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• Haas School's dean to resign

  - 2007-08-28

  BERKELEY -- Tom Campbell, dean of UC Berkeley's Haas School of Business, announced Monday that he will step down next summer. Campbell, a former congressman, state senator and California finance director, said he will announce his plans after leaving on July 15. He declined to elaborate on...

  Tags: Campbell, chancellor, Haas, Leadership, University of California at Berkeley

• Finalists Face Off With Global Social Venture Plans.

  - 2007-04-12

  Byline: Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley BERKELEY, Calif., April 12 AScribe Newswire -- Ten social venture finalists from around the world will compete for $45,000 in prizes and funds for business plans ranging from health and renewable energy to specialty childcare for families...

  Tags: Entrepreneurship, Haas, University of California at Berkeley

• 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...

  Tags: entrepreneurial, Entrepreneurship, FINANCE, Haas, Intel Corp., team, technology, University of California at Berkeley

• Female Life Scientists in Academia File Fewer Patents.

  - 2006-08-03

  Byline: Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley BERKELEY, Calif., Aug. 3 AScribe Newswire -- Women life scientists in higher education patent their work at a rate of 40 percent of their male peers, according to a recently published article co-authored by University of California...

  Tags: Haas, scientist, University of California at Berkeley, women

• BlackBerry Case Just One Thorn in Patent Thicket: Haas School of Business Professor Investigates How an Ailing U.S. Patent System Impedes Innovation.

  - 2006-03-10

  Byline: Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley BERKELEY, Calif., March 10 AScribe Newswire -- BlackBerry users breathed a collective sigh of relief recently when the maker of the popular e-mail gadget, Research In Motion, or RIM, of Canada, narrowly averted a shutdown by settling...

  Tags: Haas, patent, Research In Motion Ltd., University of California at Berkeley

• Berkeley Semiconductor Team Wins Inaugural Intel, Berkeley Tech Challenge.

  - 2005-11-22

  Byline: Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley BERKELEY, Calif., Nov. 22 AScribe Newswire -- Harmonic Devices, an all-Berkeley team whose semiconductor technology promises to dramatically improve the cost, functionality, and size of portable devices, won the global Intel+UC Berkeley Technology Entrepreneurship Challenge on...

  Tags: Entrepreneurship, Haas, Intel Corp., team, University of California at Berkeley

• Haas School of Business Alumnus Gives $25 Million for Executive Education Building.

  - 2005-08-10

  Byline: Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley BERKELEY, Calif., Aug. 10 AScribe Newswire -- An anonymous donor will provide $25 million toward a new executive education building for the University of California, Berkeley's Haas School of Business, marking the largest single gift in the...

  Tags: FINANCE, Haas, University of California at Berkeley

• 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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• New Report Debunks the Myths of Measuring the ROI of User Experience

  - 2004-07-21

  SAN FRANCISCO -- Adaptive Path and UC Berkeley's Haas School of Business have redefined how companies should assess investment in their customers' web experiences. The relationship between total customer value and business strategy are far more important metrics than online revenues alone. In May 2003, Adaptive Path and the...

  Tags: FINANCE, Haas, MARKETING, revenue, ROI, ROI/TCO, University of California at Berkeley, Web

• 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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