Evening & Weekend MBA Program
Global Management
The World is the Classroom
The need to think and compete globally has become an imperative. The Haas School prepares you to take an international approach to business through courses, special programs, international travel experiences, club activities, and a research center that focuses on the international business environment.
Travel opportunities include the Seminar in International Business taught by Sebastian Teunissen, executive director of the Haas School's Clausen Center for International Business and Policy. Seminar students spend one to two weeks delving into contrasting economies overseas and taking in the culture, history, and business environments of the places they visit.
In 2007, different groups of Evening & Weekend students visited Brazil, Chile, India, China, and South Africa. One group went to Beijing and Shanghai and met with executives from Haidian Science Park (China's Silicon Valley), the Olympic Games Organizing Committee, various manufacturing companies, and the celebrated Chinese-American restaurateur George Chen. Another group went to Chile and visited wineries in Santiago, the Banco Central de Chile, Agrosuper Alimenta Rancagua (a major food producer), Codelco El Teniente (the largest underground mine in the world), and went on a side trip to Easter Island.
If you desire a more in-depth international experience, you may spend a semester abroad, choosing from a select list of leading business schools in Europe and Asia.
In addition, the Clausen Center awards fellowships every year for students to attend the summer Interstate Programme in Brussels, a non-profit venture that brings together future business leaders to analyze developments in the European Union and its relations with the United States.
Several student-run clubs focus on international business issues, such as the European Business Club, Latin America and Hispanic Business Association, and the South Asian Business Association. The Berkeley Asia Business Conference looks at business trends affecting technology and trade in the Pacific Rim.
