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01 Sep 2014, 10:00
| FROM Haas Admissions Blog: Full-time MBA Application Countdown Challenge - Week 3 |
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The Berkeley MBA Application Countdown Challenge continues into week 3! What is it? We have outlined a suggested timeline for completing different elements of the application. Each week we will reward you for completion of those elements. You could win an exclusive opportunity to chat with the Executive Director of Admissions or a leather Haas pad folio. Week 3 of our challenge encourages you to complete the Employment section of the application for a chance to win!  Enter the Application Countdown Challenge for Week 3! Once you have completed the Employment section of the application, provide the required information in the below form.  
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06 Sep 2014, 08:00
| FROM Haas Admissions Blog: How to Choose a Berkeley MBA Program |
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Berkeley-Haas has three MBA programs: Full-time, Evening & Weekend, and MBA for Executives. All three share the same emphasis on innovative leadership, a world-renowned faculty, and a culture embodied by students who Question the Status Quo and have Confidence Without Attitude. All three confer a degree that opens doors around the world. So, how do you choose? If you decide you’d like to continue working while you earn an MBA, you still have a little work to do, comparing our two part-time programs. Or, we could do it for you: Compare & Contrast: Part-Time MBA Programs at Berkeley-Haas Evening & Weekend MBA MBA for Executives 250, with cohorts of around 60 for the first 3 semesters Class Size 70 Median student age: 31 Student Age Median student age: 36 A median of 7 years in the workforce Seasoned Professionals(Just how well seasoned?) Typically a median of 13 years professional experience 85% of students live and work in the Bay Area; 15% in SoCal and elsewhere along the West Coast. Friends from Near and Far 29% of students live and work outside of the Bay Area, with some traveling as far as from the East Coast and China. You choose: Evenings: M/W or T/TH, 6 to 9:30 pm or Weekends: SAT, 9 am to 6 pm. I'd Fit this in When Exactly? Classes are generally in 3-day blocks (TH-SAT), every 3 weeks. On campus at Berkeley-Haas weekday evenings; alternating between Haas and our Silicon Valley campus on Saturdays. Name the Place On campus at Berkeley-Haas, just a short hop from the hotel where you’ll stay with your classmates. 3 years of non-stop mind expansion Duration 19 months of drinking knowledge from a fire hose When was the last time you took over an entire pizza joint with several dozen friends? That’s the kind of after-class socializing that creates lifelong bonds. Living Social Happy hour by the Claremont Hotel pool; Mission District dinners after block; lively Facebook interaction in between. Get ready to redefine “friend.” Expand your global horizons and your professional reach. Test your wings in the Seminar in International Business and the International Business Development courses. Both put you on the ground for 1 to 2 weeks in all corners of the world. Go Global Get an MBA and go globe-trotting. The program includes Immersion Weeks in Silicon Valley and Washington, DC, and Shanghai. Hear from global leaders during our Dean's Speakers Series: New York Times Senior Editor Adam Bryant, Former Citigroup Chair Sandy Weill, and former Procter & Gamble India CEO Gurcharan Das. Get Access Connect with founders, CEOs, and policymakers. During Silicon Valley Immersion week, students met with 35+ founders and leaders, including Facebook CIO Tim Campos and Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen. In DC, they met with Fed Chair Janet Yellen and other policy makers. Introduce your spouse, partner, and kids to your classmates at BBQs, tailgate parties, and picnics. Bring the Family Spousa-Palooza brings your family to campus to sit in your chair, tour Berkeley, and get to know your classmates. Learn to analyze and leverage your existing connections, while fostering relationships that go far beyond being “linked.” Get Networked Your close-knit group of classmates blossoms into a network that reaches far beyond any one person’s, well, reach. Dedicated career adviser Complimentary shuttle service—with WiFi, of course—for students traveling from the South Bay and the Peninsula on weekday evenings Courses videotaped for online viewing—just in case you need to miss a class School Supplies Hassle-free hotel reservations (we do it for you) Dedicated career advising, with seminars and appointments at your hotel THE VERDICT: Only you can decide which program is the best fit for you, but our Admissions Office would be happy to help guide you. We invite you to learn more about our Evening & Weekend Berkeley MBAand our Berkeley MBA for Executives Programs. 
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08 Sep 2014, 11:00
| FROM Haas Admissions Blog: Full-time MBA Application Countdown Challenge - Week 4 |
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The Berkeley MBA Application Countdown Challenge is in it's fourth week! Plus, updates on prizes for our winners to date. This Wednesday, September 10, winners from weeks 1, 2 and 3 will be treated to an exclusive webinar with Assistant Dean of Admissions and the Full-time MBA Program, Stephanie Fujii. Stephanie will share some personal insights about the application process and then take questions from the audience. Winners will be notified by email with webinar details. We hope you can join us! Countdown Challenge - Week 4 We're entering into the home stretch! Congratulations if you stuck with us through this entire challenge. You're just a few weeks away from completing your application - we hope you're as excited as we are! Week 4 of our challenge encourages you to upload your resume or pay the application fee. Follow the link below to participate. Lucky winners will receive a Haas leather pad folio - perfect for storing your shiny new resume!   
