Haas school business graduate program

We corroborate the analytical framework with real-world applications, ranging from the US historical experience to cross-country comparisons, to develop insight in interpreting fundamental politico-economic constraints. Terms offered: Fall , Fall , Fall , Spring , Fall Study of innovation, technical change, and intellectual property, including the industrial organization and performance of high-technology industries and firms; the use of economic, patent, and other bibliometric data for the analysis of technical change; legal and economic issues of intellectual property rights; science and technology policy; and the contributions of innovation and diffusion to economic growth.

Methods of analysis are both theoretical and empirical, econometric and case study. Terms offered: Spring , Spring , Spring Doctoral real estate seminar, covering topics related to real estate investment, finance, and market analysis.

The course is rigorous and technical, applying financial and economic analysis to the subject areas of real estate finance, urban real estate economics, and real estate evaluation. Prerequisites: Ph. Terms offered: Not yet offered The course begins with individual decision making under uncertainty, and goes on to cover game theory, including both static and dynamic games with perfect, imperfect, and incomplete information.

The course also covers market equilibrium with uncertainty and imperfect information, including topics such as signalling, screening, adverse selection, and moral hazard. Credit Restrictions: Course is required for first year students in accounting, finance, and management science. Terms offered: Spring , Fall , Spring The focus is upon defining a research problem, designing and employing specialized techniques to solve the problem.

Topics will include concepts of causality, analysis of variance; experimental design; survey research; observation and multivariate analytical techniques. Summer: 6 weeks - hours of independent study per week 8 weeks - hours of independent study per week. Terms offered: Spring , Spring , Spring This course will cover the broad range of knowledge and skills necessary to teach in top business schools. Teaching business effectively requires a myriad of pedagogical styles and techniques, as well as the confidence and preparation necessary to convey the course material.

This course seeks to prepare doctoral students for careers as faculty in business schools, giving them the insight and experience that will make their first courses successful ones. Students will learn effective teaching strategies by observing faculty mentors, reading pedagogical texts, and openly discussing the challenges and rewards of business instruction with experienced faculty and graduate student instructors.

Terms offered: Spring , Spring , Spring Individual study in consultation with the major field adviser, intended to provide an opportunity for qualified students to prepare themselves for the various examinations required of candidates for the Ph.

Credit Restrictions: Course does not satisfy unit or residence requirements for doctoral degree. Terms offered: Spring , Spring , Spring This is an independent study course for international students doing internships under the Curricular Practical Training program.

Requires a paper exploring how the theoretical constructs learned in academic courses were applied during the internship. Students will apply core concepts by working in teams to evaluate and select a venture idea that they will then develop throughout the semester. Introduction to Entrepreneurship: Read Less [-]. Terms offered: Spring , Fall , Spring This team-taught course provides an introduction to the study of the modern business enterprise.

It consists of four modules, the order of which may vary from semester to semester, and an online business simulation that runs during most of the semester.

In addition to lectures and the simulation, students attend discussion section each week. This course helps students identify as a Berkeley Changemaker and learn the critical thinking, communication, and collaboration skills to become one.

Students develop their own leadership styles and discover how they can create and lead diverse teams to act upon the world. Summer: 3 weeks - 10 hours of web-based lecture per week 6 weeks - 5 hours of web-based lecture per week 8 weeks - 4 hours of web-based lecture per week. Alternative to final exam. Terms offered: Spring , Spring , Spring The Berkeley Seminar Program has been designed to provide new students with the opportunity to explore an intellectual topic with a faculty member in a small-seminar setting.

Berkeley Seminars are offered in all campus departments, and topics vary from department to department and semester to semester. Final exam required. Terms offered: Fall , Fall , Fall This class will compare and contrast the variety of gift giving and sharing traditions that make up American philanthropy.

Both the cultural antecedents and their expression in this country will be explored from five ethnic and racial groups: Native American, European American, African American, Hispanic American, and Asian American.

The goal is to gain a greater understanding of the many dimensions of philanthropy as it is practiced in the United States today. Terms offered: Fall , Fall , Fall Freshman and sophomore seminars offer lower division students the opportunity to explore an intellectual topic with a faculty member and a group of peers in a small-seminar setting. These seminars are offered in all campus departments; topics vary from department to department and from semester to semester.

Terms offered: Spring , Fall , Spring The goal of this connector course is to provide an understanding of how data and statistical analysis can improve managerial decision-making.

