Haas NewsWire



Haas NewsWire, November 26, 2001



***Due to the winter holiday, the Haas NewsWire will suspend publication after the December 10, 2001 issue. Publication will resume with the January 14, 2002 issue.***


CONTENTS

Award-Winning Orpheus Chamber Orchestra to Hold Teaching Residency
Dean Tyson to Deliver Final State of the School Address on Wednesday, November 28
Very Popular "Fundamentals of Business" Course Opens Haas to Berkeley Graduate Students
Haas Joins in Launching of National Organization to Increase Women in Business Leadership
Staff News
Haas in the News
Happening at Haas
Alumni Events

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AWARD-WINNING ORPHEUS CHAMBER ORCHESTRA TO HOLD TEACHING RESIDENCY

The Grammy Award-winning Orpheus Chamber Orchestra will hold a one-day teaching residency at the Haas School on November 29th. Orpheus, the only chamber orchestra in the world that consistently rehearses, performs, and records without a conductor, has garnered attention from the corporate sector for its unique approaches to creativity, innovation, and self-management.

Orpheus will showcase its innovative approach to leadership for of a group of Haas MBA students on Thursday from 1:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. at the International House auditorium. Tickets to the event were awarded to MBA students through a lottery process. Morgan Stanley is sponsoring the event at Haas. The firm also sponsored an Orpheus residency at Hitotsubashi University in Tokyo in June 2001.

The program will include presentations by Dean Laura Tyson; Harvey Seifter, executive director of Orpheus Chamber Orchestra and author of "Leadership Ensemble"; lecturer Terry Pearce; and David Pottruck, co-CEO of Charles Schwab. John McGeehan, managing director and chief administrative officer for Morgan Stanley Japan Limited will also be in attendance.

Central to the distinctive personality of Orpheus is its unusual process of sharing and rotating leadership roles. The "Orpheus Process" is built on individual responsibility, shared leadership, and workplace democracy. The process has enabled the orchestra to unleash the talent, vision, creativity, and leadership potential of each member of the group.

For every work, an elected committee of musicians selects a concertmaster and each instrumental section chooses a representative. These chosen representatives (the "core group") are responsible for forming the initial concept of the piece and developing an overall interpretive approach to the music before the entire orchestra comes together to rehearse. The core also structures the rehearsal process for the entire orchestra, which provides clear leadership while insuring that every member has a real stake in the artistic outcome of every piece performed by the orchestra. The results of the process have produced 28 years of sustained excellence at the highest level of international accomplishment.

The main focus of the residency at Haas will be to demonstrate the Orpheus Process in action as the orchestra rehearses the first movement of Haydn's Symphony No. 63 in C Major in "real time," showing by example their work process from core preparations to final product. The applications of the Orpheus Process to the business world will be framed in the introduction and reinforced through a question-and-answer and discussion period with the students and presenters.

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DEAN TYSON TO DELIVER FINAL STATE OF THE SCHOOL ADDRESS ON WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 28

Dean Tyson will give the final state of the school address of her tenure as dean on November 28. The speech will be given twice that day, once during the day at 12:45 p.m. and once in the evening at 7:45 p.m., in the Arthur Andersen Auditorium. Dean Tyson will take questions from the audience at the end of the speech. All students, faculty, and staff are welcome to attend.

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VERY POPULAR "FUNDAMENTALS OF BUSINESS" COURSE OPENS HAAS TO BERKELEY GRADUATE STUDENTS

For the first time, the Haas School is offering a graduate-level business course specifically designed for non-business school students at UC Berkeley who want exposure to fundamental knowledge of management and business. "Fundamentals of Business" (BA 296-10) will introduce Berkeley graduate students to the basics of business.

So far, the course appears quite popular, with almost every seat taken during the pre-enrollment process. Of the 102 students currently pre-enrolled, the largest segment (18 students) comes from the College of Engineering. The remainder come from a variety of graduate programs at Berkeley.

"For years there has been high demand for Haas courses outside the school," says Andy Shogan, associate dean for instruction. "Graduate students don't have time to take several business courses to learn management, finance, and marketing. This course will satisfy that demand and expose the students to more topics."

Fundamentals of Business is a broad survey course for graduate students designed to provide a comprehensive introduction to the study of business and modern management techniques such as data gathering, analysis, and decision-making. The class meets in the Arthur Andersen Auditorium on Wednesdays from 6:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m.

The format of the course is three five-week modules taught by a team of instructors with different functional areas of expertise. The modules are:


At the end of each of the three modules, there will be an exam on the following Monday. The course is open to graduate students only from departments other than the Haas School. No prerequisite coursework is required, but a familiarity with basic economics is helpful. For more information visit http://www.haas.berkeley.edu/~robinson/BA296/.

