Dean’s Speaker Series
The Dean’s Speaker Series is the highest-profile speaker series at Berkeley Haas. Bringing in a diverse mix of preeminent business leaders, the series provides the Haas community with insightful perspectives on effective leadership and opportunities for thought-provoking discussions.
Registration is required for all in-person Dean’s Speaker Series events. Registration typically opens 7 days before an event, and the link will be posted under the Speaker’s name. These events are free, with priority registration given to students, staff, faculty, and invited guests of the Haas School of Business.
All speaker events will be livestreamed on the Berkeley Haas YouTube Channel.
The Dean’s Speaker Series is now available as a podcast on all major platforms! Listen and subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music, or wherever you listen to podcasts.
Spring 2025
A Celebration of our Haas Culture
(15 years and counting!)
Wednesday, February 5
12:30-1:30pm
Spieker Forum (N670)
Watch the conversation on YouTube or listen as a podcast (on all major podcast platforms!)
In conversation with Interim Dean Jenny Chatman, PhD 88, Panelists:
Elena Gomez, BS 91, Chief Financial Officer, Toast, Inc.
Marc Singer, BS 86, Senior Partner Emeritus, McKinsey & Company
Sean Li, MBA 20, Founder, University FM & OneHaas Podcast Host
Susan K. Reid
Managing Director & Global Head of Talent, Morgan Stanley
THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED. RESCHEDULE DATE TBD.
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Student Board
The Dean’s Speaker Series Student Board is a group of MBA students who assist with the strategic direction of the Dean’s Speaker Series. Our current board members are:
- Ashley Wong
- Budi Sosrodjojo
- David Bravo
- Fernanda Ortolan
- Luis Sante
- Olivia Halas-Dias
- Punit Vyas
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Fall 2024
Tony Fadell
iPod & iPhone Inventor, Nest Founder, Build Collective Principal, & Best Selling Author
Tuesday, September 17
12:30-1:30pm
Spieker Forum (N670)
Danielle Feinberg
Visual Effects Supervisor, Pixar Animation Studios
Monday, November 4
12:30-1:30pm
Spieker Forum (N670)
Past Speakers
- Chip Bergh, President & CEO, Levi Strauss & Co.; Co-sponsored by the Center for Responsible Business Peterson Speaker Series (February 1) watch the conversation on YouTube
- Blake Mycoskie, Founder, Toms; Co-sponsored by the Center for Social Sector Leadership (February 7) watch the conversation on YouTube
- Ramona Pierson, Founder & Chief Technology Officer, L3RN.AI (March 11) watch the conversation on YouTube
- Patti Poppe, CEO, PG&E (April 4) watch the conversation on YouTube
- Patrick Collison, Co-Founder & CEO, Stripe; Co-Founder, Arc Institute; Co-sponsored by the Berkeley Center for Workplace Culture and Innovation (April 16) watch the conversation on YouTube
- Jann Wenner, Co-Founder, Rolling Stone; Chris Boskin Deans’ Speaker Series in Business and Journalism (January 24) watch the conversation on YouTube
- Jensen Huang, Founder, President, & CEO, NVIDIA (January 31) watch the conversation on YouTube or listen as a podcast!
- In the halls of power: Berkeley Haas economists on advising world leaders, Featuring Professor Ulrike Malmendier, Professor Catherine Wolfram, and Dean Ann Harrison (February 14) watch the conversation on YouTube
- Tekedra Mawakana, Co-CEO, Waymo; Co-sponsored by the Black Business Student Association and the Haas Transportation & Mobility Club (March 23) watch the conversation on YouTube
- R. Martin Chavez, Vice Chairman and Partner, Sixth Street; Co-sponsored by Berkeley Culture Center (April 18) watch the conversation on YouTube
- Sal Khan, Founder & CEO, Khan Academy (September 19) watch the conversation on YouTube
- A.G. Breitenstein, Venture Partner, Define Ventures; Founder & Executive Chair, Folx Health; Co-sponsored by Q@Haas (October 10)
- Ruth Porat, President, Chief Investment Officer, & CFO, Alphabet & Google (November 1) watch the conversation on YouTube
- Michael Lewis, Author & Financial Journalist; Co-sponsored by the Berkeley Center for Workplace Culture and Innovation (November 8) watch the conversation on YouTube
- Vanessa Morrison, BA 90, President of Streaming, Walt Disney Studios, (January 26) watch the conversation on YouTube
- General Stanley McChrystal, Founder and CEO, McChrystal Group; Co-sponsored by the Haas Veterans Club, (February 9) watch the conversation on YouTube
- Dan Schulman, President & CEO, PayPal, (March 1) watch the conversation on YouTube
