Announcements:
What’s happening at Haas?
What does the outside world need to know about us? what have your classmates and professors done that has been most impressive, most important to your experience, and most important to the future of the school? Who makes you think, “THAT is Haas!”
Whether organizing cutting edge conferences, building community, or helping major school initiatives shine, Berkeley MBA students find innumerable ways every year to lead through innovation.
Every year we attempt to capture a representative sampling of those accomplishments in Making it Happen at Haas, AKA, the Haas Achievement Book.
This year, we’d like you to tell us just what and who should be in the book.
We are already building an extensive list of stories to feature--and we’d like to add some of your suggestions to the mix.
Watch your e-mail and the MBA Lounge the week of November 30 for more info!
For further information please contact Valerie Gilbert, Senior Publications Coordinator, vgilbert@haas.berkeley.edu
The EWMBA Admissions Committee wants YOU
The EWMBAA Admissions Committee is actively involved in creating and coordinating the admissions experience for the class of prospective and incoming students. We work in conjunction with the Program Office Admissions Team to welcome new Haas students, particularly with welcome calls and receptions and the noteworthy Orientation weekend.
We’re looking for you as an EWMBA student to join our committee this year, so you can help in meeting and shaping bonds and relationships with our future classmates. You’ll get a peek into the future of the Haas student body and become an integral resource to unifying and strengthening the Haas we know today. Please apply today at: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=R_2fdL1gEmhUchJvNfejPu6A_3d_3d
The deadline is November 30th, 2009. We look forward to your applications and working closely with you. Application results will be made available to you before Finals and the new committee will on-board in early January. For further questions, please contact the interim co-chairs, Shikha Maheshwari (shikha_maheshwari@mba.berkeley.edu) or Tim Lee (tim_lee@mba.berkeley.edu)
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EVENTS
Evening & Weekend MBA Entrepreneurs Association Information Forum
Date: Tuesday, November 24th, 2009
Time: 7:30 pm to 8:15 pm
Location: C320
Link/Website: http://groups.haas.berkeley.edu/ea/index.htm
Whether you are a current member of the Entrepreneurs Association, a prospective member, or maybe even interested in joining the new leadership of the association, you do not want to miss this information forum. We'll discuss entrepreneurship initiatives present and future, as well as the involvement of the Evening and Weekend students in the EA. Looking forward to seeing you there!
For more information, please contact JD Margulici at jdmargulici@berkeley.edu.
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First European Mix
Date: Tuesday, November 24th, 2009
Time: 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm
Location: Wells Fargo Room
A bunch of fun European classmates will cook for you! Sample German Bier and Wurst, Swiss Käse, French Bordeaux, Spanish Sangria, and more delicious food and drink samples from 11 countries. Beside all the great food and drinks there will be a chance to learn more about Europe in the EURO-QUIZ and while mixing and mingling with people from Europe. Please use the eVite you received earlier this week to sign up. We look forward to seeing you on Tuesday at 6pm in Wells Fargo room.
For further Information please contact Rui Bento (rui_bento@mba.berkeley.edu), Pablo Menendez (pablo_menendez@mba.berkeley.edu), Jan Veira (jan_veira@mba.berkely.edu), or Florian Strasser (florian_strasser@mba.berkeley.edu).
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Haas Thanksgiving Dinner Matching – Share You Feast!
Date: Thursday, November 26th, 2009
Thanksgiving is right around the corner (Thursday November 26th) and with it one of the most American holiday celebrations of all. About one third of the Haas Full-time MBA students are international and many have never attended a Thanksgiving dinner before. Since this is such a uniquely American tradition, we would like to match up Americans who are willing to share their Thanksgiving feast with International Students for whom this might be a once in a lifetime cultural experience.
