Haas Exec Ed Program Now Accepting Registrations
The Haas School of Business Center for Executive Education is now accepting registrations for the Product Management course. The course will be held Feb. 9 to Feb. 13. This is a five-day course designed to help executives to become productive project managers.
The program is designed for product managers, directors and vice presidents of product management, strategic planners, vice presidents of companies and other executive managers who are involved with product portfolios and corporate strategy. Day one of program focuses on strategy, innovation and the students business models, day two focuses on product planning, day three of the program focuses on pricing strategy and market research, day four will focus on managing with out authority and achieving great results and day five will be geared towards customer focused design and implementing business models.
Haas Raises Over $500,000
Berkeley held its first 24-hour campus-wide online fundraiser. The event, held Nov. 20, was the biggest single-day fundraiser in Haas School of Business History. During The Big Give event, Haas raised about $561,000 from 651 donors. Haas also won a special $1,500 prize during the competition for having the most student donors.
The total of Big Give donations across the entire university reached $5.3 million. UC Berkeley organized the Big Give to reach out to its 450,000 alumni worldwide, and bring those alumni, students, Cal parents and friends together for a day of giving.
Haas Students Hold Fundraiser
Haas School of Business students participated in the largest MBA charitable fundraiser of the year. The Haas Challenge for Charity campaign is made up of nine West Coast business schools that compete in volunteering and fundraising. This year, Haas students participated in the No Shave November and Movember charity campaigns.
For No Shave November, students seek sponsors as they let their hair grow. At the end of the month, students auction off the chance for a creative trim from their classmates. This year, organizers for the full time MBA class renamed the campaign to No Shave-No Shame November to include those who can’t grow facial hair.
Haas Team Wins 2nd Place at Brand Mgmt Comp.
A team of Haas School of Business MBA students received second place at the 2014 Elite Eight Brand Management Case Competition. The team created a marketing plan for a medical device aimed at adults with spinal cord injuries. The three-day, invite-only competition is hosted by the University of Minnesota’s Carlson School of Management.
The Elite Eight Brand Management Case Competition brings together top brand management students, professionals and academics from across the country for a three-day competition highlighting the challenges facing brand managers in today’s competitive marketplace. The Challenge involves eight student teams, who are presented with a strategic brand management challenge currently faced by a partner company. The teams are given 30 hours to prepare a structured case analysis and accompanying recommendations.
Haas Re-vamps LAUNCH Competition
The Haas School of Business has revamped its LAUNCH start-up competition. The program now has new eligibility requirements, and has been developed from a startup idea competition into a four-month accelerator designed to transform early-stage startups into fundable ventures.
Top Berkeley-Haas leaders and faculty, including serial entrepreneur and Berkeley-Haas Lecturer Steve Blank, Lester Center for Entrepreneurship Executive Director André Marquis, and the newly appointed Lester Center Associate Director, Rhonda Shrader, will teach the LAUNCH accelerator.
Haas Awards Record Number of Scholarships
The Haas School of Business has awarded scholarships to a school record of half of the entering Full-time MBA class. This class is a diverse group including a West Point-educated Special Forces battalion operations officer and a former General Electric executive who founded a solar company in Mexico. Overall, Berkeley-Haas will provide nearly $6 million to students in all three MBA programs.
Awards to Full-time MBA students range from $10,000 to $110,000 for two years of coursework, with an average award of $26,000 for entering students. This fall, 41 percent of scholarship recipients in the incoming Full-time MBA class of 2016 are women, a figure that nearly equals the record 43 percent of women who now comprise the class of 241 new students.
