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Monday, March 01, 2010

Upcoming Events at UC Berkeley’s Haas School to Showcase Women in Business

The Haas School of Business at the University of California at Berkeley has planned an array of events in March and April designed to showcase women in business, including a conference, alumnae dinners and a retreat.

The first, on March 13th, is the school’s annual Women in Leadership Conference, now in its 14th year. Headliners for the conference include Kamala Harris, the district attorney of San Francisco; Cathie Lesjak, the CFO of Hewlett-Packard; and Leslie Blodgett, the CEO of Bare Escentuals. More than 400 women are expected to attend the day-long event, which will also include morning panels on a range of industries and afternoon panels and workshops on practical tactics, such as finding real estate opportunities and wading through organizational politics.

“The conference is a great networking opportunity,” conference co-chair Aliza Gutman, MBA 10, said in a statement. “Many interesting people come, and everyone is really enthusiastic and wants to meet other women and learn how they can work together.”

Later this spring, on April 1st, Haas alumnae will participate in the second annual Women in Leadership Dinner series. The dinners will take place in cities around the world, though this year’s locations have yet to be confirmed. The inaugural dinners took place last year in Hong Kong, Los Angeles, Mountain View, Shanghai, Chicago, Seattle and Tokyo.

Finally, from April 19th through 21st, the UC Berkeley Center for Executive Education will host its third annual Women in Leadership Retreat. “The purpose is to help rising stars within organizations understand the primary obstacles that women meet in their career progressions, to acquire tools and skills to deal with them and to navigate influence and change in organizations,” Haas Associate Professor Laura Kray, a retreat organizer, said about the event. The retreat is designed to be highly interactive and will include presentations and workshops by a range of UC Berkeley faculty.

For more information on these events, click here.

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Tuesday, February 02, 2010

Changes Ahead at UC Berkeley’s Haas School Under New Strategic Plan

Rich Lyons, dean of the University of California at Berkeley’s Haas School, yesterday unveiled a new strategic plan for the school centered on developing leaders who redefine how business is done.

The strategy calls for changes to the school’s core curriculum, commitment to faculty and resource development and campus improvements designed to showcase the school’s distinctive culture and help develop in students the skill sets required of this new kind of leader.

“We live in a world where value in the marketplace is increasingly driven by ideas that are not yet widely known nor fully proven. This is true whether you’re producing cars or producing what are clearly products of the mind,” Lyons said in a statement. “We wanted to be out in front of this shift and produce the kind of leaders who can deliver into these future needs.”

The new Haas Strategic Plan is built around four defining principles that the Haas community identified in discussions over the past year as differentiating the school from others. They are 

• Question the status quo
• Confidence without attitude 
•  Students always 
•  Beyond yourself

“These principles have always been important elements of Haas culture, but they have not been articulated until now,” Lyons said. “Having awareness and consensus around who we are will help us work toward a shared goal and attract the strongest talent for faculty and students,” he continued.

Moving forward, the school will implement its new strategy along three main areas of focus, with funding provided by an ongoing $300 million capital campaign.

Those areas of focus will include redefining the business graduate through key changes in the core curriculum and new extracurricular programs; realizing Haas’s intellectual future by expanding its tenure-track faculty and developing new centers for business innovation and teaching excellence; and transforming the Haas campus through implementation of a new facilities master plan. Among other things, this new facilities plan calls for an active Haas central courtyard with café and work space where people can convene and collaborate, a building addition to house new classrooms and new executive education space.

To view the strategic plan in its entirety, click here.

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# posted by Clear Admit @ 8:45 am in MBA News, School: Berkeley / Haas

Wednesday, January 27, 2010

Submit an MBA Interview Report, Win a $10 Gift Card to Amazon!

Welcome to another edition of Wiki Wednesdays, in which we highlight the latest happenings in the Clear Admit Wiki, an online repository for MBA applicants to share their experiences with admissions interviews.  We’ve received a number of interview reports this past week – for Berkeley / Haas, Carnegie Mellon / Tepper, Dartmouth / Tuck, Georgetown / McDonough, and Northwestern / Kellogg – and we’d like to thank everyone who has been sharing their experiences this season!

For the next few weeks, any interview report submitted for an MBA program in the Clear Admit Wiki is eligible for a $10 Amazon gift certificate!  In other words, all you have to do is send us your interview field report for inclusion in the Wiki and we’ll send you a $10 Amazon gift certificate.   While any contributor can win, you must send your interview report to wiki@clearadmit.com to be eligible; we’ll post it to the Wiki and notify the winners by e-mail (Limit: one iTunes or Amazon gift card per person).

The most helpful and informative reports usually include the following information:

1. Date/Admissions Round
2. Description of visit and/or interview atmosphere
3. Type of interview (alum vs. adcom, blind vs. application-based)
4. List of interview questions
5. Commentary (What did you think of the interview? What surprised you? What didn’t surprise you? What might you conclude about the school based on this experience?)

Applicants who would like to supplement the information available on the Wiki can check out our Clear Admit Interview Guides, which provide school-specific insight and strategic about admissions interviews.  Thank you to everyone who has contributed to the Clear Admit Wiki and helped fellow applicants prepare for MBA admissions interviews this season!

