Alumni

The combined Berkeley-Columbia alumni network gives you access to more than 75,000 graduates worldwide, leading names in business today and many who will be leading the future. Among the schools’ alumni are the CEO of Berkshire Hathaway, president and CEO of Intel, Chairman and CEO of Ogilvy & Mather Worldwide, CEO of Vodafone, founding partner of Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co., and executives at other Fortune 500 companies, as well as pioneering entrepreneurs at start-ups large and small. Both schools maintain an active online community with alumni contacts, career services, a job listings database, and alumni chapters around the world. No matter where your career path takes you, you can stay connected to an expanding support base.

Because your fellow Haas and Columbia Business School alumni know the intellectual rigor and innovative thinking associated with your education—an asset for any company—they often reach out to hire graduates of the program. Looking to add value to his management-consulting firm, Situation Management Group, Bradley Cameron, MBA 2007, tapped six fellow graduates to join the company. For Hardika Shah, MBA 2009, the network provided tangible value when two classmates invested in the seed round of her social enterprise venture. And after graduation, Yoav Gilat, MBA 2005, and Greg Ahn, MBA 2004, teamed up to start a successful wine business, Cannonball.

Students Always

After you graduate, lifetime auditing privileges at both schools allow you to continually renew your business education. The opportunity to audit elective EMBA and MBA courses (space permitting and with faculty permission) means you can learn new skills, refresh existing ones, remain current in your industry, and continue to build your network.

“Since graduating, I haven’t had a position that wasn’t somehow connected to the program or the degree. I’ve found that I love being an independent contributor and consultant—pulling together a broad band of information and figuring out how to move forward—and my last three roles were directly related to people I knew from the program who brought me into their companies in various capacities.  I’ve taken roles where I’ve had no direct background, but, with the skills and frameworks I learned through the program, I have the knowledge and confidence to step in and solve problems.”

Martha Gerhan, MBA 2004 (first graduating class)
Independent Consultant

The EMBA Experience: Global Gatherings

Alumni gather formally and informally all over the world. Convene with Haas alumni at the International Green Energy Forum in Shanghai, in Moscow to welcome Haas’s latest admits, or in LA for a high-level discussion with corporate directors and their advisors on the future of healthcare benefits. Join a regional Columbia alumni club happy hour in San Isidro, Peru, or Lagos, Nigeria, or join fellow alumni at a reception for Columbia Business School Dean Glenn Hubbard at Hong Kong University (one of Columbia’s global partners, through the EMBA-Global Asia program).

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