[…] and author Jay Ogilvy and Teddy Zmrhal, a Silicon Valley serial entrepreneur and learning designer. They will lead students in a hands-on ride into the future of advanced strategy collaboration using analytical models. The course will count toward students’ Management of Technology certificates. Evening & Weekend MBA Program The Evening & Weekend MBA Program […]
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Haas Expands World-Class Faculty
[…] are co-teaching Private Equity: from LBOs to Emerging Markets. Don Howard, head of the San Francisco office of the Bridgespan Group, an advisor for nonprofits, will co-teach Advanced Social Sector Solutions. Bhavik Joshi, BCEMBA 08, co-founder of an early-stage startup and senior fellow at Haas’ Lester Center for Entrepreneurship, and Bob Neher, a founding […]
Evening & Weekend Students Co-Innovate with Top Firms
[…] example, the team selected by students as the audience favorite focused on assisting the elderly in maintaining independent living by combining SAP’s real-time data analytics with Panasonic’s advanced display technologies. The winning team consisted of Joe Suh, Neha Shah, Abde Tambawala, Amar Aujla, and Andrea Leibof. Other teams looked at everything from how connected […]
Haas Helps Prof. Alan Cerf Celebrate 90th Birthday
[…] Grether. “This is an extraordinary lifetime of contribution not just to this institution but to so many people’s lives,” Dean Rich Lyons said at the party. “He’s advanced the careers and made better lives for an awful lot of our students.” Cerf has taught an estimated 14,000 students since joining the Berkeley faculty in […]
Moneyball Celeb Execs Billy Beane and Sandy Alderson Coach New Full-Time MBAs
[…] visit Tuesday during orientation week for the Full-Time MBA Class of 2016. Beane and Alderson’s careers exemplify how to question the status quo: their game-changing use of advanced data transformed baseball talent management into a science. “(General) managers thought for a long time that we couldn’t bring some of the principals used in real […]
DataLead Conference Draws International Names in Big Data to Berkeley
[…] executive director at Morgan Stanley and author of Q for Mortals, in a talk called Is Big Better? will highlight how Morgan Stanley’s Securitized Products Group develops advanced analytics to value securities that are created from residential and commercial mortgages, leases, loans and other assets. Françoise Soulié Fogelman, a French independent consultant who is […]
How Going Lean May Save Lives
[…] According to Blank, I-Corps has become the U.S. standard for commercializing science, training 400 teams of this country’s foremost scientists from the NSF, Department of Energy, and Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy. The approach prompts scientists to get out of their labs and speak to potential customers. Nationwide, participating scientists have spoken to over 40,000 customers […]
876 New Students Jump Into Life at Haas
[…] Culhane-Husain, track and field; Camille Doan, lacrosse; Jazmyn Jackson, USA Softball; and Parker Garrett, lacrosse. PhDs Thirteen new students began the Haas PhD program this summer, commencing advanced study in the fields of accounting, business & public policy, finance, marketing, and real estate. Students in Haas’ two other degree programs, the Berkeley MBA for […]
Cannabis at a Crossroads: Speaker Series Examines Industry’s Future
[…] opportunity to put the school at the forefront, and open a new job market for students. “Cannabis is in the very, very early stages of becoming an advanced business, but the people entering this space are botanists or chemists. They’re not experienced business people,” says Katz. The growing industry, he says, cuts across multiple […]
New FinTech Club Draws a Crowd at Haas
[…] Bay Area fintech companies, often arranged with the help of Haas alumni. In February, Spring Trek Day included visits to three San Francisco companies: Earnest, which uses advanced algorithms to underwrite student loans; Square, whose mobile readers let vendors take payments at farmers markets and similar venues; and NerdWallet, the personal finance website that […]
Harnessing the wisdom of the crowd to forecast
[…] on The Good Judgment Project, had the perfect opportunity to test its future-predicting methods during a four-year government-funded geopolitical forecasting tournament sponsored by the United States Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity. The tournament, which began in 2011, aimed to improve geopolitical forecasting and intelligence analysis by tapping the wisdom of the crowd. Moore’s team […]
Legendary professor Alan Cerf, who taught thousands over six decades, passes away
[…] Room. At the time, Dean Rich Lyons said: “This is an extraordinary lifetime of contribution not just to this institution but to so many people’s lives. He’s advanced the careers and made better lives for an awful lot of our students.” Alumnus Paul Reshke, BS 82, a partner at PricewaterhouseCoopers, credited Cerf with shifting […]
Assoc. Prof. Jonathan Kolstad honored as “40 Under 40” business leader
[…] both a cutting-edge researcher and a popular teacher. His MBA courses include “Health Economics and Policy” and “Big Data and Better Decisions”—a new class that gives students advanced training in how to analyze and use large-scale data. As a researcher, Kolstad employs machine learning and economic analysis through a behavioral lens. His studies demonstrate […]
Senior Lecturer Sara Beckman honored with graduate student mentoring award
[…] and critical-thinking techniques. Students often cite the course as making the difference for them in competition wins and consulting projects. Beckman also teaches Applied Innovation Immersion Week, Advanced Innovation, Creativity & Leadership, and Collaborative Innovation. Much of Beckman’s work has included years of hands-on research-based mentoring and coaching of PhD students, getting into the […]
Prof. Laura Tyson: The blind spot in the trade debate
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Big Question
[…] to help professionals make their next career move and entrepreneurs scale their businesses. Learn more: shakethecosmos. com. “I’m grateful for Mark Rittenberg’s Leadership Communications course and my Advanced Design Thinking independent study with Sara Beckman; both created the foundation to take my work to the next level.” Celia Carter Amy Chou, Zarrah Birdie, BS […]
Classified: New course explores tech’s potential for positive impact
[…] in tournaments. “This takes the vastness of the digital world community and makes it more accessible,” Salman said. A second idea involved creating incentives and awards for advanced players to mentor newer players. Kang said she particularly liked the mentoring idea. “That would have been super helpful for me to get better at gaming […]
Dean’s Speaker Series: Sal Khan on how ‘delusional optimism’ led to free, world-class education for anyone, anywhere
[…] you?” “I’m her cousin.” And they let her take it. And the same Nadia who was being tracked into a remedial track was now put into the advanced track. So I was hooked. I started tutoring her younger brothers, Armand and Ali, and it was working with them, and word spreads in my family, […]
Stripe co-founder and CEO Patrick Collison on “prizing the small details”
[…] company launched Stripe Climate, which allows users to direct a portion of their revenue toward scaling carbon removal technologies, leading to the implementation of the second-ever large-scale advanced market commitment (AMC) for carbon removal. The company’s mission to do good hasn’t stopped there. Believing access to the internet is crucial for global development, Collison […]
John Harsanyi Wins Nobel Economic Prize
[…] day. A more recent application of game theory was the Federal Communications Commission’s auction for the narrowband spectrum for the next generations of wireless services, used for advanced paging the messaging. “Issues of auction design are vitally important,” says Haas Professor Michael Katz, who is currently on leave as chief economist of the FCC. […]