“There seem to be fewer incentives for women to pursue careers in quantitative finance. Perhaps that is why women have not made very uniform advances in the industry,” Juliette Mayada Oul...
Twice a week, at four p.m. sharp, Pacific time, Assistant Professor Jose Guajardo greets the students in his Operations class with a big smile, eager to dive into the day’s discussion. He ...
When she heard Dean Ann Harrison speak at an event in Chicago in 2019, Adilene Dominguez, MBA 24, was just starting to research MBA programs. Instead of talking about the average salaries ea...
After taking what he calls the “typical engineer’s approach” to researching and applying to business school—“I created a giant spreadsheet to track dozens of factors, from rankings ...
https://blogs.haas.berkeley.edu/the-berkeley-mba/side-stepping-from-big-tech-to-direct-impact
When she enrolled in the full-time MBA program at Berkeley Haas, Chifum Ann Ukadike, MBA 25, navigated several transitions: She moved to a new country. She returned to the classroom—in a d...
“I’m always asking, ‘what’s the plan?’ So, I needed a specific reason before applying to grad school,” said Diarra White, MBA 24. “When I was at BlackRock, I had the opportunity...
https://blogs.haas.berkeley.edu/the-berkeley-mba/design-thinking-provides-a-plan-and-a-career-path
Kelsie Smithson, MBA 24, intentionally chose an MBA program far from her beloved hometown of Louisville, Kentucky because she wanted to get out of her comfort zone and learn how other places ...
https://blogs.haas.berkeley.edu/the-berkeley-mba/using-an-mba-to-explore-how-other-places-work
If you want to teach yourself about investing in publicly traded companies, reading Berkshire Hathaway’s annual reports to learn from Warren Buffett is a great place to start. Xavier Jeffer...
Ten years into his career Luis Toro, MFE 14, still relies on lessons learned in his Berkeley Haas Master in Financial Engineering studies, and he retains close ties to the program as a caree...
During the four years that Katherine Zepeda Arreola, MBA 24, pondered whether to get a graduate degree—and what kind—she remembers a mentor telling her, “Be afraid. Do it anyway.”
https://blogs.haas.berkeley.edu/the-berkeley-mba/you-cant-know-until-you-try-the-mba-conundrum
When Jeric Huang, MBA 25, was considering an MBA program, even his most valued mentors told him he didn’t need to do that. They assured him that, over the course of a 15-year career in cons...
https://blogs.haas.berkeley.edu/the-berkeley-mba/a-flexible-path-to-community-and-connections
Ten years ago, Leo (Wang) Yao, MBA 22, and his wife, Tingting Wu, took a hike while visiting Alaska. As the trail grew tougher and the switchbacks steeper, they held to their commitment to co...
https://blogs.haas.berkeley.edu/the-berkeley-mba/a-searcher-on-the-trail-of-the-perfect-acquisition
Have you ever been passed up for a promotion? Did you receive the pay bump you expected during your last review cycle?
https://blogs.haas.berkeley.edu/the-berkeley-mba/how-mbas-get-the-position-they-want
Earning a Master of Business Administration (MBA) graduate degree can revitalize career paths and change lives—but it can come at a high financial cost. Total cost at the top-25 ranked busi...
https://blogs.haas.berkeley.edu/the-berkeley-mba/calculating-the-roi-of-an-mba
It’s not unusual for MBA students to describe their studies as an “investment in themselves.” But that expression has specific meaning for Ramiro Montiel, MBA 25.
https://blogs.haas.berkeley.edu/the-berkeley-mba/a-chameleon-chooses-blue-and-gold-as-his-colors
Don’t let distance limit your choice of a top-ranked MBA program. Berkeley Haas Evening & Weekend MBA students in the weekend cohort commute to campus for Saturday classes. Students in th...
Akshita Gulati, MFE 24, approaches her Master of Financial Engineering studies with the attitude, “If it’s not challenging, it’s not rewarding.” Just two months into her program, she...
Before starting his Berkeley MBA for Executives studies, Reggie Draper, EMBA 23, learned the hard lesson that entrepreneurs can’t go it alone.
https://blogs.haas.berkeley.edu/the-berkeley-mba/entrepreneurial-drive-fuels-a-career-pivot
Kerisha Burke, MBA 24 , left a career in the energy industry to develop her business and leadership skills in a full-time MBA program that could fuel her pivot into the technology sector. Sh...
Three years old is too young to understand why mommy is gone two nights a week, but Rachel Lui Pang, MBA 24, wants her daughter to one day “be proud that I was willing to take this risk—a...
The decision to pursue an MBA isn’t one big decision. Rather, it is a series of smaller decisions: Where? When? Which format? Why?
https://blogs.haas.berkeley.edu/the-berkeley-mba/your-mba-your-way-comparing-part-time-mba-options
You don’t have to talk long with a Berkeley Haas MBA student to realize what they discovered—sometimes to their surprise: The fourDefining Leadership Principles are not marketing jargon....
There are just shy of 500 accredited business schools in the U.S. But there is only one Berkeley Haas School of Business. As entrepreneurJarett Wright, MBA 22 , described it, his choice was �...
One of the advantages of being in a part-time MBA program is the opportunity to learn from the expertise of your classmates. If you flip that on its head, it is just as important to consider ...
Analexis Glaude knew early on that she wanted to be a professor and a role model for others and knew she would have to find the right area of interest. She studied psychology as an undergrad ...
https://blogs.haas.berkeley.edu/the-berkeley-mba/doctoral-student-relishes-research-and-teaching