We are seeking a few host families who live in the Berkeley or Albany area and would be willing to host a Haas student and partner. (We have three international couples who are interested in experiencing Thanksgiving, and one of the couples has a 1-year-old child.) If you would be willing to open your home on this holiday, please email me (andrea_siciliano@mba.berkeley.edu) and let me know how many people would you be willing to host and where you are located. Many thanks, Andrea Siciliano MBA Candidate 2010
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Entrepreneurial Best Practices Series: How to Write a Business Plan
Date: Monday, November 30, 2009
Time: 6:30-8:30pm (6:30-7:00pm-pizza and networking/7:00-8:30-presentation)
Location: Wells Fargo Room, Haas School of Business
This session will provide practical insight into how to write a winning business plan, as well as provide both a VC’s and an entrepreneur’s perspective on business plans. The presentation will address the nuts and bolts detail of what is important in a plan. If you are planning to enter the UC Berkeley and/or Global Social Venture Business Plan Competitions, this is a session you should not miss.
This session features Alex de Winter, a partner at Mohr Davidow Ventures, a venture capital firm with a long history of helping entrepreneurs commercialize innovation, and Bruce Cohen President & CEO and Founder, VitaPath Genetics.
For more information and speaker biographies, see the Entrepreneurial Best Practices website.
The Entrepreneurial Best Practices Series is held in conjunction with the UC Berkeley Business Plan Competition and the Global Social Venture Competition. The Best Practices Series invites experts from Berkeley and the Silicon Valley to speak about practical aspects of entrepreneurship. Each session begins with pizza and networking at 6:30pm, followed by the session at 7:00pm. The event is free and no registration is required. For more information, visit the Best Practices website or contact the Lester Center at 510-642-4255 or lester@haas.berkeley.edu.
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Haas Career Services: Succeeding in your 1st 90 Days on the Job
Date: Wednesday, December 2, 2009
Time: 12:00PM-1:00PM
Registration: Sign up on CareerNet
Are you looking for ways to ensure success in a new job - Either at your current employer or elsewhere? Do you want to make sure that your success is sustainable?
During this webinar, you will learn a 10-step process that will take you from before you begin a new job to beyond the first 90 days, enabling you to take control of both your performance and your future. You'll leave the session with the raw material for a short- and long-term plan to guide your future success.
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Haas Career Services: Panel of Executive Recruiters
Date: Wednesday, December 2, 2009
Time: 6:30PM-8:00PM
Location: Room S489
Registration: Sign up on CareerNet
Four executive recruiters will offer their insights on the current job market and opportunities for experienced professionals. Topics covered will include:
· What sectors are hiring?
· How do client companies and candidates work effectively with recruiters?
· What skills are most important to highlight?
· What are the best ways to get on recruiters radar screen?
· How should candidates market themselves?
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Wal-Mart Executive on Leading Responsibly
Date: Thursday, December 3, 2009
Time: 5:30PM-8:00PM
Location: Andersen Auditorium
Registration: http://tinyurl.com/lead-responsibly
Part of the Center for Responsible Business Peterson Lecture Series
"So how did (CEO Lee) Scott take a lumbering retailer that was tone-deaf on social issues and transform it into one of the more progressive companies of the day?" - Fortune Magazine
Wal-Mart has been both lauded for its leadership in implementing socially responsible business solutions and questioned for the motives behind its actions. It is indisputable, however, that when the world's largest retailer makes seemingly small changes, like promoting the sale of fluorescent lightbulbs in its stores, the positive impact is enormous--a reduction of over 28 million tons of greenhouse gas emissions per year.
Please join a conversation with Wal-Mart's Chief Administrative Officer, where he will share stories about how leading responsibly has helped to positively transform Wal-Mart and consequently has made a broader contribution to society.
Speaker:Tom Mars, Chief Administrative Officer, Wal-Mart
Moderator:Dave Sherman, Principal, Blu Skye Sustainability Consulting
IntroductionDean Rich Lyons, Haas School of Business
5:30 - 6:30 pm: Networking and hors d'oeuvres6:30 - 7:30 pm: Discussion7:30 - 8:00 pm: Q & A
RegistrationBecause this event has been sponsored by the Center for Responsible Business as part of the Peterson Lecture Series, the event is free. Advance registration is required to reserve a seat.
Public Transportation and ParkingBART access: Shattuck stationParking is available at the following locations:Underhill Garage - Corner of Channing Way and College Ave. in BerkeleyHearst Garage - Corner of Hearst and La Loma Avenues in BerkeleyPayment is cash only at these garages.
