UC Berkeley Haas MBA class of 2012 申请答疑

freemanding

想问一下以后想从事non profit的行业，haas在这方面有什么优势呢？

-- by 会员 taurusjudy (2010/10/10 15:42:36)

Nonprofit, Social Entrepreneurship, Corporate Social Responsibility 在 Berkeley-Haas 还真是很强，这几个方面在Haas 统称为 social impact.


Nonprofit 在 Haas 主要是由 Center for Nonprofit and Public Leadership 牵头搞的：
http://nonprofit.haas.berkeley.edu/


在nonprofit方面，Haas 有一个很好的 program 叫做 Berkeley Board Fellows Program，基本就是把 Haas MBA 学生派到一个non profit 组织里面参与董事会。网页上有详细信息：
http://nonprofit.haas.berkeley.edu/board.asp




GSVC:  关注 social impact, social entrepreneurship 的 Global Social Venture Competition:
http://www.gsvc.org/
http://entrepreneurship.berkeley.edu/business_competitions/gsvc.html


The Global Social Venture Competition is the largest and oldest student-led business plan competition for social ventures from around the world. The mission of GSVC is to catalyze the creation of sustainable social ventures that are not only financially sound, but bring about positive social or environmental change in the process.  


GSVC celebrated its 10th Anniversary last year with a record breaking 315 plans from 149 universities representing 23 countries from around the globe.




Haas 还有一个 Center for Responsible Business，专攻 CSR 方面:
http://www.haas.berkeley.edu/responsiblebusiness/
http://mba.haas.berkeley.edu/specialties_06.html




在 Social Impact 方面，Haas 有好几个互相区别又彼此关联的 club 或 competition:


大名鼎鼎的 Net Impact，在很多商学院都有分部：
Net Impact 总的网站：http://www.netimpact.org
在 Haas 的 Net Impact club：
 http://groups.haas.berkeley.edu/netimpact/


还有 GIH (Global Initiatives) at Haas:
http://globalinitiatives.wordpress.com/about/




新进的MBA学生，在第一年的第一学期就可以选相关的 Electives:
Speaker Series: Market-Based Approaches to Poverty
Speaker Series: Microfinance


实际上是 Global Initiatives 的人牵头请的speaker来讲两门选修课的:


 MBA 294.4 – Market-Based Approaches to Poverty Alleviation
http://globalinitiatives.wordpress.com/speaker-series-classes/gih-speaker-series-class-falla/


 MBA 294.6 – Introduction to Microfinance
http://globalinitiatives.wordpress.com/speaker-series-classes/fall-b-class-microfinance/




Speaker Series: Market-Based Approaches to Poverty:


This course will identify and examine approaches to impacting poverty through the use of market-based mechanisms. Empowering people to make economic choice can yield large standard of living benefits, and markets not only empower people, but also allow them to make choices that are best for themselves.  Several examples will be looked at from the non-profit, corporate and social enterprise sectors with a strong emphasis on non-US markets with the goal of developing an overall framework for market-based approaches and how to develop them. Wherever possible current practitioners will be brought in to share their experiences regarding what works and what doesn't.

The class will begin with an overview of the international development landscape and why there is a rapidly growing interest in market-based interventions among the development and business communities.  Each class will focus on a new theme ranging from innovations in product and service design, business models for social enterprises, social financing mechanisms, and creative and effective partnerships. Throughout we will look at practical examples of these approaches.  The course will conclude with student presentations that examine specific organizations and the approaches they have taken.

The course brings together advice and best practices from successful practitioners and institutions as well as from those providing the capital and business approaches for their success.  It will also serve as an excellent venue for challenging traditional approaches to development, while exploring the limits of the market as a poverty reduction tool.




Speaker Series: Microfinance:  


The course explores why and how microfinance operations have grown to provide financial services to poor and low-income people on a sustainable basis.  The course brings together advice and best practices from successful practitioners and institutions around the world as well as new technology startups targeting the industry.  This course will provide students with an introduction to microfinance as an important development effort in the war against poverty.  It will also serve as an excellent forum to learn about current challenges and debates in the world of microfinance.  The final paper will be described and assigned during the class.

hoyt510

Freeman上面这贴实在是太强了。我没什么可补充。可以补充的就是Freeman是我们Haas这里最热心也最有实力的...

BizApp

我也是Haas一年级的。感觉Haas比较团队。很多同学背景很强，但是一点也不arrogant。所以有很多机会可以play leadership roles，也可以从同学身上学到很多。因为大家就业也比较diverse，所以在学校里合作远大于竞争。

之前有同学问到financial aid的问题。补充说学校提供loan without cosigner，但是今年的金额限制是不大于学费。也就是自己要付生活费。这个已经比哥大好很多了，明年希望学校可以谈一个更好一点的贷款。
http://www.haas.berkeley.edu/mba/finaid/Internationalprvt.htm

另外，三番是个好地方，亚洲人势力比较大。无论留美国还是回国，这里都会是一个很好的起点。

cocu

看到class profile 里只有5% humanities major。。。太打击人了。。。。

BizApp

其实humanities的申请人也比较少。所以从录取率来收，不一定比别的专业低。

finalsunny

请问lz你们学校课程的一个unit大概是多少时间的课？
另外Full Time和Part Time的unit应该是一样的吧？
谢谢

athaas

楼主跑东边去参加活动了，我替他回答你的问题。

一个学期是七周，要上4门课，2学分的课每周上两次，1学分一次，七周就上完了，马上期末考试。

这里没有part time只有evening and weekend MBA，他们的时间就比较弹性了，不过那个应该是不招国际学生

freemanding

准确的说，一个学期是 15 周左右，像每年的 Fall Semester 都是从8月底到12月中旬， Spring Semester 都是从 1月中旬到5月中旬。first-year的时候，大部分课是必修课，而必修课都是半个学期即 7 周就上完，上完马上期末考试，期间还可能有期中考试，也就是上课2~3周就可能要期中考试。second-year的时候，大部分课是选修课了，选修课大多数是上整个学期即14周左右的，这样就是7周才会期中考试，14周才要期末考试。


Haas的 part-time MBA的正式名字叫 EWMBA: Berkeley Evening & Weekend MBA program,  也就是在职 MBA，即一般所说的 Part-Time MBA。他们是晚上或周末来上课的.  因此申请人大多数是正在 San Francisco Bay Area 地区工作的人。对CD论坛上大多数身在中国大陆的申请人来说显然只能申请 Berkeley Full-time MBA.  


其实 Haas 总共有三种 MBA 学位 programs:  Full-Time MBA Program, Evening & Weekend MBA Program,  Berkeley-Columbia Executive MBA Program.   FT MBA 和 EWMBA 都是每年只有240人，而 EMBA就更少了。每个 program 招的人虽然少，但总共算起来 Haas MBA alumni pool 就不算小了。

楼主跑东边去参加活动了，我替他回答你的问题。

一个学期是七周，要上4门课，2学分的课每周上两次，1学分一次，七周就上完了，马上期末考试。

这里没有part time只有evening and weekend MBA，他们的时间就比较弹性了，不过那个应该是不招国际学生

-- by 会员 athaas (2010/10/29 13:45:54)

jasonlove

请介绍下给奖的情况？一般中国大陆申请人需要达到什么条件能够给奖？给奖占学费的比例？

nhelpn

印象中Haas有一个奖学金，是给那些有超出常人经历的申请人的，请战友们给介绍一下吧？