Haas News
Table of Contents
In Memoriam
Dan Duckhorn, the founder of Duckhorn Vineyards who was dubbed the “king of American merlot” by the San Francisco Chronicle, died in February of congestive heart failure. He was 87. Duckhorn opened his vineyard with his late ex-wife in 1976 and is credited with helping put Napa Valley on the map as the destination for American wines. A trip to Bordeaux, France, endeared the Duckhorns to merlot and led them to buck the trend of fellow Napa vintners focusing on cabernet sauvignon by introducing merlot into their product line. The decision triggered a nationwide obsession with the varietal and made Duckhorn Vineyards one of Napa Valley’s most internationally recognized wineries. After 30 years of success, the Duckhorn family sold the vineyard to a private equity firm in 2007.
Marcia Commins, BS 45
Paul Kadden, BS 45
Nelda Wicklund, BS 47
Arthur Riklin, BS 48
Theodore Saenger, BS 51
Edmund Green, BS 52
Robert Fisher, BS 53
David Dezell, BS 56
Robert Fitzgerald, BS 57
James Nitsos, BS 57
Robert Fraser, BS 58
Dave Cushway, BS 60
Chen Wang, MBA 60
William Cuneo, MBA 61
Lynn Crystal, BS 62
John Roper, BS 62
Samuel Welles, BS 62
Paul Zitlau, MBA 62
Michael Wood, BS 63
Robert Ilgen, MBA 64
Hans Lindholm, BS 65
David Wilson, MBA 65
Timothy Robbins, BS 71
Linda McCoy, MBA 71
Ronald Kojima, BS 75
Michael Geltz, BS 76
John Kinsella, BS 82
George Anderson, MBA 83
Robert Calix, BS 85
Scott Adams, MBA 86
Katie Coughlin, MBA 97
Masanobu Idehara, MBA 02
Joseph Tambornino, MBA 02
Bhavik Joshi, BCEMBA 08
Larry Lollar, Former Staff
Guy Chapman, Friend
Posted in:
Traffic Signals
A UC Berkeley Haas and Stanford GSB study of more than 1,000 major companies finds that website traffic can forecast revenue and stock prices months before earnings—more accurately than traditional metrics alone. Wall Street, the researchers say, is leaving money on the table.
Talk Is Deep
A UC Berkeley Haas study forthcoming in Nature Communications finds that disagreement is less contentious and leads to better understanding when discussed by voice or video rather than in writing—even though most people instinctively prefer to hash out conflict over text.
