UC Berkeley’s Haas School Snags Professors from Harvard, Brown, MIT Sloan
The Hass School of Business at the University of California at Berkeley will welcome three tenured professors this fall from top East Coast universities, the school announced this week. Two finance professors — one from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)’s Sloan School of Management and another from Brown University — and a management and entrepreneurship professor from Harvard Business School (HBS) will help expand the West Coast business school’s world-class faculty.
“We continue to hire at the very top of the faculty market,” Haas School Dean Rich Lyons said in a statement. “It is a part of what’s making us stronger and stronger. Great faculty attracts great students and great staff – a virtuous circle, and we are in it.”
From HBS, Haas welcomes award-winning management and entrepreneurship professor Toby E. Stuart, who will become faculty director of the school’s Lester Center for Entrepreneurship. Stuart, who served as a visiting professor at Haas for the past two years before choosing it as his permanent home this summer, conducts research focused on social networks, venture capital networks and the role of networks in the creation of new firms. At Haas, Stuart aims to teach all students to think like entrepreneurs. “Even if they don’t plan to launch a startup company, students can learn how to use innovation to strengthen organizations in any field,” he said in a statement.
The second addition to Haas’s tenured faculty is former Brown University Professor Ross Levine. Ranked one of the ten most cited finance experts from 2001-2011 by Research Papers in Economics (RePEc), Levine joins Haas as the new Willis H. Booth Chair in Banking and Finance and a member of the Economic Analysis and Policy (EAP) group. His research focuses on how financial sector regulations and the operation of financial systems affect economic growth and poverty, economic stability and the distribution of income and economic opportunities. He has just released a book titled Guardians of Finance: Making Regulators Work for Us, which critiques the role of U.S. and international regulators in causing global financial crises and proposes strategies for improving their performance.
Finally, Associate Finance Professor Gustavo Manso, who taught for five years at MIT Sloan, will officially join the Haas School faculty as a tenured professor. Manso arrived at Berkeley-Haas this past spring and has already won a teaching award from his full-time Berkeley MBA students. His research focuses on corporate finance, financial institutions, financial markets and entrepreneurship.
Learn more about the Haas School’s new associate professors.
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