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History

The Haas School of Business was first established as the College of Commerce of the

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in 1898. As enacted on March 23, 1868, the university's Organic Act listed among its goals the provision of "special courses of instruction" for many kinds of "professions," including "commerce." University Regents Arthur Rodgers, A.S. Hallidie and George T. Marye Jr. later proposed the establishment of a College of Commerce. The new college was founded on September 13, 1898, when Cora Jane Flood, daughter of industrialist and

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, donated land (worth one million dollars at the time) to the university specifically to support the study of commerce. The school was one of the first business schools in the United States and the first at a

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. The college's first faculty members included some American pioneers in the field of business. Simon Litman taught the first course in marketing between 1902 and 1908.

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, who was the Flood Professor of the Political Economy and Commerce from 1903 to 1915, later served on the first

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, who taught at Berkeley from 1905 to 1913, is known as the father of the business cycle analysis. Charles Staehling taught accounting at the college from 1921 to 1951 and was known for adding a theoretical framework to the praxis-oriented teaching of accounting principles. Henry Mowbray, who taught from 1910 to 1948, wrote the first college textbook on insurance. The College of Commerce was founded in the liberal arts tradition, drawing on faculty from other disciplines on campus. Carl C. Plehn was appointed the first dean of the new college in 1898. Plehn, a finance professor educated in Germany, drafted the college's first curriculum for a

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degree. The initial course offerings covered legal studies, political studies, political economy, and historical studies, including The History of the Institution of Private Property, History and Principles of Commercial Ethics, and the History of Commerce in All Countries and at Every Age. Plehn proposed changes to the curriculum in 1915 to give it a more professional focus. The proposal, adopted after

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, established a program that included two years of liberal arts education followed by junior and senior year commerce study, a pattern still used for the undergraduate program today. Henry Rand Hatfield, a pioneer in accounting and an early entrant in the Accounting Hall of Fame, became the second dean of the college in 1916. Hatfield had been hired by the University of California in 1904 as the first full-time accounting professor in the country. Hatfield played a leading role in the founding of the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business and the national honor society

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. He also published the first paper in the United States on accounting theory. As dean, Hatfield sought to increase the reputation of the College of Commerce by bringing scholars from the East Coast to teach during summer sessions. After

, enrollment experienced an increase from the influx of veterans and continued to grow even through the Great Depression, increasing from its initial class size of three in 1898 to 1,540 students in 1938. In 1925, the college's third dean, Stuart Daggett, instituted a two-year

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degree. The school's fourth dean, Henry Francis Grady, was appointed in 1928. Grady went on leave from 1934 to 1936 to become an advisor to President

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, for whom he worked on reciprocal trade agreements (see

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). The fifth dean, Robert Calkins, succeeded Grady, but left within a few years to become the dean of the Columbia Business School. E.T. Grether was appointed the sixth dean of the College of Commerce in 1941. Grether's twenty-year tenure as dean was a time of great change. The college was renamed the Department of Business Administration in 1942 and began offering a new two-year upper division curriculum leading to the

in Business Administration. In 1943, the department was renamed the School of Business Administration when it began offering a one-year graduate program. Grether opened several research centers in the school, including The Institute for Business and Economics Research (1941), The Institute for Industrial Relations (IIR) (1945, now called the Institute for Research on Labor and Employment), and the Center for Real Estate and Urban Economics (1950). Grether tapped Clark Kerr to be the first director of the IIR. Kerr's success in this position led to his becoming the first Chancellor of the

. The Graduate School of Business Administration was opened in 1955 and the school began offering a course of study leading to the

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. A year later the

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in Business Administration and executive education programs were founded. Under the school's eighth dean, Richard H. Holton, an evening MBA program was initiated in 1972. Unlike other evening or part-time programs in the country, students were required to meet the same admission requirements as established for the day-time MBA program. Classes for the evening MBA were held in downtown San Francisco until the school's present building complex was completed in 1995, the final design of architect Charles Moore. Earl F. Cheit became the ninth dean of the school in 1976. Facing diminishing funding and budget pressures, Cheit lobbied and won increased salary scales for business faculty. He also secured donations from Walter A. Haas to endow seven new chairs and to open a career planning and placement center. In 1980, the school began to offer a Management of Technology program jointly with the College of Engineering. 1980 also saw the inauguration of the annual Haas Competition in Business and Social Policy, funded by a donation from the Evelyn and Walter A. Haas, Jr. Foundation. In 1987, the tenth dean of the school, Raymond Miles, began the school's first major capital campaign to raise money for a new building. Major contributions were made by

