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 E-Mail There's a reason that ideas--even erroneous ones--catch fire on social media or in popular culture: groupthink. New research co-authored by Berkeley Haas Asst. Prof. Douglas Guilbeault shows that large groups of people all tend to think alike, and also illustrates how easily people's opinions can be swayed by social media--even by artificial users known as bots. In a series of experiments, published in the journal Nature Communications, Guilbeault and co-authors Damon Centola of the University of Pennsylvania and Andrea Baronchelli of City University London created an online game th...

How Robinhood trading app drove the GameStop ‘supernova’ Last year, when Berkeley Haas finance professor Terrance Odean was researching why users of the popular trading app Robinhood tended to “herd” into a small number of stocks, he never imagined a situation like what unfolded last week with GameStop. “It was like a supernova of herding events,” he said. Shares in the moribund video-game retailer soared more than 400% over three days when a mob of investors—many congregating on the Reddit chat room WallStreetBets—coordinated to buy the stock en masse. It fell 44% the next da...

Press release content from Business Wire. The AP news staff was not involved in its creation. Emerging E-commerce Platform Cart.com Welcomes New Chief Growth Officer, Linda Xu February 8, 2021 GMT Linda Xu (Photo: Business Wire) HOUSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb 8, 2021-- Cart.com, an end-to-end e-commerce-as-a-service (ECaaS) provider, today announced Linda Xu has been appointed as Chief Growth Officer. She will focus on setting and prioritizing growth goals, both organically and through M&A, and executing strategic initiatives. Linda Xu (Photo: Business Wire) Xu brings nearly a decade of experi...

Top STEM MBA Programs In The United States—And How Much They Cost ❘ ❘ Top STEM MBA Programs In The United States—And How Much They Cost STEM MBA programs are increasingly popular, offering benefits to both domestic and international students. Here are the top US MBA programs with STEM designations STEM MBA programs: Tepper School of Business is one of the latest schools to offer a STEM-designated MBA STEM MBA programs are increasingly present at business schools in the United States, as an increasing number of schools incorporate a science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STE...

Deferred Admission MBA For College Seniors: 3 Key Tips For A Standout Application Jan 19, 04:53 AM Comments [0] Last month, Berkeley Haas announced a new option for any college senior to apply to for its fulltime MBA with a two- to five-year deferment. The Berkeley Haas Accelerated Access program (application deadlines April 5 and June 10) represents an expansion of Haas’s early admit program, which debuted last year for UC Berkeley students. “This evolution is further evidence that elite MBA programs are themselves vying to secure a competitive advantage by recru...