D-Schools 2007

U.C-Berkeley, Haas School of Business

Berkeley, Calif.

2,248 graduate students
Business

Partnerships
Academic: California College of the Arts; San Jose State University

Top Employers: Google, Bank of America, Deloitte, Yahoo!, McKinsey

Claim to Fame: Paul Otellini, CEO of Intel is an alumnus, as is Rodrigo de Rato, managing director of the IMF. Professor Laura Tyson was an economic adviser to former President Bill Clinton.

Signature Programs: Berkeley and CCA are known for their twelve-year-old partnership in a product design course, where engineers, business students, and designers work on prototypes and business plans. In addition, Berkeley's own business programs offer courses in design as strategy, design thinking, and labs in innovation and technology, as well as a certificate program in management of technology that folds in most of the design-related classes.