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Explore the challenging, inventive, and supportive MBA experience through the lives of the students, faculty, and alumni who live our distinctive culture out loud.

Faculty | 3 MIN READ

Prof. Lucas Davis shares hardest economic concept for MBA students to grasp

Enthusiasm, listening and drawing students into participating in class are keys to becoming a successful teacher, says Professor Lucas Davis, winner ...
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Women in Leadership | 2 MIN READ

EMBA student finds leadership inspiration among Haas women

Megan Zweig, EMBA 19, enrolled at Haas because she wanted to see more women leaders in the business world.
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Diversity and Inclusion | 3 MIN READ

Former Coast Guard skipper and sales exec explores the academic side of business

The Crab Fisherman’s Ball in the tiny town of Trinidad on California’s north coast was a critical turning point for Joe Odell, EMBA 20, who’s faced ...
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Diversity and Inclusion | 3 MIN READ

A focus on diversity, equity, and inclusion and allyship drives this Berkeley MBA

What Nuhamin Woldemariam, MBA 22, remembers best about landing in Chicago from Addis Ababa at age six, and speaking no English, is that the Windy ...
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Finance | 2 MIN READ

An MFE candidate finds rewards, challenges, and community

Akshita Gulati, MFE 24, approaches her Master of Financial Engineering studies with the attitude, “If it’s not challenging, it’s not rewarding.” Just ...
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Entrepreneurship | 3 MIN READ

Entrepreneurial drive fuels a career pivot

Before starting his Berkeley MBA for Executives studies, Reggie Draper, EMBA 23, learned the hard lesson that entrepreneurs can’t go it alone.
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Marketing | 3 MIN READ

Ignoring limitations, taking risks, and practicing compassion

Three years old is too young to understand why mommy is gone two nights a week, but Rachel Lui Pang, MBA 24, wants her daughter to one day “be proud ...
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Haas culture | 3 MIN READ

How the Berkeley Haas leadership principles define the MBA experience

You don’t have to talk long with a Berkeley Haas MBA student to realize what they discovered—sometimes to their surprise: The fourDefining Leadership ...
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Diversity and Inclusion | 3 MIN READ

Doctoral student relishes research and teaching

Analexis Glaude knew early on that she wanted to be a professor and a role model for others and knew she would have to find the right area of ...
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Headshot of Richard Golfin III, JD, EMBA 24.

Healthcare | 3 MIN READ

Seeking an MBA to change the future of health care

For Richard Golfin, III, JD, EMBA 24, health care is not just a business. It is a “fascinating area of life. After all, most of us start and end our ...
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Alyssa Kewenvoyouma, MBA/JD 22

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 ...
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Kellie McElhaney, PhD, founding director of EGAL at Berkeley Haas, speaks at the 2022 Diversity Symposium.

Diversity and Inclusion | 2 MIN READ

How to craft your story and create your brand star

Résumés loom large in the lives of many MBA applicants and graduates: Where you’ve worked, lived, and been educated. They distill your story into ...
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Kenny Vaughn takes a picture with audience during the Haas Diversity Symposium.

Finance | 3 MIN READ

Born a billionaire: reimagining wealth in the pursuit of happiness

Kenny Vaughn, MBA 16, danced on stage at the 2022 DEI Symposium to the beat of his classmate Ace Patterson’s (also known as Call Me Ace) song, “No ...
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Entrepreneurship | 3 MIN READ

Sowing seeds for Berkeley start-ups

Has the venture capital world been “overlooking the entrepreneurial energy and achievement” at UC Berkeley? Kevin Chang, MBA 22, several of his ...
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Aditi Narware poses outside of Morgan Stanley's office in New York City during her internship.

Finance | 3 MIN READ

Powering up her career and empowering other women in finance careers

Coming to Berkeley Haas, Aditi Narware, MFE 23, knew she wanted her experience to be more than learning in the classroom.
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Technology | 2 MIN READ

The power of not being content and choosing to lead by example

Priya Govindaraj, MBA 24, leads by example in every facet of her life.
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