Berkeley Haas

What Berkeley Haas Amounts To

A finance-side course and its own club.

At a Glance

Courses

1 named course, below.

Club

An Entrepreneur Through Acquisition Club, listed by name in the directory; the school records two MBA students splitting it out of the Finance Club so ETA had its own home, resources, and internships.

Money

Nothing published.

Conference

Nothing published.

The Classes

• Search FundsTaught by Jan Simon.

Who teaches and leads it

• Jan Simon, a former Goldman Sachs executive, who teaches the Search Funds course
• Bill Rindfuss, the finance group's executive director of strategic programs, who proposed it

What Else It Runs

• A Search Funds & Entrepreneurial Acquisition course, named in the school's own account of the club's founding alongside its turnarounds and private-equity electives.

Open to readers outside the school

• A school-published account of an MBA's path into ETA and why the club got its own home.
• A newsroom piece on how the search model turns MBAs into young CEOs, with the course's own numbers in it.

Where to Look

• The club directory, where the ETA club is listed ↗
• The founding story, on the school's blog ↗
• The course, in the school's own newsroom ↗

Other Schools

The Intern & Job Board carries the programs that pay a salary to search, and Investors the firms that fund one. What a student group runs on is in the materials for ETA clubs.