The Haas Alumni Network East Bay Chapter cordially invites you to spend an evening with Dean Rich Lyons, who will present the new Strategic Plan, which promises to put Haas at the forefront of business schools, worldwide. The Plan leverages Haas’ unique culture to redefine the role of the business leader.
As an added bonus, there will be a surprise entertainer.
Date: Thursday, July 14, 2011
Time: 6:30 pm to 9:00 pm
Location:
Lafayette Veterans Memorial Building
3780 Mt. Diablo Blvd
Lafayette, CA 94549
(925) 283-1153
Parking and BART Access:
Parking is available just east of the building (towards downtown Lafayette). The Lafayette BART Station is about 7/10th of a mile (to the East) from the Veterans Bldg.
Cost:
Alumni and Guests – $30, if registered by July 7 (use discount code HAAS10), and $40 after July 7
Students – $20
Appetizers and wine will be served.
Detailed Description of the evening:
Engage with Rich around the new strategic plan designed to fulfill Haas’ mission of developing leaders who redefine the way we do business. In the words of New York Times best-selling author and world-renowned executive coach, Marshall Goldsmith. “Haas is headed in a direction that is fresh and unique. This program is taking a stand on the root source of success in leadership and business — and developing the leader who will take their organizations into the future.” The plan builds on the best that Haas has to offer including a culture that all of us recognize and promises an increasingly bright future for Haas.
6:30 pm – 7:00 pm: Registration & Networking
7:00 pm – 8:15 pm: Presentation and discussion
8:15 pm – 8:30 pm: Surprise Entertainment Special
8:30 pm – 9:00 pm: Networking Reception
About our Dean – Rich Lyons
Richard K. Lyons became the Bank of America Dean of the Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley, in July 2008. He is a graduate of the school’s undergraduate business program. Dean Lyons has focused his first year in office on refining the Haas School’s strategic plan to leverage the traits that are distinctively Berkeley. He also launched the public phase of a $300 million capital campaign, the Campaign for Haas. Its goals are centered on transforming the Haas School campus, building a curriculum based on the Berkeley-Haas approach to leadership, and aggressively expanding the school’s faculty and its support for research.
Prior to becoming dean, Lyons served as the chief learning officer at Goldman Sachs in New York, where he was responsible for leadership development among the firm’s managing directors. Dean Lyons started his career as a professor of finance. He joined the Haas School in 1993. In 2004, he was named acting dean of the school for one year and then continued his strategic duties here as executive associate dean from 2005 to 2006. Following completion of his undergraduate studies at Berkeley in 1982, Lyons went on to earn a PhD in international and macroeconomics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 1987. He began his teaching career at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Business in New York, where he served on the faculty from 1987 until he joined the Haas School faculty in 1993.
For questions, contact:
Dave Sherman: dave@dsherman.net
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