EWMBA eZine - Week of April 30, 2009

Introductions: Career Services Committee

The EWMBA Career Services Committee for 2009 is served by Ajay Kshatriya, Shashank Varshney, Badri Raghunathan, Dharini Ramakrishnan , Srinivas Hanabe, Bala Kannikeswaran, co-chairs Amit Bhattacharyya and Abha Bhagat and executive sponsor Amy Daily. Our goal is to ensure that Haas and Career Services meet and exceed the needs of EWMBA students in pursuing the career of their choice.
The primary goals of the Career Services committee for the upcoming year are:

· Bring in industry experts and recent graduates to help you prepare on how to get hired in this tough economy. Leverage Haas Alumni to help students on exploring careers in various industries.

· Work with the Career Services Department and the various industry specific groups at Haas in outreach to alumni and organizations to ensure that Haas continues to have strong OCR.

· Help identify resources and means to bring in International career opportunities on a regular basis to OCR
Please feel free to email your committee members with suggestions and/or complaints. Make sure you and your companies "Hire Haas." Go Bears!

Announcements:

Haas Achievement Book

Did you find out yet:

Who sealed the deal in a sales competition?

Who shared US election observations with more than a million Telemundo viewers?

Who was “Entrepreneurs Choice”?

If you did not yet get a copy of Making It Happen at Haas, a book celebrating many of the innovators, champions, leaders, and change agents in the Berkeley MBA Program—here’s how to get yours:

Beginning Monday, May 4, find them in the MBA Lounge and in the Evening & Weekend MBA Program Office—and find about some of the people making it happen at Haas.


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


EVENTS

Berkeley Entrepreneurs Forum: 11th Annual UC Berkeley Business Plan Competition Finalist Presentations and Awards Ceremony
Date: Thursday, April 30Time: 6:00-9:00 PM (please note early start time)Location: Andersen Auditorium, Haas School of Business
Cost: Free!

Special Guest Speaker: Josep Miguel Pique
The UC Berkeley Business Plan Competition is the marquee entrepreneurship event at Berkeley, nurturing entrepreneurial action across the UC Berkeley community. The competition gives students, alumni and local entrepreneurs the opportunity to work together to turn innovative ideas into real businesses. The event also brings together the finest research and technology ideas from both UC Berkeley and UC San Francisco. Each year participants develop business plans that are based on some of the most exciting new technologies. The UC Berkeley Entrepreneurs Forum will present a very special program on April 30th when it joins with the student organizers of the 2009 UC Berkeley Business Plan Competition to showcase the finalists of this year's competition and award prizes to the winners. The Bay Area entrepreneurial community is invited to join us for an exciting evening featuring the best and the brightest new ventures. Forum audience members will be invited to participate in the selection of the People's Choice Award, which carries a $5000 prize.
Click here for more information on the UC Berkeley Business Plan Competition.

Student Admission to the Forum is Free!

For more information about the Forum, please visit our website at https://mail.haas.berkeley.edu/owa/redir.aspx?C=754e3bfbdc044b2c8e409b24c432844b&URL=http%3a%2f%2fentrepreneurship.berkeley.edu%2fbef%2fapr09forum.html.



EWMBA/FTMBA Q@Haas (Haas' Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Community) Mixer
Date: Thursday, April 30Time: 7:00-8:30 PMLocation: C250
Cost: Free!

Here is an opportunity to meet all of EWMBA and FTMBA Q@Haas students and socialize! We are having this mixer on Thursday, April 30 from 7:00PM-8:30PM (If you have class on Thursdays please drop by during break). This will be in classroom C250. Please RSVP Ganesh Vasudeva at ganesh_vasudeva@mba.berkeley.edu, our EWMBA Rep for Q@Haas, to confirm your attendance! (Everyone please RSVP, including Full-Timers!)



