The Institute for Business Innovation disseminates pioneering research on innovation, trains students to be inventive and entrepreneurial leaders, and facilitates innovation in both the startup and corporate domains.
Centers and Programs
Garwood Center for Corporate Innovation
The Garwood Center for Corporate Innovation is anchored in open innovation research. The Center brings together scholar and practitioners and offers customized business solutions to facilitate the formation of strategic alliances, partnerships & ecosystems, and the creation of sustainable business models.
Fisher Center for Business Analytics
The Fisher Center for Business Analytics advances the creation of business value from data science. The Center conducts research, coordinates a range of educational programs, and partners with industry to accelerate the diffusion and adoption of analytics in all aspects of business and management.
Berkeley Haas Entrepreneurship Program
The Berkeley Haas Entrepreneurship Program integrates entrepreneurial thinking into the Haas student experience and assists Haas and UC Berkeley students in launching new ventures. The Program offers multidisciplinary experiential learning opportunities, seed funding for selected startups, and connections to the greater UC Berkeley and Bay Area entrepreneurial ecosystems.
Innovation, Creativity, & Design Practice
The Innovation, Creativity, & Design Practice fosters connections between Berkeley-Haas and industry to give students opportunities to participate in the innovation process and human-centered design, helping them develop the skills, tools, and strategic framework to become path-bending leaders.
Tusher Initiative for the Management of Intellectual Capital
The Tusher Initiative for the Management of Intellectual Capital engages in research, teaching, and outreach on management and policy issues surrounding intangible assets and firm competitiveness.
Berkeley Haas Culture Center
The Berkeley Haas Culture Center creates a community of managers and academics who are jointly concerned with, challenged by, and excited about organizational culture. This initiative aims to both help organizations function more effectively and to help advance academic understanding through research and discussion facilitated through the annual Culture Conference as well as various events throughout the year.
Center for Growth Markets
The Center for Growth Markets (CGM) focuses on growth and development challenges in fast-growing economies across the world, which represent the economic, business, and human capital development opportunities of the 21st century. CGM is a world-class platform that provides intellectual leadership and creates actionable research and knowledge to solve the grand challenges related to business and economic development in growth markets. CGM facilitates collaboration between UC Berkeley researchers and corporate partners, academic institutions, and policy makers in growth markets.
O’Donnell Center for Behavioral Economics
The O’Donnell Center for Behavioral Economics supports scholarship combining the highest standards of economic research with insights drawn from psychology and across the sciences—including cognitive science, neuroscience, biology, medicine, epidemiology, and genetics. Its cross-disciplinary approach promotes the application of these principles in such fields as labor, finance, and health economics.
Center for Healthcare Marketplace Innovation (CHMI)
The Center for Healthcare Marketplace Innovation (CHMI) is accelerating the development of economic and computational solutions that will transform the delivery of healthcare. CHMI combines cutting-edge research on decision-making and economics with machine learning and AI research to make informed interventions and drive change. The center is a partnership between the College of Computing, Data Science, and Society and the Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley.
Health Analytics Lab
The Health Analytics Lab (HAL) brings together research activities at Berkeley-Haas focused on healthcare-related industries, from drug discovery to service delivery to insurance markets. Research focuses on applying theoretical understandings from the social sciences and cutting-edge statistical and computational methods to very large-scale micro data.