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Study: Ranked-choice voting reduces pull of “electability,” boosts women and minority candidates

When voters in Alaska and Maine head to the polls for the midterms, they’ll cast their ballots using ranked-choice voting—a ...
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Is training AI on copyrighted works fair use? Scholars say “market dilution” theory still lacks evidence

An author may take years to write a book, while an AI system can produce a novel in a fraction of that time, raising concerns ...
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Undergrad team launches tash, an investment platform for trading cards

Tash is building portfolios of investment-grade trading cards—indexes that people can invest in. L-R: Tash founders Nicolas Sharma, Victor Shammas, John Ohannesian, and Nathan Borshell pitching at Y ...
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How Haas is rewiring the MBA for AI and a new era of work

L-R: Professor Alex Mas and Pepe Alonso, MBA 27, who co-teach Fundamentals of Agentic AI, with Claudia Esi Dentu, MBA 27. Photo: Brittany Hosea-Small In Brief Haas has made AI a schoolwide strategic ...
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At the epicenter: How MBA students are leveraging Berkeley’s AI boom

Ayushman Dey, MBA 26, speaking at the first vibe coding workshop a year ago at Haas. The event was a joint effort of the student-run Haas AI Club with the Haas Product Management Club, the Haas ...
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A new measure finds AI could double U.S. economic output by helping businesses learn faster—or fail faster

New UC Berkeley Haas research finds that AI-driven organizational learning could roughly double U.S. economic output in the long run, based on a new metric called VOLT (Value of Organizational ...
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Haas names 2026 Alumni Award winners

UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business today named a suite of 2026 Alumni Award winners, recognized for their remarkable impact on business and society. The six awards honor alumni individuals and ...
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AI promised to free up workers’ time. UC Berkeley Haas researchers found the opposite.

While conducting research on how AI was changing daily work at a U.S. technology company, UC Berkeley Haas doctoral student Xingqi Maggie Ye noticed a pattern that raised a provocative question: What ...
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How AI is transforming research: More papers, less quality, and a strained review system

Mathijs De Vaan has long recognized the labor required to effectively communicate scientific findings. For the Netherlands native and UC Berkeley Haas associate professor of management, data and ...
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Does your robo-advisor know you’re NOT a 30-year-old millionaire?

Artificial intelligence can successfully understand how different people think about investing—accurately capturing preferences across gender, age, and income, according to a new UC Berkeley Haas ...
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Too dirty, too late? Why the economics of Venezuela’s oil don’t pencil out

View of the El Palito refinery of the Venezuelan state oil company PDVSA in Puerto Cabello. Photo by: Jesus Vargas/picture-alliance/dpa/AP Images Venezuela holds the ...
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2025 UC Berkeley Haas FTMBA grads achieve record-high starting compensation

Salaries for the MBA class of 2025 reached a record high. Photo: Brittany Hosea-Small. UC Berkeley Haas Full-time MBA graduates in the class of 2025 achieved record-high starting compensation fueled ...