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and Eugene Trefethen, an executive with

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. In 1989, the Walter and Elise Haas Fund donated $15 million to the building campaign. The donation was the largest in the history of the university to that date. The school was renamed the Haas School of Business in honor of that gift. The new building was designed by Charles W. Moore, former chair of Berkeley's Department of Architecture. Construction began in 1993 and the school moved into its new building complex in January 1995.

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, a professor at Berkeley since 1977 and the chairman of the President's Council of Economic Advisers from 1993 to 1995 during the Clinton Administration, was the dean of the school from 1998 to 2001. Tyson negotiated an agreement with the Columbia Business School to create a joint program, the Berkeley-Columbia Executive MBA, which offered experienced executives the opportunity to earn an MBA from both Haas and Columbia. The program lasted for ten years. Tom Campbell served as dean of Berkeley Haas from 2002 to 2008, with the exception of a one-year sabbatical in 2004-2005 during which he served as Director of the

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. During this time, Richard Lyons served as interim dean. In July 2008, Richard Lyons became the dean of Berkeley Haas. Along with a curriculum overhaul, Lyons launched the public phase of a $300 million capital campaign. The campaign's stated goals are "transforming the... campus, building a curriculum based on the Berkeley Haas approach to leadership, and aggressively expanding the school’s faculty and its support for research." Dean Lyons also oversaw the opening of Berkeley Haas' fourth building, Connie & Kevin Chou Hall. A six-story, 80,000 sq.ft. building on the north side of the Berkeley Haas campus, Chou Hall cost $60 million and was funded exclusively by alumni and community members. It is the first academic building in the country to be designed for LEED Platinum and WELL certifications, and intended to achieve

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certification by summer 2018. Chou Hall opened under temporary occupancy in summer 2017 and was officially completed in 2018. Ann Harrison began her term as Berkeley Haas dean in January 2019. The Haas School of Business has been home to two winners of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics.

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(1920–2000) was a co-recipient with John Nash and Reinhard Selten in 1994 for his contributions to the study of game theory and its application to

. Oliver Williamson (1932-2020) was a co-recipient with

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in 2009 for his "analysis of economic governance, especially the boundaries of the firm." Both have served as Professor Emeritus at Berkeley Haas and in Berkeley's Department of Economics.

Graduate programs

Full-time MBA

The Berkeley

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International Business Development
Prospective full-time MBA students may apply to one of three concurrent degree programs; Haas offers a four-semester MBA/

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program with one of seven programs in the College of Engineering, a five-semester MBA/ MPH program with the School of Public Health, and a four-year JD/MBA program with

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or the UC College of the Law in San Francisco. Current students may apply to a semester-long exchange program with Columbia Business School,

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, IESE Business School, HEC Paris, or

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. The Berkeley Haas Full-time MBA Program was ranked 7th in ''

s 2019 global ranking of Top Full Time MBA Programs.

Evening & Weekend MBA

The three-year, part-time Berkeley Evening & Weekend MBA Program allows participants to continue working full-time while pursuing the MBA. The curriculum is aligned with that of the full-time MBA, and students can choose to attend classes either two evenings per week or on Saturdays. The Berkeley Haas Evening & Weekend MBA Program was ranked 2nd in '' U.S. News & World Reports 2021 and 2022 Ranking of Best Part-time MBA Programs.

MBA for Executives

The Berkeley MBA for Executives program lasts 19 months and consists of courses taught by the full-time faculty of Berkeley Haas. The core curriculum is taught during the first three terms, and the last two terms offer elective courses. Upon completion of the program, students earn the same degree awarded in the school's other MBA programs. Prior to 2013, Berkeley Haas offered the Berkeley-Columbia Executive MBA, which gave experienced executives the opportunity to jointly earn MBAs from both Haas and Columbia Business School.

