Diversity and Inclusion

A life of pivots for a first-gen MBA

Tianie Scott, MBA 26, has already made many successful pivots in her life. She is preparing for her next pivot as a student in the full-time MBA ...

Diversity and Inclusion | 3 MIN READ

Leveraging an MBA to create new opportunities

Creativity is a touchstone for Stewart Hendricks, EMBA 26. In his 15-year career he has worked in marketing and advertising, first at nonprofits then ...

Diversity and Inclusion | 5 MIN READ

An MBA student making a difference for underrepresented employees

A big part of what Kevin Ramirez, MBA 25, does is stand up for others. His job is to make sure that no matter what someone’s background is, they ...

Entrepreneurship | 3 MIN READ

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 ...

Compare the Berkeley MBA Program Options

Same world-renowned faculty. Same global alumni network. Same top-ranked MBA.
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Healthcare | 3 MIN READ

Bring your entire self to business school

For Pranjali Vadlaputi, MBA 26, and the program manager of Pediatric Telehealth at UC Davis Health, three things guide her career choices and her ...

Entrepreneurship | 3 MIN READ

Making space and making a difference as an entrepreneur through acquisition

When she heard Dean Ann Harrison speak at an event in Chicago in 2019, Adilene Dominguez, MBA 24, was just starting to research MBA programs. Instead ...

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 | 4 MIN READ

You can't know until you try: the MBA conundrum

During the four years that Katherine Zepeda Arreola, MBA 24, pondered whether to get a graduate degree—and what kind—she remembers a mentor telling ...

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Diversity and Inclusion

A life of pivots for a first-gen MBA

Leveraging an MBA to create new opportunities

An MBA student making a difference for underrepresented employees

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

Compare the Berkeley MBA Program Options

Bring your entire self to business school

Making space and making a difference as an entrepreneur through acquisition

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

You can't know until you try: the MBA conundrum

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