Salman Khan tells the Berkeley-Haas community the story of the Khan Academy and shares his insights on the future of online education.

Friday, March 8, 2013

As part of the Dean's Speaker Series, Bill Hambrecht, Chairman, W.R. Hambrecht & Co. speaks to the Berkeley-Haas community about open IPOs and innovation.

Wednesday, February 20, 2013

Patrick Awuah, MBA 99 founded Ashesi University in his native Ghana to bring a liberal arts education to his home country.

Wednesday, November 21, 2012

Patrick Awuah, MBA 99, speaks about his journey from Haas back to his home country of Ghana, where he opened Ashesi University.

Wednesday, November 7, 2012

Dominic Barton, global managing director of McKinsey, spoke to the Haas community on October 30, 2012.

Tuesday, October 30, 2012

George Halvorson, CEO of Kaiser Permanente speaks at the Berkeley-Haas Dean's Speaker Series about how important diversity has been to Kaiser's Success.

Thursday, June 28, 2012

Marketing guru and Haas Professor Emeritus David Aaker talks about innovation and brand positioning in his annual lecture at Berkeley-Haas. Aaker will explain what it means and why it’s important to identify shared interests with customers. This approach encourages brands to gear their marketing toward deeper relationships with customers, rather than strictly toward the specific goods or services being offered.

Wednesday, February 15, 2012

Jeff Fettig comes to the Haas School of Business to be a part of the Dean's Speaker Series. Fettig became Whirlpool's chairman and chief executive officer in 2004, after serving as president and CEO. He first joined the company in 1981 as an operations manager, became executive vice president in 1994, and was elected to the company's board of directors in 1999. He has a strong background in international business, marketing, and finance in the consumer products industry.

Monday, February 6, 2012

Carl Hahn, Former Chairman of Volkswagen

Tuesday, October 11, 2011

John Riccitiello, BS 81, deliver the commencement speech to the 2011 undergraduate graduating class, sharing with the students and their guests some of what he has learned as CEO of Electronic Arts and in previous positions at Clorox, Pepsi, Sara Lee, Wilson Sports, and private equity firm Elevation Partners, which he cofounded.

Monday, May 16, 2011

In a Berkeley MBA commencement first, the graduating full-time MBA class chose co-speakers to deliver the student address: Andrew Jensen and Alan Lock.

Sunday, May 15, 2011

David Cush, President & CEO, Virgin America, speaks as part of the Dean’s Speakers Series. Virgin America has swept all the major reader-based travel industry best-in-class awards, including “Best Domestic Airline” in both Travel and Leisure’s World’s Best Awards and Condé Nast Traveler’s Readers’ Choice Awards.

Thursday, May 5, 2011

Advent Software founder and CEO Stephanie DiMarco, BS 79, speaks on leadership lessons learned from taking her firm from a startup to a 1,000-employee global company.

Tuesday, March 29, 2011

Berkeley-Columbia Executive MBA Commencement Ceremony - Class of 2011 with Keynote Speaker Joseph Duran (United Capital CEO Joseph Duran, BCEMBA '2004), Dean Rich Lyons (Haas School of Business), Vice Dean Amir Ziv (Columbia Business School).

Saturday, February 5, 2011

Peter Levene, chairman of Lloyd's of London, on financial risk management in light of the global economic crisis.

Monday, December 13, 2010

Schwab Charitable Philanthropy Speaker Series presents Michael Milken, Chairman of The Milken Institute on "Unprecedented Times – Unprecedented Opportunities."

Thursday, December 9, 2010

Donald R. Knauss, chairman and CEO of Clorox discusses leadership as part of the Dean’s Speaker Series.

Wednesday, October 20, 2010

Measuring Performance and Potential,” a talk by Jay Moldenhauer-Salazar, Vice-President, Talent Management Gap Inc., to Don Moore’s class, MBA 205, Leading People.

