Career

Identify and pursue career opportunities in industries where dreamers become leaders and innovation meets impact at UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business.

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Marketing | 3 MIN READ

The MBA from the eyes of a hiring manager at Salesforce

How companies recruit MBAs in 2020 has changed; what they are looking for in MBA candidates for internships and full-time positions has not.

Healthcare | 2 MIN READ

Improving healthcare equity and access for women

What happens when an entrepreneurial spirit collides with the Berkeley MBA concurrent degree program? For the answer, consider the career of Amy Fan, ...

Product Management | 3 MIN READ

3 Berkeley Haas alumni on how an MBA helped them break into product management

If you want to have a hand in creating products that impact people’s lives, you might be eyeing a career in product management. The product manager ...

Finance | 2 MIN READ

How a Berkeley MBA led to a Dodge & Cox dream job—before graduation

Dustin Seely, MBA 18, had his eye on Dodge & Cox for years. He first approached the San Francisco firm in 2012 while working as an analyst for ...

Compare the Berkeley MBA Program for your Career

Technology | 2 MIN READ

The ‘double’ career switch: Rohan Vashdev Balwani, MBA 19

Seven years into his hardware engineering career, Rohan Vashdev Balwani, MBA 19, sensed a shift in his interests and his industry.

Marketing | 3 MIN READ

Noa Elan’s marketing odyssey from selling soap to the ride of her life at Lyft

Noa Elan’s career has unfolded a bit like the title of the Grateful Dead album – what a long strange trip it’s been.

Technology | 2 MIN READ

A Peace Corps tour led Haas alum to a fintech career: Blakey Larsen, MBA 18

A tour in the Peace Corps may not seem like a direct line to a career in finance. At least finance wasn't on Blakey Larsen's mind in 2008 when she ...

Finance | 2 MIN READ

Consultant seeks macro impact on healthcare through investment banking: Victor Leclere, MBA 18

Injury and that classic desire to help people first drew Victor Leclere to consider the healthcare field. But it was a desire to have a macro impact ...

Finance | 4 MIN READ

Investment banker Jeff Chang thrives on the strategic chessboard of M&A

The partner who runs the software practice at Qatalyst Partners talks about the rigors of investment banking and his road from a political science ...

Finance | 2 MIN READ

Learning to see at C-level: Kriya Chantalat, EMBA 16

At a pivotal point in her career, Kriya Chantalat, EMBA 16, faced the best sort of problem: a promotion out of her comfort zone. After working for ...

Uncategorized | 2 MIN READ

From scientist to venture capitalist by way of a Berkeley MBA

You might be tempted to call Juan Cueva, PhD, MBA 19, an accidental venture capitalist, but you’d be wrong. Every step of the neuroscientist’s career ...