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The Walter A. Haas School of Business, also known as the Haas School of Business or simply Haas, is one of 14 schools and colleges at the University of California, Berkeley

University of California, Berkeley

The University of California, Berkeley , is a teaching and research university established in 1868 and located in Berkeley, California, USA...

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The school runs a range of programs and is consistently ranked among the best in the country. Its programs include

Full-time Master of Business Administration
Master of Business Administration
The Master of Business Administration is a :master's degree in business administration, which attracts people from a wide range of academic disciplines. The MBA designation originated in the United States, emerging from the late 19th century as the country industrialized and companies sought out...

(MBA) program
Evening/Weekend MBA program
Berkeley-Columbia Executive MBA
Ph.D. program
Master of Financial Engineering Program
Undergraduate program
Executive Education

The school is situated in three connected buildings surrounding a central courtyard on the southeastern corner of the Berkeley campus. The final design of architect Charles Moore

Charles Willard Moore

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, the mini-campus was completed in 1995. The school is planning to expand its facilities with a new commons building shared with the Berkeley School of Law. It constantly ranks as one of the top ten business schools in worldwide rankings published by The Economist

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, US News & World Report, and Bloomberg Businessweek.

History

The Haas School of Business was first established as the College of Commerce of the University of California

University of California

The University of California is a public university system in the U.S. state of California. Under the California Master Plan for Higher Education, the University of California is a part of the state's three-tier public higher education system, which also includes the California State University...

in 1898. The University of California charter, adopted in 1868, included among its goals the study of commerce. University Regents Arthur Rodgers, A.S. Hallidie and George T. Marye Jr. later proposed the establishment of a College of Commerce. The new college was founded on September 13, 1898, when Cora Jane Flood, daughter of industrialist and University of California Regent James C. Flood, donated land to the University specifically to support the study of commerce. The school was the third collegiate business school in the United States and the first at a public university.

The college’s first faculty members included some American pioneers in the field of business. Simon Litman taught the first course in marketing between 1902 and 1908. Adolph Miller, who was the Flood Professor of the Political Economy and Commerce from 1903 to 1915, later served on the first Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. Wesley Clair Mitchell

Wesley Clair Mitchell

Wesley Clair Mitchell was an American economist known for his empirical work on business cycles and for guiding the National Bureau of Economic Research in its first decades....

, who taught at Berkeley from 1905 to 1913, is known as the father of the business cycle analysis. Charles Staehling taught accounting at the college from 1921–51 and was known for adding a theoretical framework to the praxis-oriented teaching of accounting principles. Henry Mowbray, who taught from 1910 to 1948, wrote the first college textbook on insurance.

The College of Commerce was founded in the liberal arts tradition, drawing on faculty from other disciplines on campus. Carl C. Plehn was appointed the first Dean of the new college in 1898. Plehn, a finance professor educated in Germany, drafted the college's first curriculum for a Bachelor of Science

Bachelor of Science

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degree. The initial course offerings covered legal studies, political studies, political economy, and historical studies, including The History of the Institution of Private Property, History and Principles of Commercial Ethics, and the History of Commerce in All Countries and at Every Age. Plehn proposed changes to the curriculum in 1915 to give it a more professional focus. The proposal, adopted after World War I

World War I

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, established a program that included two years of liberal arts education followed by junior and senior year commerce study, a pattern still used for the undergraduate program today.

Henry Rand Hatfield, a pioneer in accounting and an early entrant in the Accounting Hall of Fame

Accounting Hall of Fame

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, became the second Dean of the college in 1916. Hatfield had been hired by the University of California in 1904 as the first full-time accounting professor in the country. Hatfield played a leading role in the founding of the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business

Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business

The Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business was founded in 1916 to accredit schools of business worldwide. The first accreditations took place in 1919. The stated mission is to advance quality management education worldwide through accreditation and thought leadership. It is regarded...

and the national honor society Beta Gamma Sigma

Beta Gamma Sigma

Beta Gamma Sigma or ΒΓΣ is an honor society for business students and scholars. Founded in 1913 at the University of Wisconsin, it has over 650,000 members, selected from over 500 chapters in AACSB-accredited business schools...

. He also published the first paper in the United States on accounting theory. As Dean, Hatfield sought to increase the reputation of the College of Commerce by bringing scholars from the East Coast to teach during summer sessions.

After World War I, enrollment experienced an increase from the influx of veterans and continued to grow even through the Great Depression

Great Depression

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, increasing from its initial class size of three in 1898 to 1,540 students in 1938. In 1925, the college's third Dean, Stuart Daggett, instituted a two-year Master of Science

Master of Science

A Master of Science is a postgraduate academic master's degree awarded by universities in many countries. The degree is typically studied for in the sciences including the social sciences.-Brazil, Argentina and Uruguay:...

degree. The school's fourth Dean, Henry Francis Grady, was appointed in 1928. Grady went on leave from 1934 to 1936 to become an advisor to President Franklin D. Roosevelt

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Franklin Delano Roosevelt , also known by his initials, FDR, was the 32nd President of the United States and a central figure in world events during the mid-20th century, leading the United States during a time of worldwide economic crisis and world war...

, for whom he worked on reciprocal trade agreements (see Reciprocal Tariff Act

Reciprocal Tariff Act

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). The fifth Dean, Robert Calkins, succeeded Grady, but left within a few years to become the Dean of the Columbia Business School

Columbia Business School

Columbia Business School is the business school of Columbia University in Manhattan, New York City. It was established in 1916 to provide business training and professional preparation for undergraduate and graduate Columbia University students...

.

E.T. Grether was appointed the sixth Dean of the College of Commerce in 1941. Grether's twenty-year tenure as Dean was a time of great change. The college was renamed the Department of Business Administration in 1942 and began offering a new two-year upper division curriculum leading to the Bachelor of Science

Bachelor of Science

in Business Administration. In 1943, the department was renamed the School of Business Administration when it began offering a one-year graduate program.

Grether opened several research centers in the school, including The Institute for Business and Economics Research (1941), The Institute for Industrial Relations (IIR) (1945, now called the Institute for Research on Labor and Employment), and the Center for Real Estate and Urban Economics (1950). Grether tapped Clark Kerr

Clark Kerr

Clark Kerr was an American professor of economics and academic administrator. He was the first chancellor of the University of California, Berkeley and twelfth president of the University of California.- Early years :...

to be the first director of the IIR. Kerr's success in this position led to his becoming the first Chancellor

Chancellor

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of the University of California, Berkeley

University of California, Berkeley

The University of California, Berkeley , is a teaching and research university established in 1868 and located in Berkeley, California, USA...

.

The Graduate School of Business Administration was opened in 1955 and the school begin offering a course of study leading to the Master of Business Administration

Master of Business Administration

The Master of Business Administration is a :master's degree in business administration, which attracts people from a wide range of academic disciplines. The MBA designation originated in the United States, emerging from the late 19th century as the country industrialized and companies sought out...

