellen Haas professor Janet Yellen, president and CEO of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, will discuss the U.S. Economic Outlook, Wed., March 2. Sponsored by the Boalt Law School Bay Area Alumni Chapter. FULL TEXT Let the Bidding Begin: Challenge for Charity Auction Every year Berkeley MBA students face stiff competition in the MBA Challenge for Charity (C4C) as they try to volunteer more hours, organize more events, and raise more money for the Special Olympics than the MBA students from the five west coast business schools they are competing against. FULL TEXT Women in Leadership to Celebrate Choices The wide variety of career options, professional networks, and lifestyle choices available to women will be cause for celebration among students, alumni, and professionals at the ninth annual Women in Leadership Conference on Sat., March 5, at the Haas School. MORE INFO / REGISTER Haas Venture Capital Team Advances to Nationals A second-place showing in the February western regional finals of the Venture Capital Investment Competition (VCIC) has netted the Haas School's Epoch Ventures team a place in the VCIC Nationals, which will take place April 7- 9 at the University of North Carolina's Kenan-Flagler Business School. FULL TEXT Financial Engineering Innovator to Give MFE Commencement Address Robert J. Shiller, the economist who predicted the burst of the stock market bubble in 2000 in his best-selling book, Irrational Exuberance, will deliver the commencement address to the Master's in Financial Engineering Class of '05 on Fri., March 18, at the Berkeley City Club. FULL TEXT International Week to Focus on Career Opportunities for International Students The Career Center is going global this week with a slate of events aimed specifically at assisting international Berkeley MBA students with their searches for both summer internships and post-graduation jobs. FULL TEXT
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Forum USA 2005 Job Fair The Forum USA 2005 job fair will be held in San Francisco on April 6-7. The Office for Science and Technology at the Embassy of France in the United States holds this yearly event which provides an opportunity to bring together candidates and French companies. Forum USA originally focused on students specialized in engineering and hard sciences. However, they have widened their focus to include candidates with an MBA to better respond to recruiters' needs. Similarly, newly arrived non-French candidates will likely comprise 25-35% of forum attendants. Over the years, this event has evolved into the most significant recruitment forum of its kind in North America. REGISTER NOW HAN CAREER RESOURCES (Job List, Networking, Counseling)
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Haas People Making News Research by Andrew K. Rose, the Bernard T. Rocca Jr. Professor of International Trade, was featured in the Business Standard in an article titled, " TCA Srinivasa-Raghavan: Parties and golf, Yes. But exports?" on February 11. FULL TEXT David Levine, professor in the Economic Analysis and Policy Group and the Organizational Behavior and Industrial Relations Group, was interviewed on the Lehrer News Hour discussing the dismissal of Carly Fiorina from Hewlett-Packard on February 10. The February 2005 Harvard Business Review features two Haas School faculty members, Henry Chesbrough and Peter Goodson. + Chesbrough, visiting assistant professor and executive director of the Center for Open Innovation, made a case for the study of management in the services sector or "services sciences" to become an academic discipline in its own right, which was featured as one of 20 HBR "Breakthrough Ideas for 2005." +Chesbrough used the emergence of computer science as a legitimate field of study as a model in defining the criteria for achieving such status and illustrating how "services sciences" is ready to come into its own. + Goodson, a lecturer with the Haas Finance Group, served as an expert adviser for an HBR Case Commentary titled "Springboard to a Swan Dive." Goodson was one of four commentators offering opinion on whether or not a hypothetical high-tech CFO should join the board of a Fortune 500 company. From Goodson's perspective, board membership no longer ensures opportunity and, in fact, holds inherent risks and liabilities. Cynthia Kroll, senior regional economist at the Fisher Center for Real Estate and Urban Economics, commented on the housing market in the San Francisco Chronicle in an article titled " Experts See No Housing Bubble: Economist Notes Predicted Price Cuts Haven't Happened" on February 10. FULL TEXT The Haas School of Business was mentioned in the Tri-Valley Herald in an article titled "Mixed Messages on New Stadium Plan" on February 10. The article referred to the campus building campaign that includes a new building for the Haas School. FULL TEXT Peter Sealey, adjunct professor of marketing, was quoted in USA Today in an article titled "Podcasting: It's All Over the Dial" on February 8. Sealey commented on podcasting, audio blogs posted on the web for download to MP3 players. FULL TEXT Sealey was quoted in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette in an article titled "Armchair Ad Experts Size Up the Contenders of Advertising" on February 6. Sealey commented on the ads that aired during the Super Bowl. FULL TEXT Sealey was quoted in The New York Times in an article titled "Clicks Add Up to Big Ad Dollars at Search Sites" on February 4. FULL TEXT (subscription required). Jihong Sanderson, lecturer in the Management of Technology Program, was featured in the RFID Journal in an article titled "Understanding RFID Adoption in China" on February 7. Sanderson contributed to the article on understanding RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) and its potential in the Chinese market. FULL TEXT Michael Katz, the Edward J. and Mollie Arnold Professor of Business Administration, commented in the San Francisco Chronicle on February 6 in an article titled " Takeover Bandwagon Keeps Rolling: More Megadeals Seen as Firms Reap Benefits of Mergers." Katz commented on consolidation between businesses in the telecom sector. FULL TEXT Janet Yellen, Eugene E. and Catherine M. Trefethen Professor of Business Administration currently on leave as the San Francisco Federal Reserve President, was quoted in USA Today in an article titled " Fewer Americans Participating in Labor Force or Seeking Jobs" on February 6. FULL TEXT Richard Lyons, acting dean, was quoted in the Tri-Valley Herald in an article titled " Cal Makes a Great Pass for Upgrades" on February 4. FULL TEXT Hal Varian, professor in the Operations and Information Technology Management Group, was quoted in the February 2005 issue of Fast Company in an article titled "You Got Game Theory!" Varian commented on game theory and its role in the business market today. FULL TEXT Jason Anderson, MBA 04, was featured in the East Bay Business Times in an article titled "Video Gaming Becomes Event Attraction" on January 28. Anderson was featured for his computer gaming company called Senet Entertainment Inc. FULL TEXT
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Corporate Spinouts: An Emerging Source of New Venture Opportunity Presented by UC Berkeley Entrepreneurs Forum Thurs., February 24, 2005 6:30 - 8:30 pm Haas School of Business Arthur Andersen Auditorium Speakers: Sean Doyle, Intel Capital, Glen Solomon, Partech International; George Hoyem, Blueprint Ventures; Farshid Arman, Siemens Technology-to-Business Center. Our February panel is composed of veteran venture capitalists who will discuss the structure of Spinouts, how they differ from other start-ups and how they're the same. Joining them will be a representative of a corporation which has taken the opposite route, looking for independent technologies that can benefit from a large corporate parent that can bring them the value necessary to obtain their first round of venture financing. MORE INFO/REGISTER
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