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Women Outperform Men On Key Negotiation Skills For Long-Term Success

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OpenAI and Anthropic could go public for trillions. Will SF cash in?

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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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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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What happens when you train a healthcare AI model not on medical textbooks, but on the information in doctors’ heads—and how they make decisions in the moment? That’s the idea behind Knit Health, a new startup born from a cross-campus collaboration between experts from the Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley Public Health, and the College of Computing, Data Science, and Society (CDSS), incubated at the Center for Healthcare Marketplace Innovation (CHMI). Co-founded by Jonathan Kolstad, Jonas Knecht, Maya Petersen, and Ted Robertson, Knit has built the first large clinical behavior model (LCBM)—trained on the anonymized electronic health records of more than 130 million patients across 30 major U.S. health systems, roughly a third of the American population. It’s a powerful example of what happens when a university dissolves the boundaries between disciplines: economics, computational precision health, biostatistics, and behavioral design to build something new. “There are only a couple of places where you have that confluence of interdisciplinary skills,” Kolstad says. “Berkeley is one of the top.” 🔗 Read the full story at the link in our bio.

What happens when you train a healthcare AI model not on medical textbooks, but on the information in doctors’ heads—and how they make decisions in the moment? That’s the idea behind Knit Health, a…
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Welcoming the 64 new students in the UC Berkeley Haas Executive MBA program. We’re so impressed to have so many talented industry leaders in one cohort and we’re excited to see this group move business forward! #BerkeleyHaas #UCBerkeley

Welcoming the 64 new students in the UC Berkeley Haas Executive MBA program. We’re so impressed to have so many talented industry leaders in one cohort and we’re excited to see this group move…
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We’re loving peak summer days on campus while we gear up to welcome new students! 💙💛 #BerkeleyHaas #UCBerkeley

We’re loving peak summer days on campus while we gear up to welcome new students! 💙💛 #BerkeleyHaas #UCBerkeley
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Congrats to Scott Galloway, MBA 92, NYU professor, Pivot podcast co-host, and entrepreneur, on his appointment to the University of California Board of Regents. Galloway will serve on the 26-member board that oversees the 10-campus UC system. #BerkeleyHaas #UCBerkeley

Congrats to Scott Galloway, MBA 92, NYU professor, Pivot podcast co-host, and entrepreneur, on his appointment to the University of California Board of Regents. Galloway will serve on the 26-member…
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AI can be a powerful cognitive co-pilot—but don’t let it do all the thinking for you. 🤔 UC Berkeley Haas Professional Faculty member @drsaharyousef explains why protecting your brain’s neuroplasticity means thinking and writing on your own before turning to AI. Your future self will thank you. #HaasAI #HumanEdgeofAI #BerkeleyHaas #UCBerkeley

AI can be a powerful cognitive co-pilot—but don’t let it do all the thinking for you. 🤔 UC Berkeley Haas Professional Faculty member @drsaharyousef explains why protecting your brain’s…
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Meet Sahasra Vellanki, BS 29, a second-year Haas undergrad double majoring in Business and Data Science — and her dad, Ravi Vellanki, who just started his Executive MBA journey as part of the Class of 2028. We asked Sahasra about the journey that brought them both to Haas:“I never expected to end up at Berkeley, let alone have my dad here at the same time. Growing up in San Jose, I always joked I’d move away for school — instead I ended up an hour from home. Now the joke is he manifested it. He’s always been my inspiration. Every sport I played was partly to impress him — he loved cricket, and pushed me toward volleyball, where I played varsity all through high school as a libero. He came to the U.S. alone for his Master’s in Mechanical Engineering, no family, no safety net, and built a career in semiconductors from scratch. Today he leads engineering on ALTUS Halo at Lam Research, powering next-gen AI chips. Watching that has shaped how I approach my own path — I’m currently interning at Decart, an AI efficiency lab in SF. Whenever people ask why he kept climbing in his career, he says the same thing: because Saha asked him to. Since I was five, I’d hear about his day and tell him to go for the next level. He always did. So last October, I joked, ‘Dad, imagine getting your MBA from Berkeley.’ Next thing I know, he’s applying. Now we’re both Haasies.” 💙💛 #BerkeleyHaas #UCBerkeley

Meet Sahasra Vellanki, BS 29, a second-year Haas undergrad double majoring in Business and Data Science — and her dad, Ravi Vellanki, who just started his Executive MBA journey as part of the Class…
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Is AI the “ultimate cheating machine” or the biggest opportunity education has seen in decades? Rameez Mahmood, MBA 26, thinks it comes down to one question every instructor should ask: “If you were rebuilding your classroom from scratch for an AI-native world, what would it look like?” That’s the idea behind his startup, Edvisor — putting instructors back in control with AI that answers questions and mentors students in real time. #BerkeleyHaas #UCBerkeley 🔗 Read more at the link in our bio.

Is AI the “ultimate cheating machine” or the biggest opportunity education has seen in decades? Rameez Mahmood, MBA 26, thinks it comes down to one question every instructor should ask: “If you were…
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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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