. A year later the Doctor of Philosophy

Doctor of Philosophy

Doctor of Philosophy, abbreviated as Ph.D., PhD, D.Phil., or DPhil , in English-speaking countries, is a postgraduate academic degree awarded by universities...

in Business Administration and executive education programs were founded.

Under the school's eighth Dean, Richard Holton, an evening MBA program was initiated in 1972. Unlike other evening or part-time programs in the country, students were required to meet the same admission requirements as established for the day-time MBA program. Classes for the evening MBA were held in downtown San Francisco until the school's present building complex was completed in 1995.

Earl F. Cheit became the ninth Dean of the school in 1976. Facing diminishing funding and budget pressures, Cheit lobbied and won increased salary scales for business faculty. He also secured donations from Walter A. Haas

Walter A. Haas

Walter A. Haas, Sr. , son of the founder of Hellman-Haas Grocery , was a former President and Chairman of Levi Strauss & Co. Haas was credited with saving the once struggling company....

to endow seven new chairs and to open a career planning and placement center. In 1980, the school began to offer a Management of Technology program jointly with the College of Engineering

UC Berkeley College of Engineering

The College of Engineering is one of 14 schools and colleges at the University of California, Berkeley. The College of Engineering is ranked second in the nation, after MIT, according to the 2010 U.S. News & World Report rankings; It houses one of the most highly regarded and prestigious...

. 1980 also saw the inauguration of the annual Haas Competition in Business and Social Policy, funded by a donation from the Evelyn and Walter A. Haas, Jr.

Walter A. Haas, Jr.

Walter A. Haas, Jr. was a president and CEO and chairman of Levi Strauss & Co, succeeding his father Walter A. Haas. He led the company in its growth from a regional manufacturer and wholesaler of work clothes to one of the world’s leading apparel companies...

Foundation.

In 1987, the tenth Dean of the school, Raymond Miles, began the school's first major capital campaign to raise money for a new building. Major contributions were made by Wells Fargo

Wells Fargo

Wells Fargo & Company is an American multinational diversified financial services company with operations around the world. Wells Fargo is the fourth largest bank in the U.S. by assets and the largest bank by market capitalization. Wells Fargo is the second largest bank in deposits, home...

and Eugene Trefethen, an executive with Kaiser Industries. In 1989, the Walter and Elise Haas Fund donated $23.75 million to the building campaign. The donation was the largest in the history of the University to that date. The school was renamed the Haas School of Business in honor of that gift.

The new building was designed by Charles W. Moore, former chair of Berkeley's Department of Architecture. Construction began in 1993 and the school moved into its new building complex in January 1995.

Laura Tyson, a professor at Berkeley since 1977 and the Chairman of the President's Council of Economic Advisers

Council of Economic Advisers

The Council of Economic Advisers is an agency within the Executive Office of the President that advises the President of the United States on economic policy...

from 1993 to 1995 during the Clinton Administration, was the Dean of the school from 1998 to 2001. Tyson negotiated an agreement with the Columbia Business School

Columbia Business School

to create a joint program, the Berkeley-Columbia Executive MBA, which offers experienced executives the opportunity to earn an MBA from both Haas and Columbia. The Berkeley-Columbia program began in 2002 and graduated its first class in December, 2003.

Tom Campbell became Dean in 2002. Campbell established The Center for Responsible Business at Haas in 2003 with gifts from former Apple Inc. and Netscape

Netscape

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executive Mike Homer, actor Paul Newman

Paul Newman

Paul Leonard Newman was an American actor, film director, entrepreneur, humanitarian, professional racing driver and auto racing enthusiast...

, and former Chairman of Bank of America

Bank of America

Bank of America Corporation, an American multinational banking and financial services corporation, is the second largest bank holding company in the United States by assets, and the fourth largest bank in the U.S. by market capitalization. The bank is headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina...

Rudolph Peterson. From 2004 to 2005, Campbell took a leave of absence to serve as director of the California Department of Finance in the Schwarzenegger

Arnold Schwarzenegger

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administration. During Campbell's absence, Richard Lyons served as acting Dean. Lyons initiated the keystone program Leading Through Innovation at Haas in 2004. Lyons was the Executive Associate Dean from 2005–2006, before leaving for the position of Chief Learning Officer at Goldman Sachs

Goldman Sachs

The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. is an American multinational bulge bracket investment banking and securities firm that engages in global investment banking, securities, investment management, and other financial services primarily with institutional clients...

, New York.

In July 2008, Richard Lyons

Richard Lyons (Dean of Haas School of Business)

Richard Kent Lyons is the 14th Dean of the Haas School of Business, U.C. Berkeley. Prior to becoming Dean in July 2008, he served as the Chief Learning Officer at Goldman Sachs in New York, a position he had held since 2006.-Biography:...

succeeded Campbell to become the present Dean of Haas. Along with a curriculum overhaul, Lyons has launched the public phase of a $300 million capital campaign, called the Campaign for Haas. The campaign's stated goals are "transforming the... campus, building a curriculum based on the Berkeley-Haas approach to leadership, and aggressively expanding the school’s faculty and its support for research."

The Haas School of Business has been home to two winners of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics. John C. Harsanyi

John Harsanyi

John Charles Harsanyi was a Hungarian-Australian-American economist and Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences winner....

(1920–2000) was a co-recipient with John Nash and Reinhard Selten

Reinhard Selten

-Life and career:Selten was born in Breslau in Lower Silesia, now in Poland, to a Jewish father, Adolf Selten, and Protestant mother, Käthe Luther. For his work in game theory, Selten won the 1994 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences...

in 1994 for his contributions to the study of game theory

Game theory

Game theory is a mathematical method for analyzing calculated circumstances, such as in games, where a person’s success is based upon the choices of others...

and its application to economics

Economics

Economics is the social science that analyzes the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services. The term economics comes from the Ancient Greek from + , hence "rules of the house"...

. He served as Professor Emeritus at Haas and in the UC Berkeley Department of Economics. Oliver Williamson

Oliver E. Williamson

Oliver Eaton Williamson is an American economist, professor at the University of California, Berkeley and recipient of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences....

(1932-) was a co-recipient with Elinor Ostrom

Elinor Ostrom

Elinor Ostrom is an American political economist. She was awarded the 2009 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, which she shared with Oliver E. Williamson, for "her analysis of economic governance, especially the commons." She was the first, and to date, the only woman to win the prize in...

in 2009 for his "analysis of economic governance, especially the boundaries of the firm," and currently serves as Professor Emeritus at Haas and in the UC Berkeley Department of Economics.

