Tips from Berkeley-trained CEOs Two alumni who happen to be star-quality technology executives came back to Berkeley in May to give graduation speeches. Expect change and…
Grad-student-led project gets a first prize in the Big Ideas @ Berkeley contest Balloons, a certificate, and, oh yes, ten grand: the Acopio team is awarded the Big Ideas “Scaling Up” Grand Prize by contest…
Berkeley graduate students have many outlets to showcase their work Connecting with Energy For the Berkeley Energy and Resources Collaborative (BERC), the word “collaborative” is key. The graduate-student-led organization brings together people…
Donor Profile: Eric Stern Eric Stern’s job takes him globetrotting. But when he isn’t away, the Cal alumnus has a standing dinner date. You’ll find him around the family table, savoring a meal and catching up with his wife, Rachel Kaganoff Stern, and their school-aged sons, Henri and Jonah.
An evening MBA in the limelight On Wall Street, a national magazine for retail brokers and the financial services industry, has named Valerie Garcia Houts M.B.A. ’99 to its annual list of “Top 40 Advisors Under 40.”
Catching up with Richard Blum Richard Blum San Francisco’s Richard Blum B.S. ’58, M.B.A. ‘59, widely known as a private equity financier and philanthropist, also gained considerable…
A knighthood for Berkeley alumnus Arun Sarin When the British Foreign Office announced spring honors for 2010 it listed all the specific awards the Queen “was graciously pleased to approve.” They included, in “The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (Civil Division),” the name Arun Sarin, “for services to the communication industry.” Born in central India, Sarin has two 1978 master’s degrees from Berkeley, one an M.B.A. and the other in material sciences and engineering.