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The Haas School of Business


Motto: Leading Through Innovation
Established: 1898
Type: Public
Dean: Tom Campbell
Location: Berkeley, California, USA
Website: www.haas.berkeley.edu
Eastern entrance
Eastern entrance

The Walter A. A motto (from the Italian word motto, meaning witticism sentence is a phrase meant to formally describe the general motivation or intention of a social group The date of establishment or date of founding of an Institution is the date on which that institution chooses to claim as its starting point Year 1898 ( MDCCCXCVIII) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common The term public school has two distinct (and virtually opposite meanings depending on the location of usage in the United States, Australia and In Academic administration, a dean is a person with significant authority over a specific academic unit or over a specific area of concern or both Thomas J (Tom Campbell (born August 14, 1952) is a former congressman from California's 12th and 15th districts the current dean of the Haas School of The University of California Berkeley (also referred to as Cal, Berkeley and UC Berkeley) is a major research university located in Berkeley California ( is a US state on the West Coast of the United States, along the Pacific Ocean. The United States of America —commonly referred to as the A website (alternatively web site or Web site, a back-construction from the Proper noun World Wide Web) is a collection of Web pages Haas School of Business, better known as the Haas School of Business or simply Haas, is one of 14 schools and colleges at the University of California, Berkeley. The University of California Berkeley (also referred to as Cal, Berkeley and UC Berkeley) is a major research university located in Berkeley

The school runs a range of internationally reputed programs and is consistently ranked among the very best in the country. Its programs include

The school is situated in three connected buildings surrounding a central courtyard on the southeastern corner of the central campus. The final design of architect Charles Moore, the mini-campus was completed in 1995. Charles Willard Moore ( October 31, 1925 in Benton Harbor, Michigan &ndash December 16, 1993 in Austin, The school is planning to expand its facilities, with a new commons building shared with the Berkeley School of Law.

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History[1]

The University of California charter, adopted in 1868, included among its goals the study of commerce. The University of California ( UC) is a Public university system in the state of California. University Regents Arthur Rodgers, A. S. Hallidie and George T. Marye Jr. later proposed the establishment of a College of Commerce. The new college was founded on September 13, 1898, when Cora Jane Flood, daughter of industrialist and University of California Regent James C. Flood, donated land to the University specifically to support the study of commerce. The school was the third collegiate business school in the United States and the first at a public university.

The college’s first faculty members included some American pioneers in the field of business. Simon Litman taught the first course in marketing between 1902 and 1908. Adolph Miller, who was the Flood Professor of the Political Economy and Commerce from 1903 to 1915, later served on the first Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. Wesley Clair Mitchell, who taught at Berkeley from 1905 to 1913, is known as the father of the business cycle analysis. Wesley Clair Mitchell ( August 5, 1874 &ndash October 29, 1948) was an American Economist known for his empirical Charles Staehling taught accounting at the college from 1921–51 and was known for adding a theoretical framework to the praxis-oriented teaching of accounting principles. Henry Mowbray, who taught from 1910 to 1948, wrote the first college textbook on insurance.

The College of Commerce was founded in the liberal arts tradition, drawing on faculty from other disciplines on campus. Carl C. Plehn was appointed the first Dean of the new college in 1898. Plehn, a finance professor educated in Germany, drafted the college's first curriculum for a Bachelor of Science degree. A Bachelor of Science ( BS, BSc or BSc in the UK; less commonly S The initial course offerings covered legal studies, political studies, political economy, and historical studies, including The History of the Institution of Private Property, History and Principles of Commercial Ethics, and the History of Commerce in All Countries and at Every Age. Plehn proposed changes to the curriculum in 1915 to give it a more professional focus. The proposal, adopted after World War I, established a program that included two years of liberal arts education followed by junior and senior year commerce study, a pattern still used for the undergraduate program today. World War I (abbreviated WWI; also known as the First World War, the Great War, and the War to End All

Henry Rand Hatfield, a pioneer in accounting and an early entrant in the Accounting Hall of Fame, became the second Dean of the college in 1916. The Accounting Hall of Fame is an award "recognizing accountants who are making or have made a significant contribution to the advancement of accounting" since the beginning of Hatfield had been hired by the University of California in 1904 as the first full-time accounting professor in the country. Among his personal achievements, Hatfield played a leading role in the founding of the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business and the national honor society Beta Gamma Sigma. The Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB was founded in 1916 to accredit schools of business worldwide while the first accreditations took Beta Gamma Sigma or ΒΓΣ is an Honor society for business students and scholars He also published the first paper in the United States on accounting theory. As Dean, Hatfield sought to increase the reputation of the College of Commerce by bringing scholars from the East Coast to teach during summer sessions.

After World War I, enrollment experienced a boom from veterans and continued to grow even through the Great Depression, increasing from its initial class size of three in 1898 to 1,540 students in 1938. In 1925, the college's third Dean, Stuart Daggett, instituted a two-year Master of Science degree. A Master of Science ( Latin: Magister Scientiæ; abbreviated MSc, M The school's fourth Dean, Henry Francis Grady, was appointed in 1928. Grady went on leave from 1934 to 1936 to become an advisor to President Franklin D. Roosevelt, for whom he worked on reciprocal trade agreements (see Reciprocal Tariff Act). The Reciprocal Trade Agreements Act (enacted June 12, 1934, ch The fifth Dean, Robert Calkins, succeeded Grady, but left within a few years to become the Dean of the Columbia Business School. History Alonzo Barton Hepburn, then president of Chase Manhattan Bank, founded the School in 1916 with 11 full-time faculty members

E. T. Grether was appointed the sixth Dean of the College of Commerce in 1941. Grether's twenty-year tenure as Dean was a time of great change. The college was renamed the Department of Business Administration in 1942 and began offering a new two-year upper division curriculum leading to the Bachelor of Science in Business Administration. A Bachelor of Science ( BS, BSc or BSc in the UK; less commonly S In Business, administration consists of the performance or management of business operations and thus the making or implementing of major decisions In 1943, the department was renamed the School of Business Administration when it began offering a one-year graduate program.

