EWMBA eZine - Week of August 20, 2009

Announcements:

Here’s a message from the EWMBA Admissions office:

Prospective applicants repeatedly say that contact with YOU, our EWMBA current students, is one of the most valuable touch points throughout their decision making process. With that in mind, the EWMBA Admissions team has come up with 3 easy ways you can assist in the admissions process and help us attract next year’s top talent all while putting some of your Haas MBA acquired skills to good use.

1. SHARE YOUR EXPERIENCES – volunteer to serve as a panel member at an upcoming information session or Diversity Conference; mix and mingle at the New Admit Receptions. If you would like to help, please email: mkihanya@haas.berkeley.edu .

2. SPACE – reserve an afterhours conference room at your company to host an EWMBA Information Session (5:30pm – 8:30pm).

3. CORPORATE LUNCHES – invite us to your company to speak to your fellow colleagues and employees. You provide the space, we’ll provide the lunch.

We really appreciate your help! For items 2 & 3, please contact Elisabeth Merkel at emerkel@haas.berkeley.edu; 510-642-0249 to discuss further details.

- Divyang Agrawal (divyang_agrawal@mba.berkeley.edu) and Ramon Lim (ramon_lim@mba.berkeley.edu)

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

EVENTS

EWMBAs invited to a social with First Year Executive MBAs and Incoming FTMBAs

Date: Saturday, August 22
Time: 4 PM – 11 PM (Drinks then Dinner)
Location: Pete's Tavern (upstairs section), 128 King St, San Francisco, CA 94107
RSVP: Email Chris Fong, Exec MBA Class of 2011 by Friday August 21 6pm at csfong@gmail.com

Some 1st year Executive MBAs are having a casual gathering on Saturday and you're invited to attend. The incoming full-time MBAs will also be invited
We will start with drinks from 4pm, then head to dinner later in the evening and continue for drinks after dinner. Feel free to join us for drinks from 4pm or dinner later in the evening.

If you have any questions on Saturday call Chris Fong's mobile number 917-363-9686

Haas EWMBA Wine Tour 2009

Date: Sunday, August 23
Time: 8:30AM
Location: Sonoma, CA
Register: http://www.evite.com/pages/invite/viewInvite.jsp?inviteId=CVBBNIHGOGHVWHTVXMIH&li=iq&src=email&trk=aei3

Cost: Students: $60 / Guests: $75 (includes transportation, lunch and wine tasting)
Please join your fellow EWMBA classmates for a tour of Sonoma Wine.

Due to space constraints on the bus and at the wineries, we only have spots for 55 people. EWMBA students are allowed to invite one non-student guest, but guests will have to pay a slightly higher fee. Only those who pay will be guaranteed a spot. Please follow the link above to send payment via paypal to rajsiva99@hotmail.com and advise your name and name of guest if applicable.

Career Services: ABCs to Case Interviewing

Date: Tuesday, August 25
Time: 6:30PM - 8:30PM
Location: Haas School of Business, Room S489
Registration: Sign-up in CareerNet

Jeanne Lew will provide an overview to case interviewing. Workshop will include practice cases.

2009 Industry Update from the CSO Account Team

Date: Wednesday, August 26th
Time: 12:00PM – 1:00PM
Location: Webinar
Details: CareerNet

Hear from our Account Team about their industries’ hiring outlooks: Jenn Bridge (Consulting, CPG/Retail), Rich Wong (HighTech, Media and Entertainment, Gov’t. and Non-profit), Lisa Feldman (Healthcare, Biotech), Cathy Garza (Real Estate), Betsy Worth (Energy, Clean-tech) and Nicole Gehrmann (Finance)

Berkeley Entrepreneurs Forum presents “Innovating at Scale”

Date: Thursday, August 27
Time: 6:30PM-8:30PM
Location: Anderson Auditorium, Haas School of Business
Registration/Cost: Pre-registration is $20 per person and is available until Tuesday, August 27th at 5pm. Reserved parking is available for an additional $15 and can be purchased on the event registration page. On-site registration is $30 per person.

Join us for the first Berkeley Entrepreneurs Forum of the 2009-2010 season for a look at "Innovating at Scale: Google."

John Hanke (Haas MBA ’96) will be joined by three top innovators at Google who will touch on their experiences developing and launching Google's "Geo" tools (Earth, Maps, etc.). The panelists will challenge common notions of what it takes to launch "early and often" --and successfully-- at a company like Google.

Focusing on goal setting, team size, and management approaches, the panel will probe the dynamics of product development applicable to entrepreneurs. Those with a computer science or engineering background will find the panel particularly relevant.
The program begins at 6:30 PM, with a networking hour with complimentary drinks and hors d'oeuvres in the Bank of America Forum at the Haas School of Business. For more information about the event, click here. For more information about the Forum, including reserved parking, click here. For maps and directions, click here.

Faculty, staff and students from UCB, UCOP or LBL please register here.

