EWMBA Discussion Forum

The forum will serve as a single repository to maintain discussions pertinent to the b-school life of the Haas EWMBA community.Currently, there's no single system that stores various topics of interest to the EWMBA students. While individual years maintain their own YahooGroups, there's no sharing of information across the spectrum. Moreover, none of the existing solutions (including the YahooGroups) maintain threads of conversation by interest areas. This forum will enable faster access to relevant information. For example, individuals interested in career related topics can directly jump to that folder and search for specific threads. The forum will also serve as a living repository of events and experiences (with courses, professors, school life etc).Anybody with a '@mba.berkeley.edu' e-mail address can get access to this forum. Others can neither browse nor post topics. All posts will be moderated by the EWMBAA communications committee.

Go to http://haasewmbaa.freeforums.org/profile.php?mode=register Enter the basic profile information. Please ensure that you enter your Haas e-mail address. Once, you get a confirmation e-mail (within 48 hours), you are ready to contribute.The 48 hour delay is due to having a human being (Ben) at the other end to approve sign-ups. If you have discussion forum experience and would like to help out, please contact Ben (benchong@mba.berkeley.edu).

Remember that the quality of a Haas MBA comes from the folks who participate in the program. Similarly, what you can get out of the forums will come from the number of participants. So please sign up!

First Year Cohort Reps

Do you have a program issue that you would like to address but don't know who to talk to? Your cohort rep can help facilitate communication between first year EWMBA students and the EWMBA Association. Cohort reps communicate important information and announcements to you, and they are available to receive feedback regarding the program and transmit it to the appropriate committees. Don't be shy. Talk to your reps and let them know what is on your mind so the EWMBA Association can take action to improve your experience at Haas.

Axe Cohort Reps
Tim Lee - tim_lee@mba.berkeley.edu
Naveen Prasanna - naveen_prasanna@mba.berkeley.edu

Oski Cohort Reps
Amber Ulrich amber_ulrich@mba.berkeley.edu
Kishore Konakanchi kishore_konakanchi@mba.berkeley.edu
Dharini Ramakrishnan dharini_ramakrishnan@mba.berkeley.edu

Blue Cohort Reps
Rahul Awasthy - rahul_awasthy@mba.berkeley.edu
Thomas Fitzpatrick - thomas_fitzpatrick@mba.berkeley.edu
Vikas Meka - vikas_meka@mba.berkeley.edu

Gold Cohort Reps
Divyang Agrawal - divyang_agrawal@mba.berkeley.edu
Shourya Basu - shourya.basu@mba.berkeley.edu

Greetings from the Communications Committee

Let's introduce our committee - Our awesome members are Sriram Kumar and Christina Stewart, Evonne Chiu, Badri Raghunathan, Min-Hank Ho, and our Co-Chairs are Ben Chong and Anlei Lee.

For the last year, we've been keeping students in the Evening-Weekend MBA program (EWs) informed through a number of channels:

1. EWMBA eZine - A weekly newsletter that is emailed to all EW students sharing news, announcements, happy hours, and more. You might ask how this differs from the MBA Alert - well, our newsletter caters specifically to the EW crowd whereas the MBA Alert is ublished by the full-time MBA folks. We also have a no-duplication policy which means if it's in the MBA alert, it isn't printed in our newsletter.

2. Cohort Representatives - First year representatives updating each cohort on eZine news and first year specific items. These folks help first years wade through all of the information overload and point out what's really important. They also help make sure that event organizers take into account the unique academic schedules of the first year students.

3. Haas EWMBAA Blog - A blog that shares what's going on in each EWMBAA committee.

4. Discussion Forum (New)

Thanks Mimi and Alison for all of your hard work last year. We look forward to bringing you exciting information in the weeks ahead.