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Businesses spend billions to reach customers through online advertising but just how effective are paid search ads? Using data from eBay, economist Steven Tadelis at UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business compared whether consumers are more likely to click on paid ads than on free, generic search results and found that advertisers may not be getting their money’s worth.

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UC Berkeley's Haas School of Business Dean Rich Lyons announces the launch of the Berkeley-Haas Case Series, which extracts lessons for success from unconventional management strategies and disruptive trends.

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The Fisher Center for Real Estate & Urban Economics at UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business presents its annual symposium on the real estate market and industry trends.

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Douglas E. Goldman, M.D. received the Berkeley-Haas its Business Leader of the Year award at a gala on Nov. 15 in San Francisco. The honor recognizes Goldman's successful business career, philanthropy, and commitment to the University and the Haas School of Business.

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The Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley will significantly boost its efforts to inspire creative and effective business solutions to address some of the world’s most pressing problems, when it launches its new Institute for Business and Social Impact on November 6. The institute will be led by Professor Laura Tyson, economist, policy maker, and former Haas School dean.

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EmpoweredU and the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley today announced the roll-out of a new mobile learning platform for the Berkeley MBA for Executives program.

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UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business’ 2013 Fraud and Misconduct Conference is the first event of its type ever organized by a business school. Assistant Professor Jo-Ellen Pozner developed the conference with other Haas professors to create a center of scholarship around wrongdoing in organizations.

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The ninth annual Berkeley-Haas >play conference is a day of memorable keynotes from industry titans, panels on the latest digital media trends, a product expo and rocket pitch, plus a career fair. The >play conference is entirely produced by MBA students from UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business.

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Most know that hiding something from others can cause internal angst. New research by Berkeley-Haas marketing professor Clayton R. Critcher suggests the consequences can go far beyond emotional strife and that being forced to keep information concealed, such as one’s sexual orientation, disrupts the concealer’s basic skills and abilities, including intellectual acuity, physical strength, and interpersonal grace—skills critical to workplace success.

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A new study by Berkeley-Haas Associate Professor Don Moore finds employment managers tend to ignore the context of past performance.

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Researchers at MIT and UC Berkeley announce "The E2e Project," a new interdisciplinary research project that aims to evaluate and improve energy-efficiency policies and technologies. Its goal is to support and conduct rigorous and objective research, communicate the results and give decision-makers the real-world analysis they need to make smart choices.

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A new study by accounting professor Yaniv Konchitchki finds greater transparency in firms’ earnings has a positive effect on the bottom line.

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A study in Rwanda by UC Berkeley Professor Paul Gertler shows that financial incentives for medical providers improve service and health outcomes.

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Derek Dean joins the Center for Executive Education (CEE) as its new CEO, bringing more than two decades of experience in consulting at The Exetor Group and McKinsey & Co. The Center for Executive Education at UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business offers a portfolio of open enrollment and custom programs for today’s global executive.

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The 18th Annual Fisher Center Real Estate Conference, presented by the Fisher Center for Real Estate and Urban Economics, University of California, Berkeley’s Haas School of Business, will be held April 22, 2013, 8 am to 5 pm, at the Palace Hotel in San Francisco, CA.

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Eighteen social venture start-ups will compete during the final round of the Global Social Venture Competition (GSVC) on April 12, 2013, 8:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. in Andersen Auditorium at the Haas School of Business.

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Independence. Creativity. Money. Those are the benefits associated with successful entrepreneurs such as Steve Jobs and Mark Zuckerberg. But is being an entrepreneur really more lucrative than working for a salary? And who is best cut out to succeed? A new study by Professor Ross Levine of the Haas Economic Analysis and Policy Group answers both of these questions.

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The University of California, Berkeley, UC San Francisco and Stanford University are collaborating on an educational program aimed at commercializing university research and fostering innovation locally and nationally, thanks to a three-year, $3.75 million grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF).

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Berkeley-Haas’ Fisher Center for Real Estate and Urban Economics presents a discussion of the future of California’s housing climate by those shaping the market, including top real estate experts, policymakers, housing developers, investors, finance agencies, and consumer services organizations.

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Prof. David Teece, the Thomas W. Tusher Professor in Global Business and faculty director of the Institute for Business Innovation, received the Royal Honour of Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit. Associate Prof. Nicolae Gârleanu , the Paul H. Stephens Chair in Applied Investment Analysis, is the winner of the Smith Breeden Prize from the Journal of Finance. Assistant Prof. Adair Morse, a visiting professor in the Haas Finance Group, is the recipient of the Journal of Finance’s Brattle Prize.

