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Capital Considerations (Podcast)

AI and the Economy: Will Artificial Intelligence Drive the Next Productivity Boom?

New York Post

SoCal Edison customers could get up to $8K in utility debt forgiven

Broadband Breakfast

Economist Warns Data Center Interconnection Requests May Be Inflated

Music Connection

Sunset Marquis Hotel’s Legacy Recounted at Events with Lzzy Hale and Sharon Osbourne

Clear Admit

How to Use AI in Your MBA Application: What Admissions Officers Told Us

The Chronicle of Higher Education

Yes, Higher Ed Shapes Students’ Politics. Here’s How.

From the Magazine

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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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Conjuring Magic

Iris Wedeking, MBA 08, founded Kesem—a free nationwide camp for children whose parents face cancer—which has since supported more than 90,000 young people. Decades later, it became a lifeline for the daughters of Emily Miller and Patrick DeNeale, both MBA 01, in an unexpected UC Berkeley Haas connection.

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Adaptive Leadership

At UC Berkeley Haas’ eighth annual Culture Connect Conference, more than 200 top business leaders and academics—including OpenAI chief economist Ronnie Chatterji and UC Berkeley Chancellor Rich Lyons—tackled how to guide teams through AI, economic uncertainty, and the changing nature of work while preserving culture and humanity.

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Distorted Reality

A UC Berkeley Haas study in Nature, analyzing 1.4 million images and videos plus nine large language models, finds women are consistently portrayed as younger than men across online platforms—a distortion strongest in high-status jobs and amplified by AI in ways that could widen real labor-market gaps.

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Frank McGorman, MBA 82, Retired Forensic Accountant, FBI

Frank McGorman, MBA 82, used his UC Berkeley Haas degree for two decades of Silicon Valley finance roles before making a surprising mid-career pivot: running the forensic accounting department at the FBI’s San Francisco field office, where his team worked cases including the Theranos investigation.

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Code Blue

A UC Berkeley Haas study of 1.1 million emergency-room visits finds that how hospitals deploy nurse practitioners and physicians matters as much as which they hire—with no difference in patient mortality but meaningful gaps in cost and follow-up care.

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Nancy Hoque, MBA 19, Sales Finance Director, Adobe

Nancy Hoque, MBA 19, a former engineer and entrepreneur, now directs sales finance and revenue strategy for Adobe’s multibillion-dollar sales organization—and is exploring how AI can transform the finance function, drawing on early advice from UC Berkeley Haas about leading through others.

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Pocketbook issues are often assumed to drive elections. But new research suggests it’s more specific than just “the economy, stupid.” A National Bureau of Economic Research working paper by Haas Professor Francesco Trebbi and Georgetown’s Juan Felipe Riaño finds that inflation itself wasn’t what cost incumbents votes in 2024. It was falling real wages. Using county-level data, the researchers found that once real wage growth is accounted for, counties with higher inflation actually shifted less toward Republicans—a reversal traced to wealthier, more urbanized counties where prices rose fastest but wages kept pace. The implication for 2026: the same dynamic that helped Republicans in 2024 could work against them now. "They are the incumbents now and real wages have been growing at half the pace of real GDP over the last two years,” Trebbi notes. The research offers data-driven nuance on the most consequential economic issue in recent elections. 🔗 Read more at the link in our bio.

Pocketbook issues are often assumed to drive elections. But new research suggests it’s more specific than just “the economy, stupid.” A National Bureau of Economic Research working paper by Haas…
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A few scenes from around Haas. 💙💛 #BerkeleyHaas #UCBerkeley

A few scenes from around Haas. 💙💛 #BerkeleyHaas #UCBerkeley
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Fernando Mendoza is putting the leadership lessons he learned at UC Berkeley Haas to work as he begins his journey with the Las Vegas Raiders. #BerkeleyHaas #UCBerkeley 🔗 Read more about how his time at @cal_football helped shape the leader he is today at the link in our bio.

Fernando Mendoza is putting the leadership lessons he learned at UC Berkeley Haas to work as he begins his journey with the Las Vegas Raiders. #BerkeleyHaas #UCBerkeley 🔗 Read more about how his…
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Patrick O’Connor, EWMBA 27, is a senior AI prototyping engineer at Amazon Web Services, where he leads applied AI prototyping with customers and drives some of Amazon’s most ambitious agentic AI initiatives. In this first person perspective, he traces his path from Ireland and Australia to AWS—and how the connections he’s making at UC Berkeley Haas are pushing his career into new territory. #BerkeleyHaas #UCBerkeley 🔗 Read more at the link in our bio

Patrick O’Connor, EWMBA 27, is a senior AI prototyping engineer at Amazon Web Services, where he leads applied AI prototyping with customers and drives some of Amazon’s most ambitious agentic AI…
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Some highlights from an incredible Berkeley Haas Entrepreneurship Program’s fall open house. Pokémon Go creator John Hanke, MBA 96, had advice for students: Don’t waste the bubble: build something. Janet Napolitano, president emeritus of the University of California and the former secretary of Homeland Security, also joined Jeff Fields, senior fellow of practice at the Berkeley Institute for Security & Governance and a member of the U.S. Council on Foreign Relations, to discuss how entrepreneurship can be applied to some of the most important challenges facing our world. #berkeleyhaas #ucberkeley 📸: Brandon Sanchez Mejia

Some highlights from an incredible Berkeley Haas Entrepreneurship Program’s fall open house. Pokémon Go creator John Hanke, MBA 96, had advice for students: Don’t waste the bubble: build something….
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A new academic year is here! 🐻 Dean Jenny Chatman welcomes the UC Berkeley Haas community back to campus and looks ahead to an exciting year of connection, innovation, and purpose. From inspiring leaders and community events to the next chapter of Haas’ strategic vision, there’s a lot to look forward to. Here’s to a great year, Bears! 💙💛 #BerkeleyHaas #UCBerkeley

A new academic year is here! 🐻 Dean Jenny Chatman welcomes the UC Berkeley Haas community back to campus and looks ahead to an exciting year of connection, innovation, and purpose. From inspiring…
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Welcome to campus, Spieker Undergrads! We had a blast welcoming the incoming class and watching you start building the connections that will last a lifetime. We can’t wait to see how you’ll lead, innovate, and move business forward. 💙💛 #BerkeleyHaas #UCBerkeley

Welcome to campus, Spieker Undergrads! We had a blast welcoming the incoming class and watching you start building the connections that will last a lifetime. We can’t wait to see how you’ll lead,…
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What do a doctor, an engineer, and a cyclops have in common? They’re all Haasies! 🐻 Meet the UC Berkeley Haas Full-time MBA class of 2028. #BerkeleyHaas #UCBerkeley

What do a doctor, an engineer, and a cyclops have in common? They’re all Haasies! 🐻 Meet the UC Berkeley Haas Full-time MBA class of 2028. #BerkeleyHaas #UCBerkeley

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