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 live-streamed on the Berkeley Haas YouTube.
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Fall 2023
Sal Khan
Founder & CEO, Khan Academy
Tuesday, September 19
12:30-1:30pm
Spieker Forum
A.G. Breitenstein
Venture Partner, Define Ventures & Founder and Executive Chair, FOLX Health
Tuesday, October 10th
12:30-1:30pm
Spieker Forum
Co-sponsored by Q@Haas
Ruth Porat
President & Chief Investment Officer; CFO, Alphabet & Google
Wednesday, November 1
12:30-1:30pm
Spieker Forum
Michael Lewis
Author & Financial Journalist
Wednesday, November 8
12:30-1:30pm
Spieker Forum
Co-sponsored by the Berkeley Center for Workplace Culture and Innovation
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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:
- Anupama Tej
- Austin Schoff
- Madhu Gupta
- Manas Singh
- Mrudula Vemuri
- Paola Gutierrez
- Jean-Michel Depew
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Spring 2023
Jann Wenner
Co-Founder, Rolling Stone
Chris Boskin Deans’ Speaker Series in Business and Journalism
Tuesday, January 24
6:00-7:00pm
Spieker Forum
Jensen Huang
Founder, President & CEO, NVIDIA
Tuesday, January 31
5:00-6:00pm
Spieker Forum
In the halls of power: Berkeley Haas economists on advising world leaders
Featuring Professor Ulrike Malmendier, Professor Catherine Wolfram, and Dean Ann Harrison
Tuesday, February 14
12:30-1:30pm
Spieker Forum
Tekedra Mawakana
Co-CEO, Waymo
Thursday, March 23
12:30-1:30pm
Spieker Forum
Co-sponsored by the Black Business Student Association and the Haas Transportation & Mobility Club
R. Martin Chavez
Vice Chairman and Partner, Sixth Street
Tuesday, April 18
12:45-1:45pm
Spieker Forum
Co-sponsored by Berkeley Culture Center
Past Speakers
- Vanessa Morrison, BA 90, President of Streaming, Walt Disney Studios, (January 26) watch
- General Stanley McChrystal, Founder and CEO, McChrystal Group, Co-sponsored by the Haas Veterans Club, (February 9) watch
- Dan Schulman, President & CEO, PayPal, (March 1) watch
- 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
- Michael Smith, MBA 86, Chief Marketing Officer, NPR, (April 6) watch
- Indra Nooyi, Former Chairman & CEO, PepsiCo, Co-sponsored by the Berkeley Culture Initiative, (April 12) watch
- Pierre Breber, Vice President & CFO, Chevron, Sustainable Futures, Co-sponsored by BERC and Energy Institute at Haas, (September 7) watch
- Becoming a Changemaker, (September 14) watch
- Jen Wong, COO, Reddit, Co-sponsored by Q@Haas, (September 21), watch
- Mary Nichols, Vice Chair, California-China Climate Institute, Sustainable Futures, (September 29) watch
- Kathryn Hall, Founder & Co-Chair, Hall Capital Partners, Sustainable Futures, Co-sponsored by Sustainable and Impact Finance Initiative, (October 12) watch
- Mike Smith, MBA 98, General Partner & Co-Founder, Footwork, Co-sponsored by Berkeley Culture Center, (November 1) watch
- Karan Singh, BS/BA 05, COO Headspace Health; Co-Founder, Ginger, (November 9) watch
- Afsaneh Beschloss, Founder & CEO, Rockcreek, Co-sponsored by Sustainable and Impact Finance Initiative, (November 16) watch
- Lt. General Richard M. Clark, Superintendent, U.S. Air Force Academy, Co-Sponsored by the Haas Veterans Club (February 11) watch
- Sandy Alderson, President, New York Mets, Co-sponsored by the Haas Sports Business Club (March 9) watch
- Michael Drake, President, University of California, Co-sponsored by the Berkeley Culture Initiative (March 10) watch
- Pascal Millaire, CEO, CyberCube, Co-sponsored by Q@Haas (March 17) watch
- Manish Chandra, MBA 95, CEO, Poshmark, Co-sponsored by the Center for Responsible Business (April 9) watch
- Matthew Friend, BS 99, EVP & CFO, NIKE (April 16) watch
- Michelle Gadsden-Williams, Managing Director & Global Head of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, BlackRock, Co-sponsored by AmpEquity Speaker Series (April 28) watch
- Questlove, Drummer, DJ, Producer, and Food Entrepreneur, In collaboration with Edible Education 101 (April 28) watch
