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Fifty-six Oxford MBA students, along with Andrew Stephen, L’Oréal Professor of Marketing and Rhonda Hadi, Associate Professor of Marketing at Oxford Saïd, have travelled to New York for a new international MBA elective. The elective focuses on the digital transformation of the media, advertising and marketing industries and on unravelling the implications of this both now and in the future.
New York is often considered the global centre for the media, advertising, and marketing worlds …
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ServisHero, a venture started by Oxford MBA alumni Karl Loo and Jason Kang, has landed a $2.7 million investment. ServisHero connects local service providers with customers, as well as offering customers the choice of multiple merchants.
ServisHero, a company that provides local services through a mobile app in Southeast Asia, has landed a $2.7 million investment.
Yale SOM students recently hosted the annual Spring Coffeehouse, a celebration of the community's talents in the performing arts. Photos by Matt Hanna MBA/MEM '17.
Very cool project and video from some of our students...
How high can the Duke Blue Devil go? We're a small group of Duke MBA students who wanted to find out. With the help of an innovation grant from the Duke Inno...
The MBA Mama blog recently interviewed Full-time MBA program student and Lieutenant Commander Kelly Deutermann about her experiences with the Berkeley MBA program—and how she juggles being a mother of two and an MBA student while still on active duty with the U.S. Coast Guard.
LCDR Deutermann talks about how her time in the military ties in with her decision to pursue an MBA and how she chose Berkeley-Haas because “it felt like home.” She also gives insight on how other moms can focus on both their families and their careers.
Her general advice when faced with big decisions and opportunities: Do it. Perhaps not a surprising approach for someone who is both military and MBA!
A chess game. A juggling act. A balancing act. There are lots of ways to describe the fine art of keeping your job, home life, and studies all in sync when you’re enrolled in a part-time MBA program—and lots of strategies for doing so.
Yes, it’s challenging. But our students cite improved time management skills and razor-sharp prioritizing among the abilities they gain.
And in the end, they often find it's more about bringing areas of your life together than it is about keeping things separate and balanced.
Bridging the Classroom and the Office
One obvious advantage of the Berkeley Evening & Weekend MBA program is the shortened learning distance between work and school. Arvind Ravishunkar, a corporate strategy manager at Fairchild Semiconductor, is an example. “Being in a part-time program allows me to bridge the gap between the academic world and the real world by applying and adapting what I learn in the classroom to the workplace. That makes the lesson real for me,” he says.
Or as Nikole Thomas, retail business consultant with Chevron, notes, “When I’m in a meeting and people are talking about FIFO and LIFO, I not only know the vocabulary, I understand the concepts and can participate in the conversation. That is an immediate return on investment.”
The knowledge transfer goes the other way, too. Our Evening & Weekend students aren’t shy about bringing their work experiences into the classroom. The diversity here turns the classroom into what Jason 
Family Matters
For many of our students, going through the Evening & Weekend Berkeley MBA Program is a family affair. They’re here, in part, to make a better life for their families. As Orian Williams, sales operations analyst at Thomson Reuters says, “Getting my MBA was a real team decision with my fiancée. Our 16-month-old daughter couldn’t voice her opinion yet, but she’s showing her support by sleeping through the night!”
We also incorporate families into the program as much as possible. Families join in for picnics, classroom visits, and other celebrations. Todd Brantley, senior commercial lender at First Republic Bank (pictured above with his family), hopes his studies set an example for his daughters, Bronwyn and Avery. “When we visited campus, Bronwyn asked me if she can come here too. 'Absolutely,' I told her, 'absolutely.'”
Peter Chan, finance manager at Apple, has appreciated the opportunity to make his wife part of the experience. “When Banana Republic held a fashion show on campus, my wife was one of the runway models. It was a great way for her to meet my classmates and enjoy a bit of the fun side of the program."
Flexibility and Support from the Program Office
Because your work life can be dynamic, we work with you to adapt your class schedule. Orian experienced this when he switched from weekend classes to evening when his job moved from the South Bay to San Francisco.
