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.
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Spring 2024
Blake Mycoskie
Founder, Toms Shoes
Wednesday, February 7
12:30-1:30pm
Spieker Forum
Co-sponsored by the Center for Social Sector Leadership
Chip Bergh
President & CEO, Levi Strauss & Co.
Monday, February 12
12:30-1:30pm
Spieker Forum
Co-sponsored by the Center for Responsible Business
Patricia Poppe
CEO, PG&E
Thursday, April 4
5:00-6:00pm
Spieker Forum
Patrick Collison
Co-Founder & CEO, Stripe; Co-Founder, Arc Insitute
Tuesday, April 16
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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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 10
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
Past Speakers
- Jann Wenner, Co-Founder, Rolling Stone; Chris Boskin Deans’ Speaker Series in Business and Journalism (January 24) watch
- Jensen Huang, Founder, President, & CEO, NVIDIA (January 31) watch
- 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
- Tekedra Mawakana, Co-CEO, Waymo; Co-sponsored by the Black Business Student Association and the Haas Transportation & Mobility Club (March 23) watch
- R. Martin Chavez, Vice Chairman and Partner, Sixth Street; Co-sponsored by Berkeley Culture Center (April 18) watch
- 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; Co-sponsored by Edible Education 101 (April 28) watch
- Jeff Flake, Former U.S. Senator (May 5) watch
- 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
- Alan Lock, MBA 11, Director of 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
- 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
- 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, Author & 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; Owning Game-Changing Subcategories (March 2) watch
- Al Kelly, Chairman & CEO, Visa (March 19) watch
- José Andrés, Founder, World Central Kitchen; Co-sponsored by 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; Chris Boskin Deans’ Speaker Series in Business and Journalism (February 7)
- David Aaker, Haas Professor, Emeritus, Marketing & Public Policy (March 5) watch
- Jonathan Johnson, President, Medici Ventures (April 10) watch
- Sadhguru, Author; Founder, Isha Foundation (May 1) watch
- Weijan Shan, Author; 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, 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
- John Riccitiello, BS 81, Chairman & CEO, Unity Technologies; Former CEO, Electronic Arts (February 1) watch
- David Aaker, Haas Professor, Emeritus, Marketing & Public Policy (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; Co-sponsored by the Department of Political Science and the Haas Institute of Business and Social Impact (April 4) watch
- 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) watch
- 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, Patagonia; Co-sponsored by The Peterson Speaker Series & the Center for Responsible Business (February 2) watch
- Chris Larsen, Chairman, Co-Founder, and former CEO, Ripple (February 7) watch
- Anne Bakar, President & CEO, Telecare Corporation (March 16) watch
- David Aaker, Haas Professor, Emeritus, Marketing & Public Policy; Why a Higher Purpose? (April 11) watch
- John Chambers, Executive Chairman and Former CEO, Cisco (September 20) watch
- 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
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Jonathan Bush, CEO and Co-founder, athenahealth (October 4) watch
- Carol Christ, Chancellor, UC Berkeley (October 12) watch
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Diane Bryant, Group President, Intel (November 9) watch
- Eleni Kounalakis, MBA 92, Former U.S. Ambassador to Hungary (February 4) watch
- David Aaker, Haas Professor, Emeritus, Marketing & Public Policy; The Power of Brand Personality (February 24) watch
- Dr. Robert Lustig M.D., Founder, Institute for Responsible Nutrition and Pediatric Endocrinologist, UCSF (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 & Chairman, L2 Inc.; Clinical Professor, NYU Stern School of Business (April 13) watch
- Deborah Hopkins, Chief Innovation Officer, Citigroup; CEO, Citi Ventures (September 8) watch
- Bob Shanks, EVP and CFO, Ford Motor Company (September 28) watch
- 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
- 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)
- Rosalind Brewer, President and CEO, Sam’s Club (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, Haas Professor, Emeritus, Marketing and Public Policy; Strategic Stories (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
- 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
- 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: 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
- Joy Chen, BS 87, Chairman and CEO, H2O Plus (November 4) watch