Grether opened several research centers in the school, including The Institute for Business and Economics Research (1941), The Institute for Industrial Relations (IIR) (1945, now called the Institute for Research on Labor and Employment), and the Center for Real Estate and Urban Economics (1950). Grether tapped Clark Kerr to be the first director of the IIR. Clark Kerr ( May 17, 1911 &ndash December 1, 2003) was the first Chancellor of the University of California Berkeley Kerr's success in this position led to his becoming the first Chancellor of the University of California, Berkeley. Chancellor or chancellour (archaic ( Latin: cancellarius) is an official Title used in countries whose civilization has arisen The University of California Berkeley (also referred to as Cal, Berkeley and UC Berkeley) is a major research university located in Berkeley

The Graduate School of Business Administration was opened in 1955 and the school begin offering a course of study leading to the Master of Business Administration. The Master of Business Administration ( MBA) is a Master's degree in Business administration, which attracts people from a wide range of academic disciplines A year later the Doctor of Philosophy in Business Administration and executive education programs were founded. "PhD" redirects here for other uses see PhD (disambiguation.

Under the school's eighth Dean, Richard Holton, an evening MBA program was initiated in 1972. Unlike other evening or part-time programs in the country, students were required to meet the same admission requirements as established for the day-time MBA program. Classes for the evening MBA were held in downtown San Francisco until the school's present building complex was completed in 1995.

Earl F. Cheit became the ninth Dean of the school in 1976. Facing diminishing funding and budget pressures, Cheit lobbied and won increased salary scales for business faculty. He also secured donations from Walter A. Haas to endow seven new chairs and to open a career planning and placement center. Walter A Haas Sr ( May 11[[ 889]] &ndash December 7[[ 979]] was a former President and Chairman of Levi Strauss & Co. In 1980, the school began to offer a Management of Technology program jointly with the College of Engineering. The College of Engineering is one of 14 schools and colleges at the University of California Berkeley. 1980 also saw the inauguration of the annual Haas Competition in Business and Social Policy, funded by a donation from the Evelyn and Walter A. Haas, Jr. Foundation. Walter A Haas Jr (1916 &ndash September 20, 1995) was a president and CEO (1958&ndash1976 and chairman (1970&ndash1981 of Levi Strauss & Co

In 1987, the tenth Dean of the school, Raymond Miles, began the school's first major capital campaign to raise money for a new building. Major contributions were made by Wells Fargo and Eugene Trefethen, an executive with Kaiser Industries. Wells Fargo & Co ( is a diversified Financial services company headquartered in San Francisco California, United States with operations around the Henry John Kaiser ( May 9, 1882 — August 24, 1967) was an American Industrialist who became known as the father of modern American In 1989, the Walter and Elise Haas Fund donated $23. 75 million to the building campaign. The donation was the largest in the history of the University to that date. The school was renamed the Haas School of Business in honor of that gift.

The new building was designed by Charles W. Moore, former chair of Berkeley's Department of Architecture. Construction began in 1993 and the school moved into its new building complex in January 1995.

Laura Tyson, a professor at Berkeley since 1977 and the Chairman of the President's Council of Economic Advisers from 1993 to 1995 during the Clinton Administration, was the Dean of the school from 1998 to 2001. Laura D'Andrea Tyson (b June 28, 1947, New Jersey) is an American Economist and former Chair of the President's Council of Economic The Council of Economic Advisers (CEA is a group of Economists who advise the President of the United States. The United States Presidency of Bill Clinton, also known as the Clinton Administration, was the executive branch of the Federal Tyson negotiated an agreement with the Columbia Business School to create a joint program, the Berkeley-Columbia Executive MBA, which offers experienced executives the opportunity to earn an MBA from both Haas and Columbia. History Alonzo Barton Hepburn, then president of Chase Manhattan Bank, founded the School in 1916 with 11 full-time faculty members The Berkeley-Columbia program began in 2002 and graduated its first class in December, 2003.

As of 2003-2004, the Haas school has 160 faculty members and 1680 students in six academic degree programs. The present Dean is Tom Campbell, whose term is to expire in 2008. Thomas J (Tom Campbell (born August 14, 1952) is a former congressman from California's 12th and 15th districts the current dean of the Haas School of

Notable faculty

Central courtyard
Central courtyard

Notable alumni

Undergraduate rankings

MBA rankings

See also

External links

Coordinates: 37°52′18.06″N 122°15′12.84″W / 37.8716833, -122.2535667

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Boalt Hall School of Law • College of Chemistry • College of Engineering • College of Environmental Design • College of Letters and Science • College of Natural Resources • Goldman School of Public Policy • Haas School of Business • School of Education • School of Information • School of Journalism • School of Optometry • School of Public Health • School of Social Welfare
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