Full-time MBA Program
Leading through Innovation: A Career Advantage
The Berkeley MBA Program is about developing leaders who possess a distinct advantage:the ability to lead using the power of innovation. At the Haas School, Leading Through Innovation is defined as a mindset and an array of capabilities that will enable you to promote and foster environments where innovation flourishes. In acquiring this way of thinking and doing, you can become a leader of innovation. Because leadership and innovation are central to creating value in the global economy, these abilities will offer you a career advantage.
More than technology innovation
Leading Through Innovation is definitely not just about technology - although this is an important aspect of innovation, and the Haas School and UC Berkeley have long been recognized for their strengths in the technology area. It is also about thinking of innovation from a strategic and organizational perspective.
Fresh thinking
The Haas School has a culture where fresh thinking is encouraged, and where leadership is expected. Haas was one of the first business schools to pioneer cross-disciplinary study of product design via the elective Managing the New Product Development Process. This elective, taught by Senior Lecturer Sarah Beckman for more than a decade, was among offerings that prompted BusinessWeek to name Haas as one of the top design schools in the world in October 2007.
Faculty innovators share insights
The culture of innovation is enriched by a faculty of innovators who study at the frontiers of knowledge, and bring their insights into the classroom. And the Haas School has a history of students and alumni who have changed organizations by leading through innovation. In fact, a key school goal is to develop new generations of business leaders who succeed because of their ability to build and manage organizations where innovation flourishes.
Interdisciplinary interaction
The Berkeley MBA Program also has a tradition of creatively linking exceptional programs and courses across disciplines at UC Berkeley. If you take courses in the Management of Technology Program, for instance, you interact with students and professors drawn from the schools of business, engineering, and information.
Unequaled location
The program is located in an innovation ecosystem that is unequaled anywhere in the world - the San Francisco Bay Area, which includes Silicon Valley. Innovation is a huge part of the ethos in the area, and you will feel it every day at Haas.
