Grooming the Entrepreneurial Engineer

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In the long-running debate over whether entrepreneurs are born or bred, Michael Grimes insists that, for mere mortals, leadership skills are largely learned. 

Grimes should know. As managing director at Morgan Stanley in Silicon Valley, the UC Berkeley grad has overseen more than $500 billion in financing, merger and acquisition transactions for hundreds of tech titans ranging from Google to Uber.

Grimes is so convinced that the right education and training can help create the next crop of tech superstars that he has helped UC Berkeley launch a new program designed to do just that. The Management, Entrepreneurship and Technology program, or M.E.T., bringing together UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business and College of Engineering, will open its doors in fall 2017.

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By Brian Back, UC Newsroom, University of California Office of the President

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