Patrick Collison and his brother John conceived of financial services company Stripe as something that they thought should already exist. On the way back from a UC Berkeley-hosted startup event in 2009, John, who is president of the company, suggested that they turn their idea for an “easy way to move money online” into a […]
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UC LAUNCH Demo Day founders pitch innovative startups
Startup founders at UC LAUNCH Demo Day last week pitched ideas ranging from improving package delivery to crafting better athletic supplements to expediting the building permit process. Each year, 20 startups from across the UC system are are chosen from more than 100 applicants. The chosen startups founders are paired with entrepreneurs and mentors, and […]
New collaboration lets business and journalism students take classes across disciplines
UC Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism and the Haas School of Business—with support from Bloomberg News—have launched an initiative to enable journalism and business students to take classes across the two disciplines. The schools are pursuing a formal joint certificate in Business Journalism, with the goal of strengthening reporting in a field that is multifaceted, […]
Why Are Heat Pump Sales Decreasing?
Berkeley Haas student will travel to Europe for Auschwitz professional ethics fellowship
Patrick Drown, MBA 24, is heading to Germany and Poland this summer as one of 14 business fellows participating in Fellowships at Auschwitz for the Study of Professional Ethics (FASPE). The fellowship is an intensive ethics program for up to 90 students and early-career professionals studying business, journalism, design and technology, law, medicine, or religion. […]
Friends with health benefits: How the buddy system pays off when pursuing goals
Weekly targets, annual resolutions, five-year plans—all of them so troublingly elusive. With best intentions, most of us fail to stick with the goals we set. Next time, consider pursuing them with a friend. New field research by Assistant Professor Rachel Gershon, published in Management Science, suggests that pursuing our goals with friends may make them […]
Dean’s Speaker Series: PG&E CEO Patti Poppe on ‘her hardest job yet’
Patti Poppe, current CEO of PG&E and the first female chief executive to have moved from one Fortune 500 company to another, shared her extensive career journey at a recent Dean’s Speaker Series talk. Long before she was leading California’s largest energy corporation to reduce its wildfire risk, Poppe got her start in engineering and […]
Arnaud Paquet, MBA 24, wins top campus sustainability award
For Arnaud Paquet, MBA 24, winning a top annual UC Berkeley sustainability award was the culmination of two years of climate leadership and sustainability initiatives on campus. Paquet, one of four winners honored last month by the UC Berkeley Chancellor’s Advisory Committee on Sustainability (CACS), received an impressive 16 nominations—including recommendations from former Berkeley Haas […]
California’s Exploding Rooftop Solar Cost Shift
How instincts lead us astray in deciding how to boost our chance of success
Say you’ve got an important presentation on Monday that could make the difference in whether a project gets green-lit or not. Would you spend a few extra hours prepping for it over the weekend to make sure it goes well, or blow it off and go out with friends? Now say the presentation has a […]
A Guide into Credit Cards
Team Building in an Increasingly Remote World
Dean’s Speaker Series: Richard Thaler, David Leonhardt discuss future of the American economy
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist David Leonhardt believes that the American Dream has dimmed over time, but can rise again if the U.S. changes its policies. With nearly 25 years of experience reporting on economics for The New York Times, including serving as Washington bureau chief and starting the publication’s “The Upshot” section, Leonhardt spent years writing […]
New program gives undergrads space to develop resilience
Julianna De Paula, BS 24, approaches life a little differently since she finished the new undergraduate Foundations of Resilient Leadership program at Berkeley Haas. First, she pauses to think before having difficult conversations. She also takes time out to breathe—truly pay attention to the inhale and exhale—throughout the school day. She believes that both […]
Electric Vehicle Charging We Can Count On
When CEOs Should Take a Stand in a Fractured World
Worldwide Events Spring 2024
Big Question Spring 2024
What’s a risk that you took (professionally or personally) that has paid off?
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Neighborhood Watch
How social networks impact retirement savings Americans are not saving enough for retirement, and new research co-authored by Professor Johan Walden shows one reason why: They’re misled by conspicuous consumption in their social networks. “Our neighbors don’t put out a sign showing how much they’ve set aside for retirement, but it’s easy to see the […]