- Jeff Flake, Former U.S. Senator (May 5) watch
- Using the Power of Disability for Change, A conversation moderated by Zeenia Irani, MBA 2023 (August 11) watch
- Alan Lock, MBA 11, Director – Business Development and Operations, Icarus Originals, Co-sponsored by Week Zero (September 18) watch
- 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
- 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
- John Hanke, MBA 96, CEO, Niantic Inc., Co-sponsored by the Berkeley Culture Initiative (September 29) watch
- Beth Ford, CEO, Land O’Lakes, Co-sponsored by Q@Haas (October 11) watch
- Dr. Nadine Burke Harris, Surgeon General of California, Co-sponsored by “Becoming a Changemaker” (November 2) watch
- 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
- Thomas Philippon, Professor of Finance, NYU Stern, The Great Reversal: How America Gave Up on Free Markets (January 29) watch
- David Aaker, Haas Professor, Emeritus, Marketing & Public Policy; Vice Chairman, Prophet (March 2) watch
- Al Kelly, Chairman & CEO, Visa (March 19) watch
- José Andrés, Founder, World Central Kitchen In Collaboration with Edible Education 101 (April 24) watch
- Brad Smith, President, Microsoft Co-sponsored by the Center for Responsible Business (April 28) watch
- Scott Galloway, MBA 92, Professor of Marketing, NYU Stern Co-sponsored by the FTMBA 2021 MBAA (April 29) watch
- Looking forward: How can we safely open the economy?, Panel of Haas Faculty (May 1) watch
- Shantanu Narayen, MBA 93, Chairman, President & CEO, Adobe (September 30) watch
- Rosie Rios, Former Treasurer of the United States Co-sponsored by Goldman School of Public Policy and Haas LatinX Business Club (October 6) watch
- Muhammad Yunus, Founder, Grameen Bank & Nobel Laureate Co-sponsored by “Becoming a Changemaker” (October 26) watch
- Jeff McDermott, Managing Partner, Greentech Capital Advisors (November 10) watch
- Chip Bergh, President & CEO, Levi Strauss & Co. Co-sponsored by the Center for Responsible Business (December 1) watch
- Ann Harrison, Bank of America Dean, Haas School of Business (February 5) watch
- Laurene Powell Jobs, Founder and President of Emerson Collective, First Annual Chris Boskin Deans’ Speaker Series in Business and Journalism (February 7)
- David Aaker, Haas Professor, Emeritus, Marketing & Public Policy; Vice Chairman, Prophet (March 5) watch
- Jonathan Johnson, President, Medici Ventures (April 10) watch
- Sadhguru, Founder, Isha Foundation (May 1) watch
- Weijan Shan, Chairman and CEO, PAG (August 20) watch
- Arlan Hamilton, Founder and Managing Partner, Backstage Capital Co-sponsored by Q@Haas (September 17) watch
- 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
- How Media Has Affected the Culture, Clout & Climate of the Sports Business, 2nd Annual Chris Boskin Deans’ Speaker Series in Business and Journalism (November 14)
- James O’Toole, Professor Emeritus at USC’s Marshall School of Business Co-sponsored by Peterson Speaker Series (November 20) watch
- John Riccitiello, BS 81, Chairman & CEO, Unity Technologies (February 1) watch
- David Aaker, Haas Professor, Emeritus, Marketing & Public Policy; Vice Chairman, Prophet (February 20) watch
- 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
- Jonathan Haidt, Professor of Ethical Leadership, NYU Stern School of Business Co-sponsored by the Department of Political Science and the Haas Institute of Business and Social Impact (April 4)
- Ian Lee, MBA 10, General Partner, Digital Asset Investment and Executive in Residence, IDEO (April 10) watch
- Mellody Hobson, President of Ariel Investments (April 23)
- Kai-Fu Lee, Chairman & CEO, Sinovation Ventures Co-sponsored by the CITRIS Research Exchange (September 26) watch
- Eddie Hartwig, Deputy Administrator, US Digital Service (October 4) watch
- Roger Ferguson, President & CEO, TIAA (October 18) watch
- Margo Alexander, BS 68, Chair Emeritus, Acumen Co-sponsored by the Institute for Business and Social Impact (November 5) watch