- Ethan Brown, Founder, President, & CEO, Beyond Meat, Co-sponsored by Center for Responsible Business Peterson Speaker Series, (March 16)
- Yamini Rangan, MBA 03, CEO, Hubspot; Co-sponsored by AmpEquity Speaker Series, (March 31) watch the conversation on YouTube
- Michael Smith, MBA 86, Chief Marketing Officer, NPR, (April 6) watch the conversation on YouTube
- Indra Nooyi, Former Chairman & CEO, PepsiCo; Co-sponsored by the Berkeley Culture Initiative, (April 12) watch the conversation on YouTube
- Pierre Breber, Vice President & CFO, Chevron; Sustainable Futures, Co-sponsored by BERC and Energy Institute at Haas, (September 7) watch the conversation on YouTube
- Becoming a Changemaker, (September 14) watch the conversation on YouTube
- Jen Wong, COO, Reddit; Co-sponsored by Q@Haas, (September 21), watch the conversation on YouTube
- Mary Nichols, Vice Chair, California-China Climate Institute; Sustainable Futures, (September 29) watch the conversation on YouTube
- Kathryn Hall, Founder & Co-Chair, Hall Capital Partners; Sustainable Futures, Co-sponsored by Sustainable and Impact Finance Initiative, (October 12) watch the conversation on YouTube
- Mike Smith, MBA 98, General Partner & Co-Founder, Footwork; Co-sponsored by Berkeley Culture Center, (November 1) watch the conversation on YouTube
- Karan Singh, BS/BA 05, COO Headspace Health; Co-Founder, Ginger, (November 9) watch the conversation on YouTube
- Afsaneh Beschloss, Founder & CEO, Rockcreek; Co-sponsored by Sustainable and Impact Finance Initiative, (November 16) watch the conversation on YouTube
- Lt. General Richard M. Clark, Superintendent, U.S. Air Force Academy; Co-Sponsored by the Haas Veterans Club (February 11) watch the conversation on YouTube
- Sandy Alderson, President, New York Mets; Co-sponsored by the Haas Sports Business Club (March 9) watch the conversation on YouTube
- Michael Drake, President, University of California, Co-sponsored by the Berkeley Culture Initiative (March 10) watch the conversation on YouTube
- Pascal Millaire, CEO, CyberCube; Co-sponsored by Q@Haas (March 17) watch the conversation on YouTube
- Manish Chandra, MBA 95, CEO, Poshmark; Co-sponsored by the Center for Responsible Business (April 9) watch the conversation on YouTube
- Matthew Friend, BS 99, EVP & CFO, NIKE (April 16) watch the conversation on YouTube
- Michelle Gadsden-Williams, Managing Director & Global Head of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, BlackRock; Co-sponsored by AmpEquity Speaker Series (April 28) watch the conversation on YouTube
- Questlove, Drummer, DJ, Producer, and Food Entrepreneur; Co-sponsored by Edible Education 101 (April 28) watch the conversation on YouTube
- Jeff Flake, Former U.S. Senator (May 5) watch the conversation on YouTube
- Using the Power of Disability for Change, Featuring Judy Heumann, MPH 75, Civil Rights Activist; Vint Cerf, Vice President and Chief Internet Evangelist for Google; and Diego Mariscal, CEO of 2Gether-International; Co-sponsored by the Evening Weekend Student Government (August 11) watch the conversation on YouTube
- Alan Lock, MBA 11, Director of Business Development and Operations, Icarus Originals; Co-sponsored by Week Zero (September 18) watch the conversation on YouTube
- Dr. Sue Desmond-Hellmann, MPH 88, Senior Advisor, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation & Google Ventures; Co-sponsored by the Berkeley Culture Initiative and the UC Berkeley School of Public Health (September 15) watch the conversation on YouTube
- Dr. Mette Morsing, Head of PRME, UN Global Compact; Co-sponsored by the Center for Responsible Business Peterson Speaker Series & the Nordic Center at UC Berkeley (September 22) watch the conversation on YouTube
- John Hanke, MBA 96, CEO, Niantic Inc.; Co-sponsored by the Berkeley Culture Initiative (September 29) watch the conversation on YouTube
- Beth Ford, CEO, Land O’Lakes; Co-sponsored by Q@Haas (October 11) watch the conversation on YouTube
- Dr. Nadine Burke Harris, Surgeon General of California; Co-sponsored by “Becoming a Changemaker” (November 2) watch the conversation on YouTube
- Robert Ford, MBA 15, President & CEO, Abbott; Co-sponsored by the Berkeley Culture Initiative (November 10)
- Leigh Steinberg, Chairman and Founder of Steinberg Sports and Entertainment; Co-sponsored by the Haas Healthcare Association Mental Healthcare Case Competition (December 2) watch the conversation on YouTube
- Thomas Philippon, Author & Professor of Finance, NYU Stern, The Great Reversal: How America Gave Up on Free Markets (January 29) watch the conversation on YouTube