Master of Financial Engineering Program

The Berkeley Master of Financial Engineering (MFE) Program provides graduates with knowledge and skills necessary for a career in the finance industry. Students in the MFE program take an integrated set of courses for a period of one year, and must also complete a ten-week internship or on-site project plus an applied finance project that builds on skills learned in the internship.

PhD Program

The Haas School of Business PhD Program offers six fields of academic study: Accounting, Business and Public Policy, Finance, Marketing, Management of Organizations, and Real Estate. The program admits 14-16 candidates per year, and students can expect to graduate in four to five years.

Undergraduate program

Bachelor of Science

The Haas School of Business, in conjunction with the main Berkeley campus, offers an undergraduate

degree in Business Administration ( BSBA). Students take a variety of elective courses in addition to required core courses, which include economics, communication, managerial and financial accounting, finance, marketing, and ethics. Students apply to the program after fulfilling undergraduate prerequisite courses, and are admitted to Haas for their final two years. The Haas School of Business Undergraduate Program was ranked tied for 3rd in ''U.S. News & World Reports 2020 Ranking of Best Undergraduate Business Programs.

Additional offerings

The Haas School of Business offers the BSBA degree with a concentration in global management through its Global Management program. Global management students begin the program in the summer prior to their freshman year and spend their first semester in London through Berkeley Global Edge. The Management, Entrepreneurship, & Technology program, offered by the Haas School of Business and the College of Engineering, is an integrated program that leads to two

degrees, one in Business Administration from Berkeley Haas and the other in Electrical Engineering & Computer Sciences (EECS), Industrial Engineering & Operations Research (IEOR), or Mechanical Engineering (ME) from the College of Engineering. Students enter the M.E.T. program as freshmen. The Haas School of Business also partners with the College of Engineering, College of Environmental Design, and College of Letters and Science (Arts and Humanities Division) to sponsor the undergraduate Berkeley Certificate in Design Innovation.

Executive education

UC Berkeley Executive Education offers a variety of programs for individuals and organizations, to help corporate executives understand new and/or challenging aspects of the business world. Executives can enroll in a prepared set of short courses targeted at specific issues or develop a custom curriculum.

Institutes and centers

The Haas School of Business is home to many research institutions and centers, and Haas faculty members take an active part in Berkeley's multidisciplinary programs.

Institutes

Institute for Business Innovation (IBI) * Fisher Center for Business Analytics * Garwood Center for Corporate Innovation * Berkeley Haas Entrepreneurship Program * Tusher Center for Management of Intellectual Capital *AMENA Center for Entrepreneurship and Development * Haas@Work Program Institute for Business & Social Impact (IBSI) * Center for Social Sector Leadership (CSSL) * Center for Responsible Business (CRB) * Center for Equity, Gender, and Leadership (EGAL) * Berkeley Business Academy for Youth (B-BAY) * Boost@Berkeley Haas Energy Institute at Haas (EI) * Cleantech to Market (C2M)

Centers

* Asia Business Center * Berkeley Center for Economics and Politics * Center for Financial Reporting and Management * Fisher Center for Real Estate and Urban Economics

Notable faculty

* David Aaker – Professor Emeritus of Marketing Strategy; current Vice Chairman of the

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, creator of the Aaker Model, and 2015 Marketing Hall of Fame Inductee * Vinod Aggarwal – Professor of Political Science; current Director of the

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– Lecturer; creator of

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, part of the

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methodology * Henry Chesbrough – Adjunct Professor and Faculty Director of the Garwood Center for Corporate Innovation; known for coining the term

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* Solomon Darwin – Director of the Garwood Center for Corporate Innovation and Executive Director of the Center for Growth Markets; known for his development of "smart village" frameworks for Indian villages * Henry F. Grady – Dean of the Berkeley's College of Commerce, now the Haas School of Business (1928-1937); former President of the

