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Students Compete for Haas Hedge Fund Money
Eighteen Berkeley MBA students demonstrated their finance acumen Friday as they presented trading strategies developed for the Haas Hedge Fund class to outside judges in San Francisco. (11/13/2009)

Top Firms Hire Financial Engineering Interns
Goldman Sachs, Citi, Credit Suisse, Barclays Capital, and Morgan Stanley are among the top investment banks hiring Master’s in Financial Engineering students for mid-program internships. (11/13/2009)

Haas Class Project Reaches mtvU and NYSE Competition Finals
Starring in a reality TV show was the last thing that three undergraduates thought would happen when they created a business plan for Lecturer John Danner’s Entrepreneurship to Address Global Poverty class last spring. (11/13/2009)

New Haas Veterans Club to Host Talk on Leadership and Diversity
A new club for Berkeley MBA military veterans will host its first speaker event Nov. 16 with Mary George, co-chair of Bell Automotive Products and a board member of three other consumer products companies. (10/26/2009)

Berkeley-Stanford CleanTech Conference to Explore Smart Grid
(10/26/2009)

Berkeley-Columbia Gala Raises $14,000
Lunch with Dean Rich Lyons and a barbecue with Senior Lecturer Paul Tiffany, PhD 83, were among the items that helped raise more than $14,000 at the Berkeley-Columbia Gala in September. (10/12/2009)

Undergrad Competition Tests Merger Strategies
A team of Haas undergraduates won the 12th annual Investment Banking Case Competition by proposing the immediate sale of tech firm Wind River to semiconductor giant Intel. (10/12/2009)

State Controller, PG&E Chief Diversity Officer to Headline Diversity Conference, Nov. 6
(10/12/2009)

See Latest Technologies, Win Prizes at Tech Expo, Nov. 6
Technology companies will show off their hottest innovations, offer promotions, and talk with students Nov. 6 at the eighth annual Technology Exposition hosted by UC Berkeley's Business and Technology Association. (10/12/2009)

Haas Discontinues Undergrad Summer Program
In response to student needs, the Haas School Undergraduate Program will no longer require incoming business majors to take summer courses before starting at Haas in the fall.
(10/12/2009)

Vote Online for Alums' Coffee Recycling Firm
Support Haas alumni Nikhil Arora and Alejandro Velez, both BS 09, by casting a vote for their startup BTTR Ventures, which sells mushrooms grown from coffee grounds and is a finalist in a BBC/Newsweek competition. (09/27/2009)

Students to Face Off in Investment Banking Competition, Oct. 6
Thirty-eight teams composed of 143 undergraduate students are competing in the 12th annual Investment Banking Case Competition hosted by Goldman Sachs and the Haas Undergraduate Program. (09/27/2009)

Finance Conference to Explore Road to Recovery, Nov. 13
(09/27/2009)

Leaders Bring Real-World Lessons to the Classroom
San Francisco Giants President Larry Baer, Blue Shield of California CEO Bruce Bodaken, and Infosys Consulting CEO Stephen Pratt are among the top executives sharing front-line wisdom as guest speakers in Haas classrooms this fall. (09/27/2009)

Sports, Media, and Startup Stars Teach Fall Courses
The former CEO of the Padres baseball team, a Bay Area news anchor, and a founding executive of Yahoo! are among the instructors who are teaching Haas students in both new and previously offered courses this semester. (09/14/2009)

Teams to Present International Development Projects, Sept. 25
Berkeley MBA students who participated in the International Business Development Program this year will present summaries of their projects in Gabon, Brazil, Finland, and 12 other locations at the third annual IBD Conference on Friday, Sept. 25. (09/14/2009)

Haas Launches MBA Leadership Development Series
Artful Bragging, Power & Influence, and Leading Learning Teams are among a dozen workshops of a new, carefully designed leadership development series aimed at helping Berkeley MBA students become more effective leaders. (09/14/2009)

Melissa Medina, BS 11, Receives New Scholarship Honoring Paul Newman
Melissa Medina, BS 11, has been named the first recipient of the Give Something Back Scholarship in honor of the late actor and philanthropist Paul Newman offered through the Haas School's Center for Responsible Business. (09/14/2009)

