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Technology Firm Leadership
IND ENG 171 (3 Units)
This course explores key management and leadership concepts relevant to the high-technology world. Topics include the firm's key operations, strategic issues, and managerial leadership including personal leadership and talent management. This course prepares technical and business minded students for careers focused on professional and management track careers in high technology.
PEOPLE
Leaders in Action
The future of leadership requires powerful storytelling skills.
Our emerging leaders tell their stories clearly and call others to action on big issues.
Case Studies
Using the case study method, leaders share and learn from each other's journeys.
The Leader Studio develops student-driven case studies on entrepreneurial leaders.
Industry Experts
Student leaders engage with world-class entrepreneurs in live talks and lecture series.
Industry experts offer candid advice to entrepreneurs looking to accelerate their leadership.
LEADERS IN ACTION
The future of leadership requires powerful storytelling skills. Our emerging leaders tell their stories clearly and call others to action on big issues.
Gillian Miles
Recycling is a Myth
“Every five minutes - over 1 million tons of single-use plastic is used and discarded”. This talk gives you a glimpse of what has happened to the plastic industry since 2017 and where our recycling is really going.
Miles discloses her tips to become more sustainable in her day-to-day life.
Tim Schroeder
Finding Meaning in Every Situation
"To win our most important battles, we need to know what we are fighting for," says Tim Schröder, a technology enthusiast and founder. In this insightful talk, he explores the early research into the effects of mindset and purpose by Vianesse psychologist and Nazi concentration camp prisoner Viktor Frankl, and how it can be useful in our everyday life.
"Every company has a mission statement," Schröder says. "Why do we not have one for ourselves?"
Fionce Show
How Sonder Empowers Us to Do Good and Be Good
We often see ourselves as the main character of the story — which also leaves room to dismiss everyone else as another passerby.
Siow proposes we reframe the narrative. Instead of staying in our own little corners, she suggests we use “sonder” to open up our circle of compassion and let our potential for good unfold.
EXPERTS
Industry experts offer candid advice to entrepreneurs looking to accelerate their leadership.
Innovation Podcast
Foundercast: DoorDash Cofounder & CEO Tony Xu
Tech Leadership with Rachel Williams of X, the moonshot factory at Google
Ben Horowitz on Building a Technology Company
Featured Videos
Dr. Pamela Park
Lecturer, UC Berkeley
Dr. Pamela Park, lecturer for Technology Firm Leadership at UC Berkeley, talks about the difference between North Star and Gold Star leaders.
Michael Seibel
CEO, Y Combinator
Michael Seibel, CEO of Y Combinator, advises entrepreneurs to find a big problem that they actually care to solve.
Tracy Young
CEO & Co-Founder PlanGrid
Tracy Young, CEO & Co-Founder of PlanGrid. Building software for construction teams so they can build better. To date, over a million projects across 85 countries use PlanGrid, and they've raised $69 millions in funding and scaled the company to 450+ employees. Last November 2019, Autodesk acquired PlanGrid for $875 million.
A. Richard Newton Lecture Series: A Berkeley Changemaker™ Course
Sutardja Center for Entrepreneurship and Technology
This series invites distinguished innovators to share lessons from their own successes and failures.