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.
Ethical jewelry? ‘Conflict minerals’ to face rules starting Jan. 1
Starting January 1, New Securities and Exchange Commission rules, though under challenge by industry groups, are to require companies to start disclosing the use of certain conflict minerals. Professor Griffin comments on the affect that this will have on the price of affected goods as well as additional global implications.
Why now’s not the time to sell Apple stock
If you own Apple stock, odds are good you bought it for the wrong reasons. Don’t sell it for the wrong reasons, too.
“Attention is a scarce resource. When there are many alternatives, options that attract attention are more likely to be considered,” wrote Brad M. Barber, a professor in the Graduate School of Management, University of California, Davis. There’s certainly no shortage of media coverage about Apple, which is still up nearly 30 percent for the year in spite of its recent slide.
Green California to Vie With Texas as U.S. Oil Heartland: Energy
California, even as it seeks to be the greenest U.S. state, stands a good chance of emerging as the nation’s top oil producer in the next decade, helping America toward what once seemed an unlikely goal of energy independence.
“There’s a strident environmental community that’s always very concerned about the possibility of ecological damage,” says Amy Myers Jaffe, executive director for energy and sustainability at the University of California-Davis. “It’s going to be a much more intense operating environment” for companies drilling in sensitive areas.
The Art of the Bad Deal
Wall street’s disproportionate sway over the U.S. economy has caused big problems in recent years, from the subprime crisis to high-frequency-trading debacles. But here’s one you may not have noticed: it’s crippling innovation. To understand how, look at the latest victim, the once mighty Hewlett-Packard. It’s hard to think of a company that’s been as loved and, more recently, loathed. Professor Elsbach is cited in this enlightening article about HP.
American Bull
The New York Times op-ed on U.S. energy independence by Roger Cohen quotes Amy Myers Jaffe, executive director of energy and sustainability: “This is a transformative development . . .We see ourselves increasingly as this weakened country dependent on faraway events. But as we become energy independent our sense of our own power and freedom of movement will change — and with it our foreign policy in ways that are hard to predict. Oil is a different issue when it is not your own problem anymore.”
Boys’ Club Still in Charge of California Businesses
The 400 largest companies headquartered in California, representing almost $3 trillion in shareholder value, still resemble a “boys’ club” with women filling fewer than 10 percent of top executive jobs, a University of California, Davis, study has found. Incremental gains have been pitiful, in my opinion.
In California, ‘dismal picture’ for women CEOs
The Graduate School of Management’s eighth annual UC Davis Study of California Women Business Leaders—a yearly benchmark for the Golden State’s lack of progress in promoting women business leaders—paints a dismal picture for women in leadership during fiscal year 2011-2012.
The survey, the only one of its kind to focus on gender equity in the boardrooms and executive suites of corporate California, reports that some of the best known among the top companies, or the California 400, have no women leaders.
HUNNEMAN:
Where are the women executives? Not in California
So, where are all the top women executives?
Not in California it seems.
A new study by the UC Davis School of Management of the Top 400 public companies in California found only one of 10 of the highest paid executive positions and board seats are held by women. That number has not changed significantly in the eight years the study was been conducted, researchers said.
Women still fill tiny share of state’s CEO jobs
Top companies headquartered in California could use a few binders full of women. A new report finds that female executives hold fewer than 1 in 10 of the top spots in the state’s 400 biggest companies. Worse yet, of the 85 Fortune 1000 companies based in California, just one is headed by an ethnic minority woman – Linda Lang of San Diego-based Jack in the Box. California’s numbers are on par with other states, but that’s still a pathetic record for a state as ethnically diverse as California, which leads the nation in so many other ways.
Sleeping Your Way to the Middle
December 6, 2012 / Professor Andrew Hargadon Blog
“I wrote yesterday on the race to the bottom — how corporations play states, and even cities, off one another in pursuit of the most lucrative benefits. At the same time, they complain about the burdensome taxes and regulations of California. But, as my colleague Martin Kenney so nicely notes in a recent column,[1] California seems to be holding its own in spite of playing hard to get.”
Study of State Businesses Finds a Tough Road for Female Execs
Women have made few inroads into the executive offices and boardrooms of California companies, according to a new UC Davis study.
The eighth annual “Study of California Women Business Leaders,” released Wednesday by the UC Davis Graduate School of Management, found that women still occupy less than one in 10 of the top posts at the 400 largest public firms headquartered in the state. The findings dovetail with past reports.
Still a “Boys’ Club” at the Top of Corporate California
There’s good reason why Yahoo! President and CEO Marissa Mayer and Hewlett-Packard President and CEO Meg Whitman find themselves in the media spotlight and overly scrutinized for their performance while held up as role models for women aspiring to emulate their career success at top companies. There are so very few others like them.
At the UC Davis Graduate School of Management, we closely monitor and publish a yearly benchmark for gender diversity in the C-suites and boardrooms of the largest public companies headquartered in California.
UC Davis Study Finds Women Still Underrepresented California’s Executive Suites
The eighth annual “Study of California Women Business Leaders,” released today by the UC Davis Graduate School of Business, found that women still occupy fewer than one in 10 of the top posts at the 400 largest public firms headquartered in the state.
This year’s findings dovetail with past reports.
This year, for the first time, the survey also looked at ethnicity among the 85 Fortune 1000 companies in California, and only one company in that subset of businesses had an ethnic woman as its CEO. Only 13 had any ethnic women directors.
Boys’ Club Still in Charge of California Businesses
The 400 largest companies headquartered in California, representing almost $3 trillion in shareholder value, still resemble a “boys’ club” with women filling fewer than 10 percent of top executive jobs, a University of California, Davis, study has found. Incremental gains have been pitiful, in my opinion.
Stewarding the University of California Dream
The dream of a University of California education has been a historical driver of the upward economic mobility of California’s young people.
With the passage of Proposition 30, Governor Brown on Nov. 14 said the UC must think anew about how it does business.
Agreed. In fact, the UC is inspired now more than ever to fulfill the public’s trust by thinking of new ways to be responsible stewards of the financial resources we receive from the state.
2012-2013 UC Davis Study of California Women Business Leaders
A Census of Women Directors and Highest-Paid Executives
The California 400: Still Dominated by Men
The UC Davis Graduate School of Management in partnership with Watermark publishes the annual “UC Davis Study of California Women Business Leaders: A Census of Women Directors and Executive Officers.”
The Future of Oil, Coal, and Gas Under Obama
Energy companies spent more than $115 million on the presidential campaign and 80 percent of those funds went to the Republican Party. However, President Obama’s reelection may have less of an impact as they believe; Amy Myers Jaffe, executive director of energy and sustainability at UC Davis, says that while there may be new regulations on oil drilling, the additional costs are unlikely to harm profits.
New Bull Record in 2013 or Crash Over a Bear Cliff?
Commentary: 10-part test: Rational Investing in Irrational Markets
Finance professors Terry Odean and Brad Barber studied 66,400 Wall Street investment accounts and concluded: “The more you trade, the less you earn.” The returns of passive investors (2% annual turnover) actually beat active investors (258% turnover) by 50%.
Energy and the Obama Re-election:
Good for Energy Independence but Clean Tech Path Needs Revamp
Written by Amy Myers Jaffe
The reelection of President Barack Obama is good news