{"id":333841,"date":"2026-05-27T02:50:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-27T02:50:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/333841\/"},"modified":"2026-05-27T02:50:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-27T02:50:07","slug":"at-uc-berkeley-haas-2026-commencement-grads-urged-to-be-ethical-leaders-who-accomplish-wildly-improbable-things-haas-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/333841\/","title":{"rendered":"At UC Berkeley Haas 2026 commencement, grads urged to be ethical leaders who accomplish &#8220;wildly improbable things&#8221; &#8211; Haas News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>UC Berkeley Haas Undergraduate, Full-time MBA, and Evening &amp; Weekend MBA students in the class of 2026 were urged to be ethical leaders who aspire to accomplish \u201cdifficult, ambitious, even wildly improbable things\u201d at commencements last week at the Greek Theatre.<\/p>\n<p>Undergraduate Commencement<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBe the first in and the last to leave,\u201d commencement speaker<a href=\"https:\/\/investors.applovin.com\/governance\/leadership\/default.aspx\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> Adam Foroughi<\/a>, BS 01, CEO &amp; co-founder of AppLovin, told about 300 graduates of the <a href=\"https:\/\/haas.berkeley.edu\/undergrad\/programs\/spieker\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Spieker Undergraduate Business Program<\/a>. \u201cTeach yourself the business as fast as possible. Ask as many questions as you can, consume as much knowledge as you as you can, and make as many connections as you can. Trust me. You do that and you will get noticed and it will help you in ways you can\u2019t event predict.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The class, which graduated last Wednesday morning, included students in the <a href=\"https:\/\/met.berkeley.edu\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">M.E.T<\/a>. (Management, Entrepreneurship &amp; Technology) Program, the <a href=\"https:\/\/haas.berkeley.edu\/undergrad\/programs\/gmp\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Global Management Program <\/a>(GMP), and the <a href=\"https:\/\/lsbe.berkeley.edu\/home\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Robinson Life Science, Business, and Entrepreneurship Program<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Photos by Noah Berger.<\/p>\n<p>FTMBA &amp; EWMBA Commencement<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you ever doubted that you could accomplish difficult, ambitious, even wildly improbable things, today is your proof you can do anything,\u201d Haas Dean <a href=\"https:\/\/haas.berkeley.edu\/faculty\/chatman-jennifer\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jenny Chatman<\/a> told the full-time and evening &amp; weekend MBA students who graduated last Saturday afternoon. The class included the inaugural cohort of <a href=\"https:\/\/haas.berkeley.edu\/sustainability\/student-opportunities\/mba-master-of-climate-solutions\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">MBA\/MCS<\/a> (Master of Climate Solutions) students who earned degrees in business and climate solutions from the Rausser College of Natural Resources.<\/p>\n<p>Fernando Mendoza, BS 26, <a href=\"https:\/\/newsroom.haas.berkeley.edu\/nfl-top-pick-fernando-mendoza-surprises-crowd-at-uc-berkeley-haas-commencement\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">surprised the crowd<\/a> by attending commencement to receive his undergraduate diploma from Dean Jenny Chatman. Mendoza missed undergraduate commencement on Wednesday because of his required participation in the Raider\u2019s pre-season training.<\/p>\n<p>Commencement speaker <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hubspot.com\/company\/management\/yamini-rangan\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Yamini Rangan<\/a>, MBA 03, CEO of HubSpot, told students that \u201cthe choices that will define your career have nothing to do with the technology and everything to do with who you choose to be. What the world needs now is what the world has always needed. Leaders who care, leaders who grow, and leaders who give, and that is you\u2014Berkeley MBA class of 2026. Go Bears!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>All photos by Brittany Hosea-Small.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"UC Berkeley Haas Undergraduate, Full-time MBA, and Evening &amp; Weekend MBA students in the class of 2026 were&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":333842,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[38954,113620,85508,1979,143,145,144],"class_list":["post-333841","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-oakland","tag-commencement","tag-evening-weekend-mba","tag-full-time-mba","tag-latest-news","tag-oakland","tag-oakland-headlines","tag-oakland-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333841","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=333841"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333841\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/333842"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=333841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=333841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=333841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}