Since our charter class graduated more than 25 years ago, alumni
from the UC Davis Graduate School of Management have been making
their presence known around the world.
Our graduates are CEOs, vice presidents, chief financial
officers, chief operating officers and entrepreneurs. Around the
globe, they have taken prominent roles as international business
leaders in a wide range of industries and organizations.
Graduate School of Management alumni are actively involved in
their communities, and they make time for mentoring, advising and
assisting current students and networking with fellow graduates.
290 Business of Media
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408 The Business of the Media
Focuses on the media industries and how emerging digital technologies are disrupting the way media consumption, distribution and business models work. Course will highlight the economics of several media- both news and entertainment - including newspapers, magazines, radio, television, cable television, motion pictures, video gaming, and social media. The course will include guest speakers from the different media industries studied, highlight innovative start-ups through case studies.
215 Business Law
Covers the study of the legal environment of business. Subject matter includes an introduction to the American legal system, legal reasoning, contracts, agency, business organizations, and government regulation. Provides students with a basic understanding of the significant legal issues that confront managers and executives.
293 International Marketing
This course covers both the marketing of consumer and industrial products/services in global markets. It focuses on the marketing management problems, techniques, and strategies necessary to incorporate the marketing concepts into the framework of the world marketplace. It follows a multi-disciplinary approach to create a broad understanding of the subject matter. Concepts from economics, political science, anthropology, sociology, management, and marketing are integrated into the course.
244 New and Small Business Ventures
Emphasizes starting a new business venture or managing a small business during its formative stages. Topics include entrepreneurship, legal issues, financing the business, marketing research and the management team. Small teams of students develop a detailed business plan for a potential new venture.
297 International Study Trip
This course is led by students under a faculty’s supervision. Participating students select a country to study, identify industry sectors to explore, and establish contacts with business executives in various companies to meet during the field trip. The field trip takes place between the winter and spring quarters (Intersession). The class meets every other week to facilitate the learning about international trade, country profiles, industry sectors, and business practices based on student-driven secondary research and presentations.
287 Business Data and Information Management
As technology advances, modern organizations nowadays collect enormous amounts of data on about everything we do. Managing data on this scale and converting it into knowledge to facilitate decision making, presents exciting new challenges. Data and information are critical to the modern organization. Whether used in knowledge management, business intelligence, enterprise resource planning (ERP), product design, marketing, personalization and other aspects of managing customer relationships (CRM), the underlying principles of data management are the same.
298 Business Plan Clinic
This course prepares students to identify and evaluate commercial opportunities in the earliest stages of their development. The emphasis will be on the methods necessary for rapid and rigorous analysis of ideas spanning multiple disciplines and markets. Working with faculty and tapping a wider network of entrepreneurs and experts, we will identify 100+ potential opportunities, evaluate them for further analysis, and ultimately select promising opportunities for commercial development.
298 Business Development Clinic-Part 1
Provides the necessary analytic and design tools to evaluate and refine potential business models based on emerging technologies. Students learn to work closely in small, interdisciplinary teams to synthesize technical, strategic, and marketing needs and resources into designs for new ventures. Topics include rapid market research, financial modeling, prototyping, and resource acquisition. Instruction and experimentation are integrated and overseen by both faculty and practicing professionals (investors, entrepreneurs, and executives).
482 Supply Chain Management Practicum
Student groups conduct a project on supply chain management. They would examine the supply chain structure, demand forecasting, inventory management, logistics and other issues in supply chains.
469 Business Intelligence Technologies – Data Mining Practicum
Students work on projects applying concepts learned in Business Intelligence Technologies to real business problems.
471 Incentives and Controls Practicum
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467 Teams and Technology Practicum
Student groups investigate the performance, creativity, conflict, information sharing, and leadership behaviors of a real world team. They provide consulting advice to the team, which not only gives them analytic skills, but also builds presentation skills and enables them to reflect on the dynamics of their own teamwork.
465 Venture Capital and the Finance of Innovation Practicum
Provides practical experience applying concepts learned in Venture Capital to a realistic VC investment/fund-raising setting via a hypothetical exercise. Students will produce a complete investment agreement (term sheet) in a startup and a presentation of their proposed investment for a VC fund’s investment committee.
464 Business Taxation Practicum
This course will consist of a practical application project drawing from the tax planning theory contained in MGT/MGP/MGB 264. The project will consist of a business formation/operation, change in organization (incorporation), and movement into multinational and multijurisdictional tax domains.
461 Investment Analysis Practicum
Provides practical experience applying concepts learned in Investment Analysis to a realistic portfolio management setting via a hypothetical exercise. Students will produce a realistic executive summary and presentation of an investment proposal for a hypothetical client.
460 Financial Management Practicum
Students will work in groups to select and value a financial entity. It could be a firm, a sports player, a building, a project, or a patent. The grade will be based on an in-class presentation and a write-up.
450 Technology Competition & Strategy Practicum
This course is an in-depth practicum project course. Students will apply theories, concepts, and models, learnt in MGT 250 (Technology Competition and Strategy) to a real-world business problem, through data collection, data analysis, simulation, modeling and post-model interpretation.
449 Marketing Research Practicum
Topics covered in this course would include but not be limited to: the framing of business problems, establishment of research purpose and objectives, identification of target markets, understanding of consumer decision-making processes, research design, data collection, and data analysis to support managerial decision making using both qualitative and quantitative methodologies.
448 Marketing Strategies Practicum
Provides opportunities to apply the concepts covered in the marketing strategies class through a group project involving the analysis of strategic marketing decisions based on business-related issues, simulation and modeling.