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August 29, 2008

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Sept 24 - Orange County
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Sep 26 – Zurich
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Oct 4 – Berkeley
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Oct 30 – Palo Alto
BCMBA Alumni Happy Hour

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N E W S	Careers	Lifelong Learning
New Students from Around the World Join Haas Nearly 500 new students in the Full-time MBA, Evening & Weekend MBA, and Ph.D. programs will begin classes at the Haas School. Full Story Haas Welcomes Seven New Professors Seven distinguished educators have signed on to become ladder-track faculty at the Haas School during the 2008-2009 academic year, bringing expertise in finance, real estate, and marketing. Full Story Haas Launches Top News RSS Feed The Haas School has launched a new RSS feed to keep subscribers up to date with the latest news from the school. Full Story Professors Honored by Academy of Management Haas School Professor David J. Vogel was honored with a best book award from the Academy of Management at its annual meeting in Anaheim earlier this month. Full Story General Electric CEO Jeff Immelt to Speak at Haas General Electric's Jeff Immelt, one of the country's most well-regarded CEOs at one the country's most storied companies, will address the Haas community on September 9. Full Story Professors David Vogel and Robert Reich To Debate Corporate Social Responsibility Haas School Professor David Vogel will face off against former US Secretary of Labor Robert Reich in a debate at the Haas School on corporate social responsibility. Full Story Fall Speaker Series to Examine Open Innovation Leaders in open innovation -- the concept that organizations benefit from making their walls permeable to the flow of new internal and external ideas -- will share their insights in a new speaker series every other week this fall. Full Story Fisher Information Technology Center to Co-Host Green Building Workshop Keeping up with the latest trends in the rapidly growing sustainable construction movement can seem as daunting as trying to solve the global warming crisis. To help, the Haas School's Fisher Information Technology Center is co-hosting a lively forum on tackling sustainable building issues on September 9, at Stanford University. Full Story Haas Undergrad Program Scores High with US News The Haas School ranked #3 on a list of the best undergraduate business programs by US News & World Report. The Program also landed among the top ten schools in several specialty rankings by the magazine. Full Story Haas Makes List of Top 10 "Quant" Schools Advanced Trading magazine included the Haas School's Master's in Financial Engineering Program on a Top 10 list of schools that offer degrees for quantitative analysts in the finance sector. Full Story New California Management Review Explores IKEA, YouTube Ads, English Football Want to learn how Swedish furniture giant IKEA keeps its products so cheap yet innovative? Or what a firm should do when a consumer creates a spoof ad of its product on YouTube? Full Story Berkeley-Columbia Gala to Feature After-Party Dancing at the Claremont Berkeley-Columbia Executive MBA alumni and students will dine, dance, and donate at the fourth annual Berkeley-Columbia Gala on Saturday, September 13, at the Claremont Resort and Spa in Berkeley. Full Story Show Your Cal Spirit at Homecoming on October 4 Enjoy a day of spirited fun and networking as the Cal Bears take on Arizona State during the annual Haas Homecoming celebration. Full Story Tech Experts Converge at Haas for New Media Marketing Conference Executives from Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and other Bay Area tech companies converged on Haas and Stanford in early August to talk to business school marketing professionals from around the world about how the latest new online media trends - also known as Web 2.0 -- are changing the way people communicate. Full Story Research Spotlight: Prof. Wolfram finds MBAs More Likely to Take Mommy Track than MDs, JDs A surprising number of highly educated MBAs are dropping out of the labor force. Associate Professor Catherine Wolfram, a member of the Haas Economic Analysis and Policy Group, studied surveys taken by nearly 1,000 Harvard undergraduate alumni and found 15 years after graduation, business school graduates are more likely than doctors and lawyers to leave the workforce. The common factors: being married, being female, becoming a mother. Full Story Join Haas on Facebook Reconnect with classmates, find or start your own Haas affinity group, read the latest news, and interact with other Haas alumni. Visit Haas on Facebook iHaas: Media Downloads Now on iTunes, YouTube Haas faculty members debate the impact of the economic downturn and Starbucks co-founder Dave Olson defines "Leading from the Heart" on Haas School media downloads now available on iTunes U and YouTube. Full Story
News	CAREERS	Lifelong Learning
Columbia Business School invites you to a Healthcare Industry Panel Discussion & Alumni Reception Thursday, September 4, 6-9 pm Sofitel San Francisco Bay, 223 Twin Dolphin Drive, Redwood City, CA The program will focus on Life Science Investments and Entrepreneurship. Keynote speaker: Daniel O'Day '97, president and CEO, Roche Molecular Diagnostics Panelists include: Alison de Bord '99, director, Alta Partners; Ron Eastman '78, managing director, Essex Woodlands Health Ventures; Andrew Hindman '05, vice president corporate development, Onyx Pharmaceuticals; A. Richard Juelis '73, president, Tucker Associates; Winnie H. Wan, PhD '83, exec. chairman & acting CEO, BEING BioPharmaceuticals, Ltd. Moderator: Professor Cliff Cramer, director, Healthcare and Pharmaceutical Management Program, Columbia Business School Registration is required: Please contact Kara McGillicuddy at klm2141@columbia.edu. Thank you to our sponsors Roche Molecular Diagnostics, Credit Suisse, PB Fund, Essex Woodlands Health Ventures, and Dorsey & Whitney LLP. The Path to Global Reporting: Opportunities and Challenges - Friday, October 24, 7:30 am to 5:00 pm Santa Clara Marriott - Early Bird Discount The Financial Reporting Conference offers international speakers to address current issues in financial reporting, proposed IFRS challenges, the impact of key regulatory initiatives on US Entities, and special topics panel on improvements to financial reporting. Opening Addresses: “The Path to Global Reporting: Opportunities and Challenges” Sir David Tweedie, Chairman of IASB Robert Herz, Chairman of FASB Lunch Speakers: Dean Rich Lyons: “Current Challenges in International Business” Greg Jonas, Moody’s Corporation “Lessons Learned from the Subprime Debacle and Current Credit Crisis” Early Bird Registration Single - $465/person; Group (6 or more) - $400/person Register and Learn More *New this year:* the Berkeley MBA Experienced Hire Resume Database is free to our client companies. Sign up for access
News	Careers	LIFELONG LEARNING
Pricing for Profitability in the Information Age Dates: Four days - Sept 8-9 and Oct 6-7, 2008 Who should Attend: Product Management, Marketing, Finance, and Pricing Professionals, and CEO's Price: $5,445 (15% discount for Haas alumni!) Corp. Offer: 2nd person from the same firm attends at 1/2 price. Location: The Executive Center at the Haas School of Business More Details and Registration In the global information economy, pricing is more complex than ever: Customers have more ability to compare your price with the competition Products are launched and updated more quickly than ever before Reverse auctions threaten to commoditize products Sophisticated pricing tools enable sales people to price "on the fly" Learn to recognize and neutralize the threats, while seizing the opportunities at the four-day Pricing Certificate Program at UC Berkeley's Center for Executive Development. The course is led by award-winning Professor Teck Ho, who will be joined by three additional top Haas faculty as well as Geoffrey Moore, author of *Crossing the Chasm.* For questions or to register a group, call Bart Decker at 510.642.9167 or Kim Fisher at 415.637.4913
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