Be Social: Haas Tailgating with Full Time Students & Early Halloween Party

There are two more Haas events this weekend - and one of them works for students with Saturday classes!

The first event is a Haas TailGate in the courtyard. The tailgate is being hosted by the 1st Year FT Students and will raise money to help the first year students who take internships in the non-profit sector over the summer. If you want to have fun, meet some full time students, and support a good cause please review the sign up information below.

The second is an Early Halloween Party in the city hosted by our Social Committee! Come out and have a good time at the Gallery Lounge in SF. You can check out details at the Social Committee's blog:

http://haasewmbaa-social.blogspot.com/2009/10/halloween-party-on-october-24-2009.html

Haas TailGate Information:

CAL vs. Washington State
Saturday October 24
TAILGATE from 11:30-1:30 PM in the Haas Courtyard – REGISTER BELOW
Tailgate will be jointly run by First Year Full-time MBA Cohorts AXE and Blue!!
Game Time at 1:30 PM
$15 Registration Fee Covers Food, Beer and Complimentary Good Times!
Register by 8 PM on Friday.

Check your email for details from Meg Roundy on how to sign up (Because both Paypal and Google Spreadsheets are required to sign up for the tailgate, we've decided not to publish the full sign up details on the web. But don't let that deter you from attending!)

Multi Firm Night - Wednesday, October 21st

This Wednesday a number of Haas Clubs will be sponsoring the Multi-Club Firm night. Not only is this a great chance to meet with your fellow students, it's also a chance to network with companies from the CPG, Technology and Digital Media industries. This event is hosted by the Haas Marketing Club, General Management & Strategy Club, the Digital Media & Entertainment Club, and the Technology and Sales Club. Try saying that three times fast -- and then come join us for fun and networking.

Note: The event is less formal than many of the OCR events but is still an extremely visible career event for both full time and part-time students. Don't forget to bring your Haas business cards.

MUTLI-Club FIRM NIGHT

When: October 21st 2009, 6:30-9:00pm
Where: International House, Chevron Auditorium, 2299 Piedmont Avenue, Berkeley, CA 94720-2320
Attire: Business casual

Firms that will be attending include:

Adobe Systems
Apple
Chevron Corporation
Cisco
Clorox
Del Monte Foods
E. & J. Gallo Winery
Johnson & Johnson - Neutrogena
Leapfrog Enterprises
NetApp
Salesforce.com
Sony & SECM
Symantec
Yahoo!

Interested in Practicing your Public Speaking Skills?

The communications committee is always thinking about ways to communicate with you... but here's one that many of you can communicate with future students. The admissions office is looking for students to speak at various information sessions over the next two months. This is a great way to meet prospective students as well as get to know the back stories for some of your fellow classmates. I attended the HP event when I was thinking about applying to Haas, and I remember being incredibly inspired by the various speakers. It's our time to shine!

Several dates are available in Berkeley, and for those of you who would prefer to experience a change of scenery, there are two other opportunities.

Please contact Molly Kihanya to volunteer for any of these events:

mkihanya@haas.berkeley.edu


Haas School of Business

• Thursday, October 29 from 7:00 – 8:30 pm
• Thursday, November 9 from 7:00 – 8:30 pm
• Tuesday, November 17 from 7:00 – 8:30 pm
• Thursday, December 3 from 7:00 – 8:30 pm

Other Locations:

Cupertino -- HP Location

• Wednesday, October 21 from 6:30 - 8:00 p

San Francisco -- The Palace Hotel

• Thursday, November 5 from 6:00 – 7:30 pm
  

Haas Clubbing

The communications committee is reaching out to clubs! We are looking to use the Communications Blog to bring information to the student body in more depth than what we cover in the EZine.

This week I'm highlighting the Women in Leadership Club. They have quite a few events through out the year, which you can check out at their website:

http://groups.haas.berkeley.edu/wil

In October WIL is hosting The Berkeley MBA's Women's Workshop with the admissions team on October 31st at Haas. WIL is looking for women to volunteer at the event. I know there are many talented EWMBA student's who would be wonderful representatives of our program. If you are interested in volunteering, please contact Monica Khan or Valeria Guirola, WIL VPs of Diversity.

More information about the conference, which is targeted towards prospective students, is available here

https://ssl.haas.berkeley.edu/Admissions/Eventsew/index.cfm?forum=4797

The gang's getting back together

The EWMBA Association Leadership (all committee members + officers) are meeting tomorrow for a mid-year meeting at Haas. Typically we meet twice a year, once after the annual elections and once for this sync up. This is the time to checkpoint our work during the past 6 months. We're meeting to highlight our accomplishments as well as areas where there's still much to be done (we're Haas students after all!).

Each committee is expected to make a presentation and we'll even get updates from the Program Office and Alumni Relations.

And, afterwards, the communications committee will adjourn to the local watering hole to continue our discussions on the best ways to streamline information! The debate may rage on until the wee hrs, we may not be as coherent, but we will still be focused with our communications.

Portals and Communication

We in the communications committee are the first to agree that portals could improve communication. This week, we launched a SharePoint eZine portal to submit eZine event and announcement requests.

https://calshare.berkeley.edu/sites/haasstudents/ezine/default.aspx

This will help our group easily compile all relevant events and announcements for the weekly eZine. It also provides you a quick and easy way to submit your request. Check it out and send us any feedback! You could log in using your Haas user name and password (haas\{user name}).

On another note, we are continuing to work with Haas IT and the EWMBA technology committee on our EWMBA portal. A BETA site for the full time MBA portal has launched, http://portal.haas.berkeley.edu, and we plan on creating a similar one but specific to EWMBA students.

We will be sending out an announcement as we get closer to launching the EWMBA portal so watch out for it!

Kicking off the New School Year

We are a few weeks into the new school year and the communications committee has seen some changes. Rohan Thompson has transferred to the full time program, and as such leadership of the committee has passed to Div Agrawal along with ongoing co-chair Ramon Lim. We'll miss you Rohan, but we know Div is capable of carrying on the communications torch. Other team members include Naveen Prasanna, Rahul Awasthy and myself.

We're all getting back of the swing of things and one of the initiatives we've decided upon is to start to use the blog more frequently, so expect to see updates from us here. If you'd like to get in touch with any of us in the communications committee, please feel free to look us up in class or via email. We'll all be around on campus on Saturday for the Fall EWMBA executive meeting, and we'd love to hear from you!