Melissa Hiler
MBA 08
MBA 08
Investment Banker
Credit Suisse
New York
Credit Suisse
New York
Previous job:
Lieutenant
US Navy
Naval ROTC Unit, UC Berkeley
Previous degrees:
BS, US Naval Academy
MS, Johns Hopkins University
Career Goal:
Career Changer
Course Schedule
| Fall Semester 2005 | |
| Economic Analysis [Microeconomics] | |
| Organizational Behavior | |
| Financial Accounting | |
| Marketing | |
| Spring Semester 2006 | |
| Introduction to Finance | |
| Operations Management | |
| Macroeconomics in the Global Economy | |
| Leadership | |
| Ethics and Responsibility in Business | |
| Fall Semester 2006 |
| Corporate Financial Reporting |
| Investments |
| Risk Management |
| Spring Semester 2007 |
| Corporate Finance |
| Mid-program Academic Retreat |
| Behavioral Finance |
| Risk Management Via Optimization and Simulation |
| Fall Semester 2007 |
| Portfolio Management |
| Financial Information Analysis |
| Spring Semester 2008 |
| Negotiations and Conflict Resolution |
| The Washington Campus |
Melissa Hiler says she loves the challenge of making hard decisions under pressure, whether it's as a helicopter pilot or an investor. She believes her Haas education has prepared her well for her career change from military officer to investment banker.
"From learning the lingo of finance in my core courses to the more sophisticated technical analysis of Professor Parlour's Investments class and the human side of investing explored in Professor Odean's Behavioral Finance course, Haas grounded me in every aspect of finance."
"Haas took my knowledge of finance from zero to being skilled enough to land a summer internship and then a job offer in the Investment Banking division of Credit Suisse. It gave me the confidence in myself and my skills to hold my own with graduates of the East Coast schools who tend to gravitate to that world."