- Vincent Stanley, Director of Philosophy (aka Chief Storyteller), Patagonia Co-sponsored by The Peterson Speaker Series, Berkeley Haas Center for Responsible Business (February 2) watch
- Chris Larsen, Chairman, former CEO and Co-founder, Ripple (February 7) watch
- Anne Bakar, President & CEO, Telecare Corporation (March 16) watch
- David Aaker, Haas Professor, Emeritus, Marketing & Public Policy; Vice Chairman, Prophet (April 11) watch
- John Chambers, Executive Chairman and Former CEO, Cisco (September 20) watch
- Utilizing Technology to Protect Freedom of Expression, Panel discussion featuring Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein, High Commissioner for Human Rights, United Nations, Brad Smith, President & Chief Legal Officer, Microsoft, and moderated by 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
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Jonathan Bush, CEO and Co-founder, athenahealth (October 4) watch
- Carol Christ, Chancellor, UC Berkeley
In Conversation with Dean Rich Lyons (October 12) watch -
Diane Bryant, Group President, Intel In Conversation with Dean Rich Lyons (November 9) watch
- Eleni Kounalakis, Former U.S. Ambassador to Hungary (February 4) watch
- David Aaker, E.T. Grether Professor Emeritus of Marketing and Public Policy (February 24) watch
- Dr. Robert Lustig M.D., Founder, Institute for Responsible Nutrition and Pediatric Endocrinologist, UC San Francisco (February 29) watch
- Danae Ringelmann , Founder and Chief Development Officer, Indiegogo (March 3) watch
- Ursula von der Leyen, Minister of Defense, Germany (March 10) watch
- Scott Galloway MBA 92, Founder and Chairman, L2 inc., and Clinical Professor, NYU Stern School of Business (April 13) watch
- Deborah Hopkins, Chief Innovation Officer, Citigroup and CEO, Citi Ventures (September 8) watch
- Bob Shanks, EVP and CFO, Ford Motor Company (September 28) watch
- Brexit: What Next? – Panel discussion moderated by Maria Carkovic, Exec. Dir., Clausen Center, featuring Berkeley Haas Prof. Andy Rose; UC Berkeley Profs. Barry Eichengreen and Gerard Roland; and SF Federal Reserve’s Galina Hale (September 29) watch
- Christie Smith, Managing Principal, Deloitte University Leadership Center for Inclusion (October 13) watch
- 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) watch
- Rosalind Brewer, President and CEO, Sam’s Club, a division of Wal-Mart Stores Inc (November 29)
- Gabriel Stricker, Chief Communications Officer, Twitter (February 18) watch
- Bengt Baron, CEO, Cloetta (March 5) watch
- Lisa Perez Jackson, Vice President of Environmental Initiatives, Apple (March 12) watch
- Ed Catmull , President, Walt Disney and Pixar Animation Studios (March 19) watch
- David Aaker, E.T. Grether Professor Emeritus of Marketing and Public Policy (April 1) watch
- Shang-Jin Wei, Chief Economist (April 13) watch
- Al Gore, Former Vice President of the United States (April 29) watch
- Kevin Roberts, Executive Chairman, Saatchi & Saatchi (September 8) watch
- Dr. Steven Chu, Former Secretary of Energy and Nobel Laureate (September 11) watch
- Pete Flint, Co-founder, Trulia and Board Member, Zillow Group (September 24) watch
- Putting a Woman on the Ten-Dollar Bill and Closing the Gender Gap in Finance – Panel discussion featuring Rosie Rios, Treasurer of the United States, Julie Bell BS 97, CFO, Tea Collection, Larissa Roesch MBA 97, Vice President & Portfolio Manager, Dodge & Cox, Morgana Davids MBA 16, Sydney Thomas MBA 16, and Rachel Park MBA/MPH 16 (September 28) watch
- Mitch Kapor, Founder, Lotus Development Corporation, Kapor Capital, and Kapor Center for Social Impact (October 5) watch
- Rick Welts, President and Chief Operating Officer, Golden State Warriors (October 13) watch
- Sustainable Food Entrepreneurship – Panel discussion with Will Rosenzweig (moderator), Dean and Director of the Food Business School, Alice Waters , Food Activist, Author, and Founder, Head Chef, and Owner at Chez Panisse and Claus Meyer, Entrepreneur, Professional Chef, and Co-founder of Noma (October 29) watch
- Joy Chen BS 87, Chairman and CEO, H2O Plus (November 4) watch
