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Can the market bear 3 giant IPOs?

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Gas prices in San Diego and rest of California vary from one station to another — and the differences are stark

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Sergio Lopez: A new era for Campbell leadership

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AI absolutism is breaking our brains. The apocalyptic future we’re being sold isn’t inevitable

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Too much Chinese science is ignored by the West

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All Heart

Jason Bellet, BS 14, co-founded Eko Health to help reinvent the 200-year-old stethoscope as an AI-powered device—now used by more than 700,000 clinicians across five continents. UC Berkeley Haas honors him with its 2026 Leading Through Innovation Award for helping revolutionize cardiopulmonary care.

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Golden Bear

Real estate pioneer Ned Spieker, BS 66, who built one of the nation’s largest REITs and has given more than $80 million to UC Berkeley, receives UC Berkeley Haas’ 2026 Lifetime Achievement Award—and reflects on what fuels his philanthropy.

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Green Empowerment

A transformative $1.5 million gift from the Strauch brothers has renamed UC Berkeley Haas’ Cleantech to Market program, which pairs graduate student teams with cleantech startups. Since 2008, 660+ students have worked on 120+ projects, and participating startups have raised nearly $1.3 billion.

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Teed Off

A UC Berkeley Haas study of more than 25,000 PGA Tour rounds finds that professionals perform measurably worse beside colleagues with opposing political views—a gap that nearly triples when national polarization runs high.

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Shreya Shekhar, BS 23, Partner, Greylock

Shreya Shekhar, BS 23, a graduate of UC Berkeley Haas’ M.E.T. dual-degree program, is now a partner at the venture firm Greylock—a decision-making role few women in Silicon Valley hold—investing in early-stage AI infrastructure startups.

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Thank you to our undergraduate commencement speaker, Mohammad Khalil, for reminding the Class of 2026 that success is measured not only by what we achieve, but by the impact we have on others. His message honored the families, mentors, friends, and peers whose support helped make this moment—and the journey ahead—possible. 💙💛🎓 "If there's one thing Haas teaches us, it's that success cannot stop with you. That our success is measured by the impact we have on the world around us." "Where we go next, we don’t go alone. We go forward together." #BerkeleyHaas #HaasGrad #CalGrad #Cal2026 #HaasProud

Thank you to our undergraduate commencement speaker, Mohammad Khalil, for reminding the Class of 2026 that success is measured not only by what we achieve, but by the impact we have on others. His…
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What’s one thing people don’t realize about AI right now? Using it puts you at the center of geopolitics, say Olaf Groth, a professional faculty member focused on AI and emerging tech, strategy, and policy. #HaasAI #HumanEdgeofAI #UCBerkeley #BerkeleyHaas

What’s one thing people don’t realize about AI right now? Using it puts you at the center of geopolitics, say Olaf Groth, a professional faculty member focused on AI and emerging tech, strategy, and…
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Still riding the high from Saturday’s EMBA Commencement Ceremony! 🎓 This weekend, 64 EMBA graduates crossed the stage at Hertz Hall surrounded by the family, friends, and supporters who helped make this milestone possible. What began as a cohort became a community, creating lifelong bonds and a powerful network that will endure long after graduating. 💙 Congratulations to the UC Berkeley Haas MBA for Executives Class of 2026! #BerkeleyHaas #HaasGrad #EMBAgrad #HaasEMBA #BeyondYourself

Still riding the high from Saturday’s EMBA Commencement Ceremony! 🎓 This weekend, 64 EMBA graduates crossed the stage at Hertz Hall surrounded by the family, friends, and supporters who helped make…
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@coltonhess, MBA 26, “My AI work at Haas all started with me sitting my friends down in the courtyard and showing them what AI tools could help them do: helping them get the “activation energy” up to just start playing with the tools and realizing the power it gives them. I started calling these Activation Sessions, where I meet people where they are and hold their hand while they get started. We pick something real they want to build or a problem they want to solve and we build a prototype around it together. By the end, something exists that didn’t exist before, and more importantly, they built it, and have seen how intuitive it is to build with AI. I like to say, “if you can describe it, you can build it,” and I love seeing the “wow” moment in each session where that really sinks in for people. My next step is scaling Activation Playbook to more organizations, offering one-on-one sessions, executive AI coaching, and “applied AI in residence” offerings, where I meet with an organization’s leaders and learn about the team, the challenges, and the culture, and host workshops and activation sessions with the team. I like sitting down with leaders who know they need to understand AI more, but feel like they can’t keep up and don’t have time to do this on their own. I can help show them the ropes and help them feel empowered to build real things with these tools and can also be a sounding board on their team’s AI strategy. I love this work because it helps people navigate the world differently. They see a problem and start imagining how to build the solution. When they do a tedious process they immediately think, “There’s got to be a better way.” I love getting a peek into the challenges leaders are wrestling with and helping them think through how to use these tools to scale their impact and serve their mission more effectively. This technology is powerful enough to reshape how organizations work, so how and where we use it really matters. I want to do my part pointing this force toward the right problems in thoughtful ways.” #HumanEdgeofAI #HaasAI #BerkeleyHaas #ucberkeley

@coltonhess, MBA 26, “My AI work at Haas all started with me sitting my friends down in the courtyard and showing them what AI tools could help them do: helping them get the “activation energy” up to…
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Congratulations to Jason Bellet BS 14, winner of the 2026 UC Berkeley Haas Leading Through Innovation Award! His work with Eko Health is redefining what’s possible in healthcare, using AI-powered stethoscopes to bring lifesaving cardiac and pulmonary screening to more patients worldwide. 🩺💙 #BerkeleyHaas #HaasAI #HaasMagazine #HealthTech #UCBerkeley

Congratulations to Jason Bellet BS 14, winner of the 2026 UC Berkeley Haas Leading Through Innovation Award! His work with Eko Health is redefining what’s possible in healthcare, using AI-powered…
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What’s the most important thing future business leaders need to know about AI? Associate Professor Abhishek Nagaraj says effective leadership starts with understanding “the black box”—what machine intelligence can do, and where it falls short. #HumanEdgeofAI #HaasAI #BerkeleyHaas #UCBerkeley

What’s the most important thing future business leaders need to know about AI? Associate Professor Abhishek Nagaraj says effective leadership starts with understanding “the black box”—what machine…
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Thank you to undergraduate commencement speaker Adam Foroughi, BS 01, co-founder and CEO of AppLovin, for sharing hard-won lessons with the Class of 2026: be humble but stay hungry, embrace curiosity, and go build what’s next. 🎓🐻 “It is an unbelievable moment in history to be starting your career. The barriers between ‘I have an idea’ and ‘I have a company’ have never been lower.” #BerkeleyHaas #CalGrad #HaasGrad #BS26 #HaasUndergraduateCommencement

Thank you to undergraduate commencement speaker Adam Foroughi, BS 01, co-founder and CEO of AppLovin, for sharing hard-won lessons with the Class of 2026: be humble but stay hungry, embrace…
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Haas School of Business

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A heartfelt thank you to Yamini Rangan, MBA 03 and CEO of HubSpot, for an inspiring MBA commencement address and a reminder that the choices that matter most are to care deeply, stay uncomfortable, and lift others up along the way. 💙💛 "The choices that will define your career have nothing to do with the technology, and everything to do with who you choose to be." #BerkeleyHaas #HaasGrad #MBACommencement

A heartfelt thank you to Yamini Rangan, MBA 03 and CEO of HubSpot, for an inspiring MBA commencement address and a reminder that the choices that matter most are to care deeply, stay uncomfortable,…

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