Monday, October 4, 2010

John Chambers, chairman and CEO of San Jose-based networking giant Cisco.

Tuesday, September 28, 2010

Sabrina Simmons, CFO of Gap, returns to her alma mater to speak at the commencement of the Haas School's undergraduate class of 2010, with introduction by Dean Rich Lyons.

Wednesday, May 19, 2010

The annual David Aaker Distinguished Lecture Series in Marketing co-sponsored by the Deans Speaker Series, the MBA Marketing Club, and the Undergraduate Marketing Club. Presented at the Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley.

Wednesday, April 14, 2010

John Anderson, President and CEO of Levi Strauss & Co. speaks on "A New Way of Thinking About Companies, Society, and Sustainability," in which he focuses on the Levi Strauss & Co.

Monday, January 25, 2010

Mark Hurd speaks as part of the Dean’s Speaker Series. Since taking the helm of Hewlett-Packard in early 2005, Hurd has sharpened the company's focus on key growth opportunities, increasing revenue from $80 billion in fiscal year 2004 to $118.4 billion in fiscal 2008.

Thursday, October 8, 2009

This presentation is part of the Dean's Speaker Series on the occasion of Khosla receiving the 2009 Lifetime Achievement Award in Entrepreneurship and Innovation from the Lester Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation.

Wednesday, September 9, 2009

Telecom veteran Arun Sarin, former CEO of Vodafone, MBA 78, MS 78 (engineering), shares his insights on leadership as part of the Dean's Speaker Series.

Saturday, August 15, 2009

John Woolard, MBA 97, CEO of BrightSource Energy, which develops and delivers low-cost solar energy, addresses the Berkeley MBA and Berkeley-Columbia Executive MBA graduates.

Sunday, May 17, 2009

Glen S. Fukushima, president and CEO of Airbus Japan, gives a talk entitled "The US Presidential Election and Japan."

Saturday, March 21, 2009

Michaela Rodeno, CEO of St. Supéry Vineyards & Winery, presents a post-lunch keynote at the 2009 Women in Leadership Conference

Saturday, March 14, 2009

Judith Estrin, CEO of JLabs and author of Closing the Innovation Gap: Reigniting the Spark of Creativity in a Global Economy, presents the morning keynote at the 2009 Women in Leadership Conference

Saturday, March 14, 2009

Biz Stone, co-founder and Creative Director of Twitter helped to create Xanga, Blogger, Odeo, and Obvious.

Saturday, November 15, 2008

In January 2008, former Citicorp director Michael Callen took the helm of New York-based Ambac Financial Group, one of the world's largest bond insurers.

Wednesday, October 29, 2008

Priya Haji, CEO and co-founder, World of Good, delivers the keynote address at the Berkeley MBA Women's Workshop.

Sunday, October 19, 2008

Jeff Immelt, chairman and CEO of General Electric, speaks about how GE drives innovation and growth on a large scale in such diverse fields as energy and health care.

Tuesday, September 9, 2008

Bengt Baron, BS 85, MBA 88, CEO of the V&S Group of Sweden, parent company to Absolut Vodka, addresses the Berkeley MBA and Berkeley-Columbia Executive MBA graduates.

Friday, May 16, 2008

Stephen Pratt discusses Infosys’ transition from an Indian company to a global enterprise.

Thursday, May 15, 2008

Steve Wozniak, co-founder of Apple Inc., speaks about entrepreneurship and his experiences during the early days of Apple

Tuesday, April 22, 2008

Alber leads the Pottery Barn brands and global supply chain, distribution, and worldwide logistics strategies.

Saturday, March 1, 2008

Over the course of three decades, Waters' restaurant, Chez Panisse, has developed a network of local farmers and ranchers with a dedication to sustainable agriculture. Waters' commitment to education led to the creation of kitchen classrooms and the Chez Panisse Foundation, that uses food traditions to teach, nurture, and empower young people.