Leverage Your MBA for Career Growth with Kate Sharon, Haas MBA ’95 - Offered by Career Services

Date: Thursday, April 30Time: 6:30-8:30 PMLocation: Faculty Club/Seaborg
Cost: Free!
Registration: Sign up on CareerNet

Are you currently in an organization where you want to leverage your MBA for career growth? Concerned that a career change or external move might take longer than you expected?

Need some practical tools and techniques to manage your career growth proactively? Join us on April 30th for this career workshop that will explore how you can take charge of your own career development by leveraging your strengths, marketing yourself creatively, holding effective career conversations, and building a strong internal network of advocates in your organization. This is an experiential workshop that will also include time for questions. Kate Sharon, Haas MBA ’95 will conduct this session. As Vice President of Leadership Solutions for Alliance Leadership, Kate has over 15 experience as an internal and external consultant and has worked with Google, salesforce.com, Gap, Inc. and other leading companies in the areas of organization and leadership effectiveness.




Financial Aid Management Workshop
Date: Saturday, May 2
Time: 12:00 to 12:50 PM
Location: C110

The Haas School Office of Financial Aid is having a Saturday session on Debt Management. This workshop is ideal for graduating students or for students interested in strategies that limit the impact of student loan debt on their own finances.
The workshop will touch on basic financial planning tips and then delve more deeply into loan repayment strategies and related loan questions.

For further Information please contact us at https://mail.haas.berkeley.edu/owa/redir.aspx?C=01dc96e49bcf4f10a2f86d484c63b87b&URL=mailto%3afinaid%40haas.berkeley.edu



Tackling Tough Issues: A Leader's Guide to Influence with Credibility-Career Services Premium Program

Date: Sunday, May 3Time: 9:30AM-12:00 PMLocation: S480
Cost: Free!
Registration: Sign up on CareerNet

"Problems in the workplace are inevitable in business. Effective leaders address issues sooner rather than later to improve organizational performance, interpersonal dynamics and employee morale. Learn concrete tactics in this highly interactive session that will enhance your credibility as a leader and help you influence others to improve the way they work together in the future."

A premium program taught by Roberta Streimer of Organizational Diplomacy



Dean's Speaker Series on Financial Turmoil : Janet Yellen, CEO, San Francisco Federal Reserve Bank
Date: Tuesday, May 5
Time: From 7:30pm
Location: Arthur Anderson Auditorium
Registration: First Come First Served

San Francisco Federal Reserve Bank CEO Janet Yellen, a Haas School professor emeritus, will speak at the school at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, May 5, in the Arthur Andersen Auditorium.

The event is part of the Dean's Speaker Series focused on the recent financial crisis. Yellen's speech will be open to the Haas community, with seats available on a first-come, first-served basis.

More details here: http://www.haas.berkeley.edu/groups/newspubs/haasnews/archives/hn033009.html#story1



Haas Talent Show

Date: Thursday, May 7
Time: From 8:00pm
Location: I-house Chevron Auditorium
Registration: $5 (Talents and volunteers are free). Ticket starts selling in mid Apr
If you would like to participate as a performer or a volunteer, please register on the Google doc (there is one tab for volunteering and one for performing):
http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=pKPT3gS3HlhLVyVSsiFGoJg&hl=en

Haas School students, faculty, and staff are not just smart - they have some hidden and not-so-hidden creative talents too!

And they'll have the opportunity to share them - or enjoy the talents of others - at the Haas School Talent Show at 8 p.m. May 7 at the International House's Chevron Auditorium. The talent show is expected to include everything from opera singing by Jessica Wan, MBA 10, to Elad Ganot's, MBA 10, British pop band to comedy from Luke Filose, MBA 09. Also not to be missed: a performance by Dean Rich Lyons.

Organizers are still looking for faculty, staff members, and students to perform. To sign up, contact Emily (Wan-Chien) Lin, MBA 10, at emily_lin@mba.berkeley.edu,or Laurie Reemeyer, MBA 10, at laurie_reemeyer@mba.berkeley.edu. Or check out the talent show Facebook page at facebook.com/home.php#/event.php?eid=68236882211&ref=ts.



