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Pierre-Olivier Gourinchas: The COVID-19 default time bomb
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The MBA from the eyes of a hiring manager at Goldman Sachs
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Mapping the coronavirus crisis: How maps can inform or mislead
A screenshot of the COVID-19 Dashboard by the Center for Systems Science and Engineering at Johns Hopkins University from April 17, 2020. Coronavirus maps have taken over the internet. Hundreds of...
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Haas, City of Berkeley unite on small business loan fund
When the coronavirus pandemic hit, Assoc. Prof. Adair Morse and Prof. Laura Tyson immediately began thinking about ways to make it possible for cities to attract private and institutional capital to...
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A cardiac surgeon asked for help during the COVID-19 crisis. His classmates...
As the coronavirus spread in California last month, Kapil Sharma, EMBA 20 and director of cardiac surgery at Mercy General Hospital in Sacramento, worried that keeping critical medical supplies in...
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One startup’s quick pivot to deliver hand sanitizer to the needy
A Dispatch Goods container kit Word was getting out last year about Dispatch Goods. The startup had landed its first two corporate clients and had 15 deals in the pipeline. They’d signed a partnership...
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Startup Roundup: Paz and Thrive Education
The startup roundup series spotlights students and recent alumni who are starting a new business or enterprise. Paz co-founders Dennis Hauser (left) and Neal Sarin (right) recruit volunteers at UC...
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Open-source smartphone database offers powerful tool for studying coronavirus...
Researchers from Berkeley Haas and four other universities have released a trove of smartphone tracking data in an open-source database—a powerful tool for studying how people are changing their...
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Berkeley Haas launches MBA Summer Internship Stimulus Fund
Berkeley Haas has launched the MBA Summer Internship Stimulus Fund, which will provide $5,000 stipends to students. Abby Scott The stipends, which will help cover basic needs like rent and living...
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A simple trick for seeing the world through fresh eyes
Photo: Aleksandar Nakic for iStock by Getty Images The commute from downtown San Francisco, where Assoc. Prof. Clayton Critcher lives, to his office at Haas is roughly 12 miles. Not ideal, he knows,...
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B-BAY alumnae win top honors at COVID-19 competition in Jamaica
Two alumnae of the Berkeley Business Academy for Youth (B-BAY) took a top honor at a competition held this month in Jamaica that challenged students to come up with innovative ways to deal with the...
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Will we still be riding on the same bus post corona?
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Full-time MBA team wins 2020 Tech Challenge
An MBA student team’s roadmap for how a tech CEO should best lead employees during the challenges of the next year won first prize at the Berkeley Haas Spring 2020 Tech Challenge. Members of the...
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New research finds which companies’ stocks are more “immune” to the pandemic
Stock price-drops were milder among companies with more cash, less debt, and larger profits; those with less exposure to COVID-19 through global supply chains and customer locations; and those with...
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Expert Panel: How can we safely reopen the economy?
Returning society to some version of normal will require customized plans that may vary by locale, depending on the intensity of COVID-19 infections. Even so, the economy can’t be safely reopened...
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International trade policies subsidize pollution
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Eleven graduating PhD students celebrate “insanely huge accomplishments”
PhD students slated to graduate in the Class of 2020 gathered remotely last Friday for a celebration with Dean Ann Harrison and Prof. Ulrike Malmendier. Photo: Maria Kurakina Eleven Berkeley Haas PhD...
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MBA student helps raise millions for pop-up coronavirus testing lab
A Post-it note is left on the front door of the Innovative Genomics Institute. In early March, Peter Gallagher, EWMBA 22, was ushered into an emergency meeting headed by Prof. Jennifer Doudna,...
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Startup Diaries: SuperPetFoods places second at LAUNCH, BumpR retools
Note: Berkeley Haas News followed two of this year’s 25 teams participating in LAUNCH, an accelerator for UC startup founders that has helped create more than 200 companies since 2015. At last Friday’s...
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5 tips for calibrating your confidence from Prof. Don Moore’s new book
When he was a high school kid in Pocatello, Idaho, Prof. Don Moore devoured self-help books and listened to motivational cassette tapes that promised him more confidence, more friends, and a rise in...
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