Pre-registration closes Tuesday, August 27th at 5 pm.
All registrations after that time must be completed on-site

South Asian MBA Association (SAMBAA) presents Annual Women’s Leadership Network (WLN) event

Date: Thursday, August 27
Time: 5:30 PM-8:00 PM
Location: India Community Center, 525 Los Coches St, Milpitas, CA 95035
Registration: Click this link to register
Cost: $15 per person for students and $20/person for others

SAMBAA is announcing the first annual WLN event (open to all members).

Meet women who have been extremely successful demonstrating leadership and assuming critical roles in major multinational corporations. How did they overcome traditional boundaries? What, if anything, should you be doing differently?

Join us for an evening where we will hear practical tips for women (and men) as they seek to obtain positions of greater influence in corporate life.

Featured Agenda
5:30pm Registration
6:00pm Welcome Address, Sangeeta Chakraborty (EWMBA 2006), Founder, WLN
6:05pm The Glass Ceiling: Fact or Fiction? Merrin Donley, Executive Coach at Donley Associates. What tools do you need in your toolkit to take your career to the highest levels?
6:30pm Drinks, hors d'oeuvres and Networking
7:00pm Featured Panel of Corporate Leaders

Panelists: Kakul Srivastava, GM, Flickr (a Yahoo company)
Indu Navar, CEO of Serus Corporation
Ellen Tam, Vice President at Cadence Design Systems
Panel Moderator: Merrin Donley, Executive Coach at Donley Associates
8:00pm Closing Address

Volunteering is one great way to demonstrate leadership and grow the value of your network! Please email schakraborty@sambaa.org if you are interested in volunteering for WLN!

Haas Alumni – Student Dinner Series – Entrepreneurship/ Venture Capital

Date: August 27th, Thursday
Time: 6:30 p.m.
Location: La Strada Italian Restaurant, 335 University Ave Palo Alto, CA 94301
Costs: Alumni Guests – Free, Students - Open your own tab

This event is organized by the EWMBA Alumni Relations Committee, as a part of the 'Special Interest Group' networking dinner series. The alumni dinner series aims at providing a venue for EWMBA students to meet other students who intend to pursue their careers in a particular industry and also gain perspectives from alumni who work in that industry.

This month's dinner event is for students who are interested in the Entrepreneurship and Venture Capital. 12 seats will be open to EWMBA students and registration will be on a first-come, first-serve basis.

If you are interested in attending the event, please email Sunder Thirupapuliyur (sunder@mba.berkeley.edu).

The following guest alumni will be attending:

Mat Fogarty, MBA 01, Founder and CEO, Crowdcast.

Mat is an entrepreneur and visionary in organizational dynamics. Featured on the cover of Inc. Magazine, Mat is a regular speaker on the enterprise forecasting and prediction markets circuit. Prior to founding Crowdcast, Mat held senior positions in FP&A at EA and Unilever. While at EA, he pioneered the use of prediction markets for forecasting key metrics, an initiative which has since expanded company-wide. Mat is a member of the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA) and holds an MBA from UC Berkeley and BS in Management Science from the London School of Economics.

Arun Ramamoorthy, MBA 05, Principal, Pinnacle Ventures.

Before joining Pinnacle, Arun was in the Corporate Branding and Strategic Marketing team within the Sales and Marketing Group at Intel, where his focus was on technology leadership marketing. Prior to his marketing role, Arun spent over six years managing technology development programs at Intel. As a Program Manager at Intel, he was responsible for lithography infrastructure development. In this role, he managed several development programs at suppliers, universities and National Labs, worked with industry consortia and Intel Capital on collaborations and investments in the lithography supply-chain. Early in his career, he spent several years working on next generation assembly and test technology development. Arun has an MBA from the Haas School of Business at the University of California at Berkeley, an M.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor and a B.Tech from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India.


Haas' Worldwide Welcome Parties for Newly-Admitted Students, New Graduates & Alumni of All Ages

Date and Location:
Thursday, August 27 - Berkeley
Thursday, September 10 - San Francisco

(More details below)

Join the celebration as we welcome a new community of Haas alumni. "Welcome Parties" are a fun, casual, and festive opportunity to meet other alumni near you and welcome newly-admitted students to the world of Haas.

Following are the upcoming parties in our neighborhood

Berkeley, California
Date: Thursday, August 27, 2009
Time: 6:00pm - 9:00pm
Location: “Jupiter,” 2181 Shattuck Avenue, Berkeley CA 94704 (upstairs room reserved for party) Registration: http://acteva.com/booking.cfm?bevaID=184602
For questions, contact: Lindy Vejar at lindy_vejar@bio-rad.com

San Francisco, California
Date: Thursday, September 10, 2009
Time: 5:30pm – 7:00 pm
Location: Downstairs room @ Taverna Aventine, 582 Washington Street, (nearest cross street Montgomery), San Francisco CA 94111
RSVP: Michael Sowa at michael.sowa@bankofamerica.com

Career Services: Progressing in Your Organization Webinar

Date: Thursday, September 3
Time: 12-1pm
Location: Webinar
Registration: Sign-up in CareerNet

You are beginning to establish yourself in your organization and now are ready to progress further, perhaps ready to take on additional responsibilities or move into a new role. What steps do you need to take to build a foundation for longer term success? This webinar will explore core principles and key factors influencing your progression in your organization