Haas also offers an undergraduate business survey course, BA 10, which is a prerequisite for the business major.

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HAAS JOINS IN LAUNCHING OF NATIONAL ORGANIZATION TO INCREASE WOMEN IN BUSINESS LEADERSHIP

A new national nonprofit organization designed to increase the number of women business owners and business leaders was announced on November 6 during the group's first board meeting at the University of Michigan Business School. Ilse Evans, executive director of MBA Admissions and Career Services, and David Downes, director of the Full-Time MBA program, are founding board members.

The organization, whose name and headquarters have yet to be determined, is an alliance of educational institutions, businesses, and nonprofit groups. The organization will work to increase women's access to education and business networks, support women financially in their business education, raise awareness of the impact women can make on business and society, and encourage and support research on relevant topics.

"One of the key barriers to access to business education is the lack of awareness and knowledge women have about the value and flexibility of business careers and education," says Jeanne M. Wilt, executive director of the new organization and assistant dean for admissions and career development at the University of Michigan Business School.

Over the next three years, the organization plans to substantially expand its membership of business schools and companies, serve alumnae of member schools and develop strategic partnerships with other key organizations that work with women and girls. It aims to raise $20 million by 2004 to support its work.

Business members of the new group include Dell, Deloitte Consulting, Goldman, Sachs & Co., JP Morgan Chase & Co., Kraft Foods Inc., and Procter & Gamble Co. Academic members are the business schools at Columbia University, Dartmouth (Tuck), the University of California Berkeley (Haas), the University of Chicago, the University of Michigan, the University of Pennsylvania (Wharton), the University of Texas (McCombs), and the University of Virginia (Darden). In addition, the Committee of 200 (C200), a professional organization of businesswomen, the Consortium for Graduate Study in Management, and the University of Michigan Center for the Education of Women are members of the founding board.

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STAFF NEWS

Scheffy Wins Don Yoder Paper Prize

The American Folklore Society honored Zoe Scheffy, manager of Accounting and Personnel Services, with the 2001 Don Yoder Paper Prize at its annual meeting. The AFS Folk Belief and Religious Folklife Section chose Scheffy for her paper, "Sámi Religion in Art and Museums."

Scheffy's paper, which was presented at the Folklore, Religion, and Diversity Politics conference in Alta, Norway in June, 2000, has been accepted for publication in an upcoming book drawn from the conference proceedings. In the paper she shows how differing approaches to museum representation construct subjective and influential visions of Sámi culture and traditional spirituality. In particular, she focuses on the display of drums and their role in both Sámi identity and outsiders' perceptions of the Sámi people. The Sámi are the indigenous people of Scandinavia.

Scheffy received an MA in Folklore from Indiana University, and is currently working toward a Ph.D. in Folklore at Indiana, with minors in Central Eurasian Studies and Museum Studies. For more information, visit http://www.afsnet.org/announcements/announce.pl?106.

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HAAS IN THE NEWS

Severin Borenstein, the E.T. Grether Professor in Public Policy and Business Administration, was interviewed on KCBS radio on November 23. He discussed the state's long-term electricity contracts.

David Vogel, the George Quist Professor of Business Ethics, was quoted in the San Francisco Chronicle on November 22 in an article on corporate responsibility. Read more here: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2001/11/22/BU100478.DTL.

Carl Shapiro, the Transamerica Professor of Business Strategy and director of the Institute of Business and Economics Research (IBER), was quoted in Business Line (The Hindu) on November 21 in a story about the Microsoft anti-trust case.

Dean Laura Tyson appeared on CNBC's Squawk Box on November 20. She commented on the Bush administration's handling of the economy.

Kenneth Rosen, the California State Professor of Real Estate and Urban Economics and chairman of the Fisher Center for Real Estate and Urban Economics, appeared on the Channel 7 News at 5:30 on November 19. He commented that he expects real estate prices to decline another ten percent in the next year.

Tyson also appeared in CNN's Moneyline on November 19 commenting on tighter loan standards by banks.

The 24th Annual Real Estate and Economics Symposium sponsored by the Haas School and the Fisher Center for Real Estate & Urban Economics, was announced in the San Francisco Chronicle on November 18.

Tyson was interviewed in CNN's The Money Gang on November 14. She spoke about the economic stimulus package proposed by President Bush.

The Contra Costa Times quoted Borenstein on November 14 in an article titled "Northern California Gas Prices Fall to Lowest Level in Nearly Two Years."

Pablo Spiller was quoted in the Chilean magazine Capital on November 2.

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HAPPENING AT HAAS

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ALUMNI EVENTS

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