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, and former U.S. Ambassador to India, Nepal, Greece, and Iran * Paul Gertler — Professor of Economics; former Chief Economist of the

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Human Development Network *

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– Professor Emeritus; 1994 Economics Nobel Laureate *

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– Professor; economist and advisor to the

, and the

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(IMF) * Daniel Levitin – Distinguished Faculty Fellow; neuroscientist, best-selling author, and management consultant * Richard Lyons – Professor of Economics and Finance; former Dean of the Haas School of Business (2008-2018) * Sherman J. Maisel – Professor Emeritus; instrumental to found the Haas-Berkeley Center for Real Estate and Urban Economics, and former Member of the

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* David C. Mowery – Professor Emeritus of New Enterprise Development; advisor to

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, and the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) * Omar Romero-Hernandez – Continuing Lecturer; 2010 Franz Edelman Award recipient *

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– Finance Professor Emeritus; instrumental to found the Haas-Berkeley Master of Financial Engineering (MFE) Program, and 1995 International Association of Financial Engineers Man of The Year * Carl Shapiro – Professor of the Graduate School and Professor of Business Strategy Emeritus; former member of the President’s Council of Economic Advisers, and former Deputy Assistant Attorney General for Economics in the U.S. Department of Justice Antitrust Division *

David Teece David John Teece (born September 2, 1948) is a New Zealand-born US-based organizational economist and the Professor in Global Business and director of the Tusher Center for the Management of Intellectual Capital at the Walter A. Haas School of ...

– Professor in Global Business and Faculty Director of the Tusher Center for The Management of Intellectual Capital * Philip E. Tetlock – Professor;

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, Russell Sage Foundation Scholar, winner of Woodrow Wilson Award, Robert E. Lane Award, and Grawemeyer Award * Paul Tiffany – Senior Lecturer; author of business plans for Dummies *

– Distinguished Professor of the Graduate School; former Dean of the Haas School of Business (1998–2001), former Dean of the

, former Director of the National Economic Council, and former Chair of the President's Council of Economic Advisers *

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– Professor Emeritus; current Chief Economist at

, former Co-Editor of the American Economic Review * David Vogel – Professor Emeritus of Business Ethics and Professor Emeritus of Political Science; current Editor-in-Chief of the

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* Oliver Williamson – Professor Emeritus of Business and Professor Emeritus of Economics and Law; 2009 Economics Nobel Laureate, a seminal researcher on

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* Janet Yellen – Professor Emeritus of Business Administration; current U.S. Secretary of the Treasury, former

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, former

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, and former Chair of the President's Council of Economic Advisers

Notable alumni

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, (MBA 86), creator of ''

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'' * Patrick Awuah, (MBA 99), founder of

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and 2015

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, (MBA 01), president of the

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* Ralph Bahna, (MBA 65), CEO of Cunard Line (1980-1989), chairman of

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(2004-2013), and founder of Club Quarters * Bengt Baron, (BS 85, MBA 88), CEO of

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* Richard C. Blum, (BS 59, MBA 59), founder of Blum Capital and the

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* Amir Blumenfeld, (BS 05), comedian, writer and actor at

CollegeHumor CollegeHumor is an Internet comedy company based in Los Angeles. Aside from producing content for release on YouTube, it was also a former humor website owned by InterActiveCorp ( IAC) until January 2020, when IAC withdrew funding and the websi ...

* Tom Byers, (MBA 80, PhD 82), founder and co-director of the Stanford Technology Ventures Program; executive vice president of Symantec * Henry Chesbrough, (PhD 97), chairman of the Open Innovation Center - Brazil * Rick Cronk, (BS 65), co-owner, president of

Dreyer's Dreyer's Grand Ice Cream, Inc. ("Dreyer's"), is an American ice cream company, founded in 1928 in Oakland, California, where its present-day headquarters office remains. The company's two signature brands, ''Dreyer's Grand Ice Cream'' and ''Edy's ...

