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• Bryan J. Sinclair and Pedro F. Suarez of Mintz Levin To Be Featured Speakers at UC Berkeley's Entrepreneurial Best Practices Series

  - 2008-10-27

  Series to Focus on Intellectual Property, Licensing and Legal Issues PALO ALTO, Calif. -- Mintz Levin intellectual property attorneys Bryan J. Sinclair and Pedro F. Suarez will be featured speakers at the Entrepreneurial Best Practices Series at UC Berkeley's Haas School of Business on Tuesday, October 28, 2008 from...

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• Aurora Biofuels Team Wins Global Intel, Berkeley Tech Challenge; Student Entrepreneurs Win Coveted Award: Funding and Access to VC Experts.

  - 2006-10-31

  Byline: Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley BERKELEY, Calif., Oct. 31 AScribe Newswire -- Aurora Biofuels, a Berkeley-based team whose technology promises to make bio-diesel a mainstream energy source, won the second global Intel+UC Berkeley Technology Entrepreneurship Challenge on Thursday, October 26, at the...

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• Center for Entrepreneurship and Technology Hosts Marc Andreessen, Katrina Roche and Other Thought Leaders; Distinguished Innovator Lecture Series Now Open to the Public

  - 2005-09-26

  BERKELEY, Calif. -- UC Berkeley's Center for Entrepreneurship and Technology CET has launched a "Distinguished Innovator Lecture Series" that highlights some of the most forward thinking minds in business today -- including Marc Andreessen, founder of Netscape, and Gilman Louie, who runs a venture capital group funded by the CIA....

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• Fair Trade Venture Takes Top Global Social Venture Competition Prize.

  - 2005-04-21

  Byline: Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley BERKELEY, Calif., April 21 AScribe Newswire -- World of Good, a venture that promotes employment through fair trade with disadvantaged communities in developing countries while also working to support fair labor practices and encourage local economic development...

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• International Student Teams Propose New Business Ideas With Social Bottom Line in Global Social Venture Competition.

  - 2005-04-01

  Byline: Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley BERKELEY, Calif., April 1 AScribe Newswire -- Nine teams of MBA students planning social enterprises that range from applying nanotechnology to solar power systems in developing countries to training low-income urban youth to conduct market research on...

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• International Student Teams Propose New Business Ideas With Social Bottom Line in Global Social Venture Competition.

  - 2005-03-28

  Byline: Pending BERKELEY, Calif., March 28 AScribe Newswire -- Nine MBA teams planning social enterprises -- ranging from applying nanotechnology to solar power systems in developing countries to training low-income urban youth to conduct market research on their peer groups -- will compete ...

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• The Jewish Century.(Brief Article)(Book Review)

  - 2005-02-01

  THE JEWISH CENTURY. By YURI SLEZKINE. Princeton University Press. 436pp. $29.95. "Jealousy of the Jews may remain both a fact of life and an ineradicable Jewish expectation," writes this professor of history at the University of California, Berkeley. Jews are the "Mercurians," fabulously...

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• Global Social Venture Competition Selects International Winners to Launch Businesses Beyond Pure Profit; Judges Impressed by Social Ventures Focusing on Educational, Environmental, Urban Regeneration Issues.

  - 2004-04-22

  Byline: Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley BERKELEY, Calif., April 22 AScribe Newswire -- Four winning social ventures from the US and Europe took the top awards at the Global Social Venture Competition held at London Business School on April 16, 2004. The winners...

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• Global Social Venture Competition Finalists Create Business Value Beyond Pure Profit; Competition Sees Record Participation From Business Schools Around the World.

  - 2004-03-16

  Byline: Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley BERKELEY, Calif., March 16 AScribe Newswire -- A record number of 129 business school teams from around the world strive to create businesses that incorporate both financial and social bottom lines in the 2004 Global Social Venture...

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• Social Venture Competition Expands Globally With London Partnership.

  - 2003-09-24

  Byline: Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley BERKELEY, Calif., Sept. 24 AScribe Newswire -- One of America's fastest-growing business plan competitions and most innovative business school partnerships in pursuit of social value is expanding its international reach. The renamed Global Social Venture Competition,...

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