Named after Walter A. Haas, the school is housed in four buildings surrounding a central courtyard on the southeastern corner of the Berkeley campus, where both undergraduate and graduate students attend classes.

[4] As enacted on March 23, 1868, the university's Organic Act listed among its goals the provision of "special courses of instruction" for many kinds of "professions," including "commerce.

"[5] University Regents Arthur Rodgers, A.S. Hallidie and George T. Marye Jr. later proposed the establishment of a College of Commerce.

Adolph Miller, who was the Flood Professor of the Political Economy and Commerce from 1903 to 1915, later served on the first Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System.

Plehn, a finance professor educated in Germany, drafted the college's first curriculum for a Bachelor of Science degree.

Hatfield played a leading role in the founding of the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business and the national honor society Beta Gamma Sigma.

As dean, Hatfield sought to increase the reputation of the College of Commerce by bringing scholars from the East Coast to teach during summer sessions.

In 1943, the department was renamed the School of Business Administration when it began offering a one-year graduate program.

Classes for the evening MBA were held in downtown San Francisco until the school's present building complex was completed in 1995, the final design of architect Charles Moore.

Facing diminishing funding and budget pressures, Cheit lobbied and won increased salary scales for business faculty.

He also secured donations from Walter A. Haas to endow seven new chairs and to open a career planning and placement center.

Laura Tyson, a professor at Berkeley since 1977 and the chairman of the President's Council of Economic Advisers from 1993 to 1995 during the Clinton Administration, was the dean of the school from 1998 to 2001.

[10][11] The campaign's stated goals are "transforming the... campus, building a curriculum based on the Berkeley Haas approach to leadership, and aggressively expanding the school’s faculty and its support for research.

"[12] Dean Lyons also oversaw the opening of Berkeley Haas' fourth building, Connie & Kevin Chou Hall.

building on the north side of the Berkeley Haas campus, Chou Hall cost $60 million and was funded exclusively by alumni and community members.

[21] The Berkeley MBA Program is a two-year curriculum designed to prepare students for business leadership.

The curriculum is aligned with that of the full-time MBA, and students can choose to attend core classes either two evenings per week or all day on Saturdays.

[28][29][30] The Berkeley Master of Financial Engineering (MFE) Program provides graduates with knowledge and skills necessary for a career in the finance industry.

Students apply to the program after fulfilling undergraduate prerequisite courses, and are admitted to Haas for their final two years.

This transformation was facilitated by the largest single donation in the school’s history, contributed by Warren “Ned” Spieker, a Berkeley alumnus with a Bachelor of Science degree in 1966, and his wife, Carol Spieker, who earned a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science in 1966.

Starting with the Class of 2029, GMP students spend their sophomore Fall semester at the University of Ghana in Accra, through the UCEAP.

[35] Previous GMP cohorts began the program in the summer prior to their freshman year and spent their first semester in London through Berkeley Global Edge.

Executives can enroll in a prepared set of short courses targeted at specific issues or develop a custom curriculum.