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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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Varun Rajaram, MBA/MCS 26, came to business school with a desire to understand how to make better data-driven decisions about climate change’s impact. Alongside two students in the Rausser Master of Climate Solutions program, Rajaram spent the spring semester working on strategic projects with the Symbiosis Coalition, which focuses on nature-based climate solutions funded through a coalition of tech companies including Google, Microsoft, and Salesforce. Among his Haas classes, he said the Energy and Environmental Markets course taught by Professor Lucas Davis was a favorite. Rajaram also worked as a graduate teaching assistant for Lecturer Andrew Isaacs’ Climate Change and Business Strategy class and was involved in the multidisciplinary Berkeley Energy and Resources Collaborative (BERC). Participation in BERC as well as attending mixers during Climate Week in San Francisco helped Rajaram land internships climate-focused startups. In summer 2025, he worked for Brightband, a company developing a more accurate and personalized weather forecasting tool to help people adapt to increasingly extreme weather. This summer, he’s working for Absolute Climate, a tech company providing quality assurance in the carbon removal industry. “Going to events consistently yields real results,” he said. “You start to develop relationships with people over time, and eventually people associate you as someone who is passionate about and knows something about a particular subject area. You make real connections that lead to great job opportunities.”

Varun Rajaram, MBA/MCS 26, came to business school with a desire to understand how to make better data-driven decisions about climate change’s impact. Alongside two students in the Rausser Master of…
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Our flagship Dean’s Speaker Series returns this fall with a new name, a new look, and a stellar lineup! Hosted by Dean Jennifer Chatman and curated by MBA students, “Leading at the Edge: The UC Berkeley Haas Dean’s Speaker Series” features candid, curiosity-driven conversations with leaders moving business forward. Talks are livestreamed on YouTube and available as a podcast. #BerkeleyHaas We’re excited to announce a stellar lineup of guests for Fall 2026, starting with Haas Professor Emeritus Janet Yellen, the only person in history to lead the trifecta of the U.S. Treasury, the Federal Reserve, and the Council of Economic Advisers—as well as the first woman to serve as Treasury Secretary and to chair the Fed. The lineup also includes: Alex Schultz Chief Data Officer, Meta Jason Girzadas CEO, Deloitte US General CQ Brown, Jr. USAF (Ret.) 21st Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Matt Salazar, MBA 11 Chief Product Officer, Strava Michelle Gass President & CEO, Levi Strauss & Co. To learn more, visit our Leading at the Edge website at the link in our bio.

Our flagship Dean’s Speaker Series returns this fall with a new name, a new look, and a stellar lineup! Hosted by Dean Jennifer Chatman and curated by MBA students, “Leading at the Edge: The UC…
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Carbyn AI founder and CEO Jungkeun Hong, MBA 26, is using AI, computer vision, and smart glasses to help manufacturers capture and transfer hard-earned knowledge—giving technicians real-time, step-by-step guidance on the job. To better understand the industry's challenges, Hong drove more than 10,000 miles and visited roughly 150 manufacturing plants and job sites. The journey helped him land Carbyn's first customer and shape a stronger product around real customer needs. Now, the UC Berkeley Haas-founded startup is working to preserve expertise, reduce downtime, and rethink how skilled workers are trained. 🔗 Read the full story at the link in bio.

Carbyn AI founder and CEO Jungkeun Hong, MBA 26, is using AI, computer vision, and smart glasses to help manufacturers capture and transfer hard-earned knowledge—giving technicians real-time,…
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Emily Kargl, MBA/MCS 27, was playing the long game with her career when she decided to apply to the concurrent degree program in business and climate solutions at UC Berkeley Haas. Before beginning the MBA/MCS program, she was a strategy consultant in Deloitte’s Sustainability, Climate, & Equity practice. During her four years there, she worked on sustainability projects for tech clients—and wanted to deepen her expertise in areas like ESG investing and supply chain sustainability. That led her to the MBA/MCS program with the Rausser College of Natural Resources. Now finished with her first year, Kargl is digging into both disciplines with summer internships at the Berkeley Endowment Management Company as an ESG investment intern and at Cisco as a supply chain sustainability intern. MBA/MCS students take core business classes with the option to take climate solutions electives during their first year at Haas. One of Kargl's favorites was Responsible Supply Chains and Operations in Action, co-taught by Assistant Professor Sytske Wijnsma, a supply chain expert, and Amy Chan, Haas' former chief sustainability officer who spent over a decade leading supply chain sustainability initiatives at Apple. “That was a really fun class because it paired real-world knowledge with theory, and they brought in speakers from the Bay Area who work in sustainable supply chains,” said Kargl, who is a member of the MBA Association as VP of Clubs, and VP of Allyship for the Asian Business Club. Engaging in thought-provoking conversations, learning new leadership skills, and exploring ethics in business were all important parts of her first year. "It's been nice to come back to school in a dual-degree program and open my eyes a bit more," she said. "I'm realizing it's never too late to pivot." In the fall, Kargl will start thinking about the required second-year capstone project, which gives MBA/MCS students the opportunity to partner with organizations across business, government, and the nonprofit sector. She is exploring multiple areas for the capstone, including wildfire management, energy storage systems, biodiversity, and agriculture.

