Haas School of Business
The
Walter A. Haas School of Business is one of 14 schools and colleges at the
University of California, Berkeley. Founded in
1898 as the
College of Commerce and renamed in 1989, it is the oldest business school at a public university. As of 2003-2004, it has 160 faculty members and 1680 students in six academic degree programs. The current Dean is former Congressman
Tom Campbell.
The school is situated in three connected buildings surrounding a central courtyard on the southeastern corner of the central campus. Designed by Charles Moore, the mini-campus was completed in 1995.
List of noted faculty
- John Harsanyi - Nobel laureate (Economics, 1994)
- Laura Tyson - Dean (1998 - 2001), Chair, President's Council of Economic Advisers, National Economic Council
- Janet Yellen - fmr. governor of the Federal Reserve Board
List of noted alumni
- Scott Adams, MBA 86, Creator of Dilbert
- Margo Alexander, BS 68, Executive Vice President, UBS Paine Webber
- Bengt Baron, BS 85, MBA 88, President, Absolut Vodka
- Richard Blum, BS 59, MBA 59, Founder, The Himalaya Foundation
- Rick Cronk, BS 65, President, Dreyer's Grand Ice Cream
- Stephanie DiMarco, BS 79, Chairman, Advent Software
- Tom Fanoe, MBA 69, President, Joe Boxer
- Donald Fisher, BS 50, Chairman & Founder, Gap Inc.
- Michael R. Gallagher, BS 67, MBA 68, CEO, Playtex Products
- John Garamendi, BS 66, Insurance Commissioner, State of California
- Walter A. Haas, Sr, BS 10, President and Chairman, Levi Strauss & Co.
- Walter A. Haas, Jr, BS 37, President, CEO, and Chairman, Levi Strauss & Co.
- Michael Homer, BS 81, Chairman and CEO, Kontiki
- Robert Lutz, BS 61, MBA 62, Chairman, North America, and Vice Chairman, Product Development, General Motors
- Norman Mineta, BS 53, US Secretary of Transportation
- Douglas Ose, BS 77, Congressman
- Paul Otellini, MBA 74, President & COO, Intel
- Rodrigo Rato, MBA 74, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of the Economy, Spain
- Rha Woong-Bae, PhD 68, former Finance and Economy Minister, Republic of Korea
- Roger Siboni, BS 76, President and CEO, E.piphany
- Ned Spieker, BS 66, Managing Partner, Spieker Partners (real estate)
- Paul Stephens, BS 67, MBA 69, founder of Robertson Stephens
- Pete Stark, MBA 60, Congressman
- Hirotaka Takeuchi, MBA 71, PhD 77, Dean, Hitosubashi University Graduate School of International Corporate Strategy
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