• Program Overview
• Leading Through Innovation
• Curriculum
• Experiential Learning
• Schedule Options
• Degree Requirements
• Areas of Concentration
• Contact Admissions

Program Overview

The Berkeley MBA Program is about developing distinctive leaders. The three-year, part-time MBA program emphasizes the delivery of growth and innovation to organizations, and enables professionals to continue working full time while advancing their careers.

Through a rigorous general management curriculum and innovative extracurricular learning experiences, you learn how to become a leader who can harness new ideas to create value for your firm. You learn how to drive growth to ensure your organization thrives. These qualities and skills, which Haas calls Leading Through Innovation, are valuable in the world marketplace, and offer you a career advantage.

Embracing Fresh Ideas

Leading Through Innovation is definitely not just about developing new technologies. It is also about using your enhanced leadership skills to deliver strategic, operational, and organizational innovations. To succeed in today’s challenging global business environment, you must lead your organization to differentiate itself by implementing fresh ideas of all sorts. Here you master these skills.

This distinctive Berkeley MBA leadership approach is shaped by the people, place, and culture that comprise Haas and all of UC Berkeley:

• People: Along every dimension, Haas faculty, students, and staff are characterized by the high quality standards of their work, their exceptional talents and creativity, their intelligence, and their diversity of experience.
• Place: The San Francisco Bay Area is an unrivaled business ecosystem of innovation, entrepreneurship, and forward-moving change. Integrated into this ecosystem are UC Berkeley and Haas, which generate huge amounts of new knowledge and ideas through the pioneering work of faculty. And Haas has creatively linked its courses and programs across disciplines at Berkeley. Innovation is part of the ethos of this area, and you feel it every day at Haas.
• Culture: Berkeley MBA students are molded by a unique Haas School culture that values confidence without attitude, not accepting the status quo, independent thinking coupled with collaborative action, and making a positive impact on the world.

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