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15 Sep 2014, 09:00
| FROM Haas Admissions Blog: Full-time MBA Application Countdown Challenge - Week 5 |
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The Berkeley MBA Application Countdown Challenge is in it's fifth and final week! We're a few weeks away from our Round 1 application deadline and thus into our final week of the application countdown challenge. Congratulations if you stuck with us through this entire challenge - you're in great shape for submitting your application on time! Week 5 of our challenge encourages you to upload your essays or ensure receipt of your letters of recommendation. Follow the link below to participate. Lucky winners will receive a Haas leather pad folio - perfect for storing your shiny new resume!   
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17 Sep 2014, 10:00
| FROM Haas Admissions Blog: MBA Career Advancement: From Strategic Pricing to Sunpower Promotion |
 Iris Korovesi didn't necessarily expect a return on investment so early in her MBA studies. But in her microeconomics course she discovered the true potential of the price tag. She credits this knowledge with helping her quickly advance at Sunpower—to global sales operations—during her second semester in the Evening & Weekend Berkeley MBA Program. Korovesi, MBA 16, previously worked as a sales analyst for the solar panel manufacturer, running financial models to estimate the economic value of solar energy and to yield the highest benefit for the customer. Now, she’s in charge of using the power of pricing to give Sunpower its global edge. “I gather competitive and market intelligence to look at our pricing strategy for all products, markets, and regions,” Korovesi says. “The fact that I was watching for this kind of opportunity and that I found this job so interesting is almost completely due to my MBA studies,” she adds. Ready to Move on...or up Korovesi had been in her analyst position for about two years and was ready to move on or move up. She knew she could become a sales executive, but wanted to do something more strategic and more global. “I wanted overall exposure to our business and to other markets,” she says. “A few months earlier I might have skipped right past this posting because I hadn’t realized the catalytic role pricing is playing in business strategy and brand positioning. It was at Haas that I learned how powerful value-based pricing can be for a company’s bottom line.” She began learning this in her first semester at Berkeley-Haas. “Microeconomics with Greg LaBlanc was one of my favorite first-year classes,” she says. “We did a lot around the pricing strategy of products, and I really saw how important that could be. I was excited to see the exploration of pricing continue in the Marketing course as well, picking up additional tools such as the conjoint analysis, used with the Intel Inside case, that enables companies to quantify the main value drivers of a product.” Using Classroom Learning at Work--Immediately She says her studies, and the network that came with the program, made her an even stronger candidate for this new role at Sunpower. “The hiring manager was a Haas alum and he knew I’d be able to immediately deliver what I was learning in class at work--and that I could also use what I was learning to shape this new position.” “Just last month for example, I developed a model that helps us quantify certain product attributes our customers appreciate, coming up with the price premium we can justify in the market.” This semester, Korovesi is looking forward to taking the Strategic Pricing elective taught by Haas Marketing Professor Teck Ho. She expects that the course will teach her the tools, analytical frameworks, processes, and policies that she will need to have in place to effectively identify pricing strategies that maximize profit for SunPower around the globe. Strategic Understanding and Industry Visibility “Everyone I have talked to says it is the best class they have taken at Haas,” she says. “My boss was also very excited that I would be able to attend Teck Ho’s class and he counts on the knowledge I will be able to transfer to SunPower”. Prior to joining Sunpower, Korovesi worked for an investment firm. Excitement about clean tech and renewable energy prompted her to move on. “It’s a cutting-edge industry that is radically changing the way we live,” says Korovesi, who wanted the chance to work in a less established, emerging sector. “Ultimately, I want to advance to a more executive role. This position gives me a more strategic understanding of our industry and gives me more visibility with senior people at Sunpower and within the solar market as a whole.”  