Berkeley Innovative Leader Development

In 2010, Dean Richard Lyons

Richard Lyons (Dean of Haas School of Business)

implemented a series of changes to the Haas School's core MBA curriculum, pursuing a strategy called "Berkeley Innovative Leader Development" (BILD). BILD is an attempt to reconcile traditional management education, the Haas motto of "Leading Through Innovation," and the recent turn towards ethical and values-based education in business schools. The curriculum changes are predicated on what Lyons and others consider the unique culture of Haas, as defined by four distinct elements:

Question the status quo: an innovative leader will challenge convention, "taking intelligent risks and accepting sensible failures."
Confidence without attitude: innovative leaders make decisions based on evidence and analysis, not arrogance.
Students always: innovative leadership demands "curiosity and lifelong pursuit of personal and intellectual growth."
Beyond yourself: an innovative leader should also lead ethically and responsibly, considering the long-term effects of actions and decisions.

In practical terms, BILD has resulted in three completely new core courses (out of 12) and a revamping of the remaining nine. Rather than discarding conventional management courses, the faculty have revised their existing curriculum to focus on "15 specific skills, including experimentation, revenue-model innovation and risk selection."

Full-time MBA Program

The Berkeley MBA Program is a two-year curriculum designed to prepare students for the business world in an experience that Haas calls "Leading Through Innovation." The process of "Leading Through Innovation" includes the core MBA curriculum and specialization in an area of interest, which may be one of seven areas of general management fundamentals, or a certification in one of five different areas of study. Another important part of the Haas MBA is the combination of executive skills seminars, such as the Leadership Development Series, and experiential programs, such as "Haas@Work," an applied innovation program that sends teams of Berkeley MBA students to work at large firms.

Areas of Concentration

The Haas School offers seven areas of general management fundamentals for students to focus on using elective courses:

Accounting
Business & Public Policy
Economic Analysis & Public Policy
Finance
Management of Organizations
Marketing
Operations & Information Technology Management

In addition, students can earn a certificate in one of five areas of study:

Students can also specialize in Corporate Social Responsibility or Nonprofit and Public Leadership, although no certificate program is available for these areas.

Haas@Work

Haas@Work is an applied innovation program operated by the Haas School's Institute for Business Innovation. The program assigns teams of Berkeley MBA students to work on competitive projects at large firms. After collaborating with host executives on innovative solutions to business problems, the students are tasked with implementing their ideas. The Haas@Work program has paired Haas MBA students with companies including Visa, Wells Fargo

Wells Fargo

, Cisco

Cisco

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, Disney, Panasonic

Panasonic

Panasonic is an international brand name for Japanese electric products manufacturer Panasonic Corporation, which was formerly known as Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd...

, and Clorox

Clorox

The Clorox Company is a US-based manufacturer of various food and chemical products based in Oakland, California, which is best known for its bleach product, Clorox.- History :...

Evening & Weekend MBA Program

The three-year, part-time Berkeley Evening & Weekend MBA Program emphasizes the delivery of growth and innovation to organizations, and allows participants to continue working full-time while pursuing the MBA. Like the full-time MBA, the part-time MBA program is built around "Leadership Through Innovation," and like full-time students, part-time MBA students can specialize in one of seven areas of general management fundamentals. However, the certificate programs available to full-time MBA students are not available to those on the part-time track. Evening & Weekend MBA students can focus on several special interests in addition to the general management fundamentals:

Berkeley-Columbia Executive MBA Program

The Haas School of Business offers an Executive MBA Program in partnership with the Columbia Business School

Columbia Business School

. One session per term is held at the Columbia University

Columbia University

Columbia University in the City of New York is a private, Ivy League university in Manhattan, New York City. Columbia is the oldest institution of higher learning in the state of New York, the fifth oldest in the United States, and one of the country's nine Colonial Colleges founded before the...

campus in New York City

New York City

New York is the most populous city in the United States and the center of the New York Metropolitan Area, one of the most populous metropolitan areas in the world. New York exerts a significant impact upon global commerce, finance, media, art, fashion, research, technology, education, and...

, the other four are held on campus at the Haas School of Business in Berkeley, CA. While enrolled in the program, students stay at the Shattuck Plaza Hotel in Berkeley and at the Marriott Marquis in New York City. Courses are taught by the full-time faculty of both schools. The core curriculum is taught during the first three terms, and the last two terms offer elective courses. Students may opt to spend one term studying exclusively in the NY-EMBA program at Columbia or in the other MBA programs offered at Berkeley. Upon completion of the program, students earn two MBAs, one from UC Berkeley and one from Columbia University, the same degrees awarded in the schools' full-time MBA programs.

Ph.D. program

The Haas School of Business Ph.D.

Ph.D.

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Program offers seven fields of academic study and close collaboration with faculty members. The program is very exclusive, admitting only 14-16 candidates per year, and students can expect to graduate in four to five years. Ph.D. students are generally expected to serve as either teaching or research assistants for part of their time at Haas.

Fields of Study

Haas Ph.D. students can specialize in one of seven fields of study.

Accounting
Business and Public Policy
Finance
Management of Organizations (formerly Organizational Behavior & Industrial Relations)
Marketing
Operations Management
Real Estate

Master of Financial Engineering Program

The Berkeley Master of Financial Engineering Program provides graduates with the knowledge and skills necessary for a career in the finance industry. Students in the MFE program take an integrated set of courses for a period of one year, and must also complete a ten-week internship or on-site project and an applied finance project that builds on skills learned in the internship. One hundred percent of the Haas MFE class of 2009 graduated directly into jobs with companies including Goldman Sachs

Goldman Sachs

, Novellus, Allstate Insurance

Allstate

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, and Deutsche Bank

Deutsche Bank

Deutsche Bank AG is a global financial service company with its headquarters in Frankfurt, Germany. It employs more than 100,000 people in over 70 countries, and has a large presence in Europe, the Americas, Asia Pacific and the emerging markets...

Undergraduate Program

The Haas School of Business, in conjunction with the main UC Berkeley campus, offers an undergraduate Bachelor of Science

Bachelor of Science

degree intended to provide the knowledge and technical skills necessary for success in the modern business world. Students take core courses in Accounting, Finance, Marketing, Business Communication, and Organizational Behavior, as well as elective courses in other areas. Undergraduates enter Haas at the beginning of their junior year, and graduate within two years.
It ranked no. 2 in the nation according to U.S. News College ranking.

Haas sponsors a wide variety of student organizations, including ethnic groups, case competition clubs, and organizations for a wide variety of business-related pursuits including finance, real estate, marketing, consulting, and others. Consulting organizations like The Berkeley Group and Berkeley Consulting

Berkeley Consulting

Berkeley Consulting is a non-profit student-run management consulting group started at the University of California, Berkeley in 1996. The organization has completed deliverables for clients from various industries such as media, retail, technology, and healthcare...

recruit and train undergraduate students to work on consulting engagements with real-world clients. Ethnic-based organizations like the Asian Business Association unite students of similar ethnicity for professional development and networking.

Executive Education

The Haas School's Center for Executive Education offers a variety of custom and open-enrollment programs to help corporate executives understand specific new or challenging aspects of the business world, drawing on the research of Haas faculty members. Executives can enroll in a prepared set of short courses targeted at specific issues, or work with the Center and their company to develop a custom curriculum.

