EWMBA eZine - Week of December 11, 2008

EWMBA END of YEAR SOCIAL – It’s Time to Party!!!!

DATE: Friday, December 19
TIME: 6pm to 8pm at Haas, then the after party
PLACE: Wells Fargo Room

After a long year of action, come Celebrate, Commiserate, or just Commingle with your EWMBA student and staff community for one last time before we ring in the new year. Students from all cohort years and recent alumni will be there. This is a great opportunity to meet old friends, make new ones, and have fun. Beer, Wine, Non-alcoholic beverages and appetizers will be served. And don't forget to have your snazzy evening party wear on; we will have a DJ to rock the house! Bring your spouse, significant other, family along (sorry, no pets!).The party doesn't stop at Haas! There will be an after-party at a local berkeley restaurant for dinner at 8:30PM. Please make sure you specify in your RSVP whether or not you're coming to the after-party so we have enough room for all. Any questions? Feel free to contact Vijay Bhaskaran vijay_bhaskaran@mba.berkeley.edu or Tim Gaherty. Thanks!

- Your EWMBAA and Program Staff

Congratulations!

Congrats go out to my fellow officers-elect:
VP: Vijay Bhaskaran vijay_bhaskaran@mba.berkeley.edu
Secretary: Amy Daily amy_daily@mba.berkeley.edu
Treasurer: Abraham Yacobian abraham_yacobian@mba.berkeley.edu

Thanks to everyone who voted! Thanks also to all the other candidates for running and showing your dedication to serving the EWMBAA.

As you take a well-deserved break this Christmas and New Year's, please consider how you may want to contribute to the EWMBAA. At the beginning of 2009, we'll be putting out a call for joining committees. The committees are listed here: http://www.haasewmbaa.com/

We're planning a lot of great events and activities for 2009 (in fact, we've already started - come to the Haas Holiday Mixer!) and we want to hear from you, so please feel free to contact me or any of the 2009 executive team.

- Anlei Lee, 2009 President-elect anlei_lee@mba.berkeley.edu


Communications Committee is Recruiting

The Communications Committee is the marketing arm of the Haas EWMBA Student Association. Come talk to Ben and he'll go on and on about student email reading behaviour and how you must understand your audience in order to reach them.

Anyway, enough of CommComm 101. We are looking for members for 2009.

If you like writing, write well, like to bring people together or want to bring information to people, contact either Ben (benchong@mba.berkeley.edu) or Anlei (anlei_lee@mba.berkeley.edu).

Japan Trek 2009 – Registration Now Open

Following this year’s inaugural Japan Trek’s success, we are organizing Japan Trek 2009 in March next year. We would love to invite all of you to join us in this trip. Attached herewith is the material which we used for the information sessions on December 1 & 2. We have already started accepting registration for the trip and will run it till 5pm, December 19. Below is the link for the registration and you can complete it just in a minute.

http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=N6Cp7Tn8_2bB0BuB7f0x7F0g_3d_3d

(Just a caveat. There's the registration link in the information session material, but please don't use it but the one pasted above. If you click the URL link in the pdf file, it doesn't work, as the URL is split into 2 lines and won't be recognized as one complete line.)

We are more than happy to clarify any questions you may have about the trip and want to make this trip an even more worthwhile one than this year's. Please feel free to contact us at takashi_tada@mba.berkeley.edu.


Impact Mozilla Challenge – VOTE!

You may have heard about the Impact Mozilla Challenge(http://impactmozilla.com/) a marketing plan competition thatenabled students to participate in Mozilla's open source community bysubmitting their ideas and proposals for improving Firefox user retention.We have narrowed down the 300+ entries to 10 exceptional marketingplans... and need the community to help us pick the winner. So if youhave some time, check out the finalists and cast your vote!VOTE HERE: http://impactmozilla.com/vote/
Note: 2 of the finalists are teams from Haas! We rock!Thanks!- Jay Patel, EWMBA 2010

Class Socials

The Social Committee invites evening students who are organizing class socials to let Mandar know: mandar_shinde@haas.berkeley.edu


Holiday Food Drive: Alameda County Food Bank

The holidays are a season of escalated demand for food, especially with the current economic situation. In 2008, the Food Bank is responding to unprecedented need in Alameda County. Please drop off non-perishable foods in any one of the five bins around the Haas campus. Alternatively, you can make a monetary donation either directly to the Alameda County Food Bank (link below) or feel free to drop off a check to Ken So, Jenn Elliott or the EWMBA office and we’ll be sure to get the donations to the food bank. Thanks for your generosity in this critical time of need.

(Alameda County Food Bank Donation Link : https://secure.groundspring.org/dn/index.php?aid=18069)

---- Jenn Elliott and Ken So

To plan or check out new events, visit the Haas Calendar:
http://www.haas.berkeley.edu/calendar/


EVENTS

Dean Speaker Series: Which Ethical Lines Were Crossed?
Date: Thursday, December 11
Time: 7:30pm – 8:30pm
Location: Wells Fargo Room

This panel discussion will feature distinguished members of our faculty including Professor and former Dean Tom Campbell; Adam Galinsky, a visiting professor from Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management; and Professor Pablo Spiller, a member of the Haas Business and Public Policy Group.

The panel will explore the ethical questions raised by the current financial turmoil, including breaches of ethics and breakdown of good judgment that were at the core of the crisis. I look forward to a lively discussion followed by a Q&A session with the audience.

A light dinner will be served, and seating will be first-come, first-served, so please plan to arrive accordingly.