Saturday, March 1, 2008

The Dean's Speaker Series presents N.W. (Bill) Jasper, Jr., CEO, President, and Director of Dolby Laboratories, speaking on innovation.

Tuesday, August 21, 2007

Carol Larson, president and CEO of the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, speaks on "Private Foundations Today: Trends and Opportunities."

Friday, August 17, 2007

Steve Foster has been investing in startups since 1996 and has been associated with such high-profile successful investments as Juniper Networks.

Friday, June 15, 2007

Craig Hall formed Hall Financial Group at age 18 with $4,000. He actively supports new entrepreneurs and lends expertise to nurture young companies. This talk, "Seven Practical Keys to Entrepreneurial Success," is part of the Berkeley-Columbia MBA Speaker Series.

Friday, June 1, 2007

The innovator who envisioned the end of shrink-wrapped software, salesforce.com chairman and CEO Marc Benioff, addresses Berkeley MBAs.

Sunday, May 20, 2007

Ron Hosogi speaks during the Asia Business Conference, tackling the theme “Growth and Sustainability.”

Saturday, February 10, 2007

Raj Jaswa delivers the keynote during the Asia Business Conference, tackling the theme “Growth and Sustainability” in relation to the rise of India.

Saturday, February 10, 2007

Chris Anderson first coined the term "long tail" in October 2004 to describe the shift "away from a focus on a relatively small number of 'hits' (mainstream products and markets) at the head of the demand curve toward a huge number of niches in the tail."

Friday, November 17, 2006

Blue Shield is California's fastest growing health plan and largest healthcare grant-maker. Under Bodaken's leadership, it has seen its membership double and company revenues rise from $3 billion to $7.5 billion.

Thursday, November 9, 2006

He is a veteran of the energy, telecommunications, and investment banking industries. He previously held senior executive positions with Advance Fibre Communications, Pacific Bell, and Goldman Sachs.

Monday, August 21, 2006

Starbucks has been consistently ranked as both one of the best companies to work for in America as well as one of the most admired

Friday, June 23, 2006

In the spring of 2005, Netflix was named the world's number one Internet site for customer satisfaction by ForeSee Results and FGI Research.

Sunday, May 21, 2006

Paul Otellini, MBA 74, president and CEO of Intel, speaks about the history of Intel, the evolution of technology, and competing in technology.

Wednesday, February 1, 2006

Investing in Emerging Markets: China, India, and Russia": seven videos on the challenges and opportunities for business growth and investment in the three fastest growing economies in the world.

Friday, October 7, 2005

Sheryl O'Loughlin, CEO of Clif Bar Inc., gives a keynote address at the ninth annual Women in Leadership Conference, held at the Haas School.

Saturday, March 5, 2005

He focuses on business basics and simple truths of business success.

Wednesday, April 21, 2004

Richard Kovacevich, chairman and CEO of the nation's fourth largest bank, speaks as part of the Dean's Speakers Series. He focuses on the nature and development of business leadership.

Monday, October 6, 2003

As the keynote speaker at the annual Haas Faculty/Alumni Colloquium, Playtex Products CEO Michael Gallagher, BS 67, MBA 68, talks to the Haas community about branding and competing in today's market.

Saturday, May 10, 2003

Thomas M. Siebel, chairman and CEO of Siebel Systems, addressed the Haas 2002 graduating class.

Sunday, May 26, 2002

The Haas School's Business Faculty Research Dialogue series presents Eric Benhamou, the chairman of the board of 3Com Corporation and Palm, Inc., speaking on "Adding Value with Information Technology."

Friday, March 15, 2002

Craig Barrett, current Intel chief, speaks in the Haas School's first 2001 Business Faculty Research Dialogue.

Wednesday, November 14, 2001

On May 20, 2001, David Pottruck, President and Co-CEO of Charles Schwab & Co., addressed the 2001 graduating class of the Haas School.

Monday, May 28, 2001