(L-R) Alexander Sergian, Joseph Aharon, John Aquino, all MBA/MEng 22, worked on a business plan for the U.S. Department of Energy’s American-Made E- ROBOT competition as a capstone project in their program. A group of Berkeley Haas MBA students helped build the business plan for an attic-retrofit system based around heat sensing drones […]
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876 New Students Jump Into Life at Haas
[…] run the three-legged race at the Cohort Olympics Berkeley-Haas this month welcomed 876 new students, who bring to the classroom accomplishments as diverse as working on a robot currently on Mars, launching a social enterprise to turn recyclables into profit in a Nairobi slum, and sinking jump shots for the Cal Bears. The new […]
Elder-care Idea Wins MBA Bosch Robotic Challenge
An idea for a robot designed to help the elderly stay in their own homes longer garnered first prize for a team of first-year Berkeley MBA students in the Haas School’s second Robotics Business Model Challenge Nov. 29 at Bosch in Palo Alto. Anthony Baldor, Stephen Fournier, Emily Hahn, Jesus Nieto Gonzalez, and Matt […]
Classified: Teaching students to think like entrepreneurs and investors
Justin Jeffers, EWMBA 21, pitched the class on a mobile robot that could assist in emergencies. Photo: Jim Block “Classified” is a series spotlighting some of the more powerful lessons faculty are teaching in Haas classrooms. Just seconds into his funding pitch for a mobile robot that could assist in emergencies, Justin Jeffers […]
European Club to Launch Bosch Competition
UC Berkeley students are being invited to help European appliance maker Bosch find applications for its cutting-edge innovations in the first-ever Robotics Business Model Competition organized by the European Business Club at Haas. Organizers will kick off the competition Feb. 24 at 6 p.m. in the Wells Fargo room. Light dinner and drinks will […]
Berkeley Meets Bosch in Robotics Challenge
Berkeley MBA students identified aiding the visually impaired and elder care as potential business uses for Bosch’s cutting-edge technology at the Bosch Robotics Business Model Challenge April 28 in Palo Alto. Four interdisciplinary Berkeley teams spent two months conducting research and analysis before the competition, organized by the Haas European Business Club and sponsored […]
Classified: Training PhD students to advance the open science revolution
[…] submissions so they can’t be changed later. Nelson co-founded his own site, AsPredicted, which now gets about 40 pre-registration submissions per day. It’s patrolled by a fraud-detecting robot named Larry that dings researchers for potential cheats like submitting multiple variations of the same study. “Without pre-registration, statistics are usually, if not always, misleading,” Moore […]
Intelligent Growth
[…] relies on big datasets, it’s possible that larger firms benefit from this technology as they can more efficiently tailor products to different consumers. Unlike the adoption of robots, which other researchers have found increases employment at the firm level but decreases employment at the industry level, Fedyk found that the firm-level benefits from AI […]
Big Question Fall 2022
[…] of New York City, updates, “I interned for an incredible startup, Iron Ox, in SF this past summer, and I got to work in green alternative farming/ robotics. During my experience, I refined my communication and presentation skills through managing external media, being client facing—and even learned how to drive a farming robot! “While […]
Work in Progress
Haas experts on what to expect in the ever-evolving arena of work. Change has long been coming for the world of work. Automation and artificial intelligence technologies have been on the horizon or among us in their rudimentary forms for years—we’ve grown used to customer service conversations with chatbots, for example. Online hiring platforms (such […]
Big Question Spring 2023
20th Reunion April 28–30, 2023 Olin Palmer, of Redwood City, Calif., writes “I’ve been working with Bionaut Labs for the past three years, which has been very exciting. I’m now also consulting with Noah Medical. The medical robot space is amazing.”
Classified: Training PhD students to advance the open science revolution
[…] submissions so they can’t be changed later. Nelson co-founded his own site, AsPredicted, which now gets about 40 pre-registration submissions per day. It’s patrolled by a fraud-detecting robot named Larry that dings researchers for potential cheats like submitting multiple variations of the same study. “Without pre-registration, statistics are usually, if not always, misleading,” Moore […]