Emily Kargl, MBA/MCS 27, was playing the long game with her career when she decided to apply to the concurrent degree program in business and climate solutions at UC Berkeley Haas. Before beginning…
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Happy 250th, America! 🎆🇺🇸 We’ve spent 128 of those years moving business forward—and we’re just getting started. Today, we’re celebrating a few of the ideas born at UC Berkeley Haas that helped shape how American business actually works. Read the full story at link in bio. #America250 #BerkeleyHaas #UCBerkeley

Happy 250th, America! 🎆🇺🇸 We’ve spent 128 of those years moving business forward—and we’re just getting started. Today, we’re celebrating a few of the ideas born at UC Berkeley Haas that helped shape…
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At UC Berkeley Haas, the Center for Social Sector Leadership (CSSL) helps students prepare for careers that create positive social impact. For Chris Arreola, MBA 27, Social Sector Solutions (S3) offered a chance to see how strategy can support organizations working toward justice. After spending the summer at McKinsey & Company, Arreola joined an S3 project with Impact Justice, where she partnered with a nonprofit dedicated to advancing a more equitable justice system. Through CSSL, she found opportunities to connect her passion for community impact with her MBA experience, helping shape the kind of leader she wants to be. Arreola's story is featured in the Spring 2026 issue of the UC Berkeley Haas Magazine. Read more at the link in our bio.

At UC Berkeley Haas, the Center for Social Sector Leadership (CSSL) helps students prepare for careers that create positive social impact. For Chris Arreola, MBA 27, Social Sector Solutions (S3)…
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For Crimean native Volodymyr (Vlad) Silchenko, MBA 26, “the math is broken” in the field of defense when a $4 million Patriot missile is used to shoot down $30,000 Iranian or Russian-made drones. So, like many UC Berkeley Haas founders, he set out to solve the problem. “I came here with a specific plan from day one,” said Silchenko, who after graduating last month brought his defense startup OMNIA AI out of stealth mode. “I knew that I would be building a defense technology startup.” OMNIA AI is building a counter-UAS (unmanned aerial system) of a smaller, cheaper autonomous counter-drone system designed to stop and destroy attack drones. This week, Silchenko flew to Washington D.C., selected for the Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) Commercialization Fellowship as part of the Summer 2026 cohort. The DIU, the Pentagon’s arm for getting commercial technology to the U.S. military faster, awards fellowships to a small group of teams from leading U.S. universities working on promising prototypes. Silchenko’s personal experience with the war in Ukraine—now in its fifth year—drew him to the defense industry. Ukraine is forcing the U.S. to rethink modern warfare in real-time, he said. And with OMNIA AI, Silchenko, a reserve officer in the Ukrainian Armed Forces, aims to join emerging venture-backed technology companies like Anduril and Saronic that are disrupting the Pentagon’s contracting model. “The Pentagon relies on legacy systems, very expensive systems, and that’s why it’s not very quick to adapt to what’s happening in Ukraine and is still happening,” he said. Full story on Haas News at the link in bio.

For Crimean native Volodymyr (Vlad) Silchenko, MBA 26, “the math is broken” in the field of defense when a $4 million Patriot missile is used to shoot down $30,000 Iranian or Russian-made drones. So,…
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An innovative new MBA course called Frontier Ventures explores business opportunities in space, the Arctic and beyond, and the timing could hardly be better. Students wrapped the course just as SpaceX made history with the largest IPO ever. Story link in bio. #BerkeleyHaas #FrontierVentures #AppliedResearch #Innovation

An innovative new MBA course called Frontier Ventures explores business opportunities in space, the Arctic and beyond, and the timing could hardly be better. Students wrapped the course just as…

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