Institutes & Centers

The Haas School of Business is home to many research institutions and centers, and Haas faculty members take an active part in many of UC Berkeley's multidisciplinary programs as well.

Research Institutes

Research Centers

Notable faculty

David Aaker
David A. Aaker
David Allen Aaker is a consultant and author on the field of marketing, particularly in the area of brand strategy. He is currently the Vice Chairman of Prophet, a global brand and marketing consultancy firm, Professor Emeritus at the Haas School of Business of the University of California,...

- named one of the top ten marketers by the Marketing Executives Network Group, an elite group of marketing executives, along with Seth Godin
Seth Godin
Seth Godin is an American entrepreneur, author and public speaker. Godin popularized the topic of permission marketing.-Background:...

and Steve Jobs
Steve Jobs
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Vinod Aggarwal
Vinod Aggarwal
Vinod K. Aggarwal is Professor of Political Science, Affiliated Professor in the Haas School of Business, and directs the Berkeley APEC Study Center at the University of California at Berkeley. He isa Visiting Professor at INSEAD's Asia campus, a blogger for the Harvard Business Review, and has...
Sandy Alderson
Sandy Alderson
Richard Lynn "Sandy" Alderson is the general manager of the New York Mets. He previously served as an executive with the Oakland Athletics, San Diego Padres and the commissioner's office of Major League Baseball....

- executive in Major League Baseball
Major League Baseball
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Steve G. Blank
Steven Gary Blank
Steve Blank is a Silicon Valley-based retired serial entrepreneur, founding and/or part of 8 startup companies in California’s Silicon Valley after dropping out of the University of Michigan...
Tom Campbell - Former U.S. Representative and Director of Finance for the State of California
Henry Chesbrough
Henry Chesbrough
Henry Chesbrough coined the term open innovation and is the author of Open Innovation: The New Imperative for Creating and Profiting from Technology...

- coined the phrase Open Innovation
Open Innovation
Although the idea and discussion about some consequences date back at least to the 60s, open innovation is a term promoted by Henry Chesbrough, a professor and executive director at the Center for Open Innovation at the University of California, Berkeley, in his book Open Innovation: The new...

: The New Imperative for Creating and Profiting from Technology
Graef Crystal
Graef Crystal
Graef "Bud" S. Crystal is an expert on executive compensation, often cited as a critic of excessive packages.He started work as an executive compensation consultant in 1959. He worked for twenty years at the consulting firm Towers Perrin, and also taught at the Haas School of Business...

- executive compensation
Executive compensation
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expert
John Hanke
John Hanke
John Hanke is a founder and was the CEO of Keyhole, Inc., which was acquired by Google in 2004 and whose flagship product was renamed to Google Earth. Hanke the was formerly the Vice President of Product Management for Google's "Geo" division...
John Harsanyi
John Harsanyi
John Charles Harsanyi was a Hungarian-Australian-American economist and Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences winner....

- Economics Nobel Laureate, 1994, Died - August 9, 2000
Teck-Hua Ho
Teck-Hua Ho
Teck-Hua Ho is the William Halford Jr. Family Professor of Marketing, and the Chair of the Marketing Department at the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley....
Tom Kelley
Richard Lyons
Richard Lyons (Dean of Haas School of Business)
Richard Kent Lyons is the 14th Dean of the Haas School of Business, U.C. Berkeley. Prior to becoming Dean in July 2008, he served as the Chief Learning Officer at Goldman Sachs in New York, a position he had held since 2006.-Biography:...

- current Dean of the Haas School of Business
Sherman J. Maisel
Sherman J. Maisel
Sherman Joseph Maisel was an American economist who served on the board of governors of the Federal Reserve System...
David C. Mowery
David C. Mowery
David C. Mowery is the William A. & Betty H. Hasler Professor of New Enterprise Development at the Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley. He earned a BA, an MA, and a Ph.D. in economics, each from Stanford University...
Terrance Odean
Terrance Odean
Terrance Odean is a professor of banking and finance at the Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley. He is known for his work on behavioral finance.-External links:*...
Mario Rosati
Mario Rosati
Mario Rosati is a partner at Wilson, Sonsini, Goodrich & Rosati. Mario also serves as a director at Sanmina-SCI Corporation, Aehr Test Systems, Symyx Technologies, and Vivus - all publicly held companies....

- Partner at Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati
Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati
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Mark Rubinstein
Mark Rubinstein
Mark Edward Rubinstein is a leading financial economist and financial engineer. He is currently Professor of Finance at the Haas School of Business of the University of California, Berkeley, where he is involved in teaching courses in the , an academic program that is focused on equipping...

- a noted financial engineer and International Association of Financial Engineers
International Association of Financial Engineers
The International Association of Financial Engineers is a non-profit professional society dedicated to fostering the field of financial engineering. The IAFE hosts several panel discussions throughout the year to discuss the issues that affect the industry from both academic and professional angles...

Man of The Year in 1995.
Carl Shapiro
Carl Shapiro
Carl Shapiro is the Transamerica Professor of Business Strategy at the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the co-author, along with Hal Varian, of Information Rules: A Strategic Guide to the Network Economy, published by the Harvard Business School Press...

- former Deputy Assistant Attorney General for Economics in the Antitrust Division of the U.S. Department of Justice
United States Department of Justice
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(1995–1996). Now Chief Economist in the U.S. Department of Justice
United States Department of Justice
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's Antitrust Division (April 2009).
Kevin Sweeney
David Teece
David Teece
David J. Teece is the Chairman of Berkeley Research Group, LLC, and Thomas W. Tusher Chair in Global Business and director of the Institute of Management, Innovation, and Organization at the Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley. Teece received his M.A. and Ph.D. in economics...

- Thomas W. Tusher Chair in Global Business and director of the Institute of Management, Innovation, and Organization
Philip Tetlock - MacArthur Fellow, Russell Sage Scholar, winner of Woodrow Wilson Award, Robert E. Lane Award, and Grawemeyer Award for his recent book, Expert Political Judgment: How Good Is It? How Can We Know?
Paul Tiffany
Paul Tiffany
Paul Tiffany is a Senior Lecturer at the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of The Decline of American Steel, How Management, Labor and Government Went Wrong and Business Plans for Dummies.Tiffany holds a BA from Loyola University, an MBA from...

- author of Business Plans
Business plan
A business plan is a formal statement of a set of business goals, the reasons why they are believed attainable, and the plan for reaching those goals. It may also contain background information about the organization or team attempting to reach those goals....

for Dummies
Laura Tyson - Dean of the Haas School of Business (1998–2001) and the London Business School
London Business School
London Business School is an international business school and a constituent college of the federal University of London, located in central London, beside Regent's Park...

(2002–2006), Chair, President's Council of Economic Advisers, National Economic Council
Hal Varian
Hal Varian
Hal Ronald Varian is an economist specializing in microeconomics and information economics. He is the Chief Economist at Google and he holds the title of emeritus professor at the University of California, Berkeley where he was founding dean of the School of Information...

