Posted by Clear Admit on January 27, 2012, at 2:00 pm
Posted in:  MBA News , School: Berkeley / Haas , School: Stanford , Uncategorized The Haas School of Business at the University of California at Berkeley has hired its diversity director to help expand diversity, equity and inclusion on campus, the school announced earlier this month. Eric Abrams, a former Stanford assistant dean who led undergraduate diversity outreach, will start next week in this new role.
Haas created the new diversity position as part of a school-wide Equity, Inclusion and Diversity Plan developed last year. The plan calls for increasing diversity among faculty, students and staff; attracting a more diverse applicant pool and involving alumni in diversity efforts. Abrams, who is credited with significantly enhancing the diversity of the Stanford undergraduate population as well as helping Stanford’s MBA program become the most ethnically diverse of the nation’s top business schools, will oversee execution of Haas’s diversity strategy throughout the student lifecycle, from recruiting to alumni engagement.
Posted by Clear Admit on January 18, 2012, at 2:00 pm
Posted in: EMBA , MBA News , School: Berkeley / Haas The Haas School of Business at the University of California at Berkeley has added a range of new course options this spring for its full-time, evening & weekend and executive MBA programs exploring emerging management topics and challenges related to the environment, leadership and more.
For full-time MBA students, two new courses focused on the environment are now available, one examining the dynamics between corporate and government policies and another looking at the ethics and decision making involved in green product design at the personal and organizational levels.
Posted by Clear Admit on January 3, 2012, at 2:00 pm
Posted in: Events , School: Berkeley / Haas , Uncategorized The Haas School of Business at the University of California at Berkeley has assembled an impressive line-up of top executives to come to campus this spring as part of a variety of conferences and speaker series, including business leaders from Citi, Kaiser, Whirlpool and Infosys, the school announced recently. On January 31st, Haas will host Deborah Hopkins, chief innovation officer and chair of Venture Capital Initiatives at Citi. Whirlpool CEO Jeff Fettig will follow on February 6th, FICO CEO Mark Green on March 1st and Kaiser Permanente Chairman and CEO George Halvorson on April 12th. These executives will be part of the Dean’s Speaker Series.
Posted by Clear Admit on December 16, 2011, at 2:00 pm
Posted in: MBA News , School: Berkeley / Haas Lisa Feldman, who took over as executive director of the MBA Career Management Group at UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Management in October, had good news to report as she shared the latest employment figures for Haas graduates earlier this week.
For starters, all 11 rooms dedicated for on-campus interviews are solidly booked for the first few weeks of spring, when top investment banks, consulting firms and other employers will come to campus. According to Feldman, it’s an indicator that could forecast another strong year for hiring for Haas grads despite high unemployment in the overall economy. Of the class of 2011, 91 percent accepted job offers within three months of graduation.
Posted by Clear Admit on December 6, 2011, at 3:00 am
Posted in: School Guides , School: Berkeley / Haas , Trivia Tuesday Welcome to our weekly edition of Trivia Tuesday, in which we take an in-depth look at the specific offerings that differentiate the leading MBA programs from their peers. This week we’re taking a peak into the Clear Admit School Guide to the University of California, Berkeley, Haas School of Business to share with you an excerpt about the Berkeley MBA Leadership Development Series.
“As part of its BILD program (Berkeley Innovative Leader Development), Haas has implemented a series of on-campus events that offer students the opportunity to fine-tune their leadership skills outside of the classroom. The Berkeley MBA Leadership Development Series is comprised of a number of non-credit workshops and seminars, all of which allow students to gain further insight into three key areas of awareness: Self, Team and Organization.
Posted by Clear Admit on October 26, 2011, at 1:00 pm
Posted in: MBA News , School: Berkeley / Haas An alumnus of the MBA program at the Haas School of Business at the University of California at Berkeley has been named the new executive director of the Haas MBA Career Management Group (CMG), the school announced this week.
Lisa Feldman, MBA ‘95, will oversee employer relations and career advising for the school’s full-time, part-time and executive MBA programs and for MBA alumni. She is charged with exploring new ideas and practices in response to rapidly evolving student and employer needs while making sure the CMG continues its trajectory of excellence, Haas Chief Operating Officer Jennifer Chizuk said in a recent announcement.
Posted by Clear Admit on September 28, 2011, at 1:00 pm
Posted in: MBA News , School: Berkeley / Haas The Haas School of Business at the University of California at Berkeley has launched a search for a diversity director as part of a larger diversity initiative designed to strengthen the school’s research, teaching and public service related to diversity, equity and inclusion.
The school hopes that hiring a new part-time diversity director will help facilitate execution of the Berkeley-Haas Equity, Inclusion, Diversity Plan, which was shared with the central UC Berkeley campus in July and upheld by the university as a best practice.
