MBA Venture Aimed at Wine Aficionados Wins $100K Raise a glass to Pristine, a Berkeley MBA startup that uses smartphone technology to enhance the wine-drinking experience—and is now $100,000 stronger thanks to a grant from Founder.org. (06/05/2013)

Socially Responsible Investment Fund Launches Capital Campaign With a five-year return exceeding 50 percent, the Haas Socially Responsible Investment Fund has become an important training ground for future investment managers. (05/22/2013)

Berkeley Board Fellows Award $30,000 to Three Nonprofits Berkeley MBA and other graduate students awarded $30,000 to three nonprofit boards of directors at the first annual Berkeley Board Fellow Excellence Awards on May 2. (05/13/2013)

Undergrad, MBA, and PhD Students Bid Haas Farewell Nearly 900 business school students are graduating this month, bringing to a close their education in the classroom but not their lifelong connection to Berkeley-Haas. (05/13/2013)

Center for Executive Education Welcomes New CEO Derek Dean joins the Center for Executive Education as its new CEO today (April 29), bringing more than two decades of experience in consulting at The Exetor Group and McKinsey & Co. (04/29/2013)

Celebrate Haas Courtyard Opening May 2 The newly transformed Haas courtyard has come alive, providing a more inviting space for alumni during reunion weekend Saturday and for new full-time MBA admits Friday at Days at Haas II. (04/29/2013)

Tee Off May 13 at Haaski Golf Open (04/15/2013)

Picturing Haas Culture The walls have come to life at Haas with new posters that reflect our Defining Principles and showcase just a few of our many talented faculty, students, alumni, and staff. (04/15/2013)

Young Entrepreneurs at Haas Opens Summer Academy to Students in Asia, Preps to Pick Volt Raffle Winner The Center for Young Entrepreneurs at Haas (YEAH) youth mentoring program is expanding its summer business academy to high school students in Taiwan. (04/15/2013)

Watch YouTube Documentary on Sight-Impaired Alum's Polar Trek At the end of 2011, Alan Lock and Andrew Jensen, both MBA 11, strapped on skis and trekked 570 miles over 28 days from the Antarctic Shoreline to the South Pole. For Lock, the Polar Vision trek—now captured in a new YouTube documentary—was the culmination of a journey that began when he suddenly lost most of his eyesight to macular degeneration at the age of 23 while serving aboard a British submarine. (03/31/2013)

Global Social Venture Competition to Host Record Number of Worldwide Finalist Teams Reducing malaria in Africa via a mosquito-repelling soap and addressing the plastics pollution crisis with pulp-and-paper packaging alternatives are among the objectives of the record 18 finalists in this year’s Global Social Venture Competition Global Finals and Conference at the Haas School April 11 and 12. (03/31/2013)

Undergrad Program to Host First Women Empowerment Day, April 19 The Undergraduate Program's inaugural Women Empowerment Day on April 19 will bring nearly a dozen successful alumnae back to the school to talk with students. (03/31/2013)

Entrepreneur Hansoo Lee, MBA 10, Founder of Magoosh, Passes Away Alumnus and entrepreneur Hansoo Lee, MBA 10, passed away March 4 after a 15-month battle with lung cancer. A memorial for Lee was held today in San Francisco, and classmates are currently setting up an entrepreneurship fellowship in his name. (03/18/2013)

Two Alumni Make SF Business Times "40 Under 40" List Kevin Chou, BS 02, and Sheldon Kimber, MBA 07, were named to this year's "40 Under 40" list of young professionals who "hit home runs," compiled by the San Francisco Business Times. (03/18/2013)

UC Berkeley Startup Competition Offers Larger Prizes Thirty-nine teams, including 16 from Haas, are competing for larger cash prizes and a new $100,000 grant and mentorship program in this year's UC Berkeley Startup Competition, a marquee entrepreneurship event at the university. (03/18/2013)

IDEO General Manager Tom Kelley to Headline Alumni Conference, April 27 From lessons on design thinking to a series of talks modeled after TEDx events, the Annual Alumni Conference on April 27 will feature a full day of teaching by more than two dozen alumni, faculty, and staff. (03/18/2013)