- fellow of the Guggenheim Foundation
John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation was founded in 1925 by Mr. and Mrs. Simon Guggenheim in memory of their son, who died April 26, 1922...

, the Econometric Society
Econometric Society
The Econometric Society is an international society for the advancement of economic theory in its relation with statistics and mathematics. It was founded on December 29, 1930 at the Stalton Hotel in Cleveland, Ohio....

, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
American Academy of Arts and Sciences
The American Academy of Arts and Sciences is an independent policy research center that conducts multidisciplinary studies of complex and emerging problems. The Academy’s elected members are leaders in the academic disciplines, the arts, business, and public affairs.James Bowdoin, John Adams, and...

. Since 2007, Hal has been on leave from the Haas School of Business as the Chief Economist at Google
Google
Google Inc. is an American multinational public corporation invested in Internet search, cloud computing, and advertising technologies. Google hosts and develops a number of Internet-based services and products, and generates profit primarily from advertising through its AdWords program...

.
John M. Veitch
David Vogel
David Vogel (professor)
David Vogel is the Soloman P. Lee Distinguished Professor in Business Ethics at the University of California, Berkeley. He is a member of both the Political Science Department and the Haas School of Business, and is Editor of the California Management Review...
Oliver Williamson - winner of the 2009 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences and a seminal researcher on transaction cost economics.
Janet Yellen
Janet Yellen
Janet Louise Yellen is an American economist and professor, who is currently the Vice Chair of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System...

- President, Federal Reserve Bank
Federal Reserve Bank
The twelve Federal Reserve Banks form a major part of the Federal Reserve System, the central banking system of the United States. The twelve federal reserve banks together divide the nation into twelve Federal Reserve Districts, the twelve banking districts created by the Federal Reserve Act of...

of San Francisco (2004–present); Chair, President's Council of Economic Advisors (1997–99); Member, Board of Governors of the U.S. Federal Reserve System
Federal Reserve System
The Federal Reserve System is the central banking system of the United States. It was created on December 23, 1913 with the enactment of the Federal Reserve Act, largely in response to a series of financial panics, particularly a severe panic in 1907...

.
Henry F. Grady
Henry F. Grady
Henry Francis Grady was an American diplomat. Born in San Francisco, California to John Henry and Ellen Genevieve Grady, he earned a PhD in Economics from Columbia University. On October 18, 1917 he married Lucretia Louise del Valle Henry Francis Grady (February 12, 1882 - September 14, 1957)...

Dean of the Commerce Dept at the University of California, Berkeley. Professor of Economics. Also, First Ambassador to India, Ambassador to Greece and Iran. President of American President Lines.

Notable alumni

Scott Adams
Scott Adams
Scott Raymond Adams is the American creator of the Dilbert comic strip and the author of several nonfiction works of satire, commentary, business, and general speculation....

, MBA 86, Creator of Dilbert
Dilbert
Dilbert is an American comic strip written and drawn by Scott Adams. First published on April 16, 1989, Dilbert is known for its satirical office humor about a white-collar, micromanaged office featuring the engineer Dilbert as the title character...
Margo Alexander
Margo Alexander
Margo Alexander is the Chairman of the Acumen Fund, which is a non-profit organization that uses a venture capital model to promote sustainable change to improve the lives of the poor. It is officially supported by many organizations, including the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Google.org, and...

, BS 68, Chairman, Acumen Fund
Acumen Fund
Acumen Fund is a non-profit global venture fund that uses entrepreneurial approaches to solve the problems of global poverty. Its aim is to help build financially sustainable and scalable organizations that deliver affordable critical goods and services that improve the lives of the poor...

, former Executive Vice President, UBS Paine Webber
Paine Webber
Paine Webber and Company was an American stock brokerage and asset management firm that was acquired by the Swiss bank UBS AG in 2000. The company was founded in 1880 in Boston, Massachusetts, by William Alfred Paine and Wallace G. Webber. Operating with two employees, they leased premises at 48...
Bengt Baron
Bengt Baron
Bengt Baron is a former backstroke swimmer from Sweden. He won the 100 m backstroke at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow, and was a member of the bronze winning team from Sweden in the 4×100 m freestyle at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, California. An undergraduate student from the...

, BS 85, MBA 88, President, Absolut Vodka
Absolut Vodka
Absolut Vodka is a brand of vodka, produced near Åhus, Skåne, in southern Sweden. Since July 2008 the company has been owned by the French firm Pernod Ricard who bought V&S Group from the Swedish government....
Maxim Barsky, MBA, CEO, TNK-BP
TNK-BP
TNK-BP is a major vertically integrated Russian oil company. It is Russia's third largest oil producer and among the ten largest private oil companies in the world. TNK-BP is Russia's third largest oil company in terms of reserves and crude oil production...
Richard Blum
Richard Blum
Richard Blum may refer to:*Richard C. Blum, American investment banker and husband to Dianne Feinstein*Richard Manitoba, born Richard Blum, American musician with the MC5 and The Dictators...

, BS 59, MBA 59, Founder, American Himalayan Foundation
American Himalayan Foundation
The American Himalayan Foundation is a US non-profit organization that helps Tibetans, Sherpas, and Nepalis living throughout the Himalayas. AHF builds schools, plants trees, trains doctors, funds hospitals, takes care of children and the elderly, and restores sacred sites...
Rick Cronk
Rick Cronk
William F. "Rick" Cronk is an American businessman who was co-owner and president of Dreyer's Grand Ice Cream. He is a former national president of the Boy Scouts of America and the outgoing chairman of the World Scout Committee of the World Organization of the Scout Movement.-Business:After...

, BS 65, Chairman and President, Dreyer's
Dreyer's
Dreyer's Grand Ice Cream Holdings, Inc., a subsidiary of Nestlé, is a United States-based producer of ice cream and frozen yogurt had originated in 1928 as Edy's Grand Ice Cream, a Northern California business under a partnership of Joseph Edy and William Dreyer. In 1947 the partnership dissolved....

Grand Ice Cream (retired)
Barbara Desoer, MBA 77, President, Consumer Products, Bank of America
Bank of America
Bank of America Corporation, an American multinational banking and financial services corporation, is the second largest bank holding company in the United States by assets, and the fourth largest bank in the U.S. by market capitalization. The bank is headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina...
Stephanie DiMarco
Stephanie DiMarco
Stephanie DiMarco is the Founder, CEO and President of Advent Software, a public company with a market cap of more than $1 billion that offers integrated software solutions for automating and integrating data and work flows across investment management organizations....

, BS 79, Chairman, Advent Software
Advent Software
Advent Software is a software company that makes software designed to automate portfolio accounting for investment management firms, ranging from family offices and investment advisors to large institutional investors and hedge funds. The company has customers in 60 countries that manage some $14...
Noah Doyle, MBA 96, Co-founder of MyPoints (acquired by United Online
United Online
United Online is a public company formed by the 2001 merger of NetZero and Juno Online Services. The company's range of products and services has evolved significantly since inception, primarily through a series of acquisitions that have included Classmates Online , MyPoints and FTD Group, Inc. ....

