CalBusiness
Fall 2007
In Brief
The Haas School of Business will create at least five new
faculty positions thanks to a $25 million gift from alumnus Gerson Bakar, a
prominent San Francisco real estate developer, and his wife, Barbara Bass
Bakar.
Dean Campbell to Step Down Next Year
Tom Campbell, the Bank of America Dean of the Haas School, will step down from his position next summer after completing his five-year appointment.
Students Run Social Investments
Berkeley MBA students will manage a socially responsible investment fund for the first time this fall.
Varian is Google Chief Economist
Haas School Professor Hal Varian has been appointed chief economist at Google, the Silicon Valley search giant.
The Nonprofit and Public Management Program became the Center for Nonprofit and Public Leadership this September. The center's mission is to prepare students to found, lead, manage, or govern nonprofit organizations and organizations for the public good.
Wall Street Journal Ranks Haas #2
The Haas School ranked #2 in this year's Wall Street Journal, up from #5 in 2006. This was the strongest showing of the Berkeley MBA program in any major, popular ranking.
Haas Welcomes New MBA Students
The Haas School welcomed 482 new full-time and evening & weekend MBA students this August.
California Management Review Celebrates Fifty Years of New Ideas
The California Management Review (CMR) will celebrate its fiftieth anniversary in November with the publication of a special "Leading Through Innovation" issue that will focus entirely on Haas School faculty research exploring various aspects of innovation.
Students Swim Tahoe for Charity
Battling the elements, Berkeley MBA students Matt Evans, MBA 08, and Ken Wallace, MBA 08, and four friends swam across Lake Tahoe and back to raise money for the League to Save Lake Tahoe and for the National Brain Tumor Foundation.
The Haas School has awarded the first-ever Haas Investment Banking Fellowships to six second-year Full-time Berkeley MBA students.
The Full-time Berkeley MBA Program jumped seven places from #11 in 2005 to #4 in the world in the 2007 Beyond Grey Pinstripes survey, published by the Aspen Institute on October 10.
Hochbaum Joins Defense Research
A team of UC Berkeley researchers including Haas School Professor Dorit Hochbaum was recently awarded a $7.1 million federal grant to develop nuclear-detection technology to better protect the nation from terrorist threats.
BASE Celebrates its Tenth Year
Now in its tenth year, the Haas School's Business for Arts, Sciences, and Engineering (BASE) program drew over 110 applicants and quickly filled to capacity this summer with 52 students from schools including Brown, Cornell, Duke, and Oxford.
Looking for innovative ways to utilize Web 2.0 technologies to market their products to small and medium-sized businesses, Cisco Systems turned to Berkeley MBA students for an influx of fresh ideas.
