# Berkeley Haas: Entrepreneurship Through Acquisition

A finance-side course and its own club.

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Last checked: 2026-09-04

## At a Glance

- 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: No funding that Berkeley Haas publishes.
- Conference: No conference that Berkeley Haas publishes.
- Its own page: https://ewmba.haas.berkeley.edu/student-life/student-activities

## The Classes

- Search Funds taught by Jan Simon

## Who Teaches 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 It Publishes for Anyone

- 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.

## 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.

## Where to Read It

- The club directory, where the ETA club is listed: https://ewmba.haas.berkeley.edu/student-life/student-activities
- The founding story, on the school's blog: https://blogs.haas.berkeley.edu/the-berkeley-mba/making-space-and-making-a-difference-as-an-entrepreneur-through-acquisition
- The course, in the school's own newsroom: https://newsroom.haas.berkeley.edu/how-search-funds-turn-mba-searchers-into-young-ceos/

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