Dean's Speaker Series
The Dean’s Speaker Series brings to Haas distinguished individuals who are leaders of business and other organizations.
All events are free and open to all members of the Haas community. Registration links will be posted here when they are available.
Next Event
Ginger Hardage
Sr. Vice President of Culture and Communications, Southwest Airlines
Thursday, April 5
12:30 PM
Wells Fargo Room
Registration Information TBA.
2012
George C. Halvorson
Chairman and CEO, Kaiser Permanente
Thursday, April 12
12:30 PM
Wells Fargo Room
Registration Information TBA
Past Speakers
(
available in the Haas Video
Room)
2012
- David Aaker, Marketing Professor Emeritus
- Jeff Fettig, CEO and President, The Whirlpool Corporation (February 6)
- Debby Hopkins, Chief Innovation Officer, Citi (January 31)
2011
- Bob Lutz, BS 61, MBA 62, Retired Vice Chairman, General Motors (November 3)
- Carl Hahn, Former Chairman, Volkswagen (October 11)
- Yves Behar, Founder, fuseproject (October 3)
- Guy Kawasaki, Former Chief Evangelist, Apple (September 26)
- Kenneth Roth, Executive Director, Human Rights Watch (September 12)
- Marek Belka, Head of the National Bank of Poland (August 30)
- David Cush, President & CEO, Virgin America (May 5)
- Ed Catmull, President & Co-founder, Pixar (April 21)
- Stephanie DiMarco, CEO & Founder, Advent Software (March 29)
- Susan Peters, Vice President, Executive Development and Chief Learning Officer, GE (February 23)
- David Aaker, Professor Emeritus, Haas Business School (February 16)
- Kal Patel, President, Best Buy Asia (February 2)
2010
- Peter Levene, Chairmain, Lloyd's of London (November 30)
- Donald Knauss, Chairman & CEO, Clorox (October 20)
- John Chambers, Chairman & CEO, Cisco (September 28)
- Michael Lewis, Author, The Big Short (September 13)
- "Stakeholders vs. Shareholders," Haas faculty debate, "Whom exactly should business serve?" Dean Rich Lyons, Professors Ernesto Dal Bó, Hayne Leland, David Vogel (September 8)
- David Aaker, E.T. Grether Professor Emeritus of Marketing and Public Policy, Haas School of Business (April 14)
- John Hagel, Co-Chairman, Deloitte Center for the Edge; Co-Author, The Power of Pull (April 13)
- Bill Block, Executive Producer & Founder, QED International (March 4)
- Steve Ellis, BA 85, Worldwide Managing Director, Bain & Company (February 3)
- John Anderson, President & CEO, Levi Strauss & Co. (January 25)
2009
- "The Evolving Role of Design in Business" - Sara Beckman, Faculty Director, Management of Technology Program; Michael Barry, Consulting Assistant Professor, Stanford Design Program; and a panel of experts on design thinking (November 5)
- Tom Campbell, Professor and Former Dean, Haas School of Business; 2010 California Gubernatorial Candidate (November 4)
- Stephen Pratt, CEO & Managing Director, Infosys Consulting (October 20)
- Mark Hurd, President, CEO, & Chairman, HP (October 8)
- Vinod Khosla, Founder and Partner, Khosla Ventures (September 9)
- John Hanke, MBA 96, Vice President of Product Management, Google; Dr. Jamie Dinkelacker, Engineering Manager, Google Launch Team; Anthony Levandowski, Software Engineer, Google; Chikai Ohazama, Director of Product Management, Google (August 27)
- Paul Otellini, MBA 74, CEO, Intel (August 7)
- Gavin Newsom, Mayor of San Francisco (May 11)
- Janet Yellen, President
and CEO, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco (May 5)
- Chet Wood, Chairman and CEO, Deloitte Tax LLP, Managing Partner, US Merger & Acquisition Services, Deloitte LLP (April 28)
- Arun Sarin, MBA 78, former CEO, Vodafone (April 15)
- Bill Sullivan, President and CEO, Agilent Technologies (April 6)
- Series on the Financial Turmoil: “The Challenges of Managing in Turbulent Times” - Faculty panel with David Levine (moderator), Eugene E. and Catherine M. Trefethen Chair in Business Administration; Jenny Chatman, Paul J. Cortese Distinguished Professor of Management; and Laura Kray, Chair of the Haas Organizational Behavior and Industrial Relations Group and Harold Furst Associate Professor of Management Philosophy and Values (March 31)
2008
- Series on the Financial Turmoil: “Which Ethical Lines
Were Crossed?”- Tom Campbell, former professor and dean; Adam Galinsky,
visiting professor from Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management;
and Pablo Spiller, Jeffrey A. Jacobs Distinguished Professor in Business and
Technology (December 11)
- Series on the Financial Turmoil: “Observations on the Financial Crisis”- Laura Tyson, S. K. and Angela Chan Professor of Global Management (November 18)
- Michael
Callen, Chairman and CEO of Ambac Financial Group (October 29)
- Series on the Financial Turmoil: Faculty Panel Teach-In - Hayne Leland, Arno Rayner Professor of Finance and Management; Nancy Wallace, California Chair of Real Estate and Urban Economics; and Jim Wilcox, Kruttschnitt Family Professor of Financial Institutions (October 6)
- Jeff Immelt, CEO of GE (September 9)
- Barbara Desoer, MBA 77, President, Mortgage, Home Equity, and Insurance Services, Bank of America Corporation (August 20)
- Tom Kelley, MBA 83, General Manager of IDEO and the Haas School's first Executive Fellow (August 19)
- Bill Jasper, CEO of Dolby (August 19)
- Glen Fukushima,
President & CEO, Airbus Japan KK,
Senior Vice President, Airbus SAS (March 21)
- Concord Coalition's "Fiscal Wake-Up
Tour" - Tom Campbell, moderator (March 5)
- Michael Raynor, Deloitte Consulting, Innovation and Strategy Expert and Author (February 12)
2007
- “White-Collar Crime – Perspectives from a Convicted Felon and US Prosecutors” (November 27)
- Warren Buffett, CEO, Berkshire Hathaway (November 19)
- Donald Wurster, CEO, National Indemnity, A Berkshire Hathaway Company (November 19)
- N.W. (Bill) Jasper Jr., CEO, president, and director of Dolby Laboratories (August 27)
- David Wu, Price Waterhouse Coopers (Beijing) (February 21)
- John Micklethwait, Editor-in-Chief, The Economist (February 6)
- Tom Kelley, MBA 83, General Manager, IDEO; Author, The Ten Faces of Innovation (January 29)
2006
- Bruce Bodaken, chairman, president and CEO
of Blue Shield of California, on leadership experiences described in his
book, The Managerial Moment of Truth (November 9)
- Kirk Hachigian, CEO and Chairman of Cooper Industries (September 11)
- Peter A. Darbee, Chairman, CEO and President
of PG&E Corporation, speaks on diversity (August 21)
- Chen Feng, chairman of Hainan Airlines Company, which is China's fourth largest airline and its largest private airline (February 16)
- Rodrigo de Rato, MBA 74, managing director
of the International Monetary Fund (February 3)
- Paul Otellini, MBA 74, CEO of Intel (February 1)
2005
- Peter A. Georgescu, chairman emeritus of Young & Rubicam (August 25)
