Haas Professor Warns Watch Out for Trump Antitrust Abuse
UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business published an article about a recent essay co-authored by Haas Professor Carl Shapiro in which President Trump is taken to task for abusing antitrust laws to “punish political enemies.” An antitrust expert, Shapiro twice served as an economist for the Department of Justice, from 1995 to 1996 and 2009 to 2011.
Data Science Courses Increasingly Find Their Place in MBA Curriculums
Five years ago, MIT Sloan School of Management debuted a new course its professors believed to be the first of its kind. Called “The Analytics Edge,” the course gave students access to large quantities of real data that they could use to hone their analytic skills. “Our focus is on the application and the story, and how to use it in real life,” Allison O’Hair, one of the course’s co-instructors, said as part of a news article on the school’s website at the time. “To our knowledge, this is a new way of teaching … the only class here that teaches analytics through applications. We let students get their hands dirty with real data and applications of analytics.”
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Which Business Schools Produce The Most Unicorn Founders?
Billion-dollar startups, more affectionately and repeatedly crowned as Unicorns, have become a benchmark that business schools around the world use to boast overall success. But which business schools actually produce the most successful startup founders?
A Rundown Of Berkeley-Haas Dual MBA Programs
MBA degrees may be the best way for business students to master business, management and leadership skills, but some prospective MBAs enter the graduate business school setting with a clear idea of which industry they want to enter following graduation. For students in the San Francisco metro, several Berkeley-Haas dual MBA programs offer students this flexibility. Continue reading…
Smith Research Points To Hottest Cannabis Investments
A new study by Robert H. Smith School of Business grad Evan Qiu and Quantum Financial Advisors co-analysts Peng Zhang and Steven Nunez—a 2010 UMD economics graduate—has helped formulate list of hot cannabis investments despite potential regulatory issues. Continue reading…
Top Entrepreneurship MBAs in San Francisco
While it’s clear that a budding entrepreneur can find success across the country, there still may be no city more synonymous with the entrepreneurial spirit than San Francisco.