For further information, please contact:Cecilia Pracher at cpracher@haas.berkeley.edu
Tom Mars has been a member of Wal-Mart's executive staff since 2002. In his role as CAO, he is responsible for key human resource functions for the Wal-Mart U.S. division, including diversity, compensation, talent development, labor relations, and employment practices and policies.
Dave Sherman is a Principal at Blu Skye Sustainability Consulting. Since 2004, Blu Skye has served as a key external architect of Wal-Mart's overall sustainability program. As a result, Wal-Mart is now recognized as a leader in using sustainability to drive innovation for the benefit of the world and of the business.
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Venture Capital Executive Program
Date: November 30th - December 4th, 2009
Registration: Contact UC Berkeley Center for Executive Education for information and registration
Venture capital is a driving force behind innovation and entrepreneurship and has funded many of the successful companies in technology- and science-based industries. Yet the inner workings of venture capital firms are a well-guarded secret. The unique, opaque culture of venture capital is closed to those without privileged entrée. This course offers a window into the workings of the most successful venture capitalists in the world’s premiere innovation cluster, Silicon Valley California.
Program Description
By the end of this course, you will become an insider into the venture capital process. Through lectures, cases, a simulation and guest speakers from the venture community, you will gain an understanding of how venture capitalists and their firms identify exciting opportunities, structure deals, build management teams, create ventures of scale and impact a venture’s economics. Learn the methods that VC partnerships utilize to raise the funds they manage, how they make investment decisions, value companies and manage the deal process.
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NCIA’s Advanced E-Team Grants Deadline
Date: Friday, December 4, 2009
Advanced E-Team grants fund up to $20,000 to help student teams take their innovative ideas out of the classroom and/or lab to prototype, and eventually to market.
Students can leverage NCIIA funds to launch a venture if their idea includes technological innovation, commercial potential, and positive social impact. Teams must be comprised of at least two graduate or undergraduate students, and a faculty advisor.
Here are some helpful links:Advanced E-Team Grant Information: http://nciia.org/grants/eteam
Grant Guidelines: http://nciia.org/grants/eteam/guidelines
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EWMBA, BCEMBA & FTMBA Holiday Party 2009
Date: Saturday, December 5, 2009
Time: 8:00PM-11:55PM
Location: The Galleria in the San Francisco Design Center; 101 Henry Adams Street, San Francisco
Registration: http://www.acteva.com/booking.cfm?bevaid=193419
Cost: $45/person through 11/22; $55 thereafter
You and a guest are invited to celebrate the holiday season and the end of the semester with your fellow students in all 3 Haas MBA programs.
This year we have chosen a spacious venue in San Francisco with plenty of capacity for all who wish to attend. Ticket includes food and a hosted open bar. Register soon at the link above to take advantage of early-bird pricing, which expires 11/22. Registration will be open until noon on the date of the event, but no tickets will be sold at the door.
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The Future of the Forum: Internet Communities and the Public Interest
Date: Saturday, December 5, 2009
Time: 9:00AM-7:00PM
Location: Banatao Auditorium, Sutardja Dai Hall, University of California, Berkeley
Registration: http://bcnm.berkeley.edu/fotf/
Cost: $345/person
Participants include:
* Jimmy Wales, Founder of Wikipedia
* Jim Buckmaster, CEO of craigslist
* Mitch Kapor, Co-Founder, EFF
* Judith Donath, Fellow, Harvard's Berkman Center
* Howard Rheingold, Critic and Author of Smart Mobs
* Dick Costolo, COO of Twitter
* Reid Hoffman, Founder of Linkedin
* Seth Goldstein, CEO of SocialMedia Networks
* Lars Rasmussen, Co-Creator of Google Wave
* Hubert Dreyfus, Professor of Philosophy, UCB
* Jane McGonigal, Institute of the Future
* Laura Sydell, National Public Radio
The pioneers of Social Media will gather at UC Berkeley on Saturday, December 5th for a one day symposium. Public forums are evolving rapidly, producing dramatic changes in politics and social behavior. How will innovations such as Facebook, Twitter, and Google Wave expand participatory democracy and enhance public interest nationally and internationally? As a public research university with a history of activism, UC Berkeley will host a day of panels and opportunities for discussion about the future of the forum.
