Randy Haykin is currently on the faculty at the Haas School, Randy first taught New Venture Finance in 2007 and has been invited to teach this course again to the weekend/evening MBA students for Spring 2008 semester. 

Randy has nearly 30 years of experience in entrepreneurial and intrapreneurial organizations.  He was the Founding VP Sales/Marketing at Yahoo!, followed by a 12-year career developing and leading his own venture capital fund (Outlook Ventures - $200M under management).  While in previous roles at Apple Computer, Paramount/Viacom and AOL, Randy was responsible for internal (“intrapreneurial”) endeavors at each of these organizations – several of which were spun out to form new units or companies.  Randy has lectured or taught classes at Brown, Harvard B-School, Stanford, and University of Edinburgh.  In addition to his MBA from Harvard Graduate School of Business, Randy’s undergraduate degree at Brown University was in Organizational Behavior and Management and he has helped Brown University to raise a special chair for Entrepreneurship and a new inter-departmental degree called “COE” (Commerce, Organization and Entrepreneurship) first offered in 2005. 

Randy is also a graduate and long-time participant in the Creative Education Foundation programs (annual meetings and seminars on many topics of creativity) – http://www.creativeeducationfoundation.org/.

MOT Course(s):

• INNOVATION, CREATIVITY AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP

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