Academic Journal Honors Late Entrepreneurship Leader John Freeman (01/30/2012)

Berkeley-Haas to Inaugurate UC Summer Institute for Undergraduates from Historically Black Colleges (01/24/2012)

Prof. Emeritus Oliver Williamson Honored in Peru Haas Professor Emeritus Oliver Williamson, winner of the 2009 Nobel Prize in Economics, was awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor of Peru in the grade of Gran Cruz at the end of last year. (01/17/2012)

Economist Jim Wilcox to Headline Evening at Gap, Other Alumni Events Across Nation What are the markets telling us about the 2012 elections? When will unemployment fall and inflation and interest rates rise? (01/17/2012)

Unlocking the Potential of Ex-Convicts Through Financial Engineering Imagine a plan that reduces the cost of overcrowded prisons, lowers recidivism, creates a new form of human capital investment, and exemplifies societal goodwill. Five Berkeley Master of Financial Engineering (MFE) Program students did just that last fall with a proposal to offer financing and credit to former inmates who aim to become entrepreneurs and small business owners. (01/17/2012)

Prof. David Teece Makes A-List of Management Academics Professor David Teece has been named to the “A-List of Management Academics 2011,” an honorary group of 30 accomplished and distinguished U.S. business professors. Teece is considered a foremost authority on management, strategy, and innovation research. (01/17/2012)

New Spring Courses Reflect Changing Attitudes on Marketing, Innovation, Social and Environmental Issues From ethical issues around greening the supply chain to niche marketing aimed at the “multi-hyphenate” consumer, new spring 2012 courses explore some of today’s hottest management topics and challenges. (01/17/2012)

Berkeley-Haas Nobel Laureates Grace Bank of America Forum A new collection of permanent banners honoring Berkeley's five Nobel Prize winners in economics is now hanging in the Bank of America Forum. (01/17/2012)

Kellie McElhaney, Corporate Social Responsibility Pioneer, Featured in Book on Women Leaders Kellie McElhaney, founder of the Haas School's Center for Responsible Business, describes in a new book on women leaders how she bucked corporate and academic trends to become a leader of the sustainability movement. (01/17/2012)

Conference to Explore Israel as High-Tech Hub UC Berkeley is harnessing the talent of Israeli and U.S. thinkers at an unprecedented international conference Feb. 1-2 that will look at Israel through a high-tech lens. (01/17/2012)

Executive Coach Marshall Goldsmith to Lead MBA Workshop on Reaching the Top, Jan. 29 Learn what it takes to climb the very top rungs of the corporate ladder from noted author, educator, and executive coach Marshall Goldsmith, who will present a workshop in the Berkeley MBA Leadership Development Series on Sunday, Jan. 29, from 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. in Andersen Auditorium. (01/17/2012)

New Diversity Director to Start at Haas Jan. 30 The Haas School has hired Eric Abrams, a former Stanford assistant dean who led undergraduate diversity outreach, as its first diversity director to implement programs and initiatives to expand diversity, equity, and inclusion at Berkeley-Haas. (01/17/2012)

Wolfram Kicks Off Haas Articles on Bloomberg With her opinion article appearing today, Associate Professor Catherine Wolfram becomes the first of eight faculty members to regularly contribute to Bloomberg “Business Class,” a special feature in the editorial opinion section of the Bloomberg website. (01/17/2012)

Marketing Guru David Aaker to Speak on Sharing Interests with Customers, Feb. 15 Haas Professor Emeritus David Aaker, an internationally recognized expert on marketing, innovation, and brand-positioning, will share his latest thinking on customers and brand building with the Haas community on Wednesday, Feb. 15, at 12:30 p.m. in the Wells Fargo Room. (01/17/2012)

UnitedHealth Group Team of Undergrads Wins Open Innovation Challenge A business strategy that includes an interactive portal and online discussion forums for patients of the UnitedHealth Group was the winning business plan in this year's Open Innovation challenge, a competition in the undergraduate Open Innovation and Business Models course. (12/15/2011)