YEAH Celebrates 20 Years of Helping Underserved Youth
When Dean Rich Lyons began work as chief learning officer for Goldman Sachs in 2006, one of the first internal emails he received was from Robert Reffkin, a Goldman Sachs VP in New York – and a 1995 graduate of the now 20-year-old Young Entrepreneurs at Haas Program. (09/14/2009)

New MBA Student Portal Debuts
The Haas School has unveiled the beta version of a new full-time MBA student portal just in time for classes. Work has begun on a similar portal for the Evening & Weekend MBA Program.
(08/25/2009)

Business Leaders Welcome New Students from Around the Globe
Intel CEO Paul Otellini, MBA 74, and Adobe Systems CEO Shantanu Narayen, MBA 93, were among the business leaders who greeted graduate students launching their studies at the Haas School this fall. (08/25/2009)

Berkeley-Columbia Alumni to Celebrate at Reunion
Berkeley-Columbia Executive MBA alumni will hit the links, learn about leadership, network, and dance at the fifth annual Berkeley-Columbia reunion on Friday, Sept. 11, and Saturday, Sept. 12. (08/25/2009)

MBA Students Advise Organizations, Witness History Overseas
Elephant Pepper in Zambia was among the organizations that students advised this summer as part of the International Business Development Program. (07/20/2009)

MFE Internship Placements Off to Strong Start
Despite the recession, firms including Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan, Deutsche Bank, and BNP Paribas already have begun to tap the brainpower in the Master’s in Financial Engineering Program for mid-program internships. (07/20/2009)

Follow Dean Rich Lyons on Twitter
Dean Rich Lyons is the latest member of the Haas School community to tweet on Twitter. (07/20/2009)

Haas Welcomes Undergrad Class of '11
Beloved Cal mascot Oski the Bear -- or the undisclosed individual who portrays him -- is one of 349 students who began undergraduate business studies at the Haas School in July. (07/20/2009)

Haas@Work: Students Work Inside Companies, Think Outside the Box
When executives at Visa wanted to deepen their understanding of how consumers are using social networks, the Haas@Work program caught their eye. They were intrigued by the opportunity to tap the brainpower of some 40 MBA students. (07/14/2009)

PhD Grads Head to Top Schools in US, Europe
All nine of the Haas School's PhD graduates this year have landed positions at top universities in the US and Europe. (07/2/2009)

91 Faculty Members Make "Club 6"
Students gave 91 faculty members, or about 69 percent of all instructors, an average teaching score of at least six on a seven-point scale during the spring semester. (06/30/2009)

Berkeley-Columbia Welcomes Biggest Class
Seventy-six new students – the most ever for the Berkeley-Columbia Executive MBA Program – began their coursework as the program's eighth class on May 19. (06/22/2009)

Entire MBA 09 Class Gives to Haas
Every member of the full-time MBA class of 2009 made a pledge to the annual Lifelong Connections Campaign, achieving a 100 percent participation rate for the first time in the campaign's 21-year history. (06/22/2009)

Undergrad Gift Campaign Breaks Records
A team of 28 Haas undergraduate seniors reached out to their classmates through one-on-one solicitations and raised a record-breaking $10,545 for the Haas Senior Gift Campaign. (06/22/2009)

Undergrads Place Third in National Marketing Contest
"Call the shots if you see a friend drinking" was the thrust of the campaign created by a Haas team of undergraduates who placed third in the national American Advertising Federation competition in Washington, DC, from June 4 to June 6. (06/22/2009)

Berkeley-Columbia Team Completes Hawaii Ironman
A cannon fire launched a team of Berkeley-Columbia Executive MBA graduates into a grueling test of endurance May 30 as they took on Hawaii's Ironman 70.3. (06/16/2009)

Socially Responsible Investment Fund Outperforms Market
Despite the wild ride for US equities, the student-run Haas Socially Responsible Investment Fund outperformed the stock market during its first full year of operation. (06/10/2009)

Undergrads Tap Waste Stream for Shitakes
Two Haas graduates from the class of 2009 appear to have found grounds for a sustainable venture -- coffee grounds, that is. Nikhil Arora and Alejandro Velez (pictured) recently launched BTTR Ventures, a firm dedicated to turning coffee grounds into a gourmet edible: specialty mushrooms. (06/2/2009)

