A Message from Dean Lyons

Berkeley-Haas has always been distinctive. Our capital campaign – and the strategy underlying it – will make us even more so. Our mission is a noble one: to build the next generation of business leaders – forward thinkers on all fronts of general management who lead responsibly in a rapidly changing world.

We will grow stronger by leveraging our “big three” assets: our Place, as part of UC Berkeley and the Bay Area ecosystem of innovation, our People, who include the brightest faculty and students in the world, and our Culture, which produces distinctive leadership qualities like confidence without attitude, looking beyond the status quo, and commitment to positive impact.

The Campaign for Haas will leverage those assets by focusing on, and financially enabling, three broad goals. First, we will transform the Haas campus to bring it forward twenty years and to it align with modern, more team-based learning environments. Second, we will build the leader’s curriculum. Delivering on a distinctively Berkeley philosophy of leadership will require holistic changes, including admissions, core curriculum, elective programs, enhanced capacity to deliver the best possible teaching, and others. Third, we will realize our intellectual vision. Our future depends critically on investments in that academic vitality that fuels it. This includes investments in emerging areas like clean technology, innovation, and sustainable business. It also includes investment in research infrastructure like experimental laboratory capacity for studies in leadership and decision making. And of course, it includes more endowment for faculty support — to attract and retain the world’s very best faculty.

We are especially grateful to donors who have already stepped up to give our campaign the solid foundation it needs. I hope that over the coming years, each one of you will be inspired to support our school. All gifts will make a difference in our future success.

As your dean, and also as an alum, I am all-in for our school – honored and ready to invest the next 10 years of my life. I am asking you to invest alongside me.