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At Haas, innovation is defined broadly as people and organizations creating value by perpetually adapting and developing new processes, ideas, and products. And it's not just about technology. The Berkeley MBA curriculum teaches the strategic and organizational challenges of innovation, and leading edge innovations in subjects such as finance and marketing. The curriculum covers innovation as technological progress — a world-class specialty at Haas. When you graduate, you will be able to lead innovatively in organizations ranging from a major multinational company to a fast-growing startup, nonprofit, or a business of your own.
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Fresh Thinking Flourishes
Innovation comes in many forms here. Innovation techniques are taught, beginning with MBA orientation. Some courses in the curriculum tackle the subject head on, while others explore emerging fields, such as services science. Programs like the interdisciplinary Management of Technology program bring together MBA students with engineering students and others at Berkeley. The school's top-ranked entrepreneurship program focuses on the recognition and capture of opportunities wherever they arise. Haas faculty members are true innovators, studying at the frontiers of their fields, and then bringing new concepts into their courses. And the culture flourishes on new ideas: You dream it, you do it. For example, Berkeley MBA students created the popular digital media conference, as well as the ground-breaking Global Social Venture Competition.
A General Management Foundation
You will experience a rigorous, comprehensive curriculum in which you master the essential skills of management and leadership, from accounting and finance to marketing and strategy. You build a basic framework in qualitative, analytical, strategic, and problem solving skills. A required experiential leadership course builds your capacity to lead others. You will find a high degree of flexibility and freedom in designing your own course of study. Cutting edge elective courses cover the latest developments in business.
All Haas School courses are rooted in the scientific disciplines of the university — economics, mathematics, social sciences such as psychology and sociology, and other areas. Faculty members who are experts in these fields apply them toward increasing our knowledge of successful management, leadership, human behavior, how organizations work, and how the economy and markets function. As a result, you not only gain knowledge about best business practices, but also learn about the fundamental principles behind them — the “how” and the “why.” The Berkeley MBA program is for individuals who like to think deeply and expand their understanding of the world. |