Big Island Ironman Beckons Berkeley-Columbia Grads
A team of nearly 20 graduates from the Berkeley-Columbia Executive MBA Program's class of 2009 headed to Hawaii for the grueling Ironman 70.3 on May 30. (05/30/2009)

New Undergrad Scholarship Honors Paul Newman
The Center for Responsible Business is launching a new undergraduate scholarship funded by Give Something Back Business Products in honor of the late actor and philanthropist Paul Newman. (05/14/2009)

Berkeley-Columbia Speaker Series Launches with Law Dean Christopher Edley, June 25
Christopher Edley, dean of the Berkeley School of Law, will be the inaugural speaker for the new Berkeley-Columbia Executive MBA Program Thought Leadership Speaker Series. (05/11/2009)

Faculty and GSIs Receive Kudos at End-of-Year Party
Students recognized five faculty and four graduate student instructors for excellence in teaching at the annual Dean's End-of-the-Year Party Friday. (05/11/2009)

Faculty Unanimously Approve Curriculum Changes
Haas School faculty unanimously approved curriculum changes on May 1 to provide students with a stronger general management framework and bolster leadership training and international experience. (05/11/2009)

Class of 09 Rises to Job Search Challenge
Despite a challenging hiring environment, more than 60 percent of graduating full-time Berkeley MBA students have received a job offer or accepted a position. (05/11/2009)

Undergrads Win Regional Marketing Competition
For the first time in four years, Imagical, the Haas-sponsored chapter of the American Advertising Federation, has won the West Coast regional finals of the National Student Advertising Competition. (05/11/2009)

Undergrad's Philanthropy Class Wins Competition

Eric Rodriguez, BS 09/BA 09, won the curriculum innovation category of the Bears Breaking Boundaries Competition for a proposal to improve the impact of philanthropy.

(05/11/2009)

Berkeley Retains Grasp on Real Estate Shovel
By considering every stakeholder from scientists to circus performers (and impressing comedian Dave Chappelle along the way), UC Berkeley students won the Cal-Stanford NAIOP Real Estate Challenge for the second year in a row. (05/11/2009)

Haas for Students Draws Record Interest
Haas for Students has received a record number of applicants this year seeking funding help for their internships in the nonprofit and public sector. (05/9/2009)

TB Detection Company Wins Berkeley B-Plan Contest
A company that has made tuberculosis detection more accurate and affordable took first place at the 11th annual UC Berkeley Business Plan Competition on April 30. (05/8/2009)

YEAH Showcases Youths' Enterprising Business Ideas
Four groups of middle and high school students presented their winning ideas from the Young Entrepreneurs at Haas program during an end-of-year showcase event. (05/8/2009)

Haas Undergrad Reveals Cal's Style in Bare Magazine
On a campus where flip-flops and pajama bottoms suffice as fashion statements, Doreen Bloch, BS 10, has proven that high style does coexist with Berkeley's famous political consciousness. (04/27/2009)

Haas Athletes Score in C4C
A team of 114 Berkeley MBA students and their significant others proved their prowess beyond the classroom as they took fourth place in a frenzy of activities at the Challenge for Charity Weekend at Stanford from April 17 to April 18. (04/27/2009)

Alumni from Goldman Sachs, BrightSource, Barclays to Give Commencement Speeches
Haas School alumni from Goldman Sachs, BrightSource Energy, and Barclays Global Investors will speak at the undergraduate, Berkeley MBA, and PhD commencement ceremonies in May. (04/27/2009)

Social Venture Winner Builds Bricks from Cow Dung
Making high-quality bricks from abundantly available cow dung - instead of depleting scarce firewood and clay - earned EcoFaeBrick from Prasetiya Mulya Business School in Indonesia the $25,000 top prize at the tenth annual Global Social Venture Competition at the Haas School this weekend. (04/27/2009)

Berkeley MBA Student Wins LGBT Competition
Khuram Hussain, MBA 10, had layoffs in mind when he wrote "The L-Word," the winning case in this year's Reaching Out Case Writing Competition. (04/27/2009)