Congrats to all who have completed your last classes!
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 Henry’s, a local Berkeley restaurant, for dinner at 8:30PM. It will be a No host dinner/drinks with menu items ranging from $15-$25. We'll have one of our EWMBAA members lead you to the restaurant after the party at Haas.
For all you folks looking for alternative careers, this is a chance to hone your bartending skills :-). We are looking for volunteers to help serve (tap beer and pour wine) and monitor the bar for max 15-20 mins.
Please view the Evite.
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 at vijay_bhaskaran@mba.berkeley.edu or Tim Gaherty. Thanks!
- Your EWMBAA and Program Staff
[Ed: The mixer is paid for by your money. So come and make the most of it!]
EWMBAA Vision 2009
As an Evening-Weekend student, you're an automatic member of the EWMBAA. Traveling the campaign trail, I ran into the full gamut of opinions about the EWMBAA - from 'You're doing a great job' to 'More can be done' to 'We have an association??'
The human body has many parts, but alone, the head, an arm, a leg - these can do only so much. When they're connected, they can do so much more. Likewise, the EWMBAA is a body. There are a lot of great ideas floating amongst the EW crowd. Each of us has unique talents, and alone, we can only do a limited amount. The vision for 2009 is to have each member consider itself part of a larger body that together, can really make things happen.
Enjoy your break and come back refreshed with ideas for how you want to make your EWMBA experience even better. We'll work on it together and make it better not just for you, but for everyone.
- Anlei Lee, EWMBAA President 2009
EWMBAA 2008: Message from Jasmin Young
Dear EWMBA students,
How quickly the year has passed! :-)
Many thanks to all of you who have run or participated in events, and made our Haas experience a meaningful one.
- Highlights of 2008 Committee activities -
Academic:
2008 Cheit teaching awards went to Prof Wasim Azhar (weekend) and Prof Catherine Wolfram (weekday)! Many thanks for your efforts, Professors! The team also worked extensively throughout the year with the program office on academic issues, and then finally in a year-end update to the Staff and Faculty. All students are welcome to join in a school rankings discussion with the Haas Marketing team in Spring - watch this space for more details.
Thanks to co-chairs Josh Han and Kiran Prabhakara.
Admissions:
They did an epic project of welcoming our first years with games (like Rock Band), student club panels and mobilizing EWMBA students to help with extensive walkabouts around Berkeley for a warm welcome (in all senses).
Many thanks to our amazing and energetic co-chairs Stacey Fang and Chris Ho
- and member Sharianne Louie for her special efforts.
Alumni Relations:
The innovative Student-Alumni Dinners for 6 were really well-received! Many thanks to co-chairs Dutta Satadip and Ankur Agarwal for working with the alumni office and making all this possible.
Career Services:
We had career-track specific mixers and a number of panel guests speak on topics as varied as finance, to career to entrepreneurship. Thanks to the team and co-chairs Kae Huang and Vidya Chadaga for making those connections possible.
Communications:
We started the eZine and that's been a phenomenal way for us all to keep in touch! We now also have a student discussion board and a voice for the First Years via class reps! Thanks to Anlei Lee and Ben Chong for your consistency, passion and enthusiasm.
Community Service:
We just kept giving back to the community with work at the Family Fun Day at the Palo Alto Art Center, ING Bay to Breakers, Habitat for Humanity, Ronald McDonald House, Sacred Heart Community Center. Thanks to Jenn Elliot and Ken So for your persistence in rallying all of us together to make a difference to our community.
Social Committee:
Haas Family Day (with lectures by Prof La Blanc and Prof Borenstein, caricaturist, children's entertainment, DJs) and sponsorship of monthly (or
more) student socials. Many thanks to co-chairs Mandar Shinde (Hats off to you for your superb social/party organizing capabilities. And congratulations on being a Daddy!) and Laurel Coster.
So many committee team members contributed to making these events a success.
Please check out our website http://www.haasewmbaa.com for their names.
We've also welcomed a new Dean and a new Executive Program Director - and now we're welcoming a new EWMBAA President and team. We hope we've left a good legacy behind and are certainly looking forward to an exciting new era for our EWMBA program.
Thanks and happy holidays!
Your 2008 EWMBAA officers - Jasmin, Krupa, Dhiren and Amandeep
Class Socials
The Social Committee invites evening students who are organizing class socials to let Mandar know: mandar_shinde@haas.berkeley.edu
To plan or check out new events, visit the Haas Calendar:
http://www.haas.berkeley.edu/calendar/
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 http://www.blogger.com/mailto=.
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UC Berkeley Business Plan Competition Executive Summaries due January 28thExecutive 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.
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