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# posted by Clear Admit @ 3:10 pm in School: Berkeley / Haas, School: CMU / Tepper, School: Dartmouth / Tuck, School: Georgetown, School: Northwestern / Kellogg, Wiki Wednesdays

Tuesday, January 26, 2010

UC Berkeley’s Haas School Launches New Interactive Learning Center

A ribbon-cutting ceremony earlier this month marked the opening of a new interactive learning center at the Haas School of Business at the University of California at Berkeley. The center is the first renovation completed as part of Haas’s five-year capital campaign and the dean’s strategic plan to transform the campus.

Haas Dean Rich Lyons was joined by Koret Foundation CEO Jeff Farber on January 12th to celebrate the opening of the new Koret Interactive Learning Center, a 70-seat, tiered classroom complete with state-of-the-art video conferencing, dual-screen projectors, extensive white boards and a high-tech touch-screen lectern.

The center was funded in part by a $1.5 million grant from the Koret Foundation, a private philanthropic organization created by the estates of Joseph and Stephanie Koret, founders of the Koret of California sportswear line.

“This is the perfect exemplar of what the next level will feel like,” Lyons said at the event, adding that the interactive center will benefit both the school’s teaching and its commitment to cutting-edge research. In addition to its main classroom, the learning center also includes two break-out rooms that will double as a behavioral lab for Haas faculty.

The Koret grant came as part of the silent phase of the Campaign for Haas, a five-year capital campaign. Construction of the Koret Center began at the end of May 2009. Haas’s Evening & Weekend MBA Program began using the Koret classroom earlier this month, and an open house for the entire Haas community has been scheduled for March.

To learn more, click here.

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# posted by Clear Admit @ 1:00 pm in MBA News, School: Berkeley / Haas

Wednesday, January 20, 2010

Submit an MBA Interview Report, Win a $10 Gift Card to iTunes!

Welcome to another edition of Wiki Wednesdays, in which we highlight the latest happenings in the Clear Admit Wiki, an online repository for MBA applicants to share their experiences with admissions interviews.  We’ve received a number of interview reports this past week – for Berkeley / Haas, Georgetown / McDonough, MIT / Sloan and Northwestern / Kellogg – and we’d like to thank everyone who has been sharing their experiences this season!

For the next few weeks, any interview report submitted for an MBA program in the Clear Admit Wiki is eligible for a $10 iTunes gift certificate!  In other words, all you have to do is send us your interview field report for inclusion in the Wiki and we’ll send you a $10 iTunes gift certificate.   While any contributor can win, you must send your interview report to wiki@clearadmit.com to be eligible; we’ll post it to the Wiki and notify the winners by e-mail (Limit: one gift card per person).

The most helpful and informative reports usually include the following information:

1. Date/Admissions Round
2. Description of visit and/or interview atmosphere
3. Type of interview (alum vs. adcom, blind vs. application-based)
4. List of interview questions
5. Commentary (What did you think of the interview? What surprised you? What didn’t surprise you? What might you conclude about the school based on this experience?)

Applicants who would like to supplement the information available on the Wiki can check out our Clear Admit Interview Guides, which provide school-specific insight and strategic about admissions interviews.  Thank you to everyone who has contributed to the Clear Admit Wiki and helped fellow applicants prepare for MBA admissions interviews this season!

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# posted by Clear Admit @ 3:36 pm in School: Berkeley / Haas, School: Georgetown, School: MIT / Sloan, School: Northwestern / Kellogg, Wiki Wednesdays

Thursday, December 31, 2009

Spring Semester Speaker Series, Conference Schedules Shape Up at UC Berkeley’s Haas School

As winter break draws to an end, MBA students at the University of California at Berkeley’s Haas School of Business have an exciting array of scheduled speakers and conferences to look forward to in the spring semester.

Beginning in late January, high-profile executives representing industries ranging from healthcare to motion pictures to management consulting will speak at Haas as part of the Dean’s Speaker Series. Walter Robb, chief operating officer of Whole Foods, will be the first speaker in the series, addressing the Haas community on January 26th.

Other scheduled speakers include 

• Steve Ellis, worldwide managing director, Bain & Co. (Feb. 3rd),
• Bill Block, CEO of QED International, a motion picture financing, sales, and production company (March 4th), and 
• Haas Marketing Professor Emeritus David Aaker, whose annual lecture this year is titled “Making Your Competitors Irrelevant,” (in April, specific date to be determined).

Also this spring, Haas will host the second annual Schwab Charitable Philanthropy Speaker Series, organized by the Center for Nonprofit and Public Leadership. This year’s series will feature panel events focused on using philanthropy to drive innovation and investment advising within the philanthropy field. 

Finally, several student-organized conferences are also planned at Haas:

• Business of Health Care Conference, Feb. 6th 
• Education Leadership Case Competition on the Pittsburg public schools, Feb. 12th and 13th 
• Berkeley Asia Business Conference, Feb. 20th 
• Berkeley Energy Symposium, March 4th, and U.S. Semifinals of International Renewable Energy Case Challenge, March 1st through 5th
• Women in Leadership Conference, March 13th 

To learn more about these and other spring events at Haas, click here.

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# posted by Clear Admit @ 1:00 pm in Events, MBA News, School: Berkeley / Haas

Wednesday, December 16, 2009

Wiki Wednesdays: Submit an Interview Report, Win a $10 Gift Card to iTunes!

Welcome to another edition of Wiki Wednesdays, our weekly post about the Clear Admit Wiki, an online repository for MBA applicants to share their experiences with the admissions process.  Over the past week, we’ve received a number of interview reports for Harvard Business School and Northwestern / Kellogg.  Thank you to everyone who has contributed to the Clear Admit Wiki and helped fellow applicants prepare for MBA admissions interviews!

