| A professor of business administration and of sociology
since 1990, Robert
Cole laid down two hats when he retired on January
1, 2003. Over the course of three decades, Cole examined
firsthand the differences between Swedish, Japanese,
and US work cultures, business management, and most
recently IT practices, first at the University of Michigan,
then at Berkeley. He became a leading expert on Japanese
work practices and later on quality management, culminating
in the book Managing Quality Fads, published in 1999.
Most recently he has worked on product development practices
associated with the open source project, Linux.
Cole served as faculty director of the Management of
Technology (MOT) program, a joint program with the Haas
School, the College of Engineering, and the School of
Information Management & Systems, building up what
has come to be the largest graduate interdisciplinary
program at UC Berkeley. He will continue as MOT’s
faculty director and will advise universities in Japan
and elsewhere on establishing similar programs.
Nils
Hakansson retired after serving as a finance professor
at the business school for more than 33 years. A native
Swede, he came to Berkeley in 1969 and, together with
Professor David Pyle, is credited with building one
of the nation’s top
finance faculties.
Hakansson is known in the worldwide finance community
for his concept of the Superfund index. A radical innovation
in security markets, the Superfund would mimic index
funds and serve as a financial intermediary similar
to an ordinary mutual fund. At Haas, Hakansson chaired
the search committee that identified Earl F. Cheit as
the dean to succeed former dean Richard Holton and later
chaired the planning committee for the new Haas School
building.
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