Presented by the UC Berkeley Center for New Media
(BCNM) with support from craigslist.org and The Institute for the Future. Symposium Chair: Gail de Kosnik (BCNM and TDPS). Symposium Co-Chair:
Ken Goldberg (BCNM, IEOR, EECS, and School of Information).
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Welcome to the New World: Regents Lecture by Jimmy Wales, Founder of Wikipedia
Date: Saturday, December 5, 2009
Time: 7:30PM-9:00PM
Location: Berkeley 150 Stanley Hall, UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, 94720
Welcome to the New World
Jimmy Wales
Founder of Wikipedia
Free and Open to the Public
http://www.berkeley.edu/map/3dmap/3dmap.shtml
Mr. Wales will describe the history and global impact of Wikipedia and share his perspectives on current and future trends on the Internet.
Jimmy Wales is an American Internet entrepreneur best known for founding the Wikimedia Foundation, the charity which operates Wikipedia.org, and the company Wikia, Inc., which operates Wikia.com.
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Haas Career Services: Effective OCR Cover Letters webinar
Date: Tuesday, December 8, 2009
Time: 12:00PM-1:00PM
Location: Webinar
Registration: Sign up on CareerNet
This webinar will review the basics of writing a targeted cover letter for On-Campus Recruiting. We will present information and review sample cover letter styles to demonstrate how to best get your experience across to contacts and potential employers.
A quote received from human resources states: "The cover letter is the very first thing we see. To stand out, use short, powerful evidence detailing past achievements, skills, experience and results you've achieved. Forget offering boring details and endless job descriptions -- results is what gets attention."
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Entrepreneurial Best Practices Series: Measuring Social Impact: Lessons From the Trenches
Date: Tuesday, December 8, 2009
Time: 6:30PM-8:30PM
Location: Webinar
Registration: Wells Fargo Room
6:30-7:00pm- pizza and networking/7:00-8:30- presentation
Speakers: Sara Olsen, Social Venture Technology Group; Molly Christiansen, Living Goods
Sara Olsen of SVT Group will moderate a panel with three social enterprises focused on the topic of "ongoing social impact monitoring." The social enterprises will discuss some of the challenges of measuring social impact on an ongoing basis, and how their thinking around this may have evolved from the initial business plan development. This session will focus on the reality of tracking social impact in the field, rather than as a theoretical exercise.
For more information about this session visit: http://entrepreneurship.berkeley.edu/resources/bestpractices.html
The Entrepreneurial Best Practices Series is held in conjunction with the UC Berkeley Business Plan Competition and the Global Social Venture Competition. The Best Practices Series invites experts from Berkeley and the Silicon Valley to speak about practical aspects of entrepreneurship. Each session begins with pizza and networking at 6:30pm, followed by the session at 7:00pm. The event is free and no registration is required. For more information, visit the Best Practices website or contact the Lester Center at 510-642-4255 or lester@haas.berkeley.edu.
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Haas Career Services: Telling Your Best Story (Finding your career Identity and authentic brand) Webinar with Staci Collins
Date: Wednesday, December 9, 2009
Time: 12:00PM-1:00PM
Location: Webinar
Registration: Sign up on CareerNet
Contact: careers@haas.berkeley.edu
Everyone has a compelling story.” Oprah says. I say everyone has a compelling career tale, complete with passions, turning points, achievements, obstacles, and desires met. And this tale is our most authentic, memorable, and compelling—most likely to get us hired. But most of us don’t know ours.
In this one-hour webinar, I will walk as many of you as I can through your own, unique (and so differentiated) career narrative from undergrad to Berkeley, where we will identify the professional traits and roles that truly define what you do and how you do it. There will be a worksheet handout for all to complete during the session. You can reflect on (or define) your own identity while seeing others discover their own.
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The EWMBA eZine is a news service provided by the EWMBAA. Please send events and announcements to eZine Requests by 12:00pm on Monday for inclusion in Tuesday’s EWMBA eZine. The EWMBAA reserves the right to edit postings. Any comments or feedback could be sent directly to Divyang Agrawal divyang_agrawal@mba.berkeley.edu or Ramon Lim at ramon_lim@mba.berkeley.edu.
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