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

Gary Shansby, Founder of the Shansby Group and Partida Tequila speaks to the Berkeley-Haas community about his experience with building successful and valuable brands.

Tuesday, March 5, 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

Janet Yellen, Vice Chair of the Federal Reserve Board of Governors and Haas Professor Emeritus, speaks at the Berkeley-Haas Dean's Speaker Series about the benefits of the Fed opening communication channels.

Tuesday, November 13, 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

Paul Otellini, CEO of Intel and a Haas MBA graduate, spoke to Haas Dean Rich Lyons on October 3rd, 2012 as part of the Dean's Speaker Series.

Wednesday, October 3, 2012

Adam Bryant, Senior New York Times Editor and Author of "The Corner Office" speaks about the leadership lessons he's learned from speaking with hundreds of CEOs.

Thursday, September 20, 2012

Randall Stephenson, CEO of AT&T, speaks with Berkeley-Haas dean Richard Lyons about AT&T's innovation and their customer's opinions on changing the mobile contract.

Thursday, September 6, 2012

Richard Sandor, known as the father of financial futures, speaks about good derivatives and his time spent in Berkeley.

Thursday, June 28, 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

Ginger Hardage - "Building a Brand from the Inside Out"

Tuesday, April 24, 2012

Paul Polak discusses social entrepreneurship in his speech titled "The Future Corporation and the Other 90%" at the Haas School of Business as part of the Dean's Speaker Series.

Friday, March 16, 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

Debby Hopkins, Chief Innovation Officer at Citi, discusses innovation and change at one of the world’s leading banks. Based in Palo Alto, she is also in charge of the bank’s investing arm, which has taken a stake in such social media companies as Bundle.com, a site that lets users compare spending and saving habits. In 2000, Fortune named her the second-most powerful woman in American business.

Tuesday, January 31, 2012

Bob Lutz discusses his career in the auto industry in senior positions at GM, Ford, Chrysler, and BMW and his book, "Car Guys & Bean Counter: The Battle for the Soul of American Business."

Thursday, November 3, 2011

Carl Hahn, Former Chairman of Volkswagen

Tuesday, October 11, 2011

Yves Behar, founder the design firm fuseproject, speaks on Design and Innovation in Business as part of the Dean's Speaker Series.

Monday, October 3, 2011

Guy Kawasaki, one of Apple's first evangelists in the early 1980s, discusses the subject of his 10th book, Enchantment: The Art of Changing Hearts, Minds, and Actions, published in March.

Wednesday, September 28, 2011

Marek Belka, president, National Bank of Poland and the nation’s former prime minister on "The future of the euro: Utopian Dream or Feasible Project? – A New Entrant’s Perspective."

Tuesday, August 30, 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

Marketing guru and Haas Professor Emeritus David Aaker talks about his new book, Brand Relevance, as part of the David Aaker Distinguished Speaker Series.

Wednesday, February 16, 2011

Kal Patel, president of Best Buy Asia, speaks about sustainable growth in the Chinese market. Co-sponsored by the Center for Responsible Business and the Dean's Speaker Series, the event features a conversation between Patel and Aron Cramer, president and CEO of Business for Social Responsibility.

Wednesday, February 2, 2011

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

Monday, December 13, 2010

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

Wednesday, October 20, 2010

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

Tuesday, September 28, 2010

Author Michael Lewis discusses his book The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine, the future of finance as he sees it, and his thoughts on whether today’s business students have a chance at changing it.

Monday, September 13, 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 Hagel, co-chairman of Silicon Valley-based Deloitte Center for the Edge, speaks on "The Power of Pull: How Small Moves, Smartly Made, Can Set Big Things in Motion."

Tuesday, April 13, 2010

Steve Ellis, BA 85 (History, Economics), worldwide managing director of Bain & Company, speaks as part of the Dean's Speaker Series at the Haas School of Business.

Wednesday, February 3, 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

Haas Senior Lecturer Sara Beckman and other design experts address the topic "Dimensions in Design: The Evolving Role of Design in Business."

Thursday, November 5, 2009

Tom Campbell, California gubernatorial candidate and former Dean of the Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley, talks on "Political Leadership in a World of Suspicion" as part of the Deans Speaker Series.

Wednesday, November 4, 2009

Stephen Pratt, CEO and managing director, Infosys Consulting, “Leadership and Networking from the CEO Perspective.”

Tuesday, October 20, 2009

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

John Hanke, MBA 96, Chikai Ohazama, Jamie Dinkelacker, and Anthony Levandowski, all top innovators at Google, present "Innovating at Scale within Google."

Thursday, August 27, 2009

San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom, a potential candidate in the 2009 California gubernatorial race, shares his leadership lessons and knowledge as part of the Dean's Speaker Series.

Monday, May 11, 2009

Haas School Professor Emeritus Janet Yellen, CEO of the San Francisco Federal Reserve Bank, discusses the current US economy and her forecast for the remainder of 2009.

Tuesday, May 5, 2009

Chet Wood, CEO of Deloitte Tax and managing partner of Deloitte US Merger and Acquisition Services,  on “Thriving in a Time of Change and Challenge.”

Tuesday, April 28, 2009

Silicon Valley veteran Bill Sullivan, who joined Hewlett-Packard in 1976 and now serves as CEO of its spin-off, Agilent Technologies discusses "Delivering Innovation in a Downturn" as part of the Dean’s Speakers Series.

Monday, April 6, 2009

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

Saturday, March 21, 2009

Tom Campbell, Adam Galinsky, and Pablo Spiller discuss "Which Ethical Lines Were Crossed?" This is the fifth event in the ongoing Dean's Speaker Series on the financial turmoil, featuring Haas experts examining the implications of the global economic crisis.

Thursday, December 11, 2008

Panelists include Joe Cook of Cushman & Wakefield, Sean Flannery of Wells Fargo, Dave White of Prudential Real Estate Investors, and Ezra Mersey, founder of Jackson Pacific Ventures.

Wednesday, November 5, 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

Haas Marketing Professor Emeritus David Aaker shares insights from his recently published book, Spanning Silos.

Monday, October 27, 2008

Haas School Professors Jim Wilcox, Hayne Leland, and Dwight Jaffee respond to the escalation of the financial crisis by the collapse of Lehman Brothers and AIG and the overall market’s downward spiral in an impromptu teach-in.

Tuesday, September 16, 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

In “Stakeholders vs. Shareholders,” Haas faculty debate, "Whom exactly should business serve?" Professors Ernesto Dal Bó and Dean Rich Lyons speak from the stakeholder point of view. Professors Hayne Leland and David Vogel champion shareholders.

Monday, September 8, 2008

Haas School faculty experts debated the impact of the economic downturn on US and global economies.

Tuesday, February 5, 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

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

Guajardo is the former CEO and chairman of BBVA Bancomer, and currently serves as Chairman of BBVA Holdings in the US.

Friday, May 5, 2006

Rodrigo de Rato, MBA 74, managing director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), speaks about the global economy in his presentation, "Shared Responsibilities: Solving the Problem of Global Imbalances."

Friday, February 3, 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

Peter Georgescu, co-author of the book The Source of Success -- Five Enduring Principles at the Heart of Real Leadership was instrumental in developing the integrated communications strategy that shaped the course of Y&R's development and became the standard for industry thinking.

Thursday, August 25, 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