For those interested in adding their experience to the Wiki, we’ll be awarding a $10 iTunes gift certificate to every fifth applicant who contributes an interview report.  Plus, between now and next Tuesday, December 22nd, the first 15 candidates that submit interview reports for Berkeley / Haas, Oxford / Said, Stanford GSB or Yale SOM will receive a $10 gift certificate to iTunes!  To be eligible for the prize, simply send your contribution to wiki@clearadmit.com; we’ll post it to the Wiki and notify the winners by e-mail (Limit: one gift card per person).

The most helpful and informative reports usually include the following information:

1. Date/Admissions Round
2. Description of visit and/or interview atmosphere
3. Type of interview (alum vs. adcom, blind vs. application-based)
4. List of interview questions
5. Commentary (What did you think of the interview? What surprised you? What didn’t surprise you? What might you conclude about the school based on this experience?)

As always, we wish the best of luck to Round 1 applicants undergoing the interview phase of the admissions process!  Applicants who would like to supplement the information available on the Wiki can check out our Clear Admit Interview Guides, which provide school-specific insight and strategic advice to help applicants with their admissions interviews.  Stay tuned to this blog for an array of interview tips in the coming weeks, and be sure to check out the Clear Admit Wiki for firsthand interview accounts.

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# posted by Clear Admit @ 2:30 am in Interview Guides, Interview Tips, School: Berkeley / Haas, School: Oxford, School: Stanford, School: Yale, Wiki Wednesdays

Tuesday, December 08, 2009

Trivia Tuesday: Entrepreneurship Support at UC-Berkeley Haas

It’s time again for Trivia Tuesday, our weekly look at the programs, resources and opportunities that differentiate the leading business schools. Today we take a peek into the Clear Admit School Guide to Haas School of Business, and share an excerpt on the resources offered to students interested in pursuing a career in entrepreneurship.

“Aspiring entrepreneurs at Haas may take advantage of a variety of academic and extracurricular resources to support their goals. The school’s entrepreneurship offerings, including the Certificate in Entrepreneurship, are organized through the Lester Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation. The Lester Center was founded in 1991 to serve as the focus for the study and promotion of innovation and new enterprise development at UC-Berkeley. The Center’s busy calendar of events provides numerous learning opportunities for students interested in areas such as venture capital, social entrepreneurship, and technology/biotechnology enterprises.

Each year the Haas School offers a variety of elective courses designed to support future entrepreneurs. There are approximately 30 electives offered under the entrepreneurship banner. Many of these elective courses are part of the school’s Certificate program, which is designed to provide students with the skills to identify an opportunity, construct a business plan, obtain capital, and manage the venture’s growth. All candidates for the Certificate must take the foundation course in entrepreneurship, one of two courses offered on venture capital, and one of the designated entrepreneurship electives. In addition to these course requirements, Certificate candidates must participate in a relevant field experience, ensuring that their academic training is complemented by hands-on learning outside of the classroom.

Beyond its course offerings, the Lester Center supports a variety of extracurricular opportunities for networking and exploration. The Center’s monthly Entrepreneurs Forum brings Bay Area leaders to campus to discuss topics in entrepreneurship and innovation. Some topics of past forums include emerging consumer electronics companies, the business of social platforms, and the state of the solar energy industry. The forums tend to attract professional entrepreneurs and venture capitalists from throughout the Bay Area, making these events a valuable opportunity for networking as well as for education.”

To continue reading about entrepreneurship support at Haas, and to find out about entrepreneurial competitions, a recent addition to the school’s social entrepreneurship programs, and what specific entrepreneurial electives are offered at Haas, take a look at the Clear Admit School Guide to Haas.

For those who are interested in pursuing a career in entrepreneurship and want to learn more about the different entrepreneurial programs and opportunities available at each school, check out the Clear Admit Career Guide: Entrepreneurship.

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# posted by Clear Admit @ 3:09 am in Career Guides, School Guides, School: Berkeley / Haas, Trivia Tuesday

Tuesday, November 10, 2009

Choose the Best Business School for an Entrepreneurial Career

Although most business schools report that their graduates are actively involved in entrepreneurial activities, all of them do not have specialized programs and resources for future entrepreneurs. So if you want to start your own business after b-school, the Clear Admit Career Guide to Entrepreneurship provides a detailed overview of the nineteen most active, vibrant programs that support a concentration in this field. Strong entrepreneurship programs tend to share several traits in common:

- a campus-wide culture of collaboration and innovation
- institutional support for programs that encourage research and interdisciplinary collaboration
- a streamlined technology transfer procedure
- a location near a technological/start-up hub

For decades, schools like Stanford University in the Silicon Valley and MIT in Cambridge, Massachusetts, have fostered the development of numerous start-up businesses in their locations. The technologies produced by campus researchers at these schools have been brought to market by partnerships between the university, faculty, students, and other entrepreneurs and investors.

“Variations in university location and resources can have an impact on MBA students’ ability to found new ventures in the sciences. In general, students at business schools that are affiliated with strong research universities are more likely to have access to cutting-edge researchers and technologies suitable for commercialization. In addition, schools in California, the greater Boston area and the Philadelphia-New York City corridor have access to a larger pool of skilled partners, including scientists, experienced entrepreneurs and venture capitalists.”

Regardless of location, the schools outlined in the Career Guide to Entrepreneurship offer both strong academic tracks and a range of extracurricular opportunities for students, including courses, student clubs, business plan contests, start-up incubators, and mentoring programs.