Grand Ice Cream * Barbara Desoer, (MBA 77), CEO (2014-2019) and COO (2013-2014) of Citibank *

Tom Fanoe Tom Fanoe (born 1946) is the President and COO of Joe Boxer. Prior to Joe Boxer, Tom served as the President of Levi Strauss's US Division, a company he had been a part of for 28 years before his promotion. He has also served as the company's vice ...

, (MBA 69), president and COO of

Joe Boxer Joe Boxer (also known as Box-oh-Joes or BJ) is an American brand of underwear and related apparel founded by Nicholas Graham that focuses on novelty hanging underwear. In April 2001, the Joe Boxer brand, which was facing bankruptcy, was sold to ...

Donald Fisher Donald George Fisher (September 3, 1928 – September 27, 2009) was an American billionaire businessman and philanthropist. He co-founded The Gap Inc. clothing stores with his wife Doris F. Fisher. Early life and education Fisher was born i ...

, (BS 50), co-founder of

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* Laura E. Flores, (MBA 95), diplomat, Permanent Representative to the

United Nations The United Nations (UN) is an intergovernmental organization whose stated purposes are to maintain international peace and security, develop friendly relations among nations, achieve international cooperation, and be a centre for harmoniz ...

from Panama (2014-2017) * Robert B. Ford, president and CEO of Abbott Laboratories * Michael R. Gallagher, (BS 67, MBA 68), CEO, executive director of Playtex Products (1995-2004) *

Scott Galloway Scott Robert Galloway (born 25 April 1995) is an Australian professional football (soccer) player who plays as a fullback for Melbourne City in the A-League. Born in Perth, Galloway played youth football for the Australian Institute of Spor ...

, (MBA 92), founder of

John Garamendi John Raymond Garamendi (; born January 24, 1945) is an American businessman, politician, and member of the Democratic Party who has represented areas of Northern California between San Francisco and Sacramento, including the cities of Fairfiel ...

, (BS 66), Congressman from California, Lieutenant Governor of California (2007-2009), and U.S. Deputy Secretary of the Interior (1995-1998) * Walter A. Haas, (BS 10), president (1928-1955) and chairman (until 1970) of

Levi Strauss & Co Levi Strauss & Co. () is an American clothing company known worldwide for its Levi's () brand of denim jeans. It was founded in May 1853 when German-Jewish immigrant Levi Strauss moved from Buttenheim, Bavaria, to San Francisco, California, ...

* Walter A. Haas Jr., (BS 37), president, CEO, and chairman of

* John Hanke, (MBA 96), CEO of Niantic Inc. *

Warren Hellman F. Warren Hellman (July 25, 1934 – December 18, 2011) was an American investment banker and private equity investor, the co-founder of Hellman & Friedman, a multibillion-dollar private equity firm. Hellman also co-founded Hellman, Ferri Inve ...

, (BA 55), co-founder of private equity firms

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and Hellman Ferri (now Matrix Partners) * Michael Homer, (BS 81), vice president at Netscape, founder of

Kontiki The ''Kon-Tiki'' expedition was a 1947 journey by raft across the Pacific Ocean from South America to the Polynesian islands, led by Norwegian explorer and writer Thor Heyerdahl. The raft was named ''Kon-Tiki'' after the Inca god Viracocha, for ...

* N. W. Jasper, (MBA 71), current president and CEO of Dolby Laboratories * Joseph Jimenez, (MBA 84), CEO of

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Daniel E. Koshland Sr. Daniel E. Koshland Sr. (18921979) was an American businessman who served as CEO of Levi Strauss & Co. Biography Koshland was born to a Jewish family in San Francisco, the son of Marcus Koshland and Corinne Schweitzer.

, (BA) CEO of

* Allen J. Lauer, (MBA 65), chairman of

Intermec Intermec is a manufacturer and supplier of automated identification and data capture equipment, including barcode scanners, barcode printers, mobile computers, RFID systems, voice recognition systems, and life cycle services. Intermec holds p ...

