A Word from the EWMBAA President
First of all, congratulations to the graduating class of 2008!
In the past 6 months, the EWMBAA has had quite a whirl. Here are some updates:
Academic: Winners of the Cheit Teaching Award are Professor Catherine Wolfram (Evening) and Professor Wasim Azhar (Weekend), with special mention to Professor Ganesh Iyer and Professor Meghan Busse. The GSI Award goes to Robert Seaman, with special mention to for Todd Fitch. (Many thanks to Kiran Prabhakara for driving the nomination process!) Professor Stowsky, new Dean of Academic Instruction, also held Town Hall meetings to gather feedback. Sarah Milstein has been following up with Jay – so please let her have your ideas. We’re also exploring ways to make video recording better. Please send feedback to co-chairs Kiran Prabhakara and Josh Han.
Admissions: Co-chairs Stacey Fang and Chris Lin – and their volunteer teams - have been working welcoming Round 1 students on message boards and with personal phone calls. Thanks to all our current EWMBA students who attended the Round 1 Welcome Reception!
Alumni and Careers: Satadip Dutta (co-chair for Alumni Relations) helped put together the talk on Consulting (with alumni Richard Chen), while Kae Huang (co-chair of Careers) moderated the Banking/Finance (with alumni Hiram Moy, and his friends Tim Ome and Michelle Lee). We’re exploring affiliations with professional organizations (like ASCEND which focuses on increasing diversity in the banking/finance world.)
Communication: Co-chairs Ben Chong and Anlei Lee have been excellent in stimulating communications with this eZine and with our new interactive website. Thanks also to Mimi Frusha and our cohort reps for helping to pass messages along! We ran a survey on how students want to communicate, and are exploring a secure repository for class feedback and discussion.
Community Service: Kenneth So and Jennifer Elliot have organized a couple of Community Service events so far at Palo Alto. Next up, Bay to Breakers this Sunday - a joint effort with our Social Committee (Thanks Ting-Mao Chao!) with exclusive limited edition Haas EWMBA t-shirts (designed by Kenneth So!) We’re working on ways we can better communicate global emergency fund relief awareness – and you’ll find links on our website.
Social: Co-chairs Mandar Shinde and Laurel Coster have organized 4 after-school socials and we’re having more over Summer! If you’re having an EWMBAA social event and would like us to sponsor a keg of beer, please contact our co-chairs.
The Executive team has also been involved in the searches for a permanent EWMBA Program Director and for the new Haas Dean. In addition, we’re working on a Haas Family Day on June 22, stay tuned! We’re always open to having new ideas for the rest of this calendar year, so please let us know!
- Jasmin
Headlines and Events this Week
Saturday, May 17
China, The World’s Hottest Market
Sunday, May 18
Bears Running Bay to Breakers 2008!!
Upcoming Events
Wednesday, June 4
2nd Round Admitted Students Welcome Calls
Thursday, June 12
2nd Round Admitted Students Welcome Reception
Sunday, June 22
Haas Family Day
To plan or check out new events, visit the Haas Calendar:
http://www.haas.berkeley.edu/calendar/
UPCOMING EVENTS
China, the World’s Hottest Market
Date: Saturday, May 17
Time: 10:00am – 2:30pm
Location: Sun Microsystems, Santa Clara
CalCPA's Peninsula Silicon Valley and Silicon Valley San Jose chapters in association with Ascend and the South Bay Chapter of the Haas Alumni Network present a Silicon Valley Forum event, the 2008 Asia Business Forum: China - Strategic Implications, Challenges of Doing Business in the World's Hottest Market.
More information can be found at:
http://www.calcpa.org/Public/Catalog/CourseDetails.aspx?courseID=08I1090508
Bears Running Bay to Breakers 2008!!
Date: Sunday, May 18
Time: 7:30am
Location: Intersection of Stuart and Mission in San Francisco
Want to stay healthy, be happy, and give something back to the community?
Walk with your fellow EWMBA classmates through the Bay to Breakers! Your registration fee will go to charity organizations for good causes. The EWMBA association will give away each registered bay-to-breakers participant a stylish Haas team spirit T-shirt. For those who get to the finish line, we will buy you drinks!
We will celebrate the race at the beer booth closest to the stage in the Golden Gate Park.
If you have any questions, please contact Ting-Mao Chao: tingmao_chao@mba.berkeley.edu
More information, including the flyer is at the Haas EWMBAA website: http://www.haasewmbaa.com
2nd Round Admitted Students Welcome Calls
Date: Wednesday, June 4
Time: Any
Location: Anywhere
Current student volunteers make phone calls to the 2nd round admitted students to congratulate them for their admission, welcome them to the program, and answer questions. Calls should be completed by June 10 and we typically make 8-12 calls per volunteer.
Please contact Stacey Fang (stacey_fang@mba.berkeley.edu) or Christopher Lin (christopher_lin@mba.berkeley.edu) if you are available to volunteer.
2nd Round Admitted Students Welcome Reception
Date: Thursday, June 12
Time: 6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
Location: Haas Campus
Save the date. Come meet the newly admitted Class 2011 and share your Haas experience! We especially need 2nd and 3rd year students who can speak about their elective and career change stories.
Please contact Stacey Fang (stacey_fang@mba.berkeley.edu) or Christopher Lin (christopher_lin@mba.berkeley.edu) if you are available to volunteer.
Haas Family Day
Date: Sunday, June 22
Time and Location:
To be confirmed. Tentatively: 10am – 3pm at Haas
Here’s the party to end all end-of-year parties.
The major difference with all the other parties is that you can bring your families to this one. It is the perfection occasion to show off your school to your long-suffering MBA-spouse and kids. It’s also great opportunity for said-MBA-spouse to put faces to your project team members. Well, maybe that’s not such a good idea…
Anyway, watch this space for more information!
DID YOU KNOW?
It’s graduation time and commencement is just around the corner. If you haven’t seen this video yet, it is the mother-of-all commencement speeches: http://youtube.com/watch?v=1osaIFPmSc0
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