We will explore statistical methods for gleaning insights from economic and social data, with an emphasis on approaches to identifying causal relationships. We will discuss how to design and analyze randomized experiments and introduce econometric methods for estimating causal effects in non-experimental data.

The course draws on a variety of business and social science applications, including advertising, management, online marketplaces, labor markets, and education. This course, in combination with the Data 8 Foundations course, satisfies the statistics prerequisite for admission to Haas. Terms offered: Spring This course offers an introduction to the field of biotechnology and will cover the history of the field, its impact on medicine and society, key methodologies, important therapeutic areas, and the range of career options available in the biopharmaceutical industry.

In addition to lectures on innovation and entrepreneurship, students will hear from lecturers with expertise ranging from molecular biology to clinical trial design and interpretation.

Several case studies of historically impactful scientists, entrepreneurs, and biotherapeutic companies will be presented. Students will work in teams to create and develop novel biotechnology company ideas to present in class. Business Administration C95B. Terms offered: Fall , Fall , Fall Study in various fields of business administration for lower division students. Terms offered: Spring , Fall , Spring Organized group study on topics selected by lower division students under the sponsorship and direction of a member of the Haas School of Business faculty.

Credit Restrictions: Enrollment is restricted; see the Introduction to Courses and Curricula section of this catalog. Final exam not required. Terms offered: Spring , Fall , Spring Theory and practice of effective communication in a business environment. Students practice what they learn with oral presentations and written assignments that model real-life business situations. Summer: 6 weeks - 5 hours of lecture per week 8 weeks - 4 hours of lecture per week.

Terms offered: Summer First 6 Week Session, Spring , Fall Economic analysis applicable to the problems of business enterprises with emphasis on the determination of the level of prices, outputs, and inputs; effects of the state of the competitive environment on business and government policies. Terms offered: Summer First 6 Week Session, Summer Second 6 Week Session, Spring Analysis of the operation of the market system with emphasis on the factors responsible for economic instability; analysis of public and business policies which are necessary as a result of business fluctuations.

Final exam required, with common exam group. Terms offered: Summer First 6 Week Session, Spring , Fall The identification, measurement, and reporting of financial effects of events on enterprises, with a particular emphasis on business organization.

Preparation and interpretation of balance sheets, income statements, and statements of cash flows. Credit Restrictions: Course not open for credit for students who are taking or have completed Undergraduate Business Administration WA. Terms offered: Summer Second 6 Week Session, Spring , Fall The uses of accounting systems and their outputs in the process of management of an enterprise.

Classification of costs and revenue on several bases for various uses; budgeting and standard cost accounting; analyses of relevant costs and other data for decision making. Terms offered: Summer First 6 Week Session, Summer First 6 Week Session, Summer First 6 Week Session The identification, measurement, and reporting of financial effects of events on enterprises, with a particular emphasis on business organization.

Credit Restrictions: Course not open for credit for students who are taking or have completed Undergraduate Business Administration A. Cash management, source and application of funds, term loans, types and sources of long-term capital.

Capital budgeting, cost of capital, and financial structure. Introduction to capital markets. Terms offered: Summer First 6 Week Session, Spring , Fall This course provides an introduction to several quantitative methods used to facilitate complex decision-making in business, with applications in many different industries, at different levels in the organization, and with different scopes of decisions.

The power of the methods covered in this class is further enhanced by implementing them in spreadsheet software, which allows complex problems to be approached and solved in a straightforward and understandable manner. Introduction to Business Analytics: Read Less [-]. Terms offered: Summer First 6 Week Session, Spring , Fall A general descriptive and analytical study of organizations from the behavioral science point of view.

Problems of motivation, leadership, morale, social structure, groups, communications, hierarchy, and control in complex organizations are addressed.

The interaction among technology, environment, and human behavior are considered. Alternate theoretical models are discussed. Credit Restrictions: Students will receive no credit for Undergrad.

Business Administration after completing Business Administration or S Summer: 6 weeks - hours of lecture and hours of discussion per week 8 weeks - hours of lecture and hours of discussion per week.

Terms offered: Summer First 6 Week Session, Summer Second 6 Week Session, Spring The evolution of markets and marketing; market structure; marketing cost and efficiency; public and private regulation; the development of marketing programs including decisions involving products, price, promotional distribution.

Terms offered: Summer First 6 Week Session, Spring , Fall Study and analysis of American business in a changing social and political environment. Interaction between business and other institutions. Role of business in the development of social values, goals, and national priorities. The expanding role of the corporation in dealing with social problems and issues.

