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THE BERKELEY MBA
A Distinctive Approach
The Berkeley MBA Program is about developing distinctive
leaders. Through a rigorous general management curriculum and
innovative extracurricular learning experiences, you learn how to become
a leader who can harness new ideas to create value for your firm. You learn
how to drive growth to ensure your organization thrives. These qualities and
skills, which Haas calls Leading Through Innovation, are valuable in the
world marketplace, and offer you a career advantage.
Embracing Innovative, Fresh Ideas
Leading Through Innovation is definitely not just about developing new
technologies. It is also about using your enhanced leadership skills to deliver
strategic, operational, and organizational innovations. To succeed in today’s
challenging global business environment, you must lead your organization to
differentiate itself by implementing fresh ideas of all sorts. Here you master
these skills.
This distinctive Berkeley MBA leadership approach is shaped by the
people, place, and culture that comprise Haas and all of UC Berkeley:
• People: Along every dimension, Haas faculty, students, and staff are
characterized by the high quality standards of their work, their exceptional
talents and creativity, their intelligence, and their diversity of experience.
Peter Tsang
MBA 10
Portfolio Manager
Barclays Global Investors
San Francisco, California
Previous degree:
BA, Economics
University of California, Berkeley
“I was on a four-person team in the
Darden Innovation Challenge in my
first year. We leveraged our own professional
backgrounds and contributed
to our innovative idea. We were happy
with our strong cohesion as a team
and the opportunity to learn from
working with one another.”
“So many of my classmates are experts
in their own fields. Everyone is knowledgeable,
intelligent, well-mannered
and respectful of different opinions.
In class and on team projects, I like the
way we are able to talk through all of
our different ideas and make sense
of our differences of opinion.”
• Place: The San Francisco Bay Area is an unrivaled business ecosystem of
innovation, entrepreneurship, and forward-moving change. Integrated into
this ecosystem are UC Berkeley and Haas, which generate huge amounts
of new knowledge and ideas through the pioneering work of faculty. And
Haas has creatively linked its courses and programs across disciplines at
Berkeley. Innovation is part of the ethos of this area, and you feel it every
day at Haas.
• Culture: Berkeley MBA students are molded by a unique Haas School
culture, which values confidence without attitude, not accepting the status
quo, independent thinking coupled with collaborative action, and making
a positive impact on the world.
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