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Berkeley-Haas Finance Professor Ulrike Malmendier has been awarded the 2013 Fischer Black Prize from the American Finance Association, which honors the top finance scholar under the age of 40 years old. The prize was announced to the public Jan. 7, 2013.

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Wide-scale tax evasion in Greece accounts for 28 billion Euros in unreported taxable income –just among the self-employed, according to a new study, “Tax Evasion Across Industries: Soft Credit Evidence from Greece,” by Adair Morse, a visiting assistant professor of finance at the University of California, Berkeley's Haas School of Business.

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As a corporate responsibility consultant, Kellie McElhaney publicly criticized Apple’s recent appointment of another man to an already all-male executive team. McElhaney’s new research goes one step further, indicating that the number of women on a corporate board correlates with a firm’s sustainability performance.

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November 19, 2012 - Practitioners in the real estate, finance, and legal professions will gather in San Francisco for the 35th Annual Real Estate & Economics Symposium sponsored by the Fisher Center for Real Estate and Urban Economics at the University of California, Berkeley’s Haas School of Business.

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The last few months leading up to an election can be a critical, political game changer. One right or one wrong move can quickly change a candidate’s standing at the polls. New UC Berkeley research suggests that judges who are elected, rather than appointed, respond to this political pressure by handing down more severe criminal sentences – as much as 10 percent longer –in the last three months before an election compared with the beginning of their terms.

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Flirtatiousness, female friendliness, or the more diplomatic description “feminine charm” is an effective way for women to gain negotiating mileage, according to a new negotiaion study by Haas School of Business Professor Laura Kray.

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Procter & Gamble Chief Information Officer Filippo Passerini honored for seminal vision and ideas.

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Berkeley-Haas Professor David Vogel has won the Academy of Management Organization and the Natural Environment Division Book Award for his book, The Politics of Precaution: Regulating Health, Safety, and Environmental Risks in Europe and the United States.

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A real estate investor owns a big office-building complex and decides he needs $10 million to invest in energy-efficient improvements. He goes to the bank, where the loan officer says, “Sorry, we don’t do that kind of thing.” When it comes to underwriting commercial real-estate loans, energy efficiency hasn’t been a part of the conversation – but it should be, according to a new study, Energy Efficiency and Commercial-Mortgage Valuation, by Profs. Nancy Wallace,Dwight Jaffee, and Richard Stanton at the University of California, Berkeley's Haas School of Business.

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As the fall semester approaches, the Haas School welcomes three tenured professors from the East Coast’s finest business schools to its world-class faculty. Management and entrepreneurship professor Toby E. Stuart from Harvard Business School, a multi-award winner for his research in entrepreneurship takes the helm as faculty director of the school’s Lester Center for Entrepreneurship. Professor Ross Levine from Brown University, ranked one of the ten most cited finance experts from 2001-2011 by Research Papers in Economics (RePEc), joins the Haas Finance Group. Associate finance professor Gustavo Manso, previously at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, arrived at Berkeley-Haas in the spring and already holds a teaching award from his full-time Berkeley MBA students.

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UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business is today formally launching its new Berkeley MBA for Executives Program (http://mbaforexecs.haas.berkeley.edu), which is designed to put executive careers on the fast track and to teach working professionals how to generate fresh ideas that drive their businesses forward. The program will enroll its first class in May 2013.

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Researchers have long known that people are very frequently overconfident – that they tend to believe they are more physically talented, socially adept, and skilled at their job than they actually are. For example, 94% of college professors think they do above average work (which is nearly impossible, statistically speaking). But this overconfidence can also have detrimental effects on their performance and decision-making. So why, in light of these negative consequences, is overconfidence still so pervasive? The lure of social status promotes overconfidence.

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Air pollution, climate change, food additives, pesticides, cosmetic safety, and electronic product hazards all pose global consumer and environmental risks, but the regulatory controls to manage them vary by country and by region. In recent decades, Europe has taken the lead over the U.S. in comprehensively managing such risks, according to a new book by UC Berkeley Professor David Vogel. In "The Politics of Precaution: Regulating Health, Safety, and Environmental Risks in Europe and the United States" (Princeton University Press 2012), Vogel argues that there has been an overall shift towards greater regulation to manage risk in Europe than in the United States in the last five decades.

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Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is typically used by medical professionals to visualize the internal structures of the human body. By using MRI to study the brain, Ming Hsu, assistant professor of marketing at the University of California, Berkeley's Haas School of Business, found a method to characterize how the different regions of the brain function in concert to enable people to anticipate and respond to competitors' behavior.