- David Aaker, Haas Professor, Emeritus, Marketing & Public Policy; Owning Game-Changing Subcategories (March 2) watch the conversation on YouTube
- Al Kelly, Chairman & CEO, Visa (March 19) watch the conversation on YouTube
- José Andrés, Founder, World Central Kitchen; Co-sponsored by Edible Education 101 (April 24) watch the conversation on YouTube
- Brad Smith, President, Microsoft; Co-sponsored by the Center for Responsible Business (April 28) watch the conversation on YouTube
- Scott Galloway, MBA 92, Professor of Marketing, NYU Stern; Co-sponsored by the FTMBA 2021 MBAA (April 29) watch the conversation on YouTube
- Looking forward: How can we safely open the economy?, Panel of Haas Faculty (May 1) watch the conversation on YouTube
- Shantanu Narayen, MBA 93, Chairman, President & CEO, Adobe (September 30) watch the conversation on YouTube
- Rosie Rios, Former Treasurer of the United States; Co-sponsored by Goldman School of Public Policy and Haas LatinX Business Club (October 6) watch the conversation on YouTube
- Muhammad Yunus, Founder, Grameen Bank & Nobel Laureate; Co-sponsored by “Becoming a Changemaker” (October 26) watch the conversation on YouTube
- Jeff McDermott, Managing Partner, Greentech Capital Advisors (November 10) watch the conversation on YouTube
- Chip Bergh, President & CEO, Levi Strauss & Co.; Co-sponsored by the Center for Responsible Business (December 1) watch the conversation on YouTube
- Ann Harrison, Bank of America Dean, Haas School of Business (February 5) watch the conversation on YouTube
- Laurene Powell Jobs, Founder and President of Emerson Collective; Chris Boskin Deans’ Speaker Series in Business and Journalism (February 7)
- David Aaker, Haas Professor, Emeritus, Marketing & Public Policy (March 5) watch the conversation on YouTube
- Jonathan Johnson, President, Medici Ventures (April 10) watch the conversation on YouTube
- Sadhguru, Author; Founder, Isha Foundation (May 1) watch the conversation on YouTube
- Weijan Shan, Author; Chairman and CEO, PAG (August 20) watch the conversation on YouTube
- Arlan Hamilton, Founder and Managing Partner, Backstage Capital; Co-sponsored by Q@Haas (September 17) watch the conversation on YouTube
- Tony Prophet, Chief Equality Officer, Salesforce; Co-sponsored by AmpEquity Speaker Series (October 1)
- April Underwood, MBA 07, Founding Partner, #ANGELS; Co-sponsored by A. Richard Newton Series (October 22) watch the conversation on YouTube
- How Media Has Affected the Culture, Clout & Climate of the Sports Business, Chris Boskin Deans’ Speaker Series in Business and Journalism (November 14)
- James O’Toole, Professor Emeritus at USC Marshall; Co-sponsored by Peterson Speaker Series (November 20) watch the conversation on YouTube
- John Riccitiello, BS 81, Chairman & CEO, Unity Technologies; Former CEO, Electronic Arts (February 1) watch the conversation on YouTube
- David Aaker, Haas Professor, Emeritus, Marketing & Public Policy (February 20) watch the conversation on YouTube
- Michael Mikel, Founding Board Member, Burning Man Project; Co-sponsored by the Haas Net Impact Club and the Institute of Business and Social Impact (March 12) watch the conversation on YouTube
- Jonathan Haidt, Professor of Ethical Leadership, NYU Stern; Co-sponsored by the Department of Political Science and the Haas Institute of Business and Social Impact (April 4) watch the conversation on YouTube
- Ian Lee, MBA 10, General Partner, Digital Asset Investment, and Executive in Residence, IDEO (April 10) watch the conversation on YouTube
- Mellody Hobson, President of Ariel Investments (April 23) watch the conversation on YouTube
- Kai-Fu Lee, Chairman & CEO, Sinovation Ventures; Co-sponsored by the CITRIS Research Exchange (September 26) watch the conversation on YouTube
- Eddie Hartwig, Deputy Administrator, US Digital Service (October 4) watch the conversation on YouTube
- Roger Ferguson, President & CEO, TIAA (October 18) watch the conversation on YouTube
- Margo Alexander, BS 68, Chair Emeritus, Acumen; Co-sponsored by the Institute for Business and Social Impact (November 5) watch the conversation on YouTube
- Vincent Stanley, Director of Philosophy, Patagonia; Co-sponsored by The Peterson Speaker Series & the Center for Responsible Business (February 2) watch the conversation on YouTube
- Chris Larsen, Chairman, Co-Founder, & former CEO, Ripple (February 7) watch the conversation on YouTube
- Anne Bakar, President & CEO, Telecare Corporation (March 16) watch the conversation on YouTube
