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This is about taking you to the next level. Unleash your potential at one of only 5% of worldwide business schools accredited by the AACSB. Encounter what few business schools can offer: A major metropolitan learning laboratory, where superb business connections translate into a rewarding life-long career in the fi eld of your dreams. This is a business school in a city that means business. To learn more about the Lubar MBA, visit lubar.uwm.edu/mba. IT'S A LAUNCHING PAD. IT'S MORE THAN AN MBA. While Baker's involvement with Mercer paid big dividends to the Stetson School, he enjoyed benefits as well. "Every time I am on campus, I learn a great deal," he says. "It is a living laboratory that I wish more business executives would experience." But Baker also wants to help reinvent business education at a time when busi- ness itself is undergoing transformation. Based on what business leaders tell him they want from their future workforce, he believes business schools will have to turn out graduates who have "a greater sense of entrepreneurship, soft skills, and real-world experience." When executives take up residence at business schools, he says, they can put students "on a faster track to professional success while ex- posing them to an exciting future." Campus Mentors The Haas School of Business at the University of California Berkeley recently announced its inaugural group of Social Impact Fellows, chosen by its Institute for Business & Social Impact (IBSI). The fellows will spend time on campus acting as stu- dent mentors, panel speakers, faculty resources, and blog contributors. The objective of the program is to "build an ecosystem" where the Haas community practices and promotes social impact through business, says IBSI director Laura Tyson. The six inaugural fellows include Marianne Barner, a proponent for children's rights, current board chair of the child development agency Plan International Sweden, and a former IKEA executive; Jorge Calderon, founder and managing director of the investment consulting firm Impact Strategy Advisors; Paula Goldman, global head of impact investing at the social investment organization Omidyar Network; Claus Meyer, restaurateur and founder of the Melting Pot Foundation, which helps the disadvan- taged through food-related projects; William Rosenzweig, co-founder and managing partner of the venture capital firm Physic Ventures and founding CEO of The Republic of Tea; Kat Taylor, CEO of the Beneficial State Bank, which serves low-income house- holds; and Jennifer Walske, faculty director of the master in global entrepreneurial management at the University of San Francisco's School of Management. JULY | AUGUST 2015 BizEd 61