Your Gifts in Action

 

Our undergraduates have been competing in business plan competitions across the country. Haas teams have come in first, second, or third in over half of all the competitions we've entered! Contributions from the Haas Annual Fund have paid for the registration and travel fees for our students to enter more and more of these competitions.

Two new professors, recruited from our competitors, required large data sets to which they had access at their previous

schools. We have a system for investing in such data sets on an ongoing basis, but meeting these specific needs immediately was essential to attracting these new colleagues. That's where the Haas Annual Fund made the difference.

Haas jumped to number 2, nationally in the 2009 Business Week rankings for undergraduate business education. The survey found that a major reason was the improvement in career services offered to undergraduates. The investment to make these changes came from the Haas Annual Fund.

Haas business students and faculty have banded together with students and faculty from the College of Natural Resources,

the College of Chemistry, and the College of Engineering to create the Berkeley Institute of the Environment. It is a wonderful example of our ability to reach across the tremendous breadth of Berkeley's expertise, and study sustainable models of business, especially in the sectors producing and consuming fossil fuels and alternative energy sources.