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Lectures & Learning Opportunities

A Platforms-Based Vision for Advancing University Innovation

The Order of the Golden Bear, a campus student think tank, presents its annual Arleigh Williams Forum. Like Apple created the iTunes platform for organizing and unifying MP3 audio files for the world, Associate Vice Chancellor Richard Lyons will present a new, platforms-based vision for increasing the university’s capacity to advance its myriad research innovations that benefit the world.

Hosted by Order of the Golden Bear

Speaker:

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Rich Lyons
Chief Innovation and Entrepreneurship Officer

Rich Lyons’s research and teaching expertise centers on international economics and finance. His top applied interest is the “how and why” of setting strong institutional cultures. Lyons is the former dean of Berkeley Haas where he currently holds the William and Janet Cronk Chair in Innovative Leadership. Prior to serving as dean, he was the chief learning officer at Goldman Sachs. He received his B.S. with highest honors from UC Berkeley (business) and Ph.D. from MIT (economics). Before (re)joining Berkeley, Lyons served on the faculty at Columbia University for six years.