“Along with the University of Virginia’s other schools, Darden students benefit from involvement in the Virginia Entrepreneurial Society (E-Society). Dedicated to creating a supportive and encouraging community, the E-Society encourages collaboration and interdisciplinary thinking surrounding new ventures. Participating students may be matched with a mentor who provides guidance and advice regarding entrepreneurial careers. Through the E-Society, students have access to educational resources, professors and alumni, as well as venture capitalists, angel investors, and Charlottesville entrepreneurs and business groups.”

Over two-thirds of the schools in the Career Guide to Entrepreneurship offer a defined course of study for entrepreneurship, from Tuck’s New Ventures Focus to Babson’s Entrepreneurship Intensity Track. Not only will the guide provide comprehensive details that will help you decide which of these programs best support your career goals, it offers valuable information for essays and interview preparation and can be a valuable tool for making a final school decision.

So check out the Clear Admit Career Guide to Entrepreneurship from our new line of career-focused guides—85 pages of specialized information and guidance about the MBA programs that best support a future career in entrepreneurship. It’s available for immediate purchase and download from the Clear Admit shop!

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# posted by Clear Admit @ 3:00 am in Career Guides, School: Babson, School: Berkeley / Haas, School: Dartmouth / Tuck, School: Stanford, School: Virginia / Darden

Tuesday, November 03, 2009

UC Berkeley’s Haas School Launches New Energy Institute

The Haas School of Business at the University of California at Berkeley last week celebrated the launch of a new energy institute dedicated to better understanding the important relationship between business and energy and climate change challenges.

The launch event featured a keynote address by Matt Rogers, senior adviser to U.S. Secretary of Energy Steven Chu, who directs the disbursement of energy-related stimulus money. Rogers, who discussed the Department of Energy’s strategies for addressing the country’s energy and climate change challenges, was also responsible for establishing the clean technology practice at McKinsey and Company, where he was a senior partner before joining the DOE.

The new Energy Institute at Haas, an outgrowth of growing student interest in sustainable energy, will advance related research and teaching while also hosting a variety of community events and programming. It combines the best of two highly successful programs: the UC Energy Institute’s Center for the Study of Energy Markets and the Haas School’s Center for Energy and Environmental Innovation.
 
Led by Haas Professors Severin Borenstein and Catherine Wolfram, the Energy Institute will offer several energy-related courses for graduate students, undergraduates and non-degree executive education students and will oversee the Cleantech to Market (C2M) program, in which graduate students partner with scientists to bring clean energy technologies to market. The institute also will host the POWER and Policy Conferences, as well as a Renewable Energy Speaker Series.

“Sustainable energy is an area of tremendous growth and opportunity,” Haas Dean Rich Lyons said in a statement announcing the new institute. “It is also an area in need of new technologies and business models,” he added.

Institute co-director Borenstein praised the Berkeley student community for its focus on sustainability. “We have a tremendously active and committed group of students interested in clean energy solutions,” he said. “The more we can put them in touch with the great scientific research being done on energy on the Berkeley campus and at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, the greater opportunity we have to bring real solutions to the marketplace.”

For more information on the new Energy Institute at Haas, including a full list of key faculty experts, click here.

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# posted by Clear Admit @ 1:03 pm in MBA News, School: Berkeley / Haas

Tuesday, October 27, 2009

Working Toward a Career in Healthcare? Clear Admit’s New Guide Will Help You Choose an MBA Program!

Interested in a future career in healthcare? Choose the best MBA program for you with the help of Clear Admit’s Career Guide to Healthcare, a great resource from our brand new line of career-focused guides! This guide is directed toward prospective applicants hoping to work for companies like Aetna, Kaiser Permanente, Medco Health Solutions or Pacific Healthcare; or who are thinking about healthcare-focused positions in industries like venture capital, consulting, or investment banking. Applicants looking to pursue careers in biotechnology, pharmaceuticals, and medical devices will also benefit from this guide, as they typically participate in MBA healthcare programs as well.

With 44 pages of detailed information on the top MBA programs with a focus on healthcare, this guide makes it easy for prospective students to:

-    Compare academic and extracurricular offerings at each school in order to narrow down where to apply
-    Write meaningful essays and prepare for interviews based on the guide’s specialized information about each program
-    Make an informed decision about which school to attend based on academics, career placement, and other deciding factors

Prospective students can also use the Clear Admit Guide to Healthcare to learn about student-run healthcare clubs at each school, recruiting for internships and jobs, and the academic offerings at the top MBA programs. Although many leading business schools do not offer a formal course of study in healthcare:

“Of those that do, Fuqua’s Certificate in Healthcare Management and Wharton’s Health Care Management Major are generally the best known. . .  The Health Management Certificate at Haas and the Health Enterprise Management Major at Kellogg are two of the other formal academic healthcare programs with strong track records of helping students secure employment in the industry.”

The guide contains sixteen school profiles with exclusive insight into academics, extracurriculars, and career services. For example, several school profiles offer a “course spotlight” describing a highlighted class, like the Entrepreneurship in Biotechnology course at University of California Berkeley’s Haas Business School:

“Associated with the Lester Center for Entrepreneurship & Innovation, this course is designed for both future entrepreneurs and those students interested in working for a biotechnology or medical devices startup. The course explores the challenges in starting a life sciences company, provides an overview of the industry, and teaches students to recognize the opportunities for funding. Students gain insights into working with venture capitalists, bringing ideas to the clinic, and tackling business development and strategic partnering. Students have the opportunity to work on their own entrepreneurial endeavors and meet with life-science entrepreneurs during the course.”

