Dean Lyons Meet Up
Dean Lyons will meet up with weekend students at 8am on Saturday, October 18th at Haas. The location is Room C230. Please come by and chat with him.
3rd Annual Evening of Networking with Haas Alumni
The Haas Alumni Network, San Francisco, invites you to join alumni, current students and faculty for the Third Annual Evening of Networking with Haas Alumni Network in San Francisco.
EWMBA Discussion Forum
The forum is running and we have over 100 members. Anybody with a '@mba.berkeley.edu' e-mail address can get access to this forum.
Register at: http://haasewmbaa.freeforums.org/profile.php?mode=register
Remember that the quality of a Haas MBA comes from the folks who participate in the program. Similarly, what you can get out of the forums will come from the number of participants. So please sign up!
If you have discussion forum experience and would like to help out, please contact Ben (benchong@mba.berkeley.edu).
Student-Alumni Dinner Series: Brand Management/Consumer Marketing
Date: Thursday, October 9
Time: 6:30 PM
Location: Restaurant TBD—Near BART in Downtown San Francisco
Cost: $25 to offset the cost of the meal and drinks, due prior to the dinner, co-sponsored by the EWMBAA
RSVP: kelly_kennedy@mba.berkeley.edu
For the next installment of our new Student-Alumni Dinner Series, the Alumni Relations Committee is pleased to invite you to our Brand Management/Consumer Marketing dinner.
This is a casual dinner for six EWMBA students to get to know two successful alumni in the field and find out what a Brand Management career is really like! RSVP early, space is limited.
Featured Alumni:
Jennifer Okanes ‘03—Brand Manager at Clorox
Alvin Young ‘07—Associate Brand Manager at Del Monte
Dean Lyons Meet Up
Date: Saturday, October 18
Time: 8:00am
Location: C230
Weekend students, come chat with Dean Lyons.
Want to be an Entrepreneur? Want to know what VC’s look for?
Date: Saturday, October 18
Time: 12:00 – 1:00pm
Location: F320
You are all invited to attend the Entrepreneurship Forum Saturday October 18th, where several successful entrepreneurs will share their experiences. Speakers will include Jon Gillespie-Brown, Mike Tzamaloukas, and Eiso Vaandrager, to be moderated by Professor Naeem Zafar from the Entrepreneur class.
Jon Gillespie-Brown – Jon is the founder of Nalpeiron, is a serial Entrepreneur and has been an Entrepreneur in residence/Mentor for the London Business School for 7 years and more recently for Stanford and UC Berkeley University. Jon’s book "So you want to be an entrepreneur" published by Wiley is available from Amazon now with all the proceeds going to Grameen foundation to help grow more entrepreneurs.
Mike Tzamaloukas – Mike is the founder of Dash Navigation. Dash Navigation connects people to the information that empowers them in their cars. The company is located in Sunnyvale, Calif. and is funded by Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Sequoia Capital, Skymoon Ventures, Crescendo Ventures, Artis Capital and ZenShin Capital Partners. With the launch of its first product, Dash Express, the company hopes to help bring revolutionary change to the automotive GPS category.
Eiso Vaandrager – Eiso is currently an associate at e2cleantech, a Dutch fund focused on clean technology start-up companies in the Netherlands. He founded Formula Zero, a company focused on fuel cell racing. He was part of a team that built the first Dutch solar car, which won the World Solar Challenge in 2001.
For more information, please contact Kelly Lu at kelly_lu@mba.berkeley.edu.
Walk for and Sponsor Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (JDRF)
Date: Saturday, October 18
Time: 10 AM followed by Octoberfest
Location: Crissy Field, San Francisco
Raise funds for the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (JDRF), a non-profit organization dedicated to finding a cure for diabetes and the complications it can cause. How can I help?There is a few ways you can help. (1) You could join the Haas team as a walker. If you choose this option, you will raise funds and walk along with your fellow Haas mates or family members! (2) Sponsor a Haas walker by donating towards the cause (This is a tax deductible donation).
Walk details available at http://walk.jdrf.org or call 415-997-0360.
Contact Professor John O’Brien at obrien@haas.berkeley.edu for more information.
EWMBA Annual Volunteer Day
Date: Sunday, October 19
Time: 9AM to Noon
Location: San Francisco Food Bank, 900 Pennsylvania Ave, SF
Come Volunteer with your fellow EWMBAs and the Program Office Staff! Evite will follow shortly.
Announcing the Third Annual Evening of Networking with Haas Alumni in San Francisco
Date: Thursday, October 23
Time: 6-9pm
Location: Hyatt Regency San Francisco (Embarcadero), Bayview Room
The Haas Alumni Network, San Francisco , invites you to join alumni, current students and faculty for the Third Annual Evening of Networking with Haas Alumni Network in San Francisco.
Last year's event was a great success, with over 400 Bay Area alumni and Haas graduate students coming together to make meaningful connections at this group networking event. Participants will have the opportunity to converse in groups based on their industry affiliation or interest. Alumni from various business sectors, class years and backgrounds will serve as industry experts, mingling and sharing insights with other alums as well as current Haas students.
This event is brought to you by The Haas Alumni Network, San Francisco, Walter A. Haas School Alumni Relations, Haas Career Services, the MBAA and the Evening Weekend MBA Program.
Registration and complete event details: http://www.acteva.com/booking.cfm?bevaid=167047
This event will sell out. Please register early!
For more information, please contact Charlene Son at charlene_son@alumni.haas.org.
Leading Through Innovation Executive Seminar Series:
Steve W. Martin, Founder of Heavy Hitter Sales Training Program
Date: Sunday, October 26
Time: 9AM to 1:30PM
Location: Andersen Auditorium
Please join author Steve W. Martin as he explains what is truly at the heart of sales: how to build relationships and how to persuade skeptics to believe you. Steve will cover the following topics in this interactive half-day workshop:
· Determining Political Power
· Influencing an Organization at Various Levels
· Understanding How People Communicate
· Selling Strategic, Operational, Political, and Psychological Value
AND MUCH MORE….
Register by clicking this link: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=Hsut1DU7h8dC6OPSxFUgwg_3d_3d
Please register by October 19, 2008.
Attendees will receive a copy of Steve’s leading book about sales, Heavy Hitter Selling: How Successful Salespeople Use Language and Intuition to Persuade Customers to Buy.
If you have questions, please e-mail pamela_riley@haas.berkeley.edu.
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