CIO of General Motors to Receive Award
The 6th annual Fisher-Hopper Prize for Lifetime Achievement in CIO Leadership will be awarded to Randy Mott, CIO of GM, at the Renaissance CIO Banquet on Sept. 28, 2017. The event is sponsored by the Fisher Center for Business Analytics. Read more.
Data Strategy & Data Driven Marketing Course on May 15 – 19, 2017
Prof. La Blanc will lead a 3 day course on Data Strategy for Business Leaders from May 15-17, 2017 & a 2-day course on Data Driven Marketing Course from May 18-19, 2017. These courses will equip attendees to assess and modify a company’s data strategy as well as design new business models around data collection and analytics. Read more.
New Data Strategy Course to be held on May 15-17
Prof. La Blanc will lead a 3 day course on Data Strategy for Business Leaders scheduled at Berkeley-Haas on May 15-17, 2017. This course will equip attendees to assess and modify a company’s data strategy as well as design new business models around data collection and analytics. Read more.
Garwood Center honors President Obama
The Institute’s Garwood Center for Corporate Innovation honored US President Barack Obama with the Award for Outstanding Global Leadership in Open Innovation at the World Open Innovation Conference held at ESADE Business School in Barcelona. Read more.
Digital Disruptions in the Workplace
Tom Keiser, CIO of Zendesk, attended the Fisher CIO Leadership Program’s CIO Community event in September, and wrote about the conference topic: “Digital Disruptions To The Workplace – What Every CIO Should Be Thinking About”. Read the article.
World Open Innovation Conference in Barcelona, December 15-16
Henry Chesbrough, faculty director of the Garwood Center for Corporate Innovation, and known worldwide as the “father of open innovation,” is hosting the Third Annual World Open Innovation Conference in Barcelona, December 15-16.
Read more. See the conference program.
Hult Prize at Berkeley on November 28
BHEP is hosting the Hult Prize Foundation competition at UC Berkeley on November 28. This year’s challenge is: Reawakening Human Potential: building sustainable, scalable start-up enterprises that will restore the rights and dignity of 10 million refugees by 2022.
Read more.
Institute Invites Visiting Professor in Innovation
Prof. Yona Rubinstein of the London School of Economics is the first Visiting Professor in Innovation, a new program at the Institute for Business Innovation whose purpose is to stimulate interest and promote research with Haas faculty on innovation issues. IBI director Maria Carkovic interviewed Rubinstein on the subject of talent management. See the video.
David Teece on how universities can build ‘dynamic capabilities’
The Times Higher Education recently published an article by David Teece titled “Universities must ‘think like business leaders’ in face of financial cuts”. Read more.
Innovation and the Language of the Corner Office
Haas@Work executive director Dave Rochlin, writing in MIT Sloan Management Review, looks at the differences between the language and tools of functional executives (and their strategy consultants) and those of innovation executives. Read the article.