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)

PhD, MBA, Undergrad Students Excel in Competitions Students in the Berkeley-Haas PhD, MBA, and Undergraduate programs recently won or placed in several competitions, showing strength in accounting, finance, and marketing. (05/13/2013)

MBA Students Squash Competition and Raise $45,000 in Challenge for Charity Berkeley MBA students scored big in squash, soccer, and tennis in the annual Challenge 4 Charity (C4C) Sports Weekend April 19 to April 20 at Stanford University. (05/13/2013)

Undergrads Recognized as Champions of Culture This year marks the first time that four undergraduate business students will be recognized with a Champion of Culture Award, one for each Berkeley-Haas Defining Principle, at their commencement. (05/13/2013)

Haas Welcomes Inaugural MBA for Executives Class Dinner at the top of Memorial Stadium with a Nobel Laureate and a talk on design thinking by IDEO GM Tom Kelley, MBA 83. Those are some highlights from the first days of the new Berkeley MBA for Executives Program, which begins this month. (05/13/2013)

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)

Tee Time: Haas Undergrad Makes Masters Earlier this month, Michael Weaver, BS 14, set aside his business studies and set out across the country for a different kind of course: the Masters, golf's prestigious springtime rite. (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)

New Berkeley Social Entrepreneurship Club Wins Two Honors (04/15/2013)

Haas Undergrads' "Foo" Plan Takes First in Google-Accenture Competition An undergraduate team that included two Haas students took first place at the Google-Accenture Domains Case Competition April 1 with a creative approach to marketing "foo." (04/15/2013)

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)

MBA Students Launch Two Speakers Series (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)

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)

Studying and Launching Simultaneously: Student Startup Roundup From a global crowdfunding platform to a $2.4 million waste-to-food mushroom business to a school lunch program in dozens of cities, Berkeley-Haas has produced a number of successful startups. To highlight the latest crop of entrepreneurs at Haas, we are launching an occasional series of articles about student ventures. (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)

Financial Engineering Program Graduates Class of '13, Welcomes Class of '14 The Berkeley Master of Financial Engineering Program celebrated 66 graduates at their commencement March 22 and welcomed 68 students into the 13th class of the program on March 25. (03/31/2013)

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)

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)

Berkeley MBA Team Pinpoints Pain Points to Take Second in Health Care Competition Taking pains to understand the different needs of health care executives and doctors garnered second prize for a Berkeley MBA team in the Emory Leadership in Healthcare Case Competition Feb. 15 at Emory University's Goizueta Business School. (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)

Haas Teams Earn High Marks in Education Leadership Competition An interdisciplinary team proved to be a “secret weapon” for the second-place Berkeley winner in the Education Leadership Case Competition at Haas Feb. 15-16. (03/01/2013)

Haas Leads $3.75 Million Innovation Program with National Science Foundation Berkeley-Haas is spearheading an educational program funded by a $3.75 million grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) that aims to commercialize university research and foster innovation. (03/01/2013)

Berkeley MBA Team Ties for First in Wharton Private Equity Competition Leveraging knowledge of the region to identify investment opportunities, a team of Berkeley MBA students tied for first place with Chicago Booth in the Wharton Latin American Private Equity Competition Feb. 2. (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)

Telecom and Consulting Execs to Speak at Commencements Arun Sarin, MBA 78, MS 78 (Material Sci. and Eng.), former CEO of Vodafone, and Marc Singer, BS 86, director of the McKinsey & Co.'s Marketing and Sales Practice for the Americas, will give commencement speeches at graduation this May. (02/14/2013)

Berkeley MBA Teams Take 1st, 3rd in Biotech Competition Blending expertise in both finance and biotech, two Berkeley MBA teams won first and third places in the Kellogg Biotech & Healthcare Case Competition Jan. 26 at Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management. (02/04/2013)

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