- David Aaker, Haas Professor, Emeritus, Marketing & Public Policy; Why a Higher Purpose? (April 11) watch the conversation on YouTube
- John Chambers, Executive Chairman and Former CEO, Cisco (September 20) watch the conversation on YouTube
- Utilizing Technology to Protect Freedom of Expression, Featuring Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein, High Commissioner for Human Rights, United Nations; Brad Smith, President & Chief Legal Officer, Microsoft; and Alexa Koenig, Executive Director, Human Rights Center at Berkeley Law; Co-sponsored with Peterson Speaker Series & Human Rights Center at Berkeley Law (September 28) watch the conversation on YouTube
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Jonathan Bush, CEO and Co-founder, athenahealth (October 4) watch the conversation on YouTube
- Carol Christ, Chancellor, UC Berkeley (October 12) watch the conversation on YouTube
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Diane Bryant, Group President, Intel (November 9) watch the conversation on YouTube
- Eleni Kounalakis, MBA 92, Former U.S. Ambassador to Hungary (February 4) watch the conversation on YouTube
- David Aaker, Haas Professor, Emeritus, Marketing & Public Policy; The Power of Brand Personality (February 24) watch the conversation on YouTube
- Dr. Robert Lustig M.D., Founder, Institute for Responsible Nutrition and Pediatric Endocrinologist, UCSF (February 29) watch the conversation on YouTube
- Danae Ringelmann, Founder and Chief Development Officer, Indiegogo (March 3) watch the conversation on YouTube
- Ursula von der Leyen, Minister of Defense, Germany (March 10) watch the conversation on YouTube
- Scott Galloway, MBA 92, Founder & Chairman, L2 Inc.; Clinical Professor, NYU Stern School of Business (April 13) watch the conversation on YouTube
- Deborah Hopkins, Chief Innovation Officer, Citigroup; CEO, Citi Ventures (September 8) watch the conversation on YouTube
- Bob Shanks, EVP and CFO, Ford Motor Company (September 28) watch the conversation on YouTube
- Brexit: What Next? – Featuring Professors Maria Carkovic, Andy Rose, Barry Eichengreen, and Gerard Roland; Galina Hale, SF Federal Reserve; Co-Sponsored by the Clausen Center (September 29) watch the conversation on YouTube
- Christie Smith, Managing Principal, Deloitte University Leadership Center for Inclusion (October 13) watch the conversation on YouTube
- Joann Lublin, Management News Editor, Wall Street Journal & Author, Earning It: Hard-Won Lessons from Trailblazing Women at the Top of the Business World (November 14)
- Rosalind Brewer, President and CEO, Sam’s Club (November 29)
- Gabriel Stricker, Chief Communications Officer, Twitter (February 18) watch the conversation on YouTube
- Bengt Baron, CEO, Cloetta (March 5) watch the conversation on YouTube
- Lisa Perez Jackson, Vice President of Environmental Initiatives, Apple (March 12) watch the conversation on YouTube
- Ed Catmull, President, Walt Disney and Pixar Animation Studios (March 19) watch the conversation on YouTube
- David Aaker, Haas Professor, Emeritus, Marketing and Public Policy; Strategic Stories (April 1) watch the conversation on YouTube
- Shang-Jin Wei, Chief Economist (April 13) watch the conversation on YouTube
- Al Gore, Former Vice President of the United States (April 29) watch the conversation on YouTube
- Kevin Roberts, Executive Chairman, Saatchi & Saatchi (September 8) watch the conversation on YouTube
- Dr. Steven Chu, Former Secretary of Energy and Nobel Laureate (September 11) watch the conversation on YouTube
- Pete Flint, Co-founder, Trulia and Board Member, Zillow Group (September 24) watch the conversation on YouTube
- Rosie Rios, Treasurer of the United States; Putting a Woman on the Ten-Dollar Bill and Closing the Gender Gap in Finance (September 28) watch the conversation on YouTube
- Mitch Kapor, Founder, Lotus Development Corporation, Kapor Capital, and Kapor Center for Social Impact (October 5) watch the conversation on YouTube
- Rick Welts, President and Chief Operating Officer, Golden State Warriors (October 13) watch the conversation on YouTube
- Sustainable Food Entrepreneurship Panel: Alice Waters, Food Activist & Author, Founder, Head Chef, & Owner at Chez Panisse; Claus Meyer, Entrepreneur, Professional Chef, and Co-founder of Noma; Will Rosenzweig, Dean and Director of the Food Business School (October 29) watch the conversation on YouTube
- Joy Chen, BS 87, Chairman and CEO, H2O Plus (November 4) watch the conversation on YouTube
