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Coming Events

• Venture Capital Executive Program, Monday through Friday, May 19-23, 2008, Haas School of Business.

• Corporate Directors Enterprise 2008: Effective Corporate Governance, Monday and Tuesday, June 16 and 17, 2008, Haas School of Business.
  

News

• A plan to make clean energy affordable around the world to poor, rural households without access to electricity won the grand prize at the 2008 Global Social Venture Competition April 18 at the Haas School. The winning team, MicroEnergy Credits Corporation (MECC) from Columbia Business School in New York, received the $25,000 cash prize. This year's Global Social Venture Competition celebrated the preliminary round entry of a record 245 teams from 23 countries, up from 160 teams last year. See the full story here.

• Berkeley's Venture Capital Investment Competition (VCIC) team won the Entrepreneurs' Choice award in the Western Regional Competition on March 7, 2008 at USC. The Haas team, called San Andreas Capital, consisted of Kevin Kopczynski, Michael Pearce, Tony Mak, and Kaiann Drance, all MBA 08; and Kaan Ersun, MBA 09. The team also placed third in the competition.

• Lester Center announces the winners of the 2007 INTEL+BERKELEY TECHNOLOGY ENTREPRENEURSHIP CHALLENGE
  1st place Navaris Medical, Germany
  2nd place NRG Fuels, Israel
  3rd Place Trivial Solutions, Brazil
  People's Choice Award Qmodule, Russia

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