Transforming Business With Curiosity and Purpose
The Haas School of Business redefines business by combining the public mission and academic breadth of UC Berkeley with a longstanding Haas foundation in entrepreneurship, values, and evidence-based decision-making. Our approach pairs research and data with human judgment, creativity, and collaboration—encouraging students to question assumptions and rethink conventional approaches.
A Strategic Plan for the Future of Business
Technology is remaking the world at a pace that demands business education transform with it. To meet this moment, we’ve organized around four areas where we have deep strengths and expertise—and where the challenges and opportunities for business and society are most urgent.
Where We Lead: Our Strategic Initiatives
Where Every Initiative Starts
Elevating Research Impact
We’re elevating our research, resourcing faculty to do groundbreaking work and making sure it reaches the people who can act on it. We’ll attract and retain a diverse body of world-class scholars who embody the human edge of innovation.
Transformative Student Outcomes
We will deliver transformative outcomes for every student in our diverse community through an inclusive ecosystem that turns a Haas education into measurable returns: career trajectory, earning power, and a network that pays off for life.
Culture, Capacity & Financial Strength
This is where it all comes together. We’re strengthening our high-performing, inclusive culture by aligning workforce capacity, operations, and strategy, supported by data-informed decisions to advance financial sustainability, growth, and innovation.
Our Strategic Initiatives in Action
Why Human Leadership Matters More in a Data-Driven World
Data and technology can sharpen analysis, reveal new possibilities, and help leaders make better-informed decisions. The human edge is the ability to frame the right questions, understand context and consequences, exercise judgment when the path forward is uncertain, and communicate with clarity across differences.
At Haas, we develop leaders who keep learning, challenge assumptions, listen with confidence and humility, and build the trust needed to move business and society forward.
The Haas Difference in Numbers
University worldwide for venture-backed founders (Pitchbook, 2026)
Top business school for entrepreneurship (U.S. News & World Report, 2026)
Overall research impact among business schools worldwide (Financial Times, 2025)
Compensation of graduates among U.S. business schools (Bloomberg Businessweek, 2026)
Connected to an Unmatched Innovation Ecosystem
The UC Berkeley Advantage
Haas students benefit from being able to leverage access to UC Berkeley, a comprehensive public research university whose breadth expands what business education can be. The Haas School’s unique location supports applied learning, research, partnerships, and professional connections across engineering, computing and data science, public health, public policy, law, climate research, and more. These opportunities for interdisciplinary collaboration bring diverse perspectives together to build solutions to complex challenges.
Explore UC Berkeley
San Francisco Bay Area Innovation Hub
The Haas School’s location in the heart of the San Francisco Bay Area places students and faculty next to startups and Fortune 500s, investors and entrepreneurs, and influential leaders from a wide range of sectors like biotechnology, AI advancement, and climate impact. Across all Haas programs, opportunities for students to tap into this rich innovation ecosystem include classroom and campus visits from high-profile speakers, company visits, internships, applied projects, research partnerships, and mentorship.
Getting from Berkeley to San Francisco (Google Maps)Build the Future with UC Berkeley Haas
Haas brings business education, research, and partnerships together around four areas where organizations and society are undergoing profound change: artificial intelligence, entrepreneurship, healthcare, and sustainability and social impact. Together, these strategic focus areas build on our strengths and and provide opportunities for the next generation of leaders to turn new possibilities into meaningful action.