[…] as superforecasters. The team, working on The Good Judgment Project, tested 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—which […]
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Are Politicians Smarter than CEOs?
[…] Haas Assoc. Prof. Frederico Finan, Prof. Torsten Persson and Assoc. Prof. Johanna Rickne of Stockholm University, and Uppsala University researcher Olle Folke. Researchers selected Sweden as an advanced democracy and because it has public data on all males conscripted into the military from 1951 to 1980. The data include the results of two mandatory […]
Scott Foster, MBA 86
Director, Sustainable Energy, UN Economic Commission for Europe
[…] emissions comes from buildings,” he says. His organization is establishing centers of excellence worldwide and partnering with leading universities to research and implement new building materials and advanced methods. To meet the organizational challenges, Foster cites the training he received at Haas through the Evening Berkeley MBA Program while he was working at Pacific […]
Run Toward Your Fears
[…] who recognizes how much doctors have helped him and is trying as hard as he can to stay in the hospital. The prognosis for a cancer this advanced isn’t good, but we enrolled him in an experimental study that, so far, is showing promise. This new dad is even more appreciative of my mom, […]
A New Internet
[…] for Goldman Sachs to running the Tokyo office of B2C2, a startup brokerage that provides cryptocurrency liquidity for large financial clients. Gillespie sees his role as providing advanced finance expertise in a field dominated by techies. “We believe cryptocurrency is not a fad,” he stresses. “It’s the formation of a new asset class.” Distributed […]
Jeff Totten, BS 13
CEO, Evergreen Services Group
[…] Group, a family of managed IT service providers backed by the private equity fund Alpine Investors, at which he began working right out of college. He eventually advanced to the post of vice president, and is grateful Alpine took a chance on him. “As soon as I got to Berkeley I realized that if […]
Frank Bunger, MBA 18
CEO & Founder, Orion Span San Mateo
[…] “This reality is only a question of when, not if. I want to push that forward.” The timing seemed right to Bunger, as he took courses in advanced innovation and venture capital and private equity at Haas. Companies like SpaceX and Blue Origin have opened up the possibility of launching tourists into space, but […]
Cleaning Up
[…] that into a coherent story.” He adds, “That basically describes my current job.” Matthew Penfold, MBA 14, uses his C2M experience as vice president of commercialization for Advanced Microgrid Solutions. Penfold led a C2M team in 2013, working with CinderBio, a small company that came out of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBL). CinderBio […]
Bio Enterprise
[…] alma mater. Maderis, president and CEO of San Francisco-based Antiva Biosciences, a venture-backed biopharmaceutical company, and Zakaria, a biochemistry and molecular biology professor at Rutgers Center for Advanced Biotechnology and Medicine, see the necessity in merging scientific inquiry and commercialization. “This program will provide Cal students with the fundamental knowledge to change patient lives,” […]
Unraveling the Mystery of Culture
[…] that the new approaches are not only methodologically rigorous but also useful to managers. For too long, she says, culture research amounted to little more than “ advanced gossiping,” with scholars visiting companies and writing reports based on observations. “Managers, too, eventually realized that they would rather learn about the links between organizational culture […]
Being a selfish jerk doesn’t get you ahead, research finds
[…] they get from being intimidating is offset by their poor interpersonal relationships, the researchers found. In contrast, they found that extroverts were the most likely to have advanced in their organizations, based on their sociability, energy and assertiveness — findings backed up by prior research. “The bad news here is that organizations do place […]
Cultural renaissance: How Haas faculty are leading a new wave of data-driven culture research
[…] only methodologically rigorous but also useful to managers. The quantitative side of culture research For too long, Chatman says, culture research amounted to little more than “ advanced gossiping,” with scholars visiting companies and writing reports based on observations. That all changed a few years ago when, buoyed in part by new data sources […]
Meet the faculty: Haas welcomes three rising academic stars
[…] of Economics. “The vast majority of Italian economists study at Bocconi, which is a private university, but I went to the University of Pisa’s Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies, which is public,” said Benetton, who originally hails from Treviso near Venice. “I love the idea of a high-quality public university, and the research mindset […]
Are politicians smarter than CEOs?
[…] their constituents and highly qualified to serve them. Building a database The authors chose to Sweden as a research test bed for several reasons. First, as an advanced democracy with proportional-representation elections, Sweden has remained stable and fully democratic since 1917. If democracy cannot select leaders who are both representative and competent under such […]
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 […]
The Blossoming of Public Policy
Professor Laura Tyson has long advanced economic public policy discussions both nationally and globally. She is a member of the World Economic Forum’s Council on Gender Parity and is the co-author of its annual “Global Gender Gap Report.” In March, she began work with the UN Secretary-General’s High-Level Panel on Women’s Economic Empowerment. Tyson […]
Nice Works
[…] any power boost they get from being intimidating is offset by their poor interpersonal relationships, the researchers found. In contrast, extroverts were the most likely to have advanced in their organizations, based on their sociability, energy, and assertiveness—findings backed up by prior research. “The bad news here is that organizations do place disagreeable individuals […]
Big Question
35th Reunion April 23–25, 2021 Bill Inserra writes, “Began a new job last year as vice president of finance and CFO of Toray Advanced Composites, based in Morgan Hill, Calif. Had previously worked at TenCate and participated with management team in private equity transaction and subsequent sale to Toray. “Our family bought a vacation […]
The Berkeley MBA for Executives Program Graduates 69 Students
[…] and guided innumerable others. She is also a graduate of the BCEMBA program, and increasingly committed to teaching at Haas, where she taught New Venture Finance and Advanced New Venture Finance to the graduating EMBA class. Cheit Award recipient for excellence in teaching Maura O’Neill (center) with Dean Lyons and Jay Stowsky, senior assistant […]
Big Question
[…] we landed on the Airgami design. In October 2019, Air99 was awarded the Reimagining Respiratory Protection QuickFire Challenge, sponsored by Johnson & Johnson Innovation–JLABS and the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA). When the pandemic hit, we took the leap to productize Airgami. As we gather more lab and field data, it becomes […]