To find out more about the top healthcare-focused MBA programs, get the Clear Admit Guide to Healthcare, available for immediate purchase and download from the Clear Admit shop!

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# posted by lrubino @ 3:00 am in Career Guides, School: Berkeley / Haas, School: Duke / Fuqua, School: MIT / Sloan, School: Northwestern / Kellogg, School: Penn / Wharton

Monday, October 19, 2009

Economist 2009 Business School Rankings Released

The Economist this week released its annual rankings of top business schools, with European schools IESE and IMD taking the first and second spots respectively, followed by Berkeley’s Haas School of Business, the University of Chicago Booth School of Business and Harvard Business School – in that order – rounding out the top five.

In an accompanying article, the Economist helps make sense of why business schools seem to fall in such different orders depending on the ranking you choose. For example, the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School barely made it into the top ten in the Economist’s ranking this year (up from 17th last year) but ties for number one (with London Business School) in the Financial Times’ 2009 rankings.

Why such disparity? Because the different publications that produce rankings – which include BusinessWeek, the Wall Street Journal and U.S. News & World Report as well as the FT and the Economist – employ different methodologies to compile their lists. According to the Economist article, that publication’s rankings rely heavily students’ own assessment of their time at business school and how their earning power and marketability increased upon obtaining a degree. This year at IESE, 98 percent of graduates found jobs within three months of graduation with an average basic salary of $125,000, propelling the Spanish school to the top of the list.

The FT’s rankings, meanwhile, focus on academic research as well as graduates’ salaries. And BW ranks U.S. and European schools separately. Hence the wildly different rankings of schools all in a single year. But as the Economist article point, even as different as they are – or perhaps, because they are so different – the rankings still serve a valuable purpose, which is to highlight the many different ways in which business schools can excel.

As always, those of us here at Clear Admit encourage you to consider the rankings as you try to decide which business school will best help you meet your individual goals, but only as one part in a comprehensive evaluation of schools.

To view the Economist’s rankings in their entirety, click here.

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# posted by Clear Admit @ 1:00 pm in School: Berkeley / Haas, School: Chicago, School: Harvard, School: IESE, School: IMD, School: Penn / Wharton

Thursday, October 15, 2009

California Business Schools Somewhat Buffered from State Budget Cuts

The University of California system is grappling with a $800 million budget cut, but its business schools have been less seriously impacted than some other areas because less of their funding comes from state coffers, the Financial Times reports.

Professional schools like UCLA’s Anderson School of Management and Berkeley’s Haas School of Business, because they cater to executives as well as students, draw a much smaller proportion of their funding from the state than do undergraduate schools, the FT reports. They also raise more through philanthropic donations and other revenue streams, the FT added.

“We are on a sound financial footing,” Haas Dean Richard Lyons told the FT, adding that the school’s range of MBA programs and its masters in financial engineering have helped cushion the effect of the budget cuts. “They have become very helpful revenue streams in a downturn,” he said.

Haas also has worked to increase philanthropic giving, though it still falls short of levels enjoyed by private universities, Lyons added.

UCLA Anderson, too, has worked to encourage greater philanthropic giving in an effort to reduce reliance on public funds, the FT reports. “We get about 20 per cent of our budget from the state. As long as the other 80 per cent is fairly robust, we will be less affected [by cuts],” Anderson Dean Judy Olian told the FT. Even so, Anderson was forced to raise tuition fees by 10 to 12 percent and cut some staff salaries in order to absorb the state budget cuts.

Though business schools, with their alternate revenue streams, are less impacted by the current budget crisis, Olian stresses that legislators can’t let education’s share of state revenue continue to shrink. “I think that is short-sighted. Higher education is the future of a knowledge-based economy,” she told the FT.

To read the full story, click here.

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# posted by Clear Admit @ 1:00 pm in MBA News, School: Berkeley / Haas, School: UCLA / Anderson

Tuesday, October 13, 2009

Trivia Tuesday: International Management Certificates at Haas and Anderson

It’s Tuesday again and that means it’s time for some trivia! As our regular readers know, each Tuesday we take the opportunity to highlight some of the programs, policies or predilections of the leading business schools. Our goal is to help applicants learn more about individual schools while also discovering some of the important differences between them. Today let’s turn our attention to the varying opportunities for international management study at two of California’s top programs: UC Berkeley’s Haas School and UCLA’s Anderson School.

The Certificate in Global Management at UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business is designed to expose students to the theory and practice of global business management. To be eligible for the certificate, students must complete at least 8 credits of coursework with international content, participate in an overseas experience, and fulfill the program’s language requirement. Students may fulfill the overseas experience requirement through study abroad, participation in the International Business Development course, or through significant prior professional experience abroad.

The language requirement, meanwhile, expects proficiency at a level equivalent to four semesters of college language study at UC-Berkeley. This means that students hoping to earn a global management certificate should already have some prior language proficiency before beginning the MBA, since it is very difficult to complete four full semesters of language courses during the MBA program. Alternatively, students may demonstrate proficiency through a language exam, non-English degree, or through a college transcript showing equivalent university-level language study.