Posted by Clear Admit on September 26, 2011, at 1:00 pm
Posted in: MBA News , Rankings , School: Berkeley / Haas , School: Cornell / Johnson , School: IE , School: Michigan / Ross , School: Northwestern / Kellogg , School: Stanford , School: UNC / Kenan Flagler , School: Yale Stanford Graduate School of Business (GSB) last week reclaimed the number one spot in the Aspen Institute’s biennial Beyond Grey Pinstripes rankings, an alternative ranking that compares business schools according to how well they teach MBA students to look at the social, environmental and ethical impacts of business decisions. This year’s rankings were released on September 21st.
“In all scoring categories used to determine the ranking, business schools have raised the bar,” Judith Samuelson, executive director of the Aspen Institute Business and Society Program, which conducted Beyond Grey Pinstripes, said in a statement. She noted that there are more courses than ever before featuring content on social, ethical and environmental issues, more courses about the role of business as a positive agent for change and more research published by faculty on relevant topics.
Clear Admit co-founder Graham Richmond will deliver a presentation on finding the MBA program to best fit your individual goals as part of the upcoming GMATCH Virtual MBA Fair, scheduled for September 19th and 20th.
In his session, Richmond will focus on how prospective applicants should develop an appropriate list of target MBA programs as they begin their application process. The session will help participants sort through the avalanche of information they receive about the “best” business schools – from rankings and books to forums and Facebook – to determine which programs are really best suited to them.
Posted by Clear Admit on September 13, 2011, at 1:00 pm
Posted in: MBA News , School: Berkeley / Haas The Haas School of Business at the University of California at Berkeley this fall will offer a range of new courses designed to advance forward-thinking approaches to management while also giving students hands-on opportunities to apply their new skills, the school announced this week.
Posted by Clear Admit on August 29, 2011, at 3:00 am
Posted 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: Michigan / Ross , School: NYU Stern , School: Penn / Wharton , School: Stanford , School: UCLA / Anderson , School: UNC / Kenan Flagler , School: Virginia / Darden , School: Yale 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:
Posted by Clear Admit on August 24, 2011, at 1:00 pm
Posted in: MBA News , School: Berkeley / Haas Twitter co-founder Biz Stone will serve as the fourth executive fellow of the Haas School of Business at the University of California at Berkeley, the school announced earlier this month. Stone kicked off his appointment with a keynote to incoming full-time Haas MBA students at MBA orientation on August 16th.
“I’m thrilled to be invited to be a part of Haas in this way,” Stone said in a statement announcing the appointment. “Haas students are enthusiastic about new ideas and bring such a variety of experiences and perspectives that it’s an inspiration every time we interact.”
Posted by Clear Admit on August 18, 2011, at 1:00 pm
Posted in: MBA News , School: Berkeley / Haas Thanks to a generous alumni gift, the Haas School of Business at the University of California at Berkeley will launch a new initiative to explore complementing its classroom learning with online approaches, the school announced this week.
The $1 million gift, from Steve and Susan Chamberlin, MBA ’87, will be made in the form of matching funds to be shared with Berkeley-Haas, the Graduate School of Education, the College of Engineering, the School of Information, the School of Public Health and UC Berkeley Extension in piloting online education initiatives. Together, the six schools have formed a consortium to share knowledge and develop programs most efficiently. As part of a joint effort, each school and the consortium as a whole will work to raise the matching funds to support these initiatives.
Posted by Clear Admit on August 16, 2011, at 3:00 am
Posted in: School Guides , School: Berkeley / Haas , Trivia Tuesday It’s Tuesday and time again for our weekly in-depth look at the specific programs which differentiate the leading MBA programs from their peers. This week we’re taking a peak into the Clear Admit School Guide to Berkeley / Haas to get a better understanding of its International Business Development course.
“International Business Development (IBD) is one of the most popular electives at Haas. Limited to an enrollment of 120 students per year, the course sends small teams of students to consult at client sites around the world for three weeks each summer. The program is open only to rising second-year students, who must apply during Spring Semester of their first year.
“Students selected for participation in IBD are assigned to project teams in January of the first year and work with their teams in the spring semester to conduct background research and analysis. Following the end of first-year classes in mid-May, each team spends a dedicated three-week period on-site with the client, completing such projects as preparing business plans, conducting market analyses, developing marketing or entry strategies and recommending operational changes. The sponsor organizations are largely regional companies, government agencies and non-profits, including the Wildlife Conservation Society, the Rapa Nui Heritage Foundation, Andean Health and Development, the Government of Macedonia and Vietnam National University.
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