Berkeley MBA Programs Shine in US News Survey
The Berkeley Full-time MBA Program ranked #7 in the 2009 US News & World Report survey published last week. Both the Berkeley-Columbia Executive MBA and Evening & Weekend MBA programs ranked #6. Read more
Twitter Co-founder Keynotes Reunion Conference
Watch Biz Stone, co-founder of Twitter, tell the Twitter story, and hear his take on communications and modern culture. Also, follow the Haas Alumni Network on Twitter @haasalumni.
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Prof. Michael Katz to Lead Haas Innovation Institute
Professor Michael Katz will become the second director in the history of the Institute of Management, Innovation, and Organization (IMIO) at the Haas School starting in July. One of his top priorities will be to expand the Haas School's connections to the outside business community. Read more
Prof. Carl Shapiro Joins Obama's "Brain Trust"
Haas School Professor Carl Shapiro, an expert in the economics of antitrust and innovation, has been named chief economist of the U.S. Department of Justice’s antitrust division. Read more
Prof. Becomes Academy of Arts and Sciences Fellow
Haas School Professor Philip Tetlock is one of four UC Berkeley faculty members to be named to the 2009 class of fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Read more
Alumni from Goldman Sachs, BrightSource, Barclays to Give Commencement Speeches
Haas School alumni from Goldman Sachs, BrightSource Energy, and Barclays Global Investors will speak at the undergraduate, Berkeley MBA, and PhD commencement ceremonies in May. Read more
Berkeley MBA Student Wins LGBT Competition
Khuram Hussain, MBA 10, had layoffs in mind when he wrote "The L-Word," the winning case in this year's Reaching Out Case Writing Competition. Read more
Alumnus Richard Blum Earns Berkeley Medal
Haas alumnus Richard C. Blum, BS 58, MBA 59, was given the Berkeley Medal, the university's highest honor, by UC Berkeley Chancellor Robert Birgeneau on Saturday. Read more
Haas Undergrad Reveals Cal's Style in Bare Magazine
On a campus where flip-flops and pajama bottoms suffice as fashion statements, Doreen Bloch, BS 10, has proven that high style does coexist with Berkeley's famous political consciousness. Read more
Haas Athletes Score in C4C
A team of 114 Berkeley MBA students and their significant others proved their prowess beyond the classroom as they took fourth place in a frenzy of activities at the Challenge for Charity Weekend at Stanford. Read more
Social Venture Winner Builds Bricks from Cow Dung
Making high-quality bricks from abundantly available cow dung - instead of depleting scarce firewood and clay - earned EcoFaeBrick from Prasetiya Mulya Business School in Indonesia the $25,000 top prize at the tenth annual Global Social Venture Competition at the Haas School this weekend. Read more
Haas Transportation Expert Passes Away
Professor Emeritus Ernest Koenigsberg died of heart failure at his San Francisco home on April 20, four days after his 86th birthday. Read more
Berkeley-Stanford Clean Tech Conference, May 6
This installment of the Berkeley-Stanford Cleantech Conference Series – “Energy Storage: Enhancing the Value of Renewables” is the third in a continuing series of focused conferences highlighting clean technology solutions to address the planet’s multifaceted energy challenges. Read more or Register
Haas Annual Fund Progress:
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