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Tom Fanoe
Tom Fanoe
Tom Fanoe was the President and COO of Joe Boxer.Prior to Joe Boxer, Tom served as the President of Levi Strauss's US Division. Tom holds an MBA from the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley. He attended Palma High School and was elected to the Palma Sports Hall of...

, MBA 69, President, Joe Boxer
Joe Boxer
Joe Boxer is a brand of underwear and related apparel founded by Nicholas Graham. The brand pioneered the concept of novelty hanging underwear. Joe Boxer is a wholly owned subsidiary of Iconix Brand Group...
Donald Fisher
Donald Fisher
Donald George Fisher was an American businessman who founded The Gap clothing stores.-Personal history:...

, BS 50, Chairman & Founder, Gap Inc.
Michael R. Gallagher
Michael R. Gallagher
Michael R. Gallagher was the CEO and Director of Playtex Products, Inc., from July 1995 until his retirement in December 2004.Prior to that, Gallagher was CEO of North America for Reckitt & Colman PLC, a consumer products company based in London...

, BS 67, MBA 68, CEO, Playtex
Playtex
Playtex and PlayTex are a brand and trademark. It used to be associated with bras and women's undergarments. Currently there are two separate companies with the Playtex name....

Products
Deborah E. Gallegos
Deborah E. Gallegos
Deborah Gallegos was the Chief Investment Officer for the Comptroller of the City of New York during 2005.Gallegos moved to New York from a less high-profile post as deputy state investment officer for the New Mexico State Investment Council, where she oversaw a $1 billion private equity program...

, MBA 95, CIO, City of New York
John Garamendi
John Garamendi
John Raymond Garamendi is the U.S. Representative for , serving since November 2009. He is a member of the Democratic Party. Garamendi was the California State Insurance Commissioner from 1991 to 1995, the U.S. Deputy Secretary of the Interior from 1995 to 1998, and the California State Insurance...

, BS 66, Congressman, former Lieutenant Governor, State of California
Barry Gilbert
Barry Gilbert
.Barry Gilbert is a fictional Toronto police homicide detective in the books by Canadian science fiction author Scott Mackay....

, MBA 77, CEO, Smith & Hawken
Smith & Hawken
Smith & Hawken was garden lifestyle brand that operated retail stores, direct mail and e-commerce in the United States. On July 10, 2009, it was announced that all Smith & Hawken stores would cease operation. Smith & Hawken stores were located in upscale retail locations in 22 states.Smith & Hawken...
Walter A. Haas, Jr.
Walter A. Haas, Jr.
Walter A. Haas, Jr. was a president and CEO and chairman of Levi Strauss & Co, succeeding his father Walter A. Haas. He led the company in its growth from a regional manufacturer and wholesaler of work clothes to one of the world’s leading apparel companies...

, BS 37, President, CEO, and Chairman, Levi Strauss & Co.
Walter A. Haas, Sr., BS 10, President and Chairman, Levi Strauss & Co.
John Hanke
John Hanke
John Hanke is a founder and was the CEO of Keyhole, Inc., which was acquired by Google in 2004 and whose flagship product was renamed to Google Earth. Hanke the was formerly the Vice President of Product Management for Google's "Geo" division...

, MBA 96, Founder and CEO of Keyhole, Inc., Co-creator and Product Director of Google Earth
Google Earth
Google Earth is a virtual globe, map and geographical information program that was originally called EarthViewer 3D, and was created by Keyhole, Inc, a Central Intelligence Agency funded company acquired by Google in 2004 . It maps the Earth by the superimposition of images obtained from satellite...
Allan Holt, MBA 76, Managing Director, Carlyle Group
Carlyle Group
The Carlyle Group is an American-based global asset management firm, specializing in private equity, based in Washington, D.C. The Carlyle Group operates in four business areas: corporate private equity, real assets, market strategies and fund-of-funds, through its AlpInvest subsidiary...

US Buyout
Michael Homer
Michael Homer
Michael J. Homer was an American electronics and computer industry executive who played major roles in the development of the personal computer, mobile devices and the Internet.-Life and career:...

, BS 81, Chairman and CEO, Kontiki
Kontiki
Kontiki is a peer-assisted content delivery technology company, founded in November 2000. It was acquired by VeriSign in March 2006. VeriSign, as part of a major divestiture, sold Kontiki to MK Capital in May 2008....
N. W. Jasper
N. W. Jasper
N. W. Jasper is the President, Director, and CEO of Dolby Laboratories.Bill Jasper joined Dolby Laboratories in 1979 as Vice President, Finance and Administration. In 1981, Mr. Jasper became Executive Vice President, and was named company President in 1983...

, MBA 71, President and CEO, Dolby Laboratories
Dolby Laboratories
Dolby Laboratories, Inc. , often shortened to Dolby Labs, is an American company specializing in audio noise reduction and audio encoding/compression.-History:...
Joe Jimenez, MBA 84, CEO, Novartis
Novartis
Novartis International AG is a multinational pharmaceutical company based in Basel, Switzerland, ranking number three in sales among the world-wide industry...
Tom Kelley, MBA 83, General Manager, IDEO
IDEO
IDEO is an international design and innovation consultancy founded in Palo Alto, California, United States with other locations in San Francisco, Chicago, New York, Boston, London, Munich, Shanghai, and Singapore, as well as Mumbai, Seoul, and Tokyo. The company helps design products, services,...

, and Author of The Art of Innovation
Linda A. Lang
Linda A. Lang
Linda A. Lang is the chairwoman and CEO of Jack in the Box. She was appointed to the California State University board of trustees in 2009.Lang has an MBA from San Diego State University and a BS in finance from the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley.-External links:*...

, BS 80, Chairman and CEO, Jack in the Box, Inc.
Allen J. Lauer
Allen J. Lauer
Allen J. Lauer retired as Chairman of Varian, Inc., an $843 million dollar company specializing in scientific instruments and vacuum technologies. He also served as the Chief Executive Officer and President of Varian, Inc. from 1999 to 2003....

, MBA 65, Chairman, Varian, Inc.
Varian, Inc.
Varian, Inc. was one of the largest manufacturers of scientific instruments for the scientific industry; they had offerings over the whole range of chemical analysis equipment, with a particular focus on Information Rich Detection and Vacuum technology...
Cathie Lesjak, MBA 86, CFO, Hewlett-Packard
Hewlett-Packard
Hewlett-Packard Company or HP is an American multinational information technology corporation headquartered in Palo Alto, California, USA that provides products, technologies, softwares, solutions and services to consumers, small- and medium-sized businesses and large enterprises, including...
Robert Lutz, BS 61, MBA 62, Chairman, North America, and Vice Chairman, Product Development, General Motors
Paul Merage
Paul Merage
Paul Merage is an Iranian-American entrepreneur. He is the former CEO and co-founder of Chef America Inc. who invented Hot Pockets microwaveable snacks....