Terms offered: Fall , Spring , Fall A variety of topics in economic analysis and policy with emphasis on current problems and research. Terms offered: Fall , Spring , Fall This course will develop models for understanding the economic causes and effects of international trade, will investigate the effects of economic policies that inhibit trade, and will examine the political economy of trade.

By integrating the findings of the latest theoretical and empirical research in international economics, this course help students learn how to explore the current political debates in the U. Terms offered: Fall , Fall , Fall This Course introduces the student to concepts, theory and applications of financial accounting. The topics covered include accrual accounting concepts, financial statement analysis, inventory valuations, capital assets and their corresponding depreciation and impairment.

Intermediate Financial Accounting 1: Read Less [-]. Topics include an in-depth treatment of the financing elements of the balance sheet and the income statement, as well as a detailed examination of the statement of cash flows. Intermediate Financial Accounting 2: Read Less [-]. Sources of long term capital; funds statements, financial analysis, accounting for partnerships, consolidated financial statements, adjustments of accounting data using price indexes; accounting for the financial effects of pension plans; other advanced accounting problems.

Terms offered: Spring , Spring , Spring Determination of individual and corporation tax liability; influence of federal taxation on economic activity; tax considerations in business and investment decisions. Terms offered: Summer First 6 Week Session, Spring , Fall This course is designed to: 1 develop basic skills in financial statement analysis; 2 teach students to identify the relevant financial data used in a variety of decision contexts, such as equity valuation, forecasting firm-level economic variables, distress prediction and credit analysis; 3 help students appreciate the factors that influence the outcome of the financial reporting process, such as the incentives of reporting parties, regulatory rules, and a firm's competitive environment.

Terms offered: Fall , Fall , Fall This course examines how accounting in the financial services industry — banking, insurance, investment industry, and real estate — actually operates. Students learn about underwriting and pricing in each sector, investment processes and controls, incentive-based profit sharing, risk management, and the factors that contribute to profitability.

Students learn what financial statements reveal about estimates companies make regarding liabilities and, more generally, what they reveal about how companies deal with uncertainty associated with predicting and measuring financial results. Students examine the controversy over employing Fair Value Accounting across sectors and learn about other sector-specific accounting requirements.

Prerequisites: Students are encouraged to complete UGBA A or to possess a basic understanding about how financial statements are prepared. Terms offered: Fall , Fall , Spring This course focuses on ethics related to the accounting for and reporting of financial statements and related financial information, and touches on the ethics of tax preparers. This course fulfills the accounting ethics education requirement of the California Board of Accountancy, needed for a California CPA license.

The course covers i theories and rules and ii the application of these theories and rules to case studies drawn from real life. Terms offered: Spring , Fall , Spring Concepts and problems in the field of professional verification of financial and related information, including ethical, legal and other professional issues, historical developments, and current concerns.

Terms offered: Spring , Spring , Spring A variety of topics in accounting with emphasis on current problems and research. Terms offered: Spring , Spring , Spring Managerial accounting is a company's internal language and is used for decision-making, production management, product design and pricing, performance evaluation and motivation of employees.

The objective of the course is to develop the skills and analytical ability of effectively and efficiently use managerial accounting information in order to help a company achieve its strategic and financial goals. Terms offered: Summer Second 6 Week Session, Spring , Fall This course will cover the principles and practice of business finance.

It will focus on project evaluation, capital structure, and corporate governance. Firms' policies toward debt, equity, and dividends are explored. The incentives and conflicts facing managers and owners are also discussed. Terms offered: Spring , Spring , Spring The course is designed to cover advanced corporate finance issues. Its purpose is two-fold. First, it will help students develop a tool-box, both conceptual and quantitative, to address real-world corporate financial issues that they will likely use immediately in any finance-related career.

The course examines qualitative factors that help determine financial strategy, including the costs of financial distress and the value of financial flexibility, as well as quantitative techniques, such as option pricing, that will be helpful in various analyses.

Corporate Strategy and Valuation: Read Less [-]. Markets for financial assets and the structure of yields, influence of Federal Reserve System and monetary policy on financial assets and institutions. Terms offered: Summer First 6 Week Session, Summer Second 6 Week Session, Fall Sources of and demand for investment capital, operations of security markets, determination of investment policy, and procedures for analysis of securities.

