Nine months after his arrival, the school's constituencies reached consensus on a new strategic vision for the school. Of worldwide relevance to business practitioners, these interdisciplinary areas focus on natural strengths of the campus and Bay Area and draw faculty, students, and business partners to the school. In outlining the school's strategic vision to business leaders, he often refers to areas of long-term Haas faculty expertise. In finance, understanding global capital markets has always required deep knowledge of the economic, social, and political forces driving the world economy. But the world of finance today also requires our students to understand the transformational role that technology and entrepreneurial innovation play in accelerating the pace of global financial change.
Information now flows at the speed of light and the global capital market is always open somewhere.
The Fisher Center for Real Estate and Urban Economics, for example, based at the Haas School, supports faculty research in business, economics, law, public policy, city and regional planning, and environmental design. While Berkeley has led in this field since the center's creation in 1950, Hasler pointed to three newer research centers as further indication of the strength of the school's strategic choices. In 1991 we established the Lester Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation. Technical questions or comments regarding the website may be directed to the Webmaster .