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22 Sep 2014, 12:00
| FROM Haas Admissions Blog: MBA Career Advancement: From Strategic Pricing to SunPower Promotion |
 Iris Korovesi didn't necessarily expect a return on investment so early in her MBA studies. But in her microeconomics course she discovered the true potential of the price tag. She credits this knowledge with helping her quickly advance at SunPower—to global sales operations—during her second semester in the Evening & Weekend Berkeley MBA Program. Korovesi, MBA 16, previously worked as a sales analyst for the solar panel manufacturer, running financial models to estimate the economic value of solar energy and to yield the highest benefit for the customer. Now, she’s in charge of using the power of pricing to give SunPower its global edge. “I gather competitive and market intelligence to look at our pricing strategy for all products, markets, and regions,” Korovesi says. “The fact that I was watching for this kind of opportunity and that I found this job so interesting is almost completely due to my MBA studies,” she adds. Ready to Move on...or up Korovesi had been in her analyst position for about two years and was ready to move on or move up. She knew she could become a sales executive, but wanted to do something more strategic and more global. “I wanted overall exposure to our business and to other markets,” she says. “A few months earlier I might have skipped right past this posting because I hadn’t realized the catalytic role pricing is playing in business strategy and brand positioning. It was at Haas that I learned how powerful value-based pricing can be for a company’s bottom line.” She began learning this in her first semester at Berkeley-Haas. “Microeconomics with Greg LaBlanc was one of my favorite first-year classes,” she says. “We did a lot around the pricing strategy of products, and I really saw how important that could be. I was excited to see the exploration of pricing continue in the Marketing course as well, picking up additional tools such as the conjoint analysis, used with the Intel Inside case, that enables companies to quantify the main value drivers of a product.” Using Classroom Learning at Work--Immediately She says her studies, and the network that came with the program, made her an even stronger candidate for this new role at SunPower. “The hiring manager was a Haas alum and he knew I’d be able to immediately deliver what I was learning in class at work--and that I could also use what I was learning to shape this new position.” “Just last month for example, I developed a model that helps us quantify certain product attributes our customers appreciate, coming up with the price premium we can justify in the market.” This semester, Korovesi is looking forward to taking the Strategic Pricing elective taught by Haas Marketing Professor Teck Ho. She expects that the course will teach her the tools, analytical frameworks, processes, and policies that she will need to have in place to effectively identify pricing strategies that maximize profit for SunPower around the globe. Strategic Understanding and Industry Visibility “Everyone I have talked to says it is the best class they have taken at Haas,” she says. “My boss was also very excited that I would be able to attend Teck Ho’s class and he counts on the knowledge I will be able to transfer to SunPower”. Prior to joining SunPower, Korovesi worked for an investment firm. Excitement about clean tech and renewable energy prompted her to move on. “It’s a cutting-edge industry that is radically changing the way we live,” says Korovesi, who wanted the chance to work in a less established, emerging sector. “Ultimately, I want to advance to a more executive role. This position gives me a more strategic understanding of our industry and gives me more visibility with senior people at SunPower and within the solar market as a whole.”
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30 Sep 2014, 12:00
| FROM Haas Admissions Blog: EMBA Alum Opens Apple Mobile Wallet for JPMorgan Chase |
 Asked what he finds most rewarding about his career, Avin Arumugam sums it up in one word: scale. He’s talking about the complexity of his work and the scale of his impact—and he’s not kidding. As Executive Director at Chase Digital for JPMorgan Chase, Arumugam, MBA 12, is leading Chase’s implementation of Apple Pay, a feature of the new iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus. The massive rollout to all Chase Credit and Debit customers and Chase Merchants has taken the work of hundreds of Chase employees across 11 divisions. "I needed grounding in finance." An engineer by training, Arumugam was managing mobile payment products for PayPal when he applied to the Berkeley-Columbia Executive MBA Program (Berkeley-Haas now offers its own EMBA program). “I always had lots of ideas, and I knew they were sound, but I didn’t have the frameworks and terminology to articulate them persuasively,” Arumugam says. “I realized I needed grounding in finance and to build my presentation skills.” He calls his business school experience both the hardest thing he’s ever done and the most fun. “I wouldn’t wish it on my worst enemy,” he quips, “and I’d do it again in a heartbeat.” That’s because he’s used that experience every day in his work. His first step in the Apple Pay  implementation was to simplify and build his team. “In business school, I learned that things get really complicated with too many cooks, so I asked each division CEO to provide me with just one leader, one point of contact for each Chase division. I knew that together, this great team could solve any problems that would come up.” "I still use Peter Goodson's templates." He then used analysis skills gained from his operations course with Sara Beckman to map everything this team would need to do related to credit cards, debit cards, marketing, legal, merchant acquisition, and more and developed processes and systems to streamline it all. Arumugam has also used the business model canvas from Steve Blank’s Lean Launchpad course, and he credits Lecturer Peter Goodson’s Mergers & Acquisitions course with his success in clearly and persuasively laying out his plans for the Apple Pay initiative. “I still use a lot of Peter’s templates,” he says. “They crisply illustrate what you plan to do and how it will work.” He also drew upon lessons in game theory From Professor Andy Rose’s Economics class to run two days of video-conferenced “war games” with several dozen participants from across Chase. “We spun out every ‘If they do this, then we do that,’ scenario we could come up with to be sure we understood how the industry could move,” he says. “Early in the project, I knew I wasn’t smart enough to solve all the problems myself, and the team told me that this is indeed what really got us over the hump.” "My EMBA experience primed me to lead this effort." Arumugam says his business school colleagues also played a role in preparing him for this opportunity. “I knew I could get this thing done,” he says of the massive undertaking. “I already knew the questions people would ask, because I got pushed in just that way by my most of classmates. I remember thinking at the time: if I can handle these top minds, I can handle anything.” He also enjoyed how hard his Haas professors pushed students. “It wasn’t easy, but I loved it, and they were always there to bounce ideas off of,” he says. “I often wished that I could have talked to them about Apple Pay, but I since couldn’t, I just had to use what they taught me.” Arumugam did reach out as soon as Chase’s partnership with Apple Pay was announced. He sent emails to Beckman, Blank, Goodson, and Rose, thanking each for preparing him to lead this project and noting, “I truly believe my EMBA experience primed me to lead this effort.” What could the Berkeley MBA for Executives Program prime you to do?  
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