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| FROM Haas Admissions Blog: Bring your entire self to business school |
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For Pranjali Vadlaputi, MBA 26, and the program manager of Pediatric Telehealth at UC Davis Health, three things guide her career choices and her priorities in life: community, creativity, and social impact. Although still early in her career, Pranjali has already made several pivots; her evening and weekend MBA studies at Berkeley Haas are preparing her for another. Pranjali has known since childhood that she wanted a career in healthcare. “As a child living in India, that meant one thing: being a doctor. So, I got my undergrad degree in biomedical engineering in preparation for med school,” she said. “I took the MCAT and applied to schools without really taking the time to be introspective and consider other career paths in healthcare.” Dismayed by the ultra-competitive nature of med school, Pranjali explored other aspects of healthcare and took a research coordinator position at UC Davis. She worked with a professor, who became a mentor, on research into congenital heart disease, with the goal of developing a device to improve early diagnosis and treatment. “She introduced me to the business side of healthcare and clinical research. I’ve always liked creating things, plus I was intrigued by the business and implementation aspects of product development.” That combination opened Pranjali’s perspective up to include business and entrepreneurship in healthcare as a career path. At Berkeley Haas, she has learned that innovation is not about having “one wild and crazy idea, it can be incremental, and entrepreneurship requires stamina.” As her career outlook has broadened, Pranjali remains focused on her ultimate objective to improve patient care, only now her curiosity extends to “finding ways to improve care across entire communities, rather than one patient at a time.” Core classes are providing the fundamental business knowledge Pranjali needs, alongside lessons in leadership and, Pranjali is happy to note, insights into social impact. “It’s exciting to see professors weave social impact into the most unexpected subject matter, like Accounting,” she said. “In Microeconomics, Assistant Professor Carolyn Stein used research findings related to the wage gap and minimum wage to showcase where theoretical supply-demand models can break down. I really appreciate hearing the Defining Leadership Principles integrated into professors’ thinking and their teaching.” Now that she is planning which electives to try for, Pranjali admits that “who is teaching is more important than what they are teaching. I’m looking for recommendations from others for the best professors they have had at Haas, regardless of the subject. I’m in the mode of soaking up as much knowledge as I can.” But again, Pranjali’s three lodestars have an influence. She hopes to take Business Models for Social Impact and Start-up Disco, as well as classes in the School of Public Health that will count toward a certificate in Health Management. Pranjali is thrilled to have found collaborative communities at Berkeley Haas. “From the very first get-together, before I had even decided to enroll, I was impressed with the people and how welcoming everyone was,” she said. “For one thing, I was happy to see that not everyone was from the tech sector! And so many faces and their life experiences reflected DEI—diversity, equity, and inclusion. I didn’t feel like a fish out of water.” When Pranjali signed up for that welcome event, she noted that the form included a space for her to register her partner as a guest. “The form asked upfront what my partner’s pronouns were. That impressed me so much. We couldn’t believe it when we arrived and saw that her name tag introduced her as ‘partner of Pranjali Vadlaputi.’ That told us immediately that we both would be welcome here—irrespective of gender or the nature of our relationship. It means a lot to be accepted without needing to explain. Those name badges are still stuck on the fridge in our kitchen.” Pranjali’s commitment to ”bringing her entire self to the table,” led her to volunteer as the Q@Haas EWMBA-VP. Among her classmates, Pranjali encourages allies to “work alongside us and represent us where we aren’t otherwise represented.” That work, she says is often, “a matter of helping allies find the right words and phrases to improve awareness in their social circles. The more queerness is seen as part of everyone’s normal lives, the better it is for all of us, queer and not.” Whether in the classroom, on the job, or in the community, Pranjali is committed to a purpose larger than herself. The personal growth she has achieved at Berkeley Haas is satisfying, she said, but it is not a point of personal pride. Rather, “it is a platform for me to bring my privilege to bear in creating more equity in the communities that need it most.”  
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| FROM Haas Admissions Blog: EMBA Immersions: Unrivaled Access, Unanticipated Growth |
 Could you use fresh insights on entrepreneurship and innovation? Leadership? Students in the Berkeley MBA for Executives Program value the program for its practical application in their current positions and future career moves. And you can’t get much more practical than our unparalleledImmersion Weeks. Once each term in the Berkeley EMBA, you spend time steeped in a very different kind of classroom: the real world. These immersive and experiential learning opportunities are a full 25% of the program and, together, they’ve given our students surprising new insight into entrepreneurship, leadership, innovation, public policy, and international business. TheLeadership Communication Immersion Week is equal parts self-reflection, pushing your boundaries, and bonding with classmates early in your studies. Professor Mark Rittenberg helps students tap their potential to motivate and inspire others, empower their work groups, build a support system, and learn from both failure and success. “Eye-opening,” ‘fabulous,” “phenomenal” are some of the milder descriptions of ourSilicon Valley Immersion Week. Here’s what Nicole Farrar, EMBA 14, senior corporate Counsel, Paragon Legal, said: “Professor Toby Stuart used the case method to illustrate key lessons in entrepreneurship and how ideas make it—or as importantly, don’t make it—into successful startups. Being able to then talk with actual founders and CEOs, to hear their personal stories, made it all so much more real and attainable.”  Companies visited during Berkeley EMBA Silicon Valley Immersion Week Honing the entrepreneurial—and intrapreneurial—mindset is also the aim of the Applied Innovation Immersion, a week focused on getting hands-on with the entire innovation life cycle. As Paul Simpson, EMBA 14, founder and CEO of SageTel International said, “By emphasizing the importance of the story behind the product, Professor Sara Beckman helped me understand that true innovation is understanding the customer and using their needs to define your solution.” Our International Immersion Week goes deep into a specific country and its business environment. In 2014, Professor Teck Ho, director of the Asia Business Center at Haas, led a trip to Shanghai, where students analyzed the market entry of US companies into China through lectures, site visits, and discussions with local business and government leaders. This year, students are headed to Brazil to explore that country’s entrepreneurship, multinational corporations, and sports marketing. The final Immersion Week is designed to introduce students to the role of policymaking in business. The 2014 trek to Washington, D.C., was organized by former presidential advisor, Professor Laura Tyson. “We met corporate executives, Cabinet undersecretaries, the directors of policy centers, and of course, a certain chair of the Federal Reserve Bank (Haas Professor Emeritus Janet Yellen, pictured above with students)," said student Luke Johnson, vice president, Business Development & Growth Initiatives, Christus Health. He added, "Meeting with advocacy groups, policy makers, and regulatory leadership provided an amazing window into the intersection of business and government." Are you ready to be immersed? Get a taste of the experience with our Silicon Valley Immersion video.  