Terms offered: Spring This course provides students with an introduction to the application of mathematics and statistics in the field of finance. It consists of three integrated modules: 1 an introduction to the quantitative foundations of finance, using calculus, linear algebra, statistics and probability; 2 extension into financial theory as it relates to asset pricing, fixed income, derivatives, structured finance and risk management; and 3 application and implementation of these foundational tools and theory through software like Excel to build basic quantitative financial models touching on programming.

The goal is to use financial models that can guide business and financial decisions. Prerequisites: UGBA Introduction to Financial Engineering: Read Less [-]. Terms offered: Spring , Fall , Spring Survey of major life financial decisions e.

The course draws on research from economics, psychology, and sociology. We also explore how various trading frictions limit the ability of arbitrageurs to reduce mispricing. Finally, we look at the influence of market inefficiencies on corporate decisions. Terms offered: Summer Second 6 Week Session, Spring , Fall A variety of topics in finance with emphasis on current problems and research.

Terms offered: Spring , Spring , Spring A survey of the concepts and methodologies for management control of production and operations systems. Topics include inventory control, material requirements planning for multistage production systems, aggregate planning, scheduling, and production distribution.

Production and Operations Management: Read Less [-]. Terms offered: Fall , Fall , Spring This course provides an introduction to game theory and decision analysis. Game theory is concerned with strategic interactions among players multi-player games , and decision analysis is concerned with making choices under uncertainty single-player games.

Emphasis is placed on applications. Terms offered: Summer First 6 Week Session, Summer First 6 Week Session, Summer First 6 Week Session The primary objective of this course is to develop the critical skills and knowledge needed to successfully pitch and lead projects, and to deliver those projects on time and within budget. Terms offered: Summer First 6 Week Session, Spring , Summer First 6 Week Session A variety of topics in manufacturing and information technology with emphasis on current problems and research.

Terms offered: Spring This course helps students hone and develop the leadership skills needed to lead dynamic, complex, global teams. Alternate method of final assessment during regularly scheduled final exam group e. Terms offered: Spring , Spring , Spring The designs of systems of rewards, assessment, and manpower development. The interaction of selection, placement, training, personnel evaluation, and career ladders within an on-going organization.

Role of the staff manager. Introduction of change. Implications of behavioral research for management problems and policies. Terms offered: Prior to This course focuses on measuring and analyzing the costs and benefits of human capital investments by providing students with the ability to develop, analyze and use information to assess and measure employee and organizational performance. The course will show participants how to develop and make critical recommendations on such information to senior management, as well as helping to increase their presence and credibility with key decision makers.

On successful completion, students will have the skills necessary to formulate both qualitative and quantitative recommendations for key management decisions affecting employees. Terms offered: Summer First 6 Week Session, Spring , Fall The purpose of this course is to understand the theory and processes of negotiation as practiced in a variety of settings. It is designed to be relevant to the broad spectrum of negotiation problems faced by managers and professionals.

By focusing on the hehavior of individuals, groups, and organizations in the context of competitive situations, the course will allow students the opportunity to develop negotiation skills experientially in useful analytical frameworks e.

Negotiation and Conflict Resolution: Read Less [-]. Terms offered: Summer First 6 Week Session, Summer First 6 Week Session, Fall The purpose of this course is for the students to develop understanding of the theory and practice of leadership in various organizational settings. It is designed to allow students the opportunity to develop leadership skills through experiential exercises, behavioral and self-assessments, case studies, class discussions, and lectures.

Terms offered: Summer 10 Week Session, Summer 10 Week Session, Summer 10 Week Session The purpose of this course is for the students to develop understanding of the theory and practice of leadership in various organizational settings. Terms offered: Prior to The purpose of this course is for the students to develop understanding of the theory and practice of leadership in various organizational settings. Terms offered: Spring , Fall , Spring A variety of topics in organizational behavior and industrial relations with emphasis on current problems and research.

Terms offered: Spring , Fall This course inspires, trains and equips participants to convert raw energy and enthusiasm for creating a better world into real leadership skills and mindsets which will empower you to create positive change at an individual, organizational and societal level.

Terms offered: Spring , Fall , Spring Consumer behavior is the study of how consumers process information, form attitudes and judgments, and make decisions. Its study is critical to understand how consumers think and behave, which is critical for a company wishing to develop a customer focus. Given how different people are, it is amazing how similarly their minds work.

Consumer psychology is the systematic study of how consumers perceive information, how they encode it in memory , integrate it with other sources of information, retrieve it from memory, and utilize it to make decisions. It is one of the building blocks of the study of marketing and provides the student with a set of tools with diverse applications. Terms offered: Spring , Spring , Spring Information technology has allowed firms to gather and process large quantities of information about consumers' choices and reactions to marketing campaigns.