Meanwhile, the UCLA Anderson School of Business offers the Advanced International Management Program (AIM), serving students aspiring to international leadership positions. Like in the Haas program, Anderson AIM students craft an international business specialization through coursework, international exposure, and foreign language study. To graduate with the AIM Certificate, students must take one of two foundations courses, complete three international electives, and pursue an internationally-focused Applied Management Research Project. Finally, they should undertake either intensive foreign language study, an international experience, or an international independent study.

Participation in the Anderson AIM program requires a brief application, but all students who complete the application and fulfill the program requirements are awarded a Certificate in Advanced International Management upon graduation. Students may apply to the Certificate program anytime before spring break of their second year. In addition, the AIM office audits the academic records of second-year Anderson students who have completed an international AMR project or participated in an international exchange, and contacts them if they are near completion of the Certificate requirements but have not yet applied.

For more information on international opportunities at Haas, Anderson, or other leading MBA programs, be sure to check out the Academics and Special Programs sections of the Clear Admit School Guides!

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# posted by Clear Admit @ 11:30 am in School Guides, School: Berkeley / Haas, School: UCLA / Anderson, Trivia Tuesday

Tuesday, September 15, 2009

MBA Tour International Events

This fall, The MBA Tour will be hosting a series of information sessions in several international locations. The international MBA Tour events will be held in addition to the US events that are taking place throughout the month of September. All of these events give interested individuals the chance to meet with representatives from some of the leading MBA programs in order to learn more about all aspects of their target programs.

Below is a list of the dates and locations of The MBA Tour international events:

Asia
• Bangkok: September 15
• Singapore: September 17

Europe
• Munich: September 17
• Paris: September 19
• London: September 20

India
• Bangalore: September 19 & 20
• New Delhi: September 22
• Mumbai: September 26

Latin America
• Buenos Aires: October 19
• Santiago: October 22
• São Paulo: October 24
• Lima: October 27
• Bogotá: October 29
• Mexico City: October 31

Canada
• Calgary: November 10
• Vancouver: November 12
• Toronto: November 14
• Montreal: November 16

To learn more about the event and to view the full event schedules, visit The MBA Tour’s website.

Interested individuals are encouraged to sign up online in order to receive half off the door price. MBA candidates are additionally encouraged to sign up ahead of time as space is limited.

The MBA Tour events are a great way for individuals either considering business school or currently in the process of preparing for the upcoming admissions season to research MBA programs and demonstrate an active interest in their target schools. The list of schools participating in the international events includes Berkeley Haas, NYU Stern, Michigan Ross, UCLA Anderson, Cornell Johnson, ESADE, IE, HEC Paris and many others. To register early, click here.

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# posted by Clear Admit @ 12:00 pm in Events, School: Berkeley / Haas, School: Cornell / Johnson, School: ESADE, School: IE, School: Michigan / Ross, School: NYU Stern, School: UCLA / Anderson

Monday, September 14, 2009

Hispanic Business Magazine Releases 2009 Ranking of Top 10 Business Schools for Hispanic Students

Hispanic Business Magazine last week released its 2009 rankings of the top 10 business schools for Hispanic students. Among the highest ranked schools in terms of Hispanic representation in their student body and faculty were several top-tier global MBA programs, including the McCombs School of Business at the University of Texas at Austin, Stanford Graduate School of Business, Dartmouth’s Tuck School of Business and the Haas School of Business at the University of California at Berkeley.

Part of Hispanic Business’s annual ranking of graduate schools as measured by diversity, the Top 10 Business Schools for Hispanic Students list was compiled by the magazine’s research arm, HispanTelligence. It ranked MBA programs according to the percent of Hispanic student enrollment as compared to overall student enrollment, the number and percent of MBA degrees earned by Hispanic students and Hispanic representation among faculty.

“Instead of looking at diversity as a federal requirement, these schools embrace it as a means of educational enrichment,” read the Hispanic Business report that accompanied the rankings. “Using factors such as enrollment and percentage of degrees earned by Hispanics, the numbers show that Hispanics are steadily making educational strides, while universities are also doing more outreach to them.”

Despite the gains, the Hispanic Business report suggests that much work still remains to be done. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, only 3.6 percent of Hispanics over the age of 25 who complete college go on to receive a masters, professional or doctoral degree, the lowest statistics of all ethnic groups. Universities must develop their own recruiting methodologies to obtain and maintain diversity enrollment goals, the report continued.

For a complete list of the 2009 Top 10 Business Schools for Hispanic Students, click here.

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# posted by Clear Admit @ 1:00 pm in MBA News, School: Berkeley / Haas, School: Dartmouth / Tuck, School: Stanford, School: UT Austin / McCombs

Monday, August 31, 2009

Admissions Tip: Off-Campus Information Sessions

For all those applicants who have recently opened a calendar to plot out the next few months only to realize they can’t possibly fit in campus visits on top of full time jobs and essay writing, never fear!  It’s true that traveling to a school’s campus is the ideal way to learn about their MBA program, but visiting is often not a viable option for applicants who are located remotely or unsure of their level of interest in a given school.  The good news is that business schools might very well come to them.  Many b-schools are getting ready to hit the road and embark on worldwide tours to dispense information and recruit qualified applicants.  Such events offer a great opportunity for interested students to meet with admissions staff (and sometimes with current students and/or alumni), learn about the program and ask specific questions.

