Our mission remains as vibrant today as when our School was founded in 1898.  Every day, the Haas School of Business aspires to deliver the maximum possible value to society by offering the world’s finest management education through teaching, research and public service.

A UC Berkeley business school degree opens doors and changes lives.  And through your generosity to the Annual Fund, we are investing in excellence.

Maintaining our competitive position, and then reaching new levels of excellence, depends upon the generosity of our alumni and friends.  Our 2007-2008 Annual Fund goal is to raise $3.0 million – asking our more than four thousand donors to invest in strategic priorities during the current academic year.

The Annual Fund helps our School meet unexpected needs, and seize unforeseen opportunities – like having a world-renowned finance professor join us for a semester, or buying on short notice the data sets that clinched the deal for hiring two new professors from competing schools.  We encourage you to take time to learn more about the impact your gift can make in the life of our business school.

Finding a way to say “yes” to unexpected opportunities has an important impact on our extraordinary learning community.

Together, we can achieve our ambitions.  Your annual gift means a great deal to me, to our faculty and especially our students.  Your annual gift is an important measure of the vibrancy of our alumni community.

On behalf of all of us at the Haas School of Business – thanks.  Go Bears!