TWO Campuses, Two Cultures

Home to diverse communities and global business centers, the Bay Area and New York City offer vivid contrasts for your course of study. This experience enhances your agility at operating in diverse corporate cultures—and gives you a firsthand bicoastal look at the ideas, attitudes and practices that are shaping business.

The HAAS School and The Bay Area
The Haas School of Business and the University of California Berkeley are integral parts of the San Francisco Bay Area innovation ecosystem, which actively supports new ideas in business at a level that is unequaled anywhere else in the world. With its venture capital firms, established technology companies, and thriving internet, biotech, and digital media industries, the Bay Area is home to many of the most dynamic names in business—Apple, Google, Charles Schwab, Genentech, Pixar, YouTube, and more. You will feel the spirit of innovation everyday at Haas.

Leading Through Innovation
The Berkeley MBA Program is about developing leaders who possess a distinct advantage: the ability to lead using the power of innovation. At the Haas School, Leading Through Innovation is defined as a mindset and an array of capabilities that will enable you to promote and foster environments where innovation flourishes. The Haas School has a culture where fresh thinking is encouraged and where leadership is expected.

The Haas School is enhanced by being part of the University of California Berkeley, one of the world’s great universities. The 1,200-acre campus, rimmed by coffee houses, bookstores and gourmet restaurants, is perched on a hillside offering postcard views of the Golden Gate Bridge and the Pacific Ocean beyond.

Columbia Business School and Manhattan
At Columbia Business School you’ll do more than observe the rapidly changing world; you’ll be immersed in it. With a faculty that counts many leading practitioners among its ranks, and with access to many more, the school provides a unique bridge between cutting-edge theory and the dynamic realities of today’s business environment. The school’s global perspective and entrepreneurial mindset equip students to seize opportunities in fields such as private equity, global brand leadership, real estate and many others.

Ivy Flourishes in the City
Columbia University’s Italian Renaissance–style campus provides a traditional Ivy League setting only steps from the cosmopolitan swirl of Manhattan. The rush that is New York permeates the educational experience both inside and outside the classroom. Many Berkeley-Columbia Executive MBA students schedule time to connect with the city’s many multinational businesses and financial exchanges, and to enjoy the restaurants, entertainment, and culture that make the city one of the world’s favorite destinations.

Two Schools, Two Neighborhoods