Some of the top schools are already on the road, so we recommend looking into the travel schedules for programs of interest and planning accordingly. Keeping in mind that these schedules are updated and amended throughout the fall, here are some of the top programs’ itineraries for the months ahead:

Berkeley / Haas:
https://ssl.haas.berkeley.edu/Admissions/Events/index.cfm

Chicago Booth:
http://www.chicagobooth.edu/fulltime/admissions/events/

Columbia:
http://www0.gsb.columbia.edu/events

Duke / Fuqua:
https://www.fuquaworld.duke.edu/www/public/infosess_all_view.jsp

HBS:
http://www.hbs.edu/mba/admissions/events.html

Northwestern / Kellogg:
http://bit.ly/Zrg7b

Michigan / Ross:
http://www.bus.umich.edu/Admissions/Mba/forumsreceptions/RossReceptions.htm

MIT / Sloan:
http://mitsloan.mit.edu/academic/events.php

Stanford GSB:
http://www.gsb.stanford.edu/mba/outreach/info_sessions.html

NYU / Stern:
http://w4.stern.nyu.edu/admissions/cgibin/sched_events.cgi

Dartmouth / Tuck:
http://www.tuck.dartmouth.edu/admissions/events.html

UCLA / Anderson:
http://www.anderson.ucla.edu/x5525.xml

UNC / Kenan Flagler:
http://www.kenan-flagler.unc.edu/News/Events/embambainfo.cfm

UVA / Darden:
https://apply.darden.virginia.edu/admissions/events/EventsSchedule.tap?sp=103

U Penn / Wharton:
http://www.wharton.upenn.edu/mba/admissions/admission-events.cfm

Yale SOM:
http://mba.yale.edu/MBA/admissions/events.shtml

IESE:
http://www.iese.edu/aplicaciones/emba/events/events_emba.asp?lang=en

IMD:
http://www.imd.ch/programs/mba/infosessions/index.cfm

INSEAD:
http://www.insead.edu/mba/offevents/index.cfm?fuseaction=offcampus

LBS:
http://www.london.edu/programmes/infoevents/do?progSelect=MBA&locationSelect=

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# posted by Clear Admit @ 2:48 am in Admissions Tips, School: Berkeley / Haas, School: Chicago, School: Columbia, School: Dartmouth / Tuck, School: Duke / Fuqua, School: Harvard, School: IESE, School: IMD, School: INSEAD, School: London Business School, School: MIT / Sloan, School: Michigan / Ross, School: NYU Stern, School: Northwestern / Kellogg, School: Penn / Wharton, School: Stanford, School: UCLA / Anderson, School: UNC / Kenan Flagler, School: Virginia / Darden, School: Yale

Friday, August 28, 2009

Berkeley’s Haas School of Business Appoints Five New Professors

The Haas School of Business at the University of California at Berkeley this week announced the appointment of five scholars to join the school’s faculty as assistant professors this fall. The appointments come even amid California’s significant budget crisis.

The new appointments include Lucas Davis, who joins the economic analysis and public policy group; William Fuchs, the newest member of the Haas finance group; Ming Hsu, who will join the school’s marketing group; Atif Mian, who joins the Fisher Center for Real Estate and Urban Economics; and Leif Nelson, who also joins the Haas marketing group.

Collectively, the academics have published nearly three dozen research papers and won numerous honors and awards. Davis brings expertise in the area of energy and environmental economics. Fuchs focuses on problems related to coordination and asymmetric information by applying game theory and dynamic contracts. Hsu’s research focuses on behavioral economics, experimental economics and neuroeconomics, which is the study of the brain in emotional responses and decision making. Mian studies links between financial markets and the macro-economy. Finally, Nelson brings expertise in consumer judgement and decision making.

Haas Dean Rich Lyons praised the recruitment efforts, spearheaded by Associate Dean for Academic Affairs Ganesh Iyer, that led to the hiring of such a diverse group of academics. “I congratulate Ganesh for his diligence and dedication to continue our tradition of research and teaching excellence,” Lyons said in a statement.

To learn more about the new faculty appointments at Haas, click here.

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# posted by Clear Admit @ 1:00 pm in MBA News, School: Berkeley / Haas

Wednesday, August 12, 2009

MBA Tour Events Offer Prospective MBA Applicants an Insider’s Look at Target Programs

This September, prospective b-school applicants in the United States will have the unique opportunity to participate in a series of MBA program information sessions hosted by The MBA Tour. These events give interested individuals the chance to meet with representatives from some of the leading MBA programs in order to learn more about all aspects of their target programs.

To help prospective students gain an insider’s look into their target schools, The MBA Tour events are broken into a series of MBA panel presentations, individual school presentations and networking opportunities.  Each event also includes an open fair during which attendees can mingle with and ask questions of school representatives. During these events, candidates can ask admissions officers, alumni and current students questions about program academics, opportunities and financial aid offerings.

Below is a list of the dates and locations of The MBA Tour events for September 2009:

• Houston: September 3
• Chicago: September 8
• Atlanta: September 10
• New York City: September 12
• Boston: September 13
• Washington DC: September 20
• Los Angeles: September 26
• San Francisco: September 27

To learn more about the event and to view the full event schedules, visit The MBA Tour’s website.

Interested individuals are encouraged to sign up online in order to receive half off the door price. Admission is $5 if you pre-register online, $10 at the door. MBA candidates are additionally encouraged to sign up ahead of time as space is limited.

The MBA Tour Events are a great way for individuals either considering business school or currently in the process of preparing for the upcoming admissions season to research MBA programs and demonstrate an active interest in their target schools. The list of participating schools includes Wharton, Berkeley Haas, NYU Stern, Michigan Ross, UCLA Anderson, Cornell Johnson, ESADE and many others. To register early, click here.

