49 Ways to get involved at Haas!

Do you know that there are

18 Clubs by Industry (Finance Club, Consulting Club...)
5 Social Clubs (Wine Club, Culinary Club...)
8 Student Run Conferences
9 Competitions & Associations
9 Student Affinity Clubs

at Haas?

Now that finals are wrapping up, it's a good time to think about what you'll be doing next semester. Participating in events outside of the classroom can be one of the most rewarding experiences at Haas, and we're encouraging EWMBA students to learn more about your options. Many of the clubs will be transitioning to new leadership in the winter and the EWMBAA will be looking for volunteers for various committees, so now is a great time to think about getting involved.

To learn more visit:
http://www.haas.berkeley.edu/MBA/student/

Careernet Feedback Sessions - Want to influence your Haas Careernet Experience?

The Career Management Center is looking for your feedback! This is a great opportunity to meet with the CMC team and provide feedback on the main tool that students rely on for job and career support.

How to sign up: Visit Careernet and look for the upcoming sessions -- there is one on 12/10 with spots still open!

Here's a description from the team:
Join us for a meeting with the web designers who are redoing the architecture and user interface, and give us some feedback on the layouts and designs they have mocked up.

Haas Holiday Party

Come join all current Haas students at the Holiday Party in San Francisco! We've already heard from a number of EWMBA Students that they will be there. It's a great opportunity to socialize with your classmates and meet a few new ones as well. Details below:

EWMBA, BCEMBA & FTMBA Holiday Party 2009

Date: Saturday, December 5, 2009
Time: 8:00PM-11:55PM
Location: The Galleria in the San Francisco Design Center; 101 Henry Adams Street, San Francisco
Registration: http://www.acteva.com/booking.cfm?bevaid=193419
Cost: $45/person through 11/22; $55 thereafter

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!

Keeping Busy Over the Summer

School is done—summer classes aside—until August, but that doesn't mean that the various committees will be taking a rest. The Communications Committee will continue to work on refining and streamlining the manner in which EWMBA students receive information. Top of the priority list remains creating a "central portal" for information. The purpose behind the portal is to create a single, well-known repository for all information relevant to EWMBA students. No longer will you have to scratch your head in perplexity as you try to recall in which email the particulars about the upcoming social event appeared, they'll all lodge in the same place.

The process to put together such a central portal is ongoing and at this point we're still in the requirements gathering phase. As the summer drags on we hope to be able to shed more light on the goings-on. Stay tuned.

Changing of the Guard

There's been some turnover at the EWBMAA, as I'm sure you're no doubt aware. The old team of Anlei Lee, Ben Chong, Evonne Chiu, Min-Hank Ho, Sriram Kumar, Badri Raghunathan and Christina Stewart has departed and at the helm is now Ramon Lim, Divyang Agrawal, Rahul Awasthy, Amber Ulrich, Naveen Prasana, Rohan Thompson and Sunil Kumar.

The committee is charged with ensuring that EWMBA students receive information in a timely and intelligible manner. For most of us that means avoiding being overwhelmed by the volume of emails and communication that so routinely lodges in our inboxes. Over the next few months the team will be focused on streamlining the channels of communication. We're going to do our utmost to simplify the influx of data as much as possible while maintaining a high signal to noise ration.

Let's see how successful we are.