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How confident should you be in election polls? Not nearly as confident as the pollsters claim, according to a new Berkeley Haas study.  Most election polls report a 95% confidence level. Yet an analysis of 1,400 polls from 11 election cycles found...

Air pollution has disproportionately hurt minority and low-income communities, leading to reduced life expectancy, research has found. Yet a lack of data has stymied efforts to quantify the problem—and its causes—nationwide. A recent study, anchored...

Oliver Williamson, a UC Berkeley and Haas School of Business professor for nearly three decades whose elegant framework for analyzing the structure of organizations won him a Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences, passed away on May 21, 2020 in Berkeley,...

When he was a high school kid in Pocatello, Idaho, Prof. Don Moore devoured self-help books and listened to motivational cassette tapes that promised him more confidence, more friends, and a rise in the social hierarchy. They had no discernible...

Tips for calibrating your decisions wisely Forget what you’ve read in self-help books. More confidence is not necessarily better, says Prof. Don Moore, who studies the psychology of decision-making and overconfidence. His new book, Perfectly...

Berkeley Haas has a wide range of experts who can talk about how the coronavirus is impacting businesses and the economy, putting leaders to the test, and changing workplaces. Need help finding the right expert?  Contact our media relations team....

Influential economist Laura D’Andrea Tyson, who served as dean of Berkeley Haas and as a presidential advisor, has been named by Gov. Gavin Newsom to co-chair his new Council of Economic Advisors. The 13-member panel, announced on Friday, will...

Haas faculty lead movement to restore faith in science.

Berkeley Haas research finds there may be a dark side to the rise of “alternative data” in capital markets While Assoc. Prof. Panos Patatoukas was discussing Walmart in his Financial Information Analysis course last year, a student brought up the...

Can’t stop checking your phone, even when you’re not expecting any important messages? Blame your brain. A new study by researchers at UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business has found that information acts on the brain’s dopamine-producing reward...

Note: The “Classified” series spotlights some of the powerful lessons faculty are teaching in Haas classrooms. As a young researcher, Kristin Donnelly was captivated by the work of social psychologists who published striking insights on human...

To mark Equal Pay Day, we’re featuring new work by Prof. Laura Kray, an expert on gender and negotiations, along with Margaret Lee, a postdoctoral research fellow with the Center for Equity, Gender, and Leadership. Equal Pay Day was created in 1996...

An article by Prof. Laura Kray aimed at rewriting the narrative on woman as negotiators and leaders has received a 2018 “Outstanding Practitioner-Oriented Publication” award from the Academy of Management (AOM), a professional association that...

Laura D’Andrea Tyson, renowned economist at the University of California, Berkeley, Haas School of Business, has been named the school’s interim dean as of July 1, Berkeley Chancellor Carol Christ announced today. Tyson joined the Berkeley Economics...

Berkeley Haas researchers are leaders in reforming the field of social psychology—shaken by the undoing of seminal studies.