Berkeley-Haas Joins Global Network for Advanced Management as 2nd US Member School

The University of California Berkeley’s Haas School of Business today became the second U.S.-based member to join the Global Network for Advanced Management, a network of top business schools committed to educating global leaders. Berkeley-Haas is the 28th business school worldwide to join the Global Network, and brings unique depth in innovation, entrepreneurship, and […]

Master of Financial Engineering Program Makes Top 10 List

The Berkeley Master of Financial Engineering (MFE) Program was named among the top 10 quantitative finance programs in the nation for a second time by Advanced Trading magazine. Berkeley MFE Program also made the top 10 list in 2008, the first year Advanced Trading published its ranking. Advanced Trading is a magazine and Web […]

Women’s 21st Century Leadership Course Attracts Global Students

[…] to mastering the skills they require to lead. The intensive five-day program, Women’s 21st Century Leadership, is the first offered at Berkeley-Haas through the Global Network for Advanced Management (GNAM). GNAM, a consortium of 29 business schools led by the Yale School of Management, oversees the Global Network Weeks, designed to give students from […]

In big data course, MBA students learn how to second-guess an AI

[…] Connie & Kevin Chou Hall on the Haas School of Business campus. Standing before a 5th-floor classroom packed with aspiring MBAs, Assoc. Prof. Jonathan Kolstad was talking advanced data science as part of his new course, “Big Data and Better Decisions.” Kolstad asked students to pick between two common models for designing a predictive […]

Will AI replace marketing managers? Q&A with Professor Zsolt Katona

[…] AI assistants such as Apple’s Siri and Amazon’s Alexa have been in widespread use for years, the release of ChatGPT in late 2022 was astonishing. The bot’s advanced language understanding and human-like responses opened the public’s eyes to the rapid pace of AI development, set off a wave of excitement and apprehension, and ramped […]

New Fall Courses Stay on Top of Changing Landscape

[…] workplace, new fall courses are teaching students forward-thinking management skills while providing hands-on learning to apply them. Berkeley-Columbia Executive MBA students have the exciting opportunity to take Advanced Entrepreneurship: The Lean LaunchPad (XMBA 296T), taught by Steve Blank, a serial entrepreneur whose class will not focus on building a business plan but a business […]

Haas to Host World’s Top Young Entrepreneurs at Intel Global Challenge

From advanced polymers to mobile football game guides to smart grid platforms, technology ideas from some of the world’s top young entrepreneurs will vie for $100,000 in prizes at the eighth annual Intel Global Challenge at UC Berkeley in November. Twenty-eight teams from 18 countries will compete for five prizes ranging from $2,500 to […]

Berkeley-Haas Partnership Yields $5 Million for Unprecedented Energy Efficiency Study

Berkeley-Haas researchers have partnered with colleagues from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the University of Chicago to conduct the largest-ever demonstration of advanced energy monitoring in industrial facilities. The initiative, part of the cross-school E2e project, has just received a $5 million research grant from the California Energy Commission (CEC) to test an […]

Yang Guo, MFE 12
Data Science Manager, Opendoor

Yang Guo sits at one of the hottest corners of the business world, where advanced quantitative finance meets big data. He runs the pricing data science team at Opendoor, a San Francisco company that seeks to revolutionize home buying and selling. Instead of using real estate brokers, homeowners sell directly to Opendoor, which in […]

10 Berkeley Haas PhDs honored at commencement

[…] praised for their resilience during the 2021 commencement ceremony last Saturday, with Dean Ann Harrison noting “the incredible years of hard work” they’ve put into earning the advanced degree. In full regalia, Finance Prof. Ulrike Malmendier, faculty head of the doctoral program, introduced Harrison, who virtually welcomed the students and their families and friends. […]

New research shatters outdated pay-gap myth that women don’t negotiate

[…] better negotiators and help close the gender pay gap. Yet not only does the pay gap persist, but it tends to be larger for women who gain advanced business skills. New research by Berkeley Haas Professor Laura Kray shows the belief that women don’t ask for higher pay is not only outdated, but it […]

Beyond Herself

[…] Relations, and rejoin her family in New York. She’ll continue to be a half-time tenured faculty member. Since becoming dean in January 2019, Harrison has elevated and advanced Haas across the board. Poets&Quants, when naming her Dean of the Year in 2023, called her tenure an “unimaginable and nearly breathtaking record of achievement.” One […]

MBA students’ globe-trotting education with GNAM

[…] taught at University College Dublin’s Michael Smurfit Graduate Business School. The course, with 30 international students enrolled, is one of many offered through the Global Network for Advanced Management (GNAM), an international consortium of 30 business schools that Haas joined three years ago. Founded by the Yale School of Management in 2012, GNAM allows […]

Professor Nancy Wallace wins top honor for work in real estate & urban economics

[…] award, named for the late Berkeley Haas professor emeritus and leading urban economics scholar John M. Quigley, recognizes scholars who best represent the ways in which Quigley advanced the academic fields of real estate, urban economics, public finance, and regional science.  “The medalist must have produced a record of scholarship that opens up new […]

Business Leaders Welcome New Students from Around the Globe

[…] the class, and 71 percent of students speak more than one language. On average students have eight years of work experience and about 42 percent already hold advanced degrees. The new Evening & Weekend MBA class brings the total enrollment for the three-year program to 782. The PhD Program Sixteen new PhD students were […]

Big Question

Thomas Furtney, of Kentfield, Calif., announces, “I recently joined Advanced Communities as managing partner based out of our San Francisco office. I have been working within the Salesforce ecosystem since 2007, and Advanced Communities helps deliver consumer- grade customer experiences to external and internal customers. “When not working, I am busy chasing after my […]

Senior US Energy Adviser to Help Launch New Institute at Haas

[…] Conferences and a Renewable Energy Speaker Series. Three courses in non-degree, executive education: Economic Fundamentals of Electricity Regulation and Markets, Economics of Energy and the Environment, and Advanced Energy Economics. A regular working paper series and newsletter that disseminate the latest research findings. The institute’s expertise is strengthened by its close collaboration with UC […]