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Barbie Buzz and Brand Value. Is It Real?
Lecturer and alumna Vanessa Errecarte showcases the power of intellectual property rebrands in her Financial Times case study on Mattel and Warner Bros.' Barbie movie, urging updated brand valuation models for digital profit connections.

Sacramento Kings Empower Youth through Continued Mentorship Initiatives
Graduate School of Management Partners on Fastbreak Mentoring Program
As part of National Mentorship Month, UC Davis Graduate School of Management collaborated with the Sacramento Kings to extend their Fastbreak Mentoring program to UC Davis MBA students enrolled in the Collaborative Leadership Program.

Poets&Quants Thought Leadership Video Series: Professor Ayako Yasuda On Impact Investing
An internationally recognized financial economist, Professor Yasuda's pioneering research focuses on venture capital, private equity and impact investing. Hear about her journey from Stanford to Goldman Sachs to academia in a Q&A with Poets&Quants.

How India Gave the U.S. a Generation of Business School Deans
Dean H. Rao Unnava: "We share information and guidance."
The Financial Times reports a growing presence of senior Indian academics in the U.S., inspiring a new generation of Indian students to attend U.S. business schools. Dean H. Rao Unnava keeps in touch with 80 US-based Indian deans and other senior

Poets&Quants Thought Leadership Video Series: Professor Paul Griffin On Business Risks
Paul Griffin loves risks. In an interview with Poets&Quants, he shares his academic journey studying business risks, from scandals and wildfires to climate change and the impact of financial disclosure rules to inform investors.

10 Business Schools To Watch In 2024
UC Davis GSM only Western U.S. school in Poets&Quants global list
Poets&Quants highlights our recent innovations and plans: UC’s first Online MBA and Master of Management, MBA stackable certificates, new life-long learning platform, Industry Immersions, an undergraduate business major and more in store for 2024.

A Look at Organizational Behavior from NASCAR Fans to the Cattle Industry
Poets&Quants: UC Davis Thought Leadership Video Series
From NASCAR fans and remote workers to the cattle industry and creative designers, UC Davis Graduate School of Management Professor Emerita Kim Elsbach shares her research on social psychology, self-perception, and behavior in organizations.

Digital Payment Platforms Can Easily Be Misused for Drug Dealing, Researchers Suggest
UC Davis Faculty Pantelis Loupos and Jörn Boehnke Say Buyers and Policy Regulators Should Vigilantly Guard Against Illicit Use
A study published in the Annals of Operations Research by UC Davis Faculty Pantelis Loupos, Jörn Boehnke and Ying Gu of the University of Washington revealed that among 2 million Venmo users and 23 million transactions analyzed over two years, more

Cal Poly Pomona 1st, UC Davis 2nd in UC Davis-Financial Times Biz Quiz
Watch the video of the final round and see all the winners
At our second-annual UC Davis-Financial Times Biz Quiz on November 17-18, 2023, we hosted three dozen graduate students on teams from 11 universities to go head to head in the buzz-in, quiz contest on global business news from FT. The contest kicked off with an executive interview with Marcie Frost, CEO of CalPERS.

Poets&Quants Thought Leadership Video Series: Professor Hemant Bhargava On Technology-Based Business & Markets
Facebook, Google, Uber, Netflix, and Tesla are all highly successful, disruptive businesses built on platform economics, a subject well understood by UC Davis Graduate School of Management Professor Hemant K. Bhargava.

All About Master's In Management
Poets&Quants reviews top business schools offering degree
From Poets&Quants: UC Davis Graduate School of Management will become the first University of California school to enroll its inaugural online Master of Management cohort in April of 2024.

UC Davis Becomes First University of California School to Launch a MM
Poets&Quants' John Byrne interviews Dean H. Rao Unnava
Dean H. Rao Unnava views the school's Master of Management launch in an unusual way: as an alternative vehicle to specialized business master’s in a wide variety of fields, with the flexibility of 15-month online and nine-month in-person options.