Bounty of Spring Events to Bring Top Business Leaders to Haas Top executives from Citi, Kaiser, and Whirlpool will be among the impressive slate of business leaders coming to the Haas School this spring to participate in a variety of conferences and speaker series. (12/05/2011)

Haas Helps Expand Open Innovation Opportunities It's not often that a novice entrepreneur has a risk-free chance at winning $1 million in services and support for a great idea. Nor is it common for an undergraduate to to pitch a business plan to senior corporate executives. Haas is involved in two programs that are offering just those opportunities: a Million Dollar Open Innovation Challenge and an a competition in the Open Innovation and Business Models undergraduate course (12/05/2011)

Read CalBusiness Online or on iPad The fall issue of CalBusiness, the Haas School's alumni magazine, is now available on the Haas School's website and the iPad. (12/05/2011)

Executive Education Courses Forge New Ground in Innovation, Ethics Two new short courses offered by the Center for Executive Education in February will focus on two important issues in today's ideas-driven economy: innovation and ethics. (12/05/2011)

Accounting Award Recognizes Patatoukas' Research on Supplier Firms The American Accounting Association has awarded Assistant Professor Panos Patatoukas its Competitive Manuscript Award for his research paper debunking conventional wisdom about the consequences of customer concentration for supplier firms. (12/05/2011)

Former Associate Dean and Accounting Prof. Hector Anton Passes Away Hector R. Anton, a former associate dean and well-respected accounting professor at Berkeley-Haas, passed away Nov. 22 in Massachusetts at the age of 92. (12/05/2011)

Aaker’s Brand Relevance Named Among Best Business Books of 2011 Brand Relevance: Making Competitors Irrelevant, the latest book published by noted brand authority and Haas Professor Emeritus David Aaker, was recently named one of three best marketing business books of 2011 by the influential management magazine strategy+business. (12/05/2011)

Innovation Expert David Teece Brings Dynamic Capabilities to Classroom Professor David Teece is expanding the influence of "dynamic capabilities" – a concept he developed in a 1997 paper that has since been cited more than 6,000 times in academic journals – by teaching a course on the topic and proposing it as a vehicle to better integrate business school curriculum. (11/21/2011)

Prof. Leif Nelson Honored for Pay-What-You-Want Pricing Research Associate Professor Leif Nelson has been awarded this year’s Robert B. Cialdini Award for the Cialdinin Award from the Society for Personality and Social Psychology for field research whose relevance extends beyond academic social psychology. (11/21/2011)

Conference to Explore Mass Customization and Open Innovation The Haas School's Garwood Center for Corporate Innovation is co-hosting a conference this month to share knowledge about how two major schools of thought on innovation – mass customization and open innovation – can work harmoniously together. (11/04/2011)

Company Tests Undergrad's Marketing Pitch on Facebook It isn’t unusual for real companies such as the Cooking Channel and Glacier Water to test the pitches of Haas undergraduate students in marketing courses taught by Lecturer Krystal Jalene Thomas. But for the first time, social media has connected an outside firm to a catchy idea from one of Thomas' students, Catherine Limcaco, BS 12. (10/24/2011)

New Vendor to Dish Up Food at Haas The vendor who serves up salads, sandwiches, and lattes at Boalt Hall and Café Strada has been selected to begin operating the Haas Café starting Dec. 1. (10/10/2011)

CFOs Share Ideas at Haas Round Table Howard Atkins, the immediate past CFO of Wells Fargo, spoke on challenges facing the financial services industry Sept. 30 as the guest speaker of the Haas School's quarterly CFO Round Table. (10/10/2011)

Study on Social Responsibility and Financing Wins Moskowitz Prize Firms with strong corporate social responsibility scores enjoy consistently lower costs of capital financing than firms with weaker CSR track records, according to a study that has won the 2011 Moskowitz Prize for Socially Responsible Investing. (10/10/2011)

Mian Testifies in Senate on Slumping Economy Deleveraging–paying down debt–among highly indebted households is the most important factor contributing to the current economic slump, Associate Professor Atif Mian told a U.S. Senate subcommittee Oct. 4 in Washington, D.C. (10/10/2011)

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