The University of California Berkeley’s Haas School of Business today became the second U.S.-based member to join the Global Network for Advanced Management, a network of top business schools committed to educating global leaders. Berkeley-Haas is the 28th business school worldwide to join the Global Network, and brings unique depth in innovation, entrepreneurship, and […]
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Master of Financial Engineering Program Makes Top 10 List
The Berkeley Master of Financial Engineering (MFE) Program was named among the top 10 quantitative finance programs in the nation for a second time by Advanced Trading magazine. Berkeley MFE Program also made the top 10 list in 2008, the first year Advanced Trading published its ranking. Advanced Trading is a magazine and Web […]
New program aims to tackle the wealth gap, sending Black students off to college with advanced financial acumen
[…] investment they can make,” said Jimi Harris, chief of community relations at PG&E, who created the program. “We wanted to prove that high school students could digest advanced financial education in the hope that it can be replicated by other corporate leaders and institutions.” Jimi Harris, chief of community relations at PG&E, addresses graduates […]
Women’s 21st Century Leadership Course Attracts Global Students
[…] to mastering the skills they require to lead. The intensive five-day program, Women’s 21st Century Leadership, is the first offered at Berkeley-Haas through the Global Network for Advanced Management (GNAM). GNAM, a consortium of 29 business schools led by the Yale School of Management, oversees the Global Network Weeks, designed to give students from […]
In big data course, MBA students learn how to second-guess an AI
[…] Connie & Kevin Chou Hall on the Haas School of Business campus. Standing before a 5th-floor classroom packed with aspiring MBAs, Assoc. Prof. Jonathan Kolstad was talking advanced data science as part of his new course, “Big Data and Better Decisions.” Kolstad asked students to pick between two common models for designing a predictive […]
New Fall Courses Stay on Top of Changing Landscape
[…] workplace, new fall courses are teaching students forward-thinking management skills while providing hands-on learning to apply them. Berkeley-Columbia Executive MBA students have the exciting opportunity to take Advanced Entrepreneurship: The Lean LaunchPad (XMBA 296T), taught by Steve Blank, a serial entrepreneur whose class will not focus on building a business plan but a business […]
Haas to Host World’s Top Young Entrepreneurs at Intel Global Challenge
From advanced polymers to mobile football game guides to smart grid platforms, technology ideas from some of the world’s top young entrepreneurs will vie for $100,000 in prizes at the eighth annual Intel Global Challenge at UC Berkeley in November. Twenty-eight teams from 18 countries will compete for five prizes ranging from $2,500 to […]
Berkeley-Haas Partnership Yields $5 Million for Unprecedented Energy Efficiency Study
Berkeley-Haas researchers have partnered with colleagues from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the University of Chicago to conduct the largest-ever demonstration of advanced energy monitoring in industrial facilities. The initiative, part of the cross-school E2e project, has just received a $5 million research grant from the California Energy Commission (CEC) to test an […]
Yang Guo, MFE 12
Data Science Manager, Opendoor
Yang Guo sits at one of the hottest corners of the business world, where advanced quantitative finance meets big data. He runs the pricing data science team at Opendoor, a San Francisco company that seeks to revolutionize home buying and selling. Instead of using real estate brokers, homeowners sell directly to Opendoor, which in […]
10 Berkeley Haas PhDs honored at commencement
[…] praised for their resilience during the 2021 commencement ceremony last Saturday, with Dean Ann Harrison noting “the incredible years of hard work” they’ve put into earning the advanced degree. In full regalia, Finance Prof. Ulrike Malmendier, faculty head of the doctoral program, introduced Harrison, who virtually welcomed the students and their families and friends. […]
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New research shatters outdated pay-gap myth that women don’t negotiate
[…] better negotiators and help close the gender pay gap. Yet not only does the pay gap persist, but it tends to be larger for women who gain advanced business skills. New research by Berkeley Haas Professor Laura Kray shows the belief that women don’t ask for higher pay is not only outdated, but it […]
Professor Nancy Wallace wins top honor for work in real estate & urban economics
[…] award, named for the late Berkeley Haas professor emeritus and leading urban economics scholar John M. Quigley, recognizes scholars who best represent the ways in which Quigley advanced the academic fields of real estate, urban economics, public finance, and regional science. “The medalist must have produced a record of scholarship that opens up new […]
Waymo Co-CEO Tekedra Mawakana on embracing the self-driving technology mission
[…] in the air. The regulatory environment isn’t set, the customer adoption plan isn’t set, and the technology isn’t done. I thought my relationship with ambiguity was quite advanced … but ambiguity at every level means never walking on solid ground.“ Some things are going to go wrong, she added, and that’s OK. “You can’t […]
Business Leaders Welcome New Students from Around the Globe
[…] the class, and 71 percent of students speak more than one language. On average students have eight years of work experience and about 42 percent already hold advanced degrees. The new Evening & Weekend MBA class brings the total enrollment for the three-year program to 782. The PhD Program Sixteen new PhD students were […]
Augmented Intelligence
[…] using ChatGPT (or Google’s Bard, or Microsoft’s Bing Chat), here are some ideas from Haas students and alumni. Analyzing data. MC Landolt, MBA 26, a principal in advanced analytics at AT&T, uses ChatGPT for Excel and SQL formulas and Microsoft Data Analysis Expressions (DAX) functions. “I’m not an expert in building DAX, SQL, or […]
Big Question
Thomas Furtney, of Kentfield, Calif., announces, “I recently joined Advanced Communities as managing partner based out of our San Francisco office. I have been working within the Salesforce ecosystem since 2007, and Advanced Communities helps deliver consumer- grade customer experiences to external and internal customers. “When not working, I am busy chasing after my […]
Senior US Energy Adviser to Help Launch New Institute at Haas
[…] Conferences and a Renewable Energy Speaker Series. Three courses in non-degree, executive education: Economic Fundamentals of Electricity Regulation and Markets, Economics of Energy and the Environment, and Advanced Energy Economics. A regular working paper series and newsletter that disseminate the latest research findings. The institute’s expertise is strengthened by its close collaboration with UC […]
Berkeley-Stanford CleanTech Conference to Explore Smart Grid
[…] will run from noon to 7:00 p.m. in SRI Auditorium in Menlo Park. Smart grid refers to an electric power system that uses high technology, such as advanced metering, to deliver energy more efficiently and more cleanly, thus reducing emissions. The event will feature a keynote speech by Andrew Tang, senior director of PG&E’s […]
Haas Kicks Off School Year with Speakers, Activities Highlighting Innovation
[…] and organizations that include SunPower Corp., the U.S. Navy, the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and the Tenderloin Neighborhood Development Corp. The students represent 28 countries. Forty-one percent hold advanced degrees. The PhD Program Less than 4 percent of 526 applicants were chosen for the Berkeley-Haas PhD program this year. Seventeen new students bring total enrollment […]