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1 month ago | 
newsroom.haas.berkeley.edu | Gary Thill |Amy Marcott |William Tams |Jim Block
Happy 15th anniversary to the Defining Leadership Principles: Question the Status Quo, Confidence Without Attitude, Students Always, and Beyond Yourself. These pillars of Haas culture are now ingrained in everything that is Haas—they’re even carved into the school’s faculty building and embedded in courtyard pavers. Here’s how Haas culture has evolved.
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1 month ago | 
newsroom.haas.berkeley.edu | Gary Thill |Kim Girard
Back when Tony Lee was filling prescriptions as a retail pharmacist, he began dreaming about how to make his job better. “I saw a lot of pharmacists who were just burnt out and not very happy with their jobs,” said Lee, MBA 25. Many were frustrated by long retail hours and felt stuck behind the counter, rushing to fill prescriptions instead of doing the clinical work they were trained to do.
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2 months ago | 
newsroom.haas.berkeley.edu | Gary Thill
Timothy Daniel, MBA 24, spent a year at Berkeley Haas exploring ideas for a legal research startup, but wasn’t getting any traction. Then he had an epiphany: Why not try to solve a problem he already understood, which was the complexity of legal compliance in the energy industry. “I started digging deeper, and I realized that this was an even bigger problem than I thought,” said Daniel, who was senior legal counsel and head of compliance for an energy group before coming to Haas.
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2 months ago | 
newsroom.haas.berkeley.edu | Gary Thill |Laura Counts
Berkeley Haas Professor Ann Harrison and her friend Michele de Nevers hiked through the French Alps in the summer of 2023 to view the Mer de Glace glacier. They were left speechless by the large expanse of darker rock in the wake of the glacier—a visible marker of rising temperatures. “Last year was the hottest year in recorded history,” says Harrison, the former dean of Berkeley Haas and a renowned economist.
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Jan 21, 2025 | 
newsroom.haas.berkeley.edu | Gary Thill |Kim Girard
Ananth Madhavan was ready to retire after decades as a leader in the financial sector. But that all changed when he saw an opportunity he couldn’t pass up—becoming the next executive director of the Berkeley Haas Master of Financial Engineering (MFE) Program.
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Dec 3, 2024 | 
newsroom.haas.berkeley.edu | Gary Thill |Laura Counts
When the U.S. government flexes its $5 trillion annual purchasing power to encourage environmental progress, companies listen—and act. A new study from the UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business shows that firms have reduced toxic emissions, developed greener products, and taken concrete steps to address climate change in their pursuit of government contracts.
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Oct 4, 2024 | 
newsroom.haas.berkeley.edu | Gary Thill
When OpenAI released ChatGPT, Ghazaleh Sadooghi, EWMBA 25, wanted to use it but feared being labeled a cheater. A senior software engineer at LinkedIn, she knew there had to be a better way to incorporate AI ethically into academia. So she and her husband, Mo Zadeh, MS 16 (information systems), began developing the startup Rumi Technologies, aiming to empower students to use AI responsibly within guidelines set by their instructors.
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Feb 21, 2024 | 
constructionext.com | Rick Yelton |Kaitlin Schuler |Katy Tomasulo |Gary Thill
The White House must adjust how it implements requirements for construction materials or risk weakening the impact of federal infrastructure funding, trades groups said in a petition. A coalition of building trade groups petitioned the White House Office of Management and Budget last week to clarify and adjust its implementation of Build America, Buy America requirements for construction materials, saying that they risk delaying and inflating the cost of infrastructure work as-is.
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Feb 21, 2024 | 
constructionext.com | Rick Yelton |Kaitlin Schuler |Katy Tomasulo |Gary Thill
Kaitlin Schuler has nearly a decade of experience as an editor and journalist. Prior to joining Informa, Schuler served as special projects editor for Professional Remodeler magazine and, previously, editor for the American Nuclear Society. She earned a master's in journalism from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University, and a bachelor's in English from the University of Michigan. She now resides in southwest Michigan with her fiancé and 12-year-old cat.
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Feb 20, 2024 | 
constructionext.com | Rick Yelton |Kaitlin Schuler |Katy Tomasulo |Gary Thill
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