Berkeley Haas Center Expands Social Sector Leadership Focus
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A new name and a new logo help trumpet the expanded mission of a center devoted to advancing social sector leadership at the UC Berkeley Haas School of Business. Previously known as the Center for Nonprofit and Public Leadership, the renamed Center for Social Sector Leadership (CSSL) seeks to help develop a new generation of business leaders focused on fostering social impact across the public, private and nonprofit sectors, the school reports.
“The future requires collaboration between these sectors, and Berkeley-Haas is arguably the best place to define how this next generation of problem solving works,” Ben Mangan, executive director of the rechristened Center for Social Sector Leadership, said in a statement. The center focuses on training MBA students to become multi-sector leaders, helping them build skills that will serve them as corporate leaders, public advisors and members of nonprofit and social enterprise boards. Continue reading…
New Haas Course Studies Crowdfunding
UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business has joined with the Fung Institute for Engineering Leadership to create CrowdBerkeley. CrowdBerkeley will focus on teaching and understanding the power of crowdfunding. The course will provide a premier hub of education, research, and learning engagement on all topics related to crowdfunding. Throughout the course, students will learn how to raise equity without traditional investors, create credit and loan models without brick-and-mortar lenders and understand the implications of new currencies.
CrowdBerkeley is led by the faculty director of the College of Engineering’s Fung Institute for Engineering Leadership, Lee Fleming, assistant professor Adair Morse, Berkeley-Haas Finance Group, Professor Laura D’Andrea Tyson, director of the Haas School’s Institute for Business and Social Impact, Dr. Richard Swart, who has joined IBSI as a Scholar in Residence and the Berkeley-Haas Center for Social Sector Leadership.
Davis Ranked for Best Quality of Education
Graduateprograms.com has ranked the UC Davis Graduate School of Management no. 21 in the top 25 business schools that offer the best quality of education. For the data, GraduatePrograms.com surveyed over 10,000 current and former business school students about their programs to find which places offer the best quality of education.
The best quality of education was based on the schools where students have access to relevant, interesting, and challenging courses taught by qualified professors. Students ranked their schools on a scale from 1 to 10. The scores for each school were averaged together to come up with the final ranking score.
Haas Faculty Selected for 2015 Distinguished Teaching Award
Five members of the UC Berkeley faculty have been selected as recipients of the 2015 Distinguished Teaching Award. This is the campus’s most prestigious honor for teaching. The recipients will be honored at a ceremony on April 21, in the Zellerbach Playhouse.The award recognizes teaching that incites intellectual curiosity in students, engages them thoroughly in the enterprise of learning and has a lifelong impact.
The Distinguished Teaching Award is was created to recognize individual faculty for performance of excellence in teaching. The recipients of the award incite intellectual curiosity in students, inspires departmental colleagues and makes students aware of significant relationship between the academy and the world at large. All members of the Academic Senate and non-Senate faculty/instructors with continuing appointments are eligible.
Haas Hosts EWMBA Online Info Session
The Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley will be hosting an online information session for its Evening and Weekend MBA program. The event will be held March 26 from noon to 1 p.m. The event can be accessed online. All that is needed to attend is an internet connection and headphones or speakers. Those interested in attending the online information session can complete a registration form online. More information on how to access the online information session will be provided during registration.
During the event, there will be a presentation by EWMBA Admissions staff followed by question and answer session for prospective students. Current students who live outside of the Bay Area will also be available to answer any questions about commuting to the program.
Final App Deadline for Haas PT MBA March 18
The final application deadline for the Evening and Weekend MBA program at the Haas School of Business is March 18. Prospective students who complete their application by this time will receive an admissions decision by May 29. The application form can be found and completed online. Other supporting documents required for a completed application include GMAT or GRE exam scores and two letters of recommendation. TOEFL or IELTS exam scores are also required for international applicants.
The online application must be submitted by 11:59pm on March 18. The other supporting documents may arrive after the deadline, although the admissions office will not be able to begin evaluating your application until it is complete and all materials have been received. More information on the application process can be found online.