Profs. Williamson, Yellen Named Berkeley Fellows Haas Professors Emeriti Oliver Williamson and Janet Yellen were honored as Berkeley Fellows earlier this year by Chancellor Robert Birgeneau. (03/18/2013)

Silicon Valley Veteran Heidi Roizen to Headline Women in Leadership Conference, April 6 Silicon Valley venture capitalist Heidi Roizen, the subject of a popular case study on networking, will give the keynote address at the 17th annual Women in Leadership Conference April 6 at the Haas School of Business. (03/01/2013)

Haas Faculty Launch Crowdfunding Campaign for Solar Light Research in Uganda Three Haas professors are bypassing traditional grants and going straight to crowdfunding to raise money for a study on how to get people in rural Uganda to replace dangerous kerosene lanterns with life-changing solar lamps. (03/01/2013)

Latin American Business Conference to Explore Region's Investment Opportunities, April 5 With Latin America representing 8 percent of global GDP, the region's role as an important destination for local and foreign investment will take center stage at the fourth annual Latin American Business Conference at Haas on April 5. (03/01/2013)

Learn about Quantitative Finance Careers, March 12 "Quants" from the Federal Reserve, Barclays, and BlackRock will share their personal stories on building careers in quantitative finance during a panel discussion March 12 at the International House. (03/01/2013)

Center for Responsible Business to Celebrate 10 Years with Reception, Sustainability Workshop The Center for Responsible Business will celebrate its 10th anniversary March 20 with an evening reception for the entire Haas community and a daylong workshop on sustainability for business school alumni. (02/14/2013)

2013 Asia Business Conference, "Asia. Bigger than You Think," to Provide Perspectives Beyond China The 2013 Berkeley-Haas Asia Business Conference on March 16 will feature keynote addresses from a renowned futurist with Salesforce.com who has written about China and an Indonesian alumnus who came from modest beginnings to become a major player in his nation’s energy industry. (02/14/2013)

Haas Sends Off Last Berkeley-Columbia Executive MBA Class With an inspiring commencement speech from alumna and vintner Kathryn Hall, BCEMBA 08, former ambassador to Austria, 66 students in the Berkeley-Columbia Executive MBA Program marked the end of their 19-month program Saturday at Wheeler Auditorium. (02/04/2013)

Students, Staff, Faculty Extend Big Thanks to Donors Hundreds of Haas students, staff, and faculty wrote thank-you cards to donors last week to acknowledge that without their generosity, the school would not have enough funding to operate after the beginning of December. (02/04/2013)

Longtime Berkeley-Haas Benefactor Tom Clausen, Former Chief of Bank of America and the World Bank, Passes Away Former Bank of America and World Bank chief A.W. "Tom" Clausen, a longtime Berkeley-Haas benefactor, passed away Monday from complications from pneumonia, according to media reports. He was 89. (01/22/2013)

Silicon Valley Business Journal Spotlights Alum at eBay Chris Plasser, MBA 04, head of product at RedLaser, part of eBay mobile, made the "40 under 40" list compiled by the Silicon Valley Business Journal last month. (01/14/2013)

Innovation in Action: MBA Grad Brings Haas@Work to Life at Wells Fargo After graduation, Amir Zelazny, MBA 09, went on to build the kernel of an idea from his Haas@Work project into a major new strategy for Wells Fargo Bank. (01/07/2013)

Media Shines Spotlight on Two Companies with Haas Origins Two Bay Area companies hatched and nurtured through the Berkeley MBA Program recently received some high-profile coverage: Indiegogo, an online crowdfunding platform, was showcased in a Financial Times article, and TubeMogul, a media buying platform for video advertising, was featured in an Advertising Age article on the company’s recent $20 million Series C round of funding. (12/20/2012)

Spring Events to Bring Top Business Leaders and Entrepreneurs to Haas From a big thinker in finance to a conference on consumer choice in health care, a host of impressive leaders and events this spring will inspire, engage, and inform the Haas community about the latest trends in business. (12/10/2012)

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