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| FROM Haas Admissions Blog: From the concrete to the classroom: A first-gen student dedicated to changing lives |
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You might call Damon Wiley, MBA 25, a “generational” thinker. While working in a sales role at LinkedIn, he created an initiative that offered first-generation college students in-person career development coaching in LinkedIn offices. He parlayed that experience into two entrepreneurial endeavors: the nonprofit Black Male Caucus and the for-profit Damon Wiley Consultancy, both dedicated to helping first-gen students and young men of color understand and capitalize on their educational and career opportunities. He focuses on social impact because, he explains, “I got my life saved and have been given everything. It’s my life mission to do the same for others.” For Damon, “everything” was not material wealth or advantages. His beginnings were humble. He is the son of a Thai mother and a Black father, who was adopted by his mother’s parents and brother and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area. In the environment Damon grew up in, jobs were “passed down in families. If your father worked in construction, you worked in construction,” he said. “Thanks to unlimited love and guidance, I broke out of that mold.” People saw Damon’s potential and he earned his undergrad degree at UC Berkeley, where he also was a three-time All-American rugby player. That gave Damon first-hand knowledge of the “re-skilling” that introduces a young person to previously unheard-of career paths. That kind of re-skilling is, in part, what led Damon to the Berkeley Haas full-time MBA program. Its core curriculum has provided the old-school business skills he sought. He notes that Associate Professor Omri Even-Tov “would not let me give up in Financial Accounting, and I ended up with so many insights into how companies evaluate other companies.” In his Marketing class, Damon learned about how to look through the lenses of statistics and ethics to see behind the trends. I found a group of passionate, supportive people who welcomed me. They also opened up my eyes to worlds beyond my own." Despite his undergrad years at Cal, being an MBA student at Haas still held some surprises for Damon. “I had the stereotypical image of an MBA student: people whose relationships were transactional, who were money-hungry profiteers. That is not what Berkeley Haas is about. I found a group of passionate, supportive people who welcomed me. They also opened up my eyes to worlds beyond my own.” Those worlds are more than academic. For example, Damon said, “A lot of my classmates are married, with families and they already own their own homes. That is not where I am in life, but we can talk about what home ownership and that kind of investment means in their lives. That expands my vision and my imagination.” As one of the younger members of his class (he is 24) Damon also appreciates that he is treated as an equal. “It’s great to hear someone say they wish they had gone for their MBA sooner in their careers. The conventional wisdom of waiting to have five or six years of work experience before applying shouldn’t discourage anyone.” Damon reciprocates by being his authentic self everywhere he goes, in particular in his efforts to encourage other first-generation students from under-represented groups. Along with Viridiana Santacruz and Yvonne Mondragon, Damon formed the First-Generation of Haas Club (1Gen) and he serves as co-president of the Black Business Student Association and board member of EGAL, the Center for Gender Equity and Leadership. These roles, and his work with the Admission Office, are geared toward ensuring that each incoming Berkeley Haas class builds on the school’s commitment to diversity and inclusion. “Our efforts are paying off. The number of Black and Hispanic students enrolled for the class of 2026 is several times higher than in my class, which is itself 13% underrepresented minorities in total.” Another example of Damon’s generational thinking: He is a proud and passionate member of “GenAI.” Alert to the boom cycles in tech, Damon notes that, “people who are 40 or 50 years old now were part of the dot-com boom. Those of us in our 20s and 30s are part of the GenAI boom. We have an open canvas that is waiting for our ingenuity and creativity, which means we have a bright future ahead.” Damon explored that sector in his internship as a senior product manager with ServiceNow, where is he worked in the Gen AI organization. While the need for the personal connections will never go away, Damon is excited at the prospects for AI to “fill in gaps in coaching and mentorship, helping people take their first steps in presenting themselves as best they can in their résumés and job interviews. Imagine being able to find out the top-five questions asked in job interviews for a specific role and being able to rehearse your answers with feedback using AI.” That kind of Questioning the Status Quo attitude defines Damon’s journey, a journey he is happy to share with passionate, supportive, accomplished classmates, professors, and alumni. “More than 40% of Haas grads remain in the greater Bay Area. That makes the Haas Alumni Network the home team.” And Damon is already encouraging the next generation of Berkeley Haas team members. 
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