What some might call amenities, our students praise as lifesavers. These include the shuttle bus that ferries students from the South Bay to campus and back—and often serves as a rolling study group or an extension of a classroom discussion. On campus back-up child care services can give a student the peace of mind to pay attention class.
We’ve updated this post, first published in January 2015, just to make sure everything is as fresh as possible and that the links are still good.
Is your elevator pitch up to code?
Marcus Lemonis of CNBC's The Profit explains what you need.
A wanderlust of corporate proportions!
Sid Bardwell's MBA '89 career spans three continents and numerous countries.
This secret ingredient can give you quite the edge on the competition.
Ross Professor Jane Dutton shares what her work has uncovered about the true power of compassionate thinking.
April showers bring May flowers, or so the saying goes. But at top-tier business schools from coast to coast and beyond, April business plan competitions brought a shower of exciting ventures—including ones that promise to clean the oceans, detect lung cancer in a person’s breath and transform digital text into Braille on e-readers for the blind.
Harvard Business School and the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School both held finals in their annual venture competitions last week, on Tuesday (April 26th) and Friday (April 29th) respectively. Between the two schools, more than $425,000 in cash and in-kind prizes were awarded. The Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley, meanwhile, kicked off the month of competitions from afar, holding the final round of its Global Social Venture Competition in Thailand on April 1st and 2nd.
Healthcare Cleans Up at HBS
Each year in April, HBS holds its New Venture Competition (NVC) Finale, placing four teams of finalists in each of three competitive tracks—business, social enterprise and alumni—in front of the audience and judges to deliver their 90-second final pitches.
Astraeus Technologies took the grand prize—and $50,000 in cash—in the business track for its revolutionary healthcare technology providing a fast, noninvasive screening for lung cancer. “We are Astraeus Technologies and we are going after lung cancer,” said Jay Kumar, Harvard dual MD-MBA student, kicking off his winning pitch. A team made up of two Harvard dual MD-MBA students, one Harvard med student and an MIT PhD, Astraeus has developed the smaller-than-a-credit-card “L-Card,” which can diagnose lung cancer from a person’s breath. “You breathe on this and it tells a smart phone whether you have lung cancer,” Kumar explained. He went on to add that the technology is cheaper, easier to use and more accurate that existing CT scans. The market opportunity? Eight to nine billion dollars a year, he says. At present, Astraeus is awaiting FDA approval to move into clinical trials.
A healthcare-focused venture also took grand prize in the social enterprise track. UrSure, Inc. won $50,000 for its solution designed to encourage adherence to HIV preventive drugs. UrSure was founded by Philadelphia practicing physician Helen Koenig and Giffin Daughtridge, a dual MD-public policy student at the University of Pennsylvania and Harvard’s Kennedy School. Together, they have created a way to measure the usage of preventative drug PrEP that doesn’t involve shots in the arm, but instead a simple urine test. “It’s as easy as one, two, pee,” Daughtridge pitched.
A third health-care focused venture—Confi—won $25,000 as runner up and another $2,000 as crowd favorite in the social enterprise track. Founded by four women—two second-year HBS MBA students and two Harvard undergraduates—it’s an online resource for women’s health issues and sexual assault prevention that the founders describe as “crowdsourcing big sister advice.”
Healthcare ventures also factored prominently in the alumni track, where the second-place $25,000 prize went to EverlyWell, a venture founded by Julia Cheek (MBA ’11) to provide easy, convenient, at-home diagnostic health tests for conditions ranging from food sensitivity to metabolism to women’s fertility. The Crowd Favorite prize of $2,000 went to ConnectHealth, Inc., a venture founded by Peter Park (MBA ’08) to connect doctors in Africa with patients who need their care via mobile devices.
To be sure, though, not every winning venture tackled healthcare concerns. Although it could be argued that Getaway, which won the $25,000 runner-up prize in the business track, also sets out to cure what ails some of us. Led by second-year HBS MBA student Jon Staff, the four-member Getaway team targets stressed-out overworked young professionals looking for a way to turn off. “In this connected age of phones buzzing off the hook, and bosses emailing you at 10 p.m., it is absolutely necessary to find ways to disconnect and recharge,” Staff said as he pitched to the crowd. The Getaway solution? Tiny homes outside of Boston and New York City that would-be corporate escapees can rent for $99 a night.