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Startup businesses are pervasive in every industry these days. Some succeed. Others fail. Some of the most promising startups can be found at the UC Berkeley Startup Competition, organized by Berkeley MBA students with support from the Haas School’s Lester Center for Entrepreneurship, where the winners will receive generous prizes to grow and expand their projects.

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Building sustainably engineered houses in Bangladesh. Fighting malnutrition in Burkina Faso with local collection and distribution of high-protein caterpillars—a staple of the local diet. Lowering diabetes among pregnant women in Mexico through monitoring tools, text messaging, and peer-to-peer education. Those are a sampling of homegrown ideas from some of the world’s brightest and most passionate business students competing in the final round of the 2012 Global Social Venture Competition, to be held at the University of California, Berkeley’s Haas School of Business, April 20, 8 a.m.to 9 p.m. Finalist presentations will be held from 2 p.m. to 4:30 p.m.

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Walmart may serve millions of customers, but suppliers who are lucky enough to have Walmart as their customer have one more reason to smile—in the spirit of the chain store’s famous “happy face” logo. According to supply chain research by Panos Patatoukas, assistant professor of accounting at the University of California, Berkeley’s Haas School of Business, suppliers with few but major customers enjoy higher performance—demonstrated by bottom line profitability rates and stock market valuations—than firms with a less concentrated customer base.

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The Economist will hold its third annual Ideas Economy: Innovation conference on March 28, 2012, 9 a.m. to 7 p.m., at the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley. This year’s event will focus on how innovation can propel nations and lead to lasting global progress and prosperity. Berkeley-Haas Professor Laura D. Tyson, S. K. and Angela Chan Chair in Global Management, will join the brightest minds in business, academia and beyond, to discuss the connection between innovation and economic growth. Tyson is currently a member of President Obama’s Council on Jobs and Competitiveness and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s Foreign Affairs Policy Board.

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This year’s POWER conference, sponsored by Energy Institute at Haas at the University of California, Berkeley, brings together outstanding scholars and energy practitioners to exchange ideas and research results on topics related to electricity markets and regulation.

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Perched in the 10,000 square-foot penthouse of downtown Berkeley’s tallest building, Berkeley Skydeck may have the best 360-degree views in the city, but it’s what is happening inside this new start-up incubator-accelerator that will change the way emerging startups scale up to succeed. The Berkeley Skydeck start-up accelerator is the genesis of new collaborations between the University of California, Berkeley business and engineering students, professors and scientists, Bay Area entrepreneurs, investors, innovators, the city of Berkeley, and local business leaders.

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Imagine a plan that reduces the cost of overcrowded prisons, lowers recidivism, creates a new form of human capital investment, and exemplifies societal goodwill. Five Berkeley Master of Financial Engineering (MFE) Program students at the University of California, Berkeley’s Haas School of Business did just that last fall with a proposal to offer financing and credit to former inmates who aim to become entrepreneurs and small business owners.

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How do we fix the US housing market? What are the risks and rewards of the current market? Is real estate finance and investing manageable today? These are just some of the topics at the 34th Annual Real Estate Symposium, sponsored by the Fisher Center for Real Estate & Urban Economics at the University of California, Berkeley’s Haas School of Business.

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Associate Professor Leif Nelson at the University of California, Berkeley’s Haas School of Business has been awarded this year’s Robert B. Cialdini Award for excellence in a published field study by the Society for Personality and Social Psychology (SPSP).

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The 2011 World Conference on Mass Customization, Personalization, and Co-Creation (MCPC): Bridging Mass Customization and Open Innovation is expected to bring together 500 business leaders and academics to share knowledge about how two major schools of thought on innovation – mass customization and open innovation – can work harmoniously together.

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Watching a horror movie can scare you into selling your stocks earlier than you would have otherwise. That’s the frightening evidence shown in a series of studies by Associate Professor Eduardo Andrade, University of California, Berkeley’s Haas School of Business.

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UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business will recognize two path-bending leaders among its alumni -- Robert G. O’Donnell, BS 65, MBA 66, and Robert Lutz, BS 61, MBA 62 -- on Friday, Nov. 4, at an alumni gala in San Francisco. O’Donnell will be named the Haas School’s Business Leader of the Year; Lutz will receive the school’s 2011 Leading Through Innovation Award.

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The San Francisco Bay Area is well known for its wealth of innovation from new technologies to cutting-edge cuisine. As a result, the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley has been selected as the only West Coast business school to participate in the “Ideas for Transformation” global MBA challenge competition sponsored by the elBulliFoundation and Telefonica.