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Adjunct Professor, Haas School of Business, College of Engineering
Executive Director, Management of Technology Program
Founder and Co-Director, Center for Energy and Environmental Innovation
Andrew M. Isaacs is a successful scientist, technology company executive, entrepreneur, and educator. He is passionate about mentoring the next generation of technology business leaders and has a strong track record of helping young entrepreneurs launch their careers. Isaacs has worked at the crossroads of advanced technology and business innovation for 25 years, ten of those years at UC Berkeley, helping start-ups and established technology companies create and execute successful growth strategies.
Management of Technology
Management of Technology (MOT) is a graduate program offering 52 courses in management and high technology, plus a wide range of programs that integrate high tech companies in Silicon Valley and elsewhere with UC Berkeley. Under Isaacs’ leadership as Executive Director (2000 – present), the program has grown to be the largest interdisciplinary program at Berkeley with nearly 1,500 graduate student enrollments in the program annually, making it the largest joint engineering-MBA program at a leading US university. MOT’s impact at UC Berkeley has been profound: Berkeley is now ranked by The Wall Street Journal as the #1 MBA program by technology company recruiters, ahead of MIT, Stanford, CMU and other leading technology-focused MBA programs.
Center for Energy and Environmental Innovation
In early 2007, Isaacs and Professor Catherine Wolfram founded the Center for Energy and Environmental Innovation (CEEI) with a mandate from Chancellor Robert Birgeneau to serve as UC Berkeley’s campus-wide center focused on commercialization opportunities for new energy technology. CEEI operates as a hub for Berkeley’s many cleantech and renewable energy initiatives.
Technology in the Developing World
Isaacs is founder and director of UC Berkeley’s Bridging the Divide Program, a joint program of UC Berkeley and UNIDO, the United Nations Industrial Development Organization. Bridging the Divide is focused on technology-based solutions for poverty reduction in developing countries. The three Bridging the Divide Conferences thus far have brought nearly 1,500 practitioners to the Berkeley campus to discuss development issues. Since the program’s founding in 2002, Isaacs has directed 90 UNIDO fellowships, funding Berkeley graduate students to work overseas on technology-based solutions for poverty in 16 developing countries in Africa, South Asia and Latin America.
Graduate Instruction
Isaacs teaches four popular graduate-level courses at UC Berkeley, two business-focused and two technology-focused. Students enrolling in his courses come both from the MBA program at the Haas School and from technical MS and PhD programs, primarily in engineering, chemistry and the life sciences.
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