Collaborative Leadership Program becomes foundational to my future
What makes a great leader? Deepi Agarwal MBA 22 shares insights from her UC Davis experience in the Collaborative Leadership Program and a three-day retreat with C-suite executives.
Professor Greta Hsu and Emory University Professor Giacomo Negro share how a social movement and influential global fashion magazine Vogue successfully challenged the morally problematic use of fur in fashion.
Amplify word-of-mouth marketing with five surprising strategies
Sharing from her marketing courses, Lecturer and Online MBA Teacher of the Year Vanessa Errecarte details how to best combine high-converting content with the right tools and tech.
In part two of her series, Assistant Dean of Student Affairs Valerie James shares key questions to ask yourself no matter where you are in life or career journey.
“Professor Hargadon, through his effective and engaging instruction, opened my mind”
Full-Time MBA student Camille Harris says Professor Andrew Hargadon’s enthusiasm for innovation and entrepreneurship helped her find her way forward.
MSBA practicum project reveals lessons in product management
M.S. in Business Analytics student Keshore Suryanarayanan details how his team’s practicum project transformed his idea of data products and their significance.
Half of this year’s class opt-in for certification
Michael Ueltzen’s accounting ethics course now includes a forensic accounting certification option that gives students an edge in their careers.
Looking to revolutionize shoe technology one foot at a time
Tresole, the MBA-led shoe startup, is one of 16 finalists in the Big Bang! Business Competition at UC Davis.
Professor and Xpansiv CFO Suzy Taherian details how carbon offsets can fill the gap between climate commitments and the limits of abatement technology for CFO Magazine.
'Face time bias' is a real phenomenon affecting employees working remotely, says Professor Emeritus Kim Elsbach, who found that bosses tend to favor employees who they can see at work, regardless of what they're actually doing.
Professor Ayako Yasuda says that all future limited partner agreements with venture capitalist firms should include a contingency clause that spells out a mechanism for disclosing and potentially expelling "questionable" LPs from the fund.
The war in Ukraine has galvanized the West, says GSM Finance Professor Ayako Yasuda: “Startups do have real reasons to worry about receiving funding from (venture capital firm) DST (Global).”
‘Category Innovation’ a Strategy
Using language to signal that something is “new and different” is an important tool for success, University of California, Davis, research suggests.
How AI can enable better health via food and make us better bosses of our bodies
Similar to how AI can help business leaders make better decisions about their operations and investments for better growth, AI can help consumers make better decisions about their food choices for better health and performance. AI can teach us how to be the bosses of our own bodies.
Tips from an Amazon recruiter on how to ace an interview
One of the highlights of the MSBA experience is an exclusive Interview Preparation Series where industry professionals from top companies guide us on how to be successful in interviews.
How does consumer engagement evolve when brands post across multiple social media?
Mastering the complex social media world is a lot like trying to get your footing in constantly shifting sand. It seems like a new social media channel makes a big splash every six months; meanwhile, algorithms intended to boost your exposure keep changing and becoming increasingly monetized.
“Even though it’s called the VC market, more and more of that money is not from VC investors,” says Ayako Yasuda, professor of finance at the UC Davis Graduate School of Management and Research Fellow of the Private Equity Research Consortium. “That
Prof. Paul Griffin calls for a borderless mandate for company climate risk discourse in an article in the journal Nature Energy—a move in line with recommended actions from the recent UN Climate Change Conference in Glasgow.
John Byrne praises UC Davis MBA Industry Immersions as model
Holding court with 46 b-schools deans, Poets&Quants Founder John Byrne pointed to the UC Davis MBA program’s Industry Immersions, which helps it stand out from other schools.
Lecturer Suzy Taherian says despite a low national unemployment rate of 4.8%, there's a labor shortage in California involving both low-skilled and high-skilled workers due to numerous factors, such as childcare, more people working for themselves