Susan Petty

Susan Petty

Susan is Director of Admissions for the Berkeley MBA for Executives Program. She has nearly twenty years of experience in marketing and advertising, having worked in several different industries including technology, travel, healthcare -- and many others from her media planning days at J. Walter Thompson where her clients included Chevron, Kaiser Permanente, Nestle, and Ford. She enjoys advising prospective students and guiding them through their personal MBA experience.

Posts by Susan

Chris Sampson

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Meet Chris Sampson: Balancing business and family with a Berkeley EMBA

“The Berkeley EMBA program really encourages you to dig deep and discover what your motivating factors are... There has been a lot of ...
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What many top leaders have in common: cross-sector careers

Want to be truly versatile? A two-year study that looked at the career paths of more than 2,000 of the country's top executive leaders found that ...
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Video: From the wine industry to an Executive MBA, opening new doors

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Funding MBA | 2 MIN READ

Conquering sticker shock: Insights into financing your EMBA, Part I

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How an MBA led to more meaningful work for Digital Green's Karin Lion

For many, being a program officer at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation sounds like a dream job. And for Karin Lion, EMBA 15, it was – for eight ...
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Applying | 2 MIN READ

Considering the best Executive MBA programs? 7 reasons to choose Haas

If you're a highly experienced professional considering pursuing an MBA, chances are you're looking at executive MBA programs, which let you continue ...
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Part-time MBA admissions tips: put the GMAT/GRE in perspective

For many applicants to top part-time MBA programs, gearing up to take the GMAT or GRE can be a nerve-wracking part of the admissions process. We get ...
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Haas culture | 1 MIN READ

The Berkeley-Haas Highlights Reel

From our Nobel Prize winners to our Defining Principles and from top-ranked programs to boundary-pushing faculty and pioneering alumni, here is a ...
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Social Impact | 2 MIN READ

Leaders who redefine: EMBA Cristy Johnston Limón, Destiny Arts Center

As a teen in the San Francisco Mission District, gang pressure was high and she dropped out of high school. But she went back, with the help of her ...
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Healthcare | 1 MIN READ

Applying EMBA leadership lessons to pediatric healthcare

When tempers flare in an operating room, lives are at stake. At UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital Oakland, one pediatric surgeon has been working to ...
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Applying | 1 MIN READ

Infographic: Class Profile for the Executive MBA Class of 2017

Executive MBA students at Berkeley-Haas distinguish themselves through their drive, ingenuity, keen intelligence, and the desire to build on already ...
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Dinner with the women MBAs of Berkeley Haas

Get 90 women in a room together after work and it’s going to be lively. But get 90 women MBA students and alumnae together and the energy level is ...
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