, BS 66, MBA 68, Co-founder, Chef America, co-inventor of Hot Pockets
Hot Pockets
Hot Pockets are microwaveable turnovers usually containing a combination of cheese, meat, and vegetables. Hot Pockets are currently produced by Hylan Steez.- Varieties :...

, and benefactor of Paul Merage School of Business
Paul Merage School of Business
The Paul Merage School of Business is an academic unit of the University of California, Irvine that is charged with academic research in the field of business...

at the University of California, Irvine
University of California, Irvine
The University of California, Irvine , founded in 1965, is one of the ten campuses of the University of California, located in Irvine, California, USA...
Michael Milken
Michael Milken
Michael Robert Milken is an American business magnate, financier, and philanthropist noted for his role in the development of the market for high-yield bonds during the 1970s and 1980s, for his 1990 guilty plea to felony charges for violating US securities laws, and for his funding of medical...

, BS 68, Highly influential in developing the market for junk bonds (a.k.a. "high-yield debt
High-yield debt
In finance, a high-yield bond is a bond that is rated below investment grade...

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Norman Mineta
Norman Mineta
Norman Yoshio Mineta, is a United States politician of the Democratic Party. Mineta most recently served in President George W. Bush's Cabinet as the United States Secretary of Transportation, the only Democratic Cabinet Secretary in the Bush administration...

, BS 53, US Secretary of Transportation
Jorge Montoya, MBA 71, Present, Procter & Gamble
Procter & Gamble
Procter & Gamble is a Fortune 500 American multinational corporation headquartered in downtown Cincinnati, Ohio and manufactures a wide range of consumer goods....

, Latin America (retired)
Sung Nak-Yang
Sung Nak-Yang
Sung Nak-Yang was the former CEO of Yahoo! Korea.Sung holds a chemical engineering degree from Yonsei University. Upon graduation, he worked for three years in the trading department of Samsung Corporation. Afterwards, he received an MBA from the Haas School of Business at the University of...

, MBA 96, former CEO of Yahoo!
Yahoo!
Yahoo! Inc. is an American multinational internet corporation headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, United States. The company is perhaps best known for its web portal, search engine , Yahoo! Directory, Yahoo! Mail, Yahoo! News, Yahoo! Groups, Yahoo! Answers, advertising, online mapping ,...

Korea
Shantanu Narayen
Shantanu Narayen
Shantanu Narayen is the current CEO of Adobe Systems. Prior to this post, he held the role as the President and Chief Operating Officer since 2005.-Early life:...

, MBA 93, CEO of Adobe Systems
Adobe Systems
Adobe Systems Incorporated is an American computer software company founded in 1982 and headquartered in San Jose, California, United States...
Douglas Ose, BS 77, Congress
United States Congress
The United States Congress is the bicameral legislature of the federal government of the United States, consisting of the Senate and the House of Representatives. The Congress meets in the United States Capitol in Washington, D.C....

man
Paul Otellini
Paul Otellini
Paul S. Otellini is an American businessman current president and chief executive of Intel. He is also on the board of directors of Google.- Early life and Education :...

, MBA 74, President and CEO Intel
Darrell Rodriguez, MBA, Former President of LucasArts
LucasArts
LucasArts Entertainment Company, LLC is an American video game developer and publisher. The company was once famous for its innovative line of graphic adventure games, the critical and commercial success of which peaked in the mid 1990s...
Rudolph A. Peterson
Rudolph A. Peterson
Rudolph A. Peterson was the President and CEO of Bank of America.-Background:Rudolph Arvid Peterson was born into a family of six children in Svenljunga, Västra Götaland County, Sweden. He was adopted by his maternal uncle and aunt who emigrated in September 1905. At first they lived in...

, BS 1925, President and CEO of Bank of America
Bank of America
Bank of America Corporation, an American multinational banking and financial services corporation, is the second largest bank holding company in the United States by assets, and the fourth largest bank in the U.S. by market capitalization. The bank is headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina...
Rodrigo Rato
Rodrigo Rato
Rodrigo de Rato y Figaredo is a Spanish political figure who served in the government of Spain as Minister of the Economy from 1996 to 2004; a member of the conservative People's Party , he was also First Deputy Prime Minister from 2003 to 2004...

, MBA 74, IMF Managing Director, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of the Economy, Spain
Spain
Spain , officially the Kingdom of Spain languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Spain's official name is as follows:;;;;;;), is a country and member state of the European Union located in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula...
John Riccitiello
John Riccitiello
John Riccitiello is the CEO of Electronic Arts .He received his Bachelors of Science degree from the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley....

, BS 81, CEO of Electronic Arts
Electronic Arts
Electronic Arts, Inc. is a major American developer, marketer, publisher and distributor of video games. Founded and incorporated on May 28, 1982 by Trip Hawkins, the company was a pioneer of the early home computer games industry and was notable for promoting the designers and programmers...

, Managing Director and Co-Founder of Elevation Partners
Elevation Partners
Elevation Partners is an American private equity firm that invests in intellectual property and media and entertainment companies. The firm has $1.9 billion of assets under management....
Paul Rice
Paul Rice
Paul Rice Paul Rice is the President & CEO of Fair Trade USA, a third-party certifier of Fair Trade products in the United States. He spent most of the 1980’s working directly in the field with cooperative farmers, creating and implementing training programs aimed at developing small farmers’...

, MBA 96, CEO Transfair USA
Transfair USA
Fair Trade USA, formerly "TransFair USA" is a 501 non-profit organization.Founded in 1998, Fair Trade USA’s mission is to "enable sustainable development and community empowerment by cultivating a more equitable global trade model that benefits farmers, workers, consumers, industry and the earth"...
Arun Sarin
Arun Sarin
Arun Sarin was the CEO of Britain's Vodafone Group plc. On June 29, 2008, he announced his resignation as CEO of Vodafone Group. He is a senior adviser at the private equity firm KKR. He serves on the board of directors of Cisco Systems and Safeway, Inc...

, MBA 78, ex-CEO, Vodafone
Vodafone
Vodafone Group Plc is a global telecommunications company headquartered in London, United Kingdom. It is the world's largest mobile telecommunications company measured by revenues and the world's second-largest measured by subscribers , with around 341 million proportionate subscribers as of...
Thomas Schneider
Thomas Schneider
Thomas Schneider is a retired German football player. He spent 14 seasons in the Bundesliga with VfB Stuttgart and Hannover 96.-Honours:* UEFA Cup Winners' Cup finalist: 1998.* Bundesliga champion: 1992....

, MBA 62, Chairman, Ansett Worldwide
Peter Schiff
Peter Schiff
Peter David Schiff is an American investment broker, author and financial commentator. Schiff is CEO and chief global strategist of Euro Pacific Capital Inc., a broker-dealer based in Westport, Connecticut and CEO of Euro Pacific Precious Metals, LLC, a gold and silver dealer based in New York...

