Berkeley Haas Executive MBA Program ranked #1 by The Economist

[…] Executives Program placed #1 worldwide, according to The Economist “Which MBA?” 2020 ranking, published today.  The Haas program got the top rating in career development. According to EMBA students and alumni, the program excels at meeting their pre-EMBA career goals. The program was also rated highly for alumni career progression and salaries, as well […]

Berkeley Haas welcomes new executive MBA class

[…] 2024 This month Haas welcomed 76 new Berkeley Executive MBA students—a highly-accomplished cohort that includes a pediatric cardiologist, a Green Beret, and an Emmy-award winning animator.  The EMBA Class of 2024 gathered on campus July 15-17 for an orientation that included workshops focused on academics and career management, a “life hacks” panel session with […]

Berkeley MBA Programs Shine in US News Survey

[…] Executive MBA and Evening & Weekend MBA programs ranked #6. Last year, the Full-time MBA ranked #7, the Evening & Weekend MBA ranked #6, and the Berkeley-Columbia EMBA Program ranked #8 in US News. The school’s MBA programs ranked in the top 10 in the following six specialties: #3 Nonprofit #7 Entrepreneurship #8 Finance […]

Top 10 U.S. News Rankings For All Three Berkeley MBA Programs

[…] World Report’s 2018 Best Business Schools. The Full-time Berkeley MBA Program was again ranked #7 among full-time programs, and the Berkeley MBA for Executives ranked #9 among EMBA programs. Specialty rankings In specialty rankings, U.S. News ranked the full-time MBA program: #2 for nonprofit #5 for entrepreneurship #6 for international #7 for finance #9 […]

EMBA students’ Alabama road trip: Reflections on racial injustice

A trip to Montgomery and Selma, Alabama, over Memorial Day weekend led Lisa Rawlings, EMBA 19, to redefine courage. “Putting myself in my grandparents’ shoes, I realized that courage was not always resistance, but sometimes it was simply endurance, which often required unthinkable compromises to their dignity to save their lives and those of […]

Startup: SuiteSocial

SuiteSocial Co-founders: Jennifer DeAngelis, MBA 19 and Lea Yanhui Li, EMBA 19 Jennifer DeAngelis presenting at TechCrunch Disrupt. Photo credit: David C. Hill. When Jennifer DeAngelis worked in digital media, she kept hearing from clients concerned about trust issues: brand owners felt that influencers didn’t do enough for the amount of pay they received. […]

Haas welcomes new evening & weekend, exec MBA classes to campus

New EMBA students take a break from orientation to pose for a group shot. Photo: Jim Block Berkeley Haas welcomed 354 new students in the MBA for Executives and Evening & Weekend MBA programs for in-person orientation in July, the first time since the start of the pandemic.  These working professional students, along with […]

What’s age got to do with it? 76-year-old MBA student “having the time of my life”

[…] to earn an MBA and why he connected immediately to Students Always, one of the four Haas Defining Leadership Principles (DLP). “Age is not important,” said Fung, EMBA 24, who sits on the El Camino Health District Board of Directors and for a decade led the hospital’s stroke program, which is named after him. […]

How search funds turn MBA “searchers” into young CEOs

Hannah Greenberg and Alex Lopez are “searchers” on the hunt to buy a U.S.-based software company. Hannah Greenberg and Alex Lopez, both EMBA 20, are best friends who hope to add “chief executive” to their resumes. The pair are looking to buy a software as a service (SaaS) company in the hospitality or financial […]

Berkeley Haas names 2024 commencement speakers

[…] weekend MBA classes. Jasvinder Khaira, BS 04, a senior managing director at Blackstone, the world’s largest alternative asset manager, will be the undergraduate commencement speaker. Richard Wilson, EMBA 15, senior vice president and primary focus lead of genetic regulation at global pharmaceutical company Astellas, will serve as the commencement speaker for the executive MBA […]

Executive MBA Students Connect with Defining Principles

[…] come from a wide variety of backgrounds, they quickly connected to the Haas School’s unique culture and four Defining Principles. In interviews for Haas online student profiles, EMBA students consistently cited the Defining Principles as playing a key role in their decision to enroll in the program while also unifying the class. Here is […]

MBA students’ globe-trotting education with GNAM

[…] with a Slovakian classmate who co-owns 250 bakery outlets about the difference between stores that buy dough from factories versus those that bake from scratch. For Hassner, EMBA 18, the business strategy conversation was one of many outlining the unique challenges facing small businesses as well as conglomerates during a “The Future of Food” […]

A mission to make business school cases more diverse

[…] problems in his classes often featured the same sort of leader: a white male. “Our experience was definitely that case protagonists were overwhelmingly not diverse,” said Rosenzweig, EMBA 19, now a Haas lecturer teaching Introduction to the Case Method in both the EMBA and Full-time MBA programs. Feedback from MBA students like Rosenzweig—who co-wrote […]