This Dean Speaker Series discussion will be videotaped, and available at http://www.haas.berkeley.edu/haas/video_room/. If you have any questions regarding this event, please contact Meg Fellner at meg_fellner@haas.berkeley.edu


Sacred Heart Community Center Volunteering Event
Date: Sunday, December 14
Time: 1pm – 4pm
Location: Sacred Heart Community Service Center, 1381 South First St, San Jose

We’re going to be at the Sacred Heart Community Service Center is San Jose creating a “toy store” with donated gifts where parents of underprivileged children will be able to “shop” for Holiday gifts. Details on the organization can be found at the link below.

Unfortunately, you won’t find details on this event there since they’ve had to stop advertising for it due to popularity. We were only able to reserve 20 spots, so be sure to respond quickly to the Evite (check your email for the link). As always, spouses and significant others are welcomed and encouraged to attend. This is our first South Bay event, so we hope you South Bay folks can make it. Oh, and if you feel like bringing an unwrapped gift to the event, it would be greatly appreciated.

(Sacred Heart Community Service Center Website: http://www.shcstheheart.org/flash.html)

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3rd Annual Haas Winter Celebration in New York
Date: Wednesday, December 17
Time: 7:00 - 9:00 pm
Location: Goldman Sachs (180 Maiden Lane, New York, NY 10038)

Please join fellow Haas alumni, students, staff and friends at our Third Annual Haas Winter Celebration in New York hosted by Goldman Sachs. At this year's Winter Celebration we will raise a toast to our recruitment efforts, welcome current MBA and MFE students working or visiting in NYC, connect alumni with one another and celebrate all things Haas in New York! The Haas School's new dean, Rich Lyons, a proud Haas graduate (BS '82), looks forward to welcoming Haas alumni and current students to the annual Winter Celebration in New York.$35 alumni and friendsComplimentary for studentsThis event is generously hosted by Goldman Sachs.Pre-registration is required. The security office at Goldman Sachs requires that all attendees be pre-registered. No on-site registrations will be available. The deadline for registration is December 12th.

Registration Link: http://www.haas.berkeley.edu/groups/alumni/ny/ For questions, please contact the Alumni Relations Office at 510-642-7790 or events@haas.berkeley.edu.


CASE COMPETITIONS

Global Social Venture Competition (GSVC) Executive Summaries due Jan 21st

Call for Entrants: 2009 Competition

The Global Social Venture Competition (GSVC) is seeking promising social entrepreneurs to enter our 2009 and 10th Anniversary Competition! If you are an entrepreneur (or budding entrepreneur!) with a financially sustainable venture that addresses a social or environmental problem, we encourage you to apply!

Winning plans in the past have ranged from global health to microfinance, from cleantech to education, from fair trade to community development, from business concepts to operating companies, and have included for-profit and non-profit models.

The GSVC has provided nearly $500,000 in seed-money to thirty social ventures over the past ten years, as well as over 16,000 hours of mentoring from seasoned professional in various industries!

Executive Summaries due January 21, 2009*
Please utilize our Team Finding links, to post business plan ideas and/or form teams:
· http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=pFNBWlZnHTUgBcQW8GvISFA&hl=en
· http://www.globalsocialventure.blogspot.com/
Entrant Requirements:
o Every team must include at least one member who is a current student in ANY graduate business program or who has graduated from any graduate business program within the past 24 months.
o Operating companies are welcome to enter, though they must be less than 3 years old (as measured by first revenue or first patent issued).
o Plan can be for a for-profit or non-profit as long as either can be financially self-sustaining at scale.

Key Dates for 2009:
January 21 - Executive Summary Due at http://www.gsvc.org*
April 7 – Final Business Plan Due for Global Finals
April 23-24 - Global Finals at Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley
April 25 - GSVC Symposium on Social Entrepreneurship (San Francisco)
* Date applies to entrants submitting executive summaries to Columbia Business School, Haas School of Business, or London Business School regional rounds.
For more details, visit http://www.gsvc.org/ or email gsvc@haas.berkeley.edu

UC Berkeley Business Plan Competition Executive Summaries due January 28th
Executive summaries for the UC Berkeley Business Plan Competition are due January 28th, just two short months away. Below is quick checklist to make sure you are on track for the $45,000 grand prize:

1. Come up with a great idea!
2. Share your idea with friends and colleagues to get feedback and refine your idea
3. Build your team:
a. How can others help turn your ideas into a reality?
b. What skillsets or experiences would be useful in developing and implementing your business?
c. Find team members and enter your info @ http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=pqx8DnHt9nNFiJ2Ss2J6uZQ&hl=en
4. Write a three page executive summary to crystallize your idea; try to clearly define:
a. What problem are we going to solve?
b. Who are our customers? What needs do they have?
c. How big is the market? How many customers are there?
d. What is the business model? How do we turn those customers into dollars?
e. What is our product or service? How does it work? What technology is employed? How does it meet the customer’s needs?
f. How will our product or service be delivered?
5. Share your executive summary with friends and colleagues to get feedback and refine your idea
6. Start building it!
a. Iterate {implement, test, refine}

For additional information about the UC Berkeley Business Plan completion (including requirements, rules, deadlines, etc.), please visit our website at http://bplan.berkeley.edu/ or contact us at bplan@haas.berkeley.edu with any questions.

University of Denver Race & Case Competition: Feb. 27 - Mar. 1
Join the Daniels College of Business Graduate Business Student Association for the sixth annual Race & Case, one of the country’s premier business ethics case competitions. Combining a ski challenge with a case competition, Race & Case offers a unique real-world setting where students apply critical thinking and new approaches to ethical decision making and behavior.

Where: The Daniels College of Business at the University of Denver & Vail Cascade Resort
When: February 27 to March 1, 2009 Who: Four members will compete in the case, while up to six members may compete in the ski challenge. Teams must include a minimum of one international student and two female students.
To sign up, email Lauren Hartman (lauren.hartman@du.edu) ASAP.