Dean’s End of the Year Party

Date: Friday, May 8
Time: 4:00pm - 5:00 pm
Location: Haas School Courtyard
It's hard to believe, but the annual Dean's End-of-the-Year Party is less than one month away. Save the date for the festivities, to be held from 4:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. Friday, May 8, in the Haas School courtyard. Students, staff, and faculty will celebrate the end of the year with food, fun, and a ceremony for the winners of the Cheit Teaching and GSI awards.

The results of the Full-time MBA Lifelong Connections Campaign and the Haas Undergraduate Senior Gift Campaign also will be announced during the celebration.



Serving Lunch to Homeless at Glide, SF

Date: Sunday, May 10
Time: 11:30AM
Location: Glide Church, San Francisco, CA (330 Ellis Street, SF)
Please join us on Sunday, May 10 as we serve lunch at Glide.
Glide is the only program in town that provides three nutritious meals to the city's poor, homeless and hungry every single day of the year. For more information about Glide, please visit their website.
http://www.glide.org/
We picked Sunday afternoon so that you don't have to decide between classes and volunteering for such a noble cause!
To respond, please RSVP at:
http://www.evite.com/app/publicUrl/NVBFDZBGLZJSPSEYUUKL/Glide
If you have any questions, please email me at sukhi_singh@mba.berkeley.edu.


SF Mayor Gavin Newsom to Speak at Haas

Date: Monday, May 11
Time: 6:30pm - 7:30 pm
Location: Haas – Room is TBD
San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom, who recently announced his candidacy for the next California gubernatorial race, will share his leadership lessons and knowledge with the Haas School.



Spring Cleaning: Donations for BOSS (Building Opportunities for Self-Sufficiency)

Date: Thursday, Apr 30 - Friday, May 15
Time: Anytime!
Location: Collection bins - Bank of America Forum, Outside the library, Cheit Level 2

It's time for spring cleaning!!!

We're on the tail end of classes and at the perfect time to start un-cluttering our lives. Donate your stuff in the Community Service Committee's Spring Cleaning Donation Drive. All donations will be going to BOSS (Building Opportunities for Self-Sufficiency), which helps homeless, poor, and disabled people achieve self-sufficiency through housing, education, healthcare, and economic development. Starting Thursday Apr 30, collection bins will be located in Bank of America Forum, outside the library, and on Cheit Level 2, until May 15!

BOSS needs your:

CLOTHING
clean used or new: men’s, women’s, children
career and casual, shoes

TOILETRIES
shampoo, soap, toothpaste, toothbrushes
Hotel goodies are perfect!

LINENS
clean bedding, towels

Donate now!

Contact Vikas Meka (vikas_meka@mba.berkeley.edu) or Monika Matthews (monika_matthews@mba.berkeley.edu) for details.



End of the Year Vegas Trip

Date: May 22 through May 25 – Memorial Day Weekend
Location: Las Vegas

Several of the students went to Vegas together after finals this past December and would like to repeat it again this May during Memorial Day weekend. The event is not sponsored by EWMBAA funds but we would like to see more people from Haas attend as it would be a great bonding experience. Many people have already expressed interests since the last eZine posting.

If you are interested, please contact Carmen Chan @ https://mail.haas.berkeley.edu/owa/redir.aspx?C=0d4d8f65ca86457d9d901a4c3356e5a7&URL=mailto%3acarmen_chan%40haas.berkeley.edu.



End of the Year BBQ

Date: Sunday June 7
Time: TBD
Location: TBD, but in the vicinity of South Bay

In celebration of the end of this school year, the Social Committee is hosting a BBQ in the South Bay area. Save your calendar for Sunday, June 7, 2009! More details to come as we finalize the location.

We are looking for some additional volunteers to help with this event. If you are interested in helping, please contact Carmen Chan (carmen_chan@haas.berkeley.edu) or Sheri Atienza (sheri_atienza@mba.berkeley.edu)



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