Understanding financial information is essential for assessing a company’s health, and making strategic decisions that significantly impact the company’s performance. How do you analyze and interpret key financial statements? What are the key drivers of value creation? How do you link performance...

Innovation drives the modern enterprise. Entrepreneurial leaders of successful firms thrive on capturing and capitalizing on the opportunities created by new technologies, new markets and new ways of doing business. But are you successfully promoting an innovative business culture within your...

Organizations live and die on the decisions of their leaders. Every day, executives are called upon to make innumerable decisions – some mundane, some momentous. Some of these decisions will determine the very survival of their businesses or their own careers. This course will help participants...

Effective leaders must be effective communicators. To lead, it’s critical to know how to engage in productive interpersonal exchanges and interactions, motivate and inspire, and create influence over an audience. Ultimately, your energy and vigor as a leader impacts the energy and performance of...

While women have made substantial gains in the business world, today’s workplace has yet to fully embrace female forms of power and leadership, nor leverage the unique perspective and strengths that women can bring to the table. With more women in the workforce than ever before –- and even more...

For Board Members who wish to become more effective directors, The Berkeley Corporate Board Workshop is a two-day program to help you think about your board role(s) in broader terms, and to generate lasting value for the stakeholders you represent. Unlike the majority of board programs that focus...

On the job and in our personal lives, solid negotiation skills are key to our success.  Negotiation is both an art and a strategic process that involves building trust and developing relationships, as well as influencing and shaping behaviors that result in mutually satisfying agreements for all....

Through the lens of design thinking, The Product Management Studio helps you tell, and sell, your product's story. Our premier Digital Studio program conducted by Faculty Director, and Earl F. Cheit Faculty Fellow at the Haas School of Business, Dr. Sara Beckman, will take you through: uncovering...

You've worked hard to develop expertise in your field, and earn recognition and success within your organization. Now you’re moving up to management, which brings a whole new world of exciting possibilities, but potential challenges and uncertainties too. Many of us are promoted to manager, but...

You've heard of Open Innovation. You've heard of Lean Startup. Now is the time to learn from the leaders in both of these fields how to go beyond the buzzwords and transform your innovation process and get breakthrough products to market with unparalleled speed and efficiency. Join Berkeley-Haas...

Today’s Leader is the Storyteller-in-Chief. You stand before your colleagues, your board, your investors, with nothing more than your presence, passion, and knowledge. Your leadership brings them to “Yes.” In Communications Excellence: Presentation Skills to Up Your Leadership Game, you will become...

The digital age brings new challenges to marketers and leaders. Those challenges include shifting attention away from incrementally improving their existing portfolio of product, customer service, and branding initiatives, towards finding new, latent, invisible needs that represent an opportunity...

Venture Capital is a driving force behind entrepreneurship and innovation. It fuels the economy, creates growth opportunities for companies large and small and, it funds the business development strategies of major corporations.  But while Venture Capital is an integral part of the global economy...

Our five-day Product Management Certificate Program combines the latest in Design Thinking with the best of the Berkeley-Haas MBA program, to prepare you for your dual role: General Manager of your product line, and Product Designer creating products and services your customers will love. Our...