News & Features for 2009
- Special event: Lester Center Guest Speaker:
Robin Chase, founder and former CEO of Zipcar
Monday, March 16, 5:00-6:00 PM,
Haas School of Business, Room C230
Robin Chase, founder and current CEO of GoLoco and Meadow Networks, spoke at the Haas School on Monday, March 16 on "Rethinking 'Mine' in a Scary World". Robin leads Meadow Networks, a consulting firm that advises transportation and planning departments at city, state, and federal government agencies, and NGOs about wireless and mesh networking applications in the transportation sector, and impacts on innovation and economic development. In her other current role as founder and CEO of GoLoco, an online ridesharing community, she has helped shape how people arrange to share car trips of all lengths between trusted friends, neighbors, and colleagues. GoLoco's innovative combination of social networks and online payment systems recasts how we think about car travel, making it a time for socializing and with a new emphasis on trip efficiency, in order to reduce per passenger costs.
- Jerry Engel, executive director of the Lester Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation, was quoted in the New York Times on March 12, 2009, on entrepreneurship during the downturn.
- The Lester Center is partnering with the Young Entrepreneurs Initiative, a non-profit network managed by the Office for Science and Technology of the French Embassy in the United States, which is a platform for mentoring and networking aimed at US-based entrepreneurs who understand the importance of internationalizing their vision and their activity, and who wish to set up a technology venture in France.
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After an intense day of competition, the Karnak Capital team of Josh Ewing, Sean Dalziel, Rei Kasai, Victoria Liang and Jacob Rios emerged as winners of the UC Berkeley 2009 Venture Capital Investment Competition (VCIC), held at Haas on Friday, February 6. (photo and more)
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Karnak Capital followed up by claiming the Entrepreneurs Choice Award at the Western Regional Finals of the VCIC held at USC’s Marshall School of Business on March 6. (more)
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Jerry Engel, executive director of the Lester Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation, appeared on Larry Olson's JOB Radio Show on February 8, 2009. A podcast is available here.
- The Lester Center has been ranked as the #6 entrepreneurship program in the world by The Financial Times in its January 2009 rankings. We are proud of this recognition. It is another indication of the excitement our students are bringing into their careers when they leave Haas, and the caliber of work done by our corps of tenured and professional faculty who teach them.
Congratulations also go to our colleagues in the Haas Corporate Social Responsibility program, which ranked #5 worldwide. Together, we were the top two ranked academic programs at Haas. The school overall ranked 31st in the world, although Haas did better in other specific categories, e.g., #2 top salaries in IT, #7 in faculty research and #8 top salaries in consulting. Complete results can be found at http://www.ft.com/businesseducation/globalmba2009.
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