The Haas School of Business at the University of California at Berkeley has assembled an impressive line-up of top executives to come to campus this spring as part of a variety of conferences and speaker series, including business leaders from Citi, Kaiser, Whirlpool and Infosys, the school announced recently.
On January 31st, Haas will host Deborah Hopkins, chief innovation officer and chair of Venture Capital Initiatives at Citi. Whirlpool CEO Jeff Fettig will follow on February 6th, FICO CEO Mark Green on March 1st and Kaiser Permanente Chairman and CEO George Halvorson on April 12th. These executives will be part of the Dean’s Speaker Series.
The CMO Insight Series, another speaker series for MBAs, will begin on February 8th with a talk by Richelle Parham, chief marketing officer of eBay. Students enrolled in this special course will then hear from CMOs from a wide range of companies, including Salesforce.com, Wells Fargo, Genentech and Clorox.
In addition, the Haas Center for Nonprofit and Public Leadership, the Haas Education Leadership Club and the Lester Center for Entrepreneurship each will sponsor business plan competitions drawing together students from top business schools around the globe to compete.
Spring at Haas will also include a range of student-run conferences, including the Latin American and Hispanic Business Association Business Conference and the Business of Health Care Conference in February and the Women in Leadership Conference, the Asia Business Conference and the Finance Conference in March.
For more details about the many events planned at Haas this spring, click here.
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