, President, Euro Pacific Capital
Roger Siboni, BS 76, President and CEO, E.piphany
Ned Spieker, BS 66, Managing Partner, Spieker Partners (real estate)
Pete Stark
Pete Stark
Fortney Hillman "Pete" Stark, Jr. is the U.S. Representative for , serving since 1973. He is a member of the Democratic Party. Currently he is the 5th most senior Representative, as well as 6th most senior member of Congress overall...

, MBA 60, Congressman
Paul Stephens, BS 67, MBA 69, founder of Robertson Stephens
Robertson Stephens
Robertson Stephens was a San Francisco-based boutique investment bank that focused on primarily on technology companies...
Gordon Stitt
Gordon Stitt
Gordon Stitt is the Co-Founder and CEO of Extreme Networks.Stitt co-founded Network Peripherals in 1989 and served first as its vice president of marketing, and then as vice president and general manager of the OEM Business Unit...

, MBA 82 - Co-founder and CEO of Extreme Networks
Extreme Networks
Extreme Networks, founded in 1996, is a publicly listed company that designs, builds, and installs Ethernet network solutions for enterprise and Carrier Class networks.-Corporate History:Extreme Networks is located in Santa Clara, California...
Natasha Raja, MBA 02, Designer of Khawaish, Co-founder of Medicomm, Head of CRM at eBay
EBay
eBay Inc. is an American internet consumer-to-consumer corporation that manages eBay.com, an online auction and shopping website in which people and businesses buy and sell a broad variety of goods and services worldwide...
Rilk Dacleu Idrac
Rilk Dacleu Idrac
Rilk Wilfrith Dacleu Idrac is an African-American executive currently serving at Mubadala Development Company board following his appointment as Advisor on September 2010. On December 2010, M...

, MBA 07, Senior executive, CSO, at Mubadala Development Company
Mubadala Development Company
Mubadala Development Company PJSC was established in October 2002 as a Public Joint Stock Company and is a wholly owned investment vehicle of the Government of Abu Dhabi, in the United Arab Emirates....
Hirotaka Takeuchi
Hirotaka Takeuchi
is dean of the Graduate School of International Corporate Strategy at Hitotsubashi University in Tokyo and was a visiting professor at Harvard Business School in 1989 and 1990....

, MBA 71, PhD 77, Dean, Hitotsubashi University
Hitotsubashi University
is a national university specialised in the social sciences in Tokyo, Japan. The University has campuses in Kunitachi, Kodaira, and Kanda.Hitotsubashi is considered as one of the most prestigious universities in Japan. It is ranked 25th in the world in 2011 by École des Mines de Paris.Hitotsubashi...

Graduate School of International Corporate Strategy
Graduate School of International Corporate Strategy
The , also known by an acronym ICS, is the graduate business school of Hitotsubashi University in Tokyo, Japan. It is also referred to as "Hitotsubashi ICS". ICS is the first "professional graduate school" established in Japan...
Marcelo Trivelli, MBA 80, President of Regional Council, Regional Government of Santiago, Chile
Michael Wood, MBA 79, Founder, Leapfrog Enterprises
Leapfrog Enterprises
LeapFrog Enterprises Inc is an educational entertainment company based in Emeryville, California. LeapFrog designs, develops and markets technology-based learning products and related content for the education of infant through grade school children at home and in schools internationally.- History...
Rha Woong-Bae
Rha Woong-Bae
Rha Woong-Bae is the Chairman of the Hanbit Forum. He was also the former Finance and Economy Minister and deputy Prime Minister of the Republic of Korea under President Kim Dae-Jung. He served as Trade and Industry Minister in the 1980s....

, PhD 68, former Finance and Economy Minister, Republic of Korea
Donald Wurster, MBA 80, President, National Indemnity Co.

Undergraduate rankings

#2 U.S. News & World Report, 2009
- #3 for Finance
- #3 for Management
- #4 for Marketing
- #4 for Real Estate
- #5 for Quantitative Analysis/Methods
- #5 for International Business
- #8 for Entrepreneurship
- #9 for Production/Operations Management
- #11 for Accounting
- #12 for Management Information Systems
- #15 for Supply Chain Management/Logistics

#13 BusinessWeek, 2011
- #1 for Recruitment

#3 About.com Guide to Business majors

Peter, Schiff: President, Euro Pacific Capitol

Full-time MBA rankings

#1 (US), #3 (International) Economist Intelligence Unit, 2009

#2 The Wall Street Journal, 2008
- #1 for Recruiting in Technology/Telecommunication/Internet
- #2 for Excellence in Social Responsibility
- #4 for Hiring of Women
- #4 for Recruiting in Management Consulting
- #4 for Entrepreneurship
- #4 for Information Technology
- #6 for Graduates with High Ethical Standards
- #6 for Hiring of Minorities
- #9 for CEO Material
- #10 for International Business

#4 Aspen Institute, Beyond Grey Pinstripes, Global Rankings
- #1 for Course content
- #4 for Student Opportunity
- #5 for Faculty Research
- #32 for Student Exposure

#4 Princeton Review Selectivity rating, 2009
- #4 for Best Career Prospects
- #4 for Best Administered
- #10 for Best Campus Facilities

#7 U.S. News & World Report, 2010
- #3 for Non-profit
- #7 for Entrepreneurship
- #8 for Finance
- #9 for General Management
- #9 for Marketing
- #10 in international

#8 BusinessWeek, 2008

#9 (US), Financial Times, 2007 Ranking of rankings.

#8 (North America), 2010 QS Global 200 Business Schools Report
QS Global 200 Business Schools Report
The QS Global 200 Business Schools Report identifies the most popular business schools in each region of the world. It aims to serve employers seeking MBAs at a regional level. It originated in the early 1990s under the partnership Quacquarelli Symonds. The TopMBA Career Guide was made in 1990, and...
- #8 for Average Salary
- #4 for Average GMAT Score

#11 (US), #16 (International) Financial Times, 2006

#13 Forbes, 2007

#15, Financial Times, 2008, US MBA programs
- #1 Best in corporate social responsibility
- #1 Best in e-business
- #4 Best in entrepreneurship
- #5 Best in IT
- #6 Best in economics
- #9 Top salaries in consulting

Berkeley-Columbia Executive MBA rankings

#3 (US), #16 (International) Financial Times, 2008 Executive MBA Rankings, Berkeley-Columbia program
#6 US News and World Report
#12 Wall Street Journal Executive MBA Rankings, 2008, Berkeley-Columbia program

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History

Berkeley Innovative Leader Development

Full-time MBA Program

Areas of Concentration

Haas@Work

Evening & Weekend MBA Program

Berkeley-Columbia Executive MBA Program

Ph.D. program

Fields of Study

Master of Financial Engineering Program

Undergraduate Program

Executive Education

Institutes & Centers

Research Institutes

Research Centers

Notable faculty

Notable alumni

Undergraduate rankings

Full-time MBA rankings

Berkeley-Columbia Executive MBA rankings

See also

External links