From the concrete to the classroom: A first-gen student dedicated to changing lives

You might call Damon Wiley, MBA 25, a “generational” thinker. While working in a sales role at LinkedIn, he created an initiative that offered ...

Diversity and Inclusion | 3 MIN READ

Side-stepping from Big Tech to direct impact

After taking what he calls the “typical engineer’s approach” to researching and applying to business school—“I created a giant spreadsheet to track ...

Technology | 3 MIN READ

How to maneuver through a many-faceted MBA transition

When she enrolled in the full-time MBA program at Berkeley Haas, Chifum Ann Ukadike, MBA 25, navigated several transitions: She moved to a new ...

Diversity and Inclusion | 3 MIN READ

Design thinking provides a plan and a career path

“I’m always asking, ‘what’s the plan?’ So, I needed a specific reason before applying to grad school,” said Diarra White, MBA 24. “When I was at ...

Diversity and Inclusion | 3 MIN READ

Using an MBA to explore how other places work

Kelsie Smithson, MBA 24, intentionally chose an MBA program far from her beloved hometown of Louisville, Kentucky because she wanted to get out of ...

Finance | 3 MIN READ

An MBA is the springboard for a leap from advisor to investor

If you want to teach yourself about investing in publicly traded companies, reading Berkshire Hathaway’s annual reports to learn from Warren Buffett ...

Diversity and Inclusion | 3 MIN READ

A chameleon chooses blue-and-gold as his colors

It’s not unusual for MBA students to describe their studies as an “investment in themselves.” But that expression has specific meaning for Ramiro ...

Technology | 3 MIN READ

Finding and promoting inspiration in sustainability and innovation

Kerisha Burke, MBA 24, left a career in the energy industry to develop her business and leadership skills in a full-time MBA program that could fuel ...

Diversity and Inclusion | 3 MIN READ

Acts of resistance and advocacy

Alyssa Kewenvoyouma, MBA/JD 22, has a strong sense of identity, an identity with many facets. She is Indigenous (Navajo and Hopi) and of Mexican ...

Guadalupe Manriquez poses with her family in front of the main Haas campus gate adorned in her Berkeley MBA cap and gown to celebrate her MBA graduation

Finance | 4 MIN READ

A "non-traditional" MBA student tells her story

Guadalupe D. Manriquez, MBA 21, describes herself as a “non-traditional” MBA student—female, a member of an underrepresented community, and a ...

Finance | 3 MIN READ

Kevin Coldiron brings a storied career into the classroom

Kevin Coldiron brings his wealth of experience and a treasure trove of stories to the classroom. In the mid-1990s, while at Barclays Global ...

Finance | 3 MIN READ

Christine Parlour on the radical importance of Cryptokitties and other fintech developments

Before entering academia, Professor Christine Parlour worked in reinsurance and also in securities settlement, two jobs that focus on the mechanics ...

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From the concrete to the classroom: A first-gen student dedicated to changing lives

Side-stepping from Big Tech to direct impact

How to maneuver through a many-faceted MBA transition

Design thinking provides a plan and a career path

Using an MBA to explore how other places work

An MBA is the springboard for a leap from advisor to investor

A chameleon chooses blue-and-gold as his colors

Finding and promoting inspiration in sustainability and innovation

Acts of resistance and advocacy

A "non-traditional" MBA student tells her story

Kevin Coldiron brings a storied career into the classroom

Christine Parlour on the radical importance of Cryptokitties and other fintech developments

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