The Walter A. Haas School of Business is one of 14 schools and colleges at the University of California, Berkeley.

The College of Commerce was founded in 1898 and the Department of Business Administration was established in 1942. In 1943, the School of Business Administration was established to replace the College of Commerce. It was renamed in 1989 and is the oldest business school at a public university. As of 2003-2004, it has 160 faculty members and 1680 students in six academic degree programs. Dean Tom Campbell, a former Congressman and California State Senator, has recently returned from his stint as the state's Director of Finance. Prof. Richard Lyons was the Acting Dean.

The school runs a range of internationally reputed programs and are consistently ranked among the very best in the country. Its programs include

• Full-time MBA program
• Evening/Weekend MBA program
• Berkeley-Columbia Executive MBA program
• Ph.D. program
• Master's in Financial Engineering Program
• Undergraduate program
• Executive development

The school is situated in three connected buildings surrounding a central courtyard on the southeastern corner of the central campus. The final design of architect Charles Moore, the mini-campus was completed in 1995. The school is planning to expand its facilities, with a new commons building shared with the Boalt School of Law.

Notable faculty

• John Harsanyi - winner of Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel, 1994
• Laura Tyson - Dean (1998 - 2001), Chair, President's Council of Economic Advisers, National Economic Council
• Janet Yellen - President, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco (2004- ); Chairman of President's Council of Economic Advisors (1997-99); Member, Board of Governors of the U.S. Federal Reserve System.

Notable alumni

• Scott Adams, MBA 86, Creator of Dilbert
• Margo Alexander, BS 68, Executive Vice President, UBS Paine Webber
• Bengt Baron, BS 85, MBA 88, President, Absolut Vodka
• Richard Blum, BS 59, MBA 59, Founder, The Himalaya Foundation
• Rick Cronk, BS 65, President, Dreyer's Grand Ice Cream
• Stephanie DiMarco, BS 79, Chairman, Advent Software
• Tom Fanoe, MBA 69, President, Joe Boxer
• Donald Fisher, BS 50, Chairman & Founder, Gap Inc.
• Michael R. Gallagher, BS 67, MBA 68, CEO, Playtex Products
• John Garamendi, BS 66, Insurance Commissioner, State of California
• Walter A. Haas, Sr., BS 10, President and Chairman, Levi Strauss & Co.
• Walter A. Haas, Jr., BS 37, President, CEO, and Chairman, Levi Strauss & Co.
• Michael Homer, BS 81, Chairman and CEO, Kontiki
• Robert Lutz, BS 61, MBA 62, Chairman, North America, and Vice Chairman, Product Development, General Motors
• Norman Mineta, BS 53, US Secretary of Transportation
• Douglas Ose, BS 77, Congressman
• Paul Otellini, MBA 74, President and CEO Intel
• Rodrigo Rato, MBA 74, IMF Managing Director, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of the Economy, Spain
• Rha Woong-Bae, PhD 68, former Finance and Economy Minister, Republic of Korea
• Arun Sarin, MBA 78, CEO, Vodafone
• Roger Siboni, BS 76, President and CEO, E.piphany
• Ned Spieker, BS 66, Managing Partner, Spieker Partners (real estate)
• Paul Stephens, BS 67, MBA 69, founder of Robertson Stephens
• Pete Stark, MBA 60, Congressman
• Gordon Stitt, MBA 82 - co-founder and CEO of Extreme Networks
• Hirotaka Takeuchi, MBA 71, PhD 77, Dean, Hitosubashi University Graduate School of International Corporate Strategy

Undergraduate Rankings

About.com Guide to Business majors Rank: 3

MBA Rankings

USNews 2007 Rank: 7, tied with Columbia University (A drop from #6 in 2006)

Economist Intelligence Unit (Economist Magazine) 2005 Rank: 10

Financial Times 2006 Rank: 16

External links

• Official site
• Paul Goldberger on Charles Moore's campus design
• About.com Undergrad Ranking
• USNews 2006 MBA Ranking
• USNews 2006 Undergrad Ranking

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