(2007-2013), president and CEO of Varian, Inc. (1999-2003) * Cathie Lesjak, (MBA 86), CFO of Hewlett-Packard * Robert Lutz, (BS 61, MBA 62), vice chairman of General Motors * Richard Lindsey, (PhD), Head of Prime Brokerage and Clearing Services, member of the Management Committee of

Bear Stearns The Bear Stearns Companies, Inc. was a New York-based global investment bank, securities trading and brokerage firm that failed in 2008 as part of the global financial crisis and recession, and was subsequently sold to JPMorgan Chase. The comp ...

, and chief economist at the

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* Richard Lyons, (BS 82), former Dean of the Haas School of Business (2008-2018) * Michelle Maykin, (BS), advocate for minority participation in the

National Marrow Donor Program The National Marrow Donor Program (NMDP) is a nonprofit organization founded in 1986 and based in Minneapolis, Minnesota, that operates the Be The Match Registry of volunteer hematopoietic cell donors and umbilical cord blood units in the United ...

* Alex Mandl, (MBA 69), executive chairman of Gemalto * Paul Merage, (BS 66, MBA 68), co-founder of Chef America, co-inventor of

Hot Pockets Hot Pockets is an American brand of microwaveable turnovers generally containing one or more types of cheese, meat, or vegetables. Hot Pockets was founded by the Chef America Inc. Since April 20, 2002, they have been produced by Nestlé. Hi ...

, and benefactor of

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at the

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* Michael Milken, (BS 68), highly influential in developing the market for

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(a.k.a. "

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") *

Norman Mineta Norman Yoshio Mineta ( ja, 峯田良雄, November 12, 1931 – May 3, 2022) was an American politician. A member of the Democratic Party, Mineta served in the United States Cabinet for Presidents Bill Clinton, a Democrat, and George W. Bush, a ...

, (BS 53), former

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, former

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, and former co-chair of the

Joint Ocean Commission Initiative The Joint Ocean Commission Initiative (commonly referred to as the Joint Initiative) is a bipartisan, collaborative group in the United States that aims to "accelerate the pace of change that results in meaningful ocean policy reform." The Joint I ...

* Ryan Murphy, BS 17), four-time Olympic gold medalist * Takehiko Nakao, (MBA 82), ninth president of the

Asian Development Bank The Asian Development Bank (ADB) is a regional development bank established on 19 December 1966, which is headquartered in the Ortigas Center located in the city of Mandaluyong, Metro Manila, Philippines. The bank also maintains 31 field office ...

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, (MBA 93), CEO of

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* Ikujiro Nonaka, (MBA 68, PhD 72), professor at

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* Terrance Odean, (MS 92, PhD 97), Rudd Family Foundation Professor of Finance at Haas School of Business * Maura O'Neill, (MBA 04), chief innovation officer at

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, (BS 77), Congressman from California *

Paul Otellini Paul Stevens Otellini (October 12, 1950 – October 2, 2017) was an American businessman and one-time president and CEO of Intel. He was also on the board of directors of Google. Early life and education Paul S. Otellini was born and rais ...

, (MBA 74), president and CEO of

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* Rudolph A. Peterson, (BS 25), president and CEO of

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and former Administrator of the United Nations Development Programme * John Riccitiello, (BS 81), CEO at Unity Technologies * Paul Rice, (MBA 96), founder and CEO of Fair Trade USA * Andrew Rudd, (MBA 76), chairman and CEO of Advisor Software * Arun Sarin, (MBA 78), CEO (2003-2008) of Vodafone * Peter Schiff, president and chief global strategist of Euro Pacific Capital * Weijian Shan, (PhD), Co-founder, Chairman and CEO of global investment firm PAG (investment firm), PAG (2022 assets under management, AUM of $50 billion) * Pete Stark, (MBA 60), Congressman from California * Lidia S. Stiglich, (BS 92), Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of Nevada * Eleni Kounalakis, (MBA 92), Lieutenant Governor of California and U.S. Ambassador to Hungary (2010-2013) * April Underwood, (MBA 07), CPO at Slack (software), Slack * Rha Woong-Bae, (PhD 68), Deputy Prime Minister of South Korea and Ministry of Economy and Finance (South Korea), Minister of Economy and Finance * Soyeon Yi, (MBA 14), South Korea's first astronaut

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