Events. Please see our Events Page for more programs of interest to students.

Business Plan Competitions

The Lester Center for Entrepreneurship & Innovation, an affiliate of the Institute, oversees a variety of premier business plan competitions for the benefit of Haas MBA and other Berkeley graduate students. These competitions have helped to identify and promote promising business ideas through the education and exposure afforded by the competition’s events, mentors and judges.

Certificate Programs

The Certificate in Entrepreneurship, supported by the Lester Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation, an affiliate of the Institute, provides MBA students with evidence of a completed curriculum teaching basic skills required to identify an entrepreneurial opportunity, design the business, obtain financing and manage the growth process. Many related links can be found at the Lester Center’s Student Activities pages.

The Management of Technology Certificate, supported by the Management of Technology Program, an affiliate of the Institute, provides students with the opportunity to attend a variety of courses offered by Haas, Engineering, and SIMS relating to management issues in the high-tech field.

Awards

The Gloria W. Appel Award for Outstanding Leadership in Entrepreneurship is presented by the Lester Center for Entrepreneurship & Innovation, an affiliate of the Institute, to a second year MBA candidate of outstanding caliber who has made an extraordinary and lasting contribution to the entrepreneurship program at Haas. A $5,000 fellowship accompanies the award.

Fellowships and Internships

Fellowships in Management, Strategy and Organization

Bradley Fellowships
LECG Founders Fellowships
Peter T. Jones Fellowships
Sasakawa Fellowships

Fellowships and Internships in Innovation and Entrepreneurship

Price Fellowships
Turner Fellowships
Summer Internship Support
Venture Capital Fellowships
Fellowships in Technology Development and Management
Mayfield Fellows
MOT China Fellows

The Bradley Fellowships, administered by the Institute, support meritorious and promising graduate and post-graduate fellowships in the Haas School of Business and the Department of Economics, with emphasis on applied microeconomics and public policy.

For more information, please contact Pat Murphy at murphy@haas.berkeley.edu.

LECG Founders Fellowships

LECG Founders Fellowships, administered by the Institute, support newly entering graduate students in the Haas School of Business and the Department of Economics who intend to specialize in industrial organization, regulation or public policy.

For more information, please contact Pat Murphy at murphy@haas.berkeley.edu.

Peter T. Jones Fellowships

The Peter T. Jones Fellowship, administered by the Institute, is awarded to outstanding graduate students and visiting faculty at Berkeley whose studies and research embrace matters which impact global understanding and economic development at home and abroad. The fellowship is a living tribute to Peter's dedication to education, international cooperation and human welfare.

For more information, please contact Pat Murphy at murphy@haas.berkeley.edu.

Sasakawa Fellowships

The Ryoichi Sasakawa Young Leaders Fellowship, administered by the Institute, helps to educate graduate students of the University of California at Berkeley with high potential for future leadership in international affairs, in public life as well as in private endeavor, providing these students with a wide range of courses and research opportunity at the Haas School of Business in the MBA and business administration Ph.D. programs, and in joint programs of study with other disciplines.

For more information, please contact Pat Murphy at murphy@haas.berkeley.edu.

Fellowships and Internships in Innovation and Entrepreneurship

Price Fellowships

Two $5,000 Price Institute Fellowship awards, administered by the Lester Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation, an affiliate of the Institute, are awarded each year to eligible students interested in an entrepreneurial career.

The Price Institute Fellowships are designed to help identify and nurture entrepreneurial talent. Through greater insight into their rare abilities, a new generation of entrepreneurs--better recognized and equipped than the one before it--will make significant contributions to the community.

For more information, please visit the program website or contact Tamara Williamson at tamaraw@haas.berkeley.edu.

Turner Fellowships

The Turner Fellowship, administered by the Lester Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation, an affiliate of the Institute, has been established to support MBA students in their entrepreneurial efforts. One $5,000 fellowship will be awarded to an outstanding MBA student (Day or Evening/Weekend). A faculty committee makes the selections based on academic achievements, entrepreneurial experience, career goals, and financial need.

For more information, please visit the program website or contact Tamara Williamson at tamaraw@haas.berkeley.edu.

Summer Internship Support

The Lester Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation, an affiliate of the Institute, works with the Entrepreneurs Association (EA) and its Partners for Entrepreneurial Leadership to find EA members summer internships with entrepreneurial companies and to help them capitalize on those internships in classes during the following semester.

The Lester Center administers a changing series of grants that allow it to subsidize selected students who are working at small, start-up firms that can’t afford the market rates for Haas MBA interns.

For more information, please visit the program website or contact Tamara Williamson at tamaraw@haas.berkeley.edu.

Venture Capital Fellowships

The Lester Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation, an affiliate of the Institute, annually selects exceptional first year MBA students to receive its Venture Capital Fellowships. The internship provides the MBA candidate with hands-on experience in the world of new venture creation and management. The Fellowships are awarded only to first year Haas MBA candidates or first year Haas evening MBA program participants who have superior qualifications and strong interest in Venture Capital industry. Applications are judged by a panel of faculty and advisors with venture capital experience named each year by the Lester Center.

For more information, please visit the program website or contact Tamara Williamson at tamaraw@haas.berkeley.edu.

Fellowships in Technology Development and Management

Mayfield Fellows

The Mayfield Fellows Program is a year-long program organized by the Management of Technology Program, an affiliate of the Institute. It is a unique program designed to bring together graduate students from the Haas Business School, College of Engineering, and School of Information Management who share a passion for entrepreneurship and technology. The program provides the ultimate entrepreneurship experience by combining ongoing mentoring with faculty, company executives, and venture capitalists and Silicon Valley networking activities. Fellows further have an opportunity to travel and study entrepreneurship in Asia in the summer.

The UC Berkeley Mayfield Fellows Program is funded by the Mayfield Fund, a top-tier venture capital fund based in Menlo Park, California.

For more information please visit the program website or contact the MOT Program Manager, Susan Reneau, at sreneau@haas.berkeley.edu.

MOT China Fellows

The MOT China Fellows Program was created for MBA and graduate engineering and SIMS students with an interest in technology, business, and the rapid development of China's high tech economy. The program is administered by the Management of Technology Program, an affiliate of the Institute.

The fellowship includes an MOT-organized trip to China. The Fellows will travel to Shanghai, Guangzhou and Beijing to meet with high tech executives, business leaders, researchers and government officials, and meet their counterparts at Chinese universities.

For more information please visit the program website.

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