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# posted by Clear Admit @ 7:00 am in Admissions Tips, Events, School: Berkeley / Haas, School: Cornell / Johnson, School: ESADE, School: Michigan / Ross, School: NYU Stern, School: Penn / Wharton

Monday, July 27, 2009

UC Berkeley / Haas Essay Topic Analysis 2009-2010

Haas is sticking with its tried-and-true formula for its essays this admissions season, requiring applicants to respond to a series of prompts in just 250 words before exploring two further topics in more depth.  The first of these short answer topics is a new addition for this year, focusing on the candidate’s greatest passion and replacing last year’s focus on a regret.  The rest of the questions remain the same.  Let’s take a closer look at each:

Short Answer 1: What are you most passionate about? Why? (250 word maximum)
A candidate’s foremost passion is a popular essay topic among business school admissions committees, and understandably so; it gives a reader a sense of an applicant’s values, priorities and interests, and has implications for an applicant’s future plans and potential involvements while in school. As you reflect on potential topics for this essay, remember that the adcom will be expecting your response to line up with your stated professional goals to some extent, and that professing a deep dedication to family or an obscure hobby isn’t going to do much for your candidacy.  Think broadly about themes in your background and the forces behind your decisions and involvements, and arrive at a topic that is true to your passions, allows you show the adcom a side of yourself not covered in your essays, and ties your goals and previous experiences together to some extent.

Short Answer 2: Tell us about your most significant accomplishment. (250 word maximum)
This is a very tall order for a 250 word essay, so brevity will be key here. You’ll clearly want to select an impressive achievement to discuss – ideally one in which you had a positive impact on a person, group or organization (as it would reflect well on you to say that you consider it significant that you improved something for others). It will be important to comment not only on the results, but also on the actions and thought process by which you brought them about. Note that the question does not limit you to the professional realm, so feel free to think of examples from your outside activities in selecting a topic for this short response.

Short Answer 3: At Haas, we value innovation and creativity. Describe a time when you created positive change in a group or organization. (250 word maximum)
With this topic, the Haas adcom is explicitly guiding applicants to answer the question by telling a specific story about one experience rather than inquiring generally about demonstrating these principles in one’s professional and personal life.  In addressing the full scope of this question, applicants should most likely discuss an experience in which they used innovation and creativity to foster positive change in a group or organization.  While outlining this experience, you should clarify the beneficial and significant results of your actions.  You should also take the reader through your thought process as well as your actions, as demonstrating your ability to create positive results through your innovative intellectual capacity will show how you would contribute to the Haas community and find success in the future.

Short Answer 4: What steps have you taken to learn about the Berkeley MBA program, and what factors have influenced your decision to apply? (250 word maximum)
This is a rather transparent test to determine whether you’ve done your homework and are making an informed decision in applying to Haas; though most schools look to the applicant to demonstrate his or her knowledge of the school, few come right out and ask how a candidate has gone about familiarizing him or herself with the program. Because some applicants treat this school as a backup to Stanford and other programs, it will be to your advantage to convince the adcom that you are sincere in your interest by explaining the appealing elements that are unique to the Berkeley MBA. Obviously, the more specific knowledge you are able to demonstrate, the better; the adcom would love to hear that an applicant has been in touch with students, is familiar with the campus and understands the Haas culture and program.

Essay 1: Give us an example of a situation in which you displayed leadership. (500 word maximum)
Though the adcom will already have learned a few interesting things about the applicant from the short essays above, this is the first real chance a candidate has to really develop a story in which he or she shines. It would be ideal to provide a solid professional example here, but an example from an extracurricular activity would suffice as well if you have made a more significant impact on an outside organization than you have in the workplace. To an extent, your topic choice may depend on how you’ve answered the earlier questions (since you’ll want to achieve balance across the essays). Another thing to note about this question is that it does not specify that you should have a formal leadership role – any time you exhibited the characteristics of a leader to effect positive change is fair game here. Essentially, you should aim to use this essay to highlight your interpersonal skills and ability to direct the efforts of others toward a constructive end.

Essay 2: What are your post-MBA short-term and long-term career goals? How do your professional experiences relate to these goals? How will an MBA from Berkeley help you achieve these specific career goals? (1000 word maximum)
This is a fairly standard career goals essay asked by virtually all MBA programs, requiring applicants to provide an overview of their career to date, describe their short- and long-term objectives and explain their reasons for seeking an MBA from Haas in particular. As a general rule, specificity of career goals is of the utmost importance. Given the wording of Berkeley’s question, it will also be beneficial to draw explicit links between your previous experiences and future objectives in addition to touching upon the skills you’ve gained and lessons you’ve learned over the course of your career.

As the subject of the final short essay suggests, demonstrating an understanding of the unique merits of Berkeley’s program is crucial to an effective response to this question. Taking the time to learn about the school’s curriculum, special programs and extracurricular activities – whether through a visit to campus, conversation with alumni or reading the Clear Admit School Guide to Haas – will pay dividends here.

Interestingly, Haas chooses to end its essay section with the typical career goals essay, whereas most schools lead off with this topic. Rather than providing an overview of and introduction to your candidacy, as is the case with the career goals essay for most schools, this essay will instead be the culmination of your message to the adcom. Make sure to tie together the themes that you’ve introduced in your other responses, and end on a note of enthusiasm about the program and the timing of your application.

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# posted by Clear Admit @ 3:19 am in Essay Topic Analysis, School: Berkeley / Haas

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