In addition, the course addresses how information technology affects marketing s trategy. Terms offered: Spring , Fall , Summer First 6 Week Session This course is an introduction to product management in marketing consumer and industrial goods and services. The course will cover analysis of market information, development of product strategy, programming strategy, and implementation.

Smart consumers, especially those in niche markets, have dismissed traditional avenues of sponsorship and product placement. Course explores how and why brand executives across multiple industries are leveraging entertainment to connect with niche markets.

One important consideration and potential drawback is housing crisis that currently exists in the San Francisco Bay Area including Berkeley. While Haas offers various solutions to finding affordable housing, it is also the case that rent may be significantly more than other parts of the country. The majority of students live in North or South Berkeley, often in homes that they rent in tandem with other Haas students.

Others live in Rockridge or Oakland and a tiny number live in San Francisco. Living outside of Berkeley proper will necesitate having a bike or a car. Understanding the advantages of UC Berkeley Haas also means understanding its close connections with the city of San Francisco. While Berkeley has a small, college-town feeling, you can easily escape to San Francisco if you are craving an urban environment with impressive cultural centers, a lively nightlife, and thousands of ways to spend your day.

Haas also offers treks to the headquarters of Facebook, Google, Uber, Lyft, and other major tech firms. This can give you a sense of the inner workings of a company as well as connect with current personnel and managers.

Combine this with biotech hubs located in nearby Emeryville and South San Francisco and you have a place that seems tailor-made for tech-business hopefuls to get a distinct informational advantage.

Among its features is an innovative, week internship program and applied finance project with major financial firms. Classes begin in April. The Berkeley Haas PhD Program prepares students to evaluate and advance theory and knowledge through research into the disciplines underlying the practice of management and business. Graduates seek careers primarily as faculty members at leading universities. The Berkeley Haas Undergraduate Program is a highly competitive, two-year program that awards a BS and accepts applications from both continuing UC Berkeley and transfer students.

Students begin the program in their junior year. The selective Global Management Program blends rigorous business and general education with broad cultural understanding, preparing undergraduate students to lead in such areas as financial services, communications, social sector solutions, foreign affairs, and management consulting.

Because there are many more applicants than spaces available, completion of the prerequisites does not guarantee admission. If admitted, students will join M.

Continuing UC Berkeley students who intend to apply to the M. Applicants are welcome to use the M. Four-Year Plan Worksheet for their engineering track to create a manageable plan that meets all of the degree requirements.

The plan of study may not exceed the maximum of The Robinson Life Sciences, Business, and Entrepreneurship LBSE Program is designed to help students bridge scientific inquiry and research with entrepreneurship and commercial application. The program offers specialized coursework taught by award-winning faculty, networking opportunities and specialized career coaching, and mentoring opportunities within a peer-to-peer cohort of students who are working to become future leaders and innovators.

Admission to the program is highly competitive and open only to students currently enrolled at UC Berkeley. For further information, please see the LBSE web site. Monday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday from 9 a.

Tuesdays from 10 a. There is no need to schedule an appointment as advising is available on walk-in basis. For assistance by phone, please call The Haas undergraduate experience offers opportunities for personal growth beyond the classroom including leadership development, career development, and close interaction with faculty and alumni.

A number of programs support this design such as international study, case competitions, experiential learning workshops, student organizations, access to free tutoring services, and many more. The goal of the Undergraduate program office is to provide students with resources and opportunities to achieve their academic and career goals.

Haas encourages all students to participate in international study programs as a means of broadening their education and developing a global view of business. International study can be enlightening and fulfilling on many levels, but it requires organization and self-motivation. Haas believes the benefits are well worth the effort.

If you have any questions about going abroad as a business major, email renee haas. The Haas Undergraduate Program has developed an extensive case analysis competition program for both Haas undergraduate business majors and non-business majors.

These competitions provide students with a variety of opportunities to develop and strengthen skills that will be critical for success during their employment search and throughout their careers. Berkeley students are able to participate in two annual competitions which are held at Haas and sponsored by the Haas Undergraduate Program.

Haas selects teams of students to compete in several international competitions held at other universities. Examples include the following:. The Haas Undergraduate Program Office is proud to offer undergraduate students the ability to gain practical skills through the Experiential Learning Program workshops which are conducted throughout the academic year.