The $50,000 grand prize in the alumni track also went to a venture outside the healthcare field. Cobli, founded by Parker Treacy (MBA ’12), harnesses big data to provide fleet and logistics intelligence to small business owners in Latin America, helping them understand where their vehicles are, identify inefficiencies and find solutions.
Hosted by the Arthur Rock Center for Entrepreneurship and the Social Enterprise Initiative at HBS, NVC is open to all students and alumni looking to launch new businesses and social impact ventures. Big winners in the past have included companies like Birchbox, Rent the Runway and CloudFlare. According to Social Enterprise Initiative Director Matt Segneri (MBA 2010), the social enterprise track drew 62 participating teams from across the university, a record number since the track’s 2001 launch.
The Harvard community—it seems—is taking to heart the advice of Professor of Business Administration William Sahlman, who gave opening remarks to the assembled crowd. “The greatest risk is the fear of failure,” he said. “We have to take responsibility for fixing the world’s problems, and look at those problems as opportunities.”
The following UPenn / Wharton interview report was submitted to Clear Admit by a Round 1 applicant was who admitted. Congratulations to them!
The atmosphere was competitive yet friendly. Since no one knows what to expect in the team-based dynamic (TBD), it is a good idea to arrive early in order to know the people in your group.
The TBD went smoothly, there are no questions asked at this point; only instructions given at the beginning …and then a lot of note-taking from the interviewer.
In the one-on-one interview, the questions are really tailored to one’s experience at the TBD, including topics such as leadership and relation of TBD situations to real life, among others. Other than that, the “have questions for me?” was one question that I got.
Everything is a surprise, because of the spontaneity-filled format of the TBD which in the end commands the interaction both at the TBD and the 1×1 portions of the interview.
From this experience, I conclude about Wharton that this school is very focused on the interaction among people and the networks it can create through teamwork and group experiences. Also, that this interviewing process can show how people truly are and behave, which is so great to see and experience.
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The professor who Thomas Gilbert, PhD 08, most admires? Hint: he's our dean! http://haas.org/1S6EWnt
Core finance teacher described as dynamic,” “helpful,” and “patient” by students.
It was very cool when Chelsea Clinton praised our Global Social Venture Competition (GSVC) during her CGI University opening remarks at UC Berkeley! (View her full speech, "The Power to Create": http://haas.org/1VtWBYX)
By joining in discussions and debates on business topics that affect what you do today, you'll walk away from Management Conference with ideas that you can put into practice tomorrow. Join us. http://chibooth.biz/1qHPOxB
With his $100 million OS fund, alumnus Bryan Johnson, ’07, invests in quality-of-life ideas http://oak.ctx.ly/r/4iryq
Curious about our faculty's research? Check out Impact – the latest issue looks at Yasser Rahrovani's work on innovation.
In this month's issue of Impact, Yasser Rahrovani looks at what helps – and what hinders – employee innovation.
"For Spanish banks, Portugal represents an avenue for growth in a familiar consumer-banking market with scope for branch closings and cost savings", says Arturo Bris.
Read full article on Bloomberg: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-04-29/spanish-banks-circle-capital-hungry-portuguese-lenders
Spanish banks are gobbling up a growing slice of Portugal’s financial industry, taking advantage of the country’s halting recovery from Europe’s debt crisis.
"...I learned that it is not enough to be open-minded and kind, but rather that I must stand up for my peers and help them achieve the same quality of life that every human should be able to enjoy."
MBA student Janice Yong blogs about Ally Week at Stern:
Ally Week Posted on April 19, 2016 by Janice Yong Diversity is a difficult topic, whether it’s a matter of race, gender, or sexual preference. Though organizations like Friendfactor have ranked Stern first in LGBTQ support out of all MBA programs, we know that there is still so much we can do to ma…
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