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Richard Lyons    

Former Dean & Cronk Professor of Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley

Rich was recently appointed Chief Innovation & Entrepreneurship Officer for the Berkeley campus. In 2018 he concluded eleven years as Dean of Berkeley’s Haas School. His early research was in international finance; recent work explores how leaders drive innovation and set culture. From 2006-08 he was Goldman Sachs’ Chief Learning Officer. Changes at Haas under his deanship include a new building, a suite of dual degrees with STEM fields, and a focus on culture. Haas drove a set of Defining Principles – Question the Status Quo, Confidence Without Attitude, Students Always, Beyond Yourself – deeply into admissions and other processes.

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Leading with Purpose and Values

This session focuses on how values and purpose can become a durable competitive advantage, and how managers and leaders can make this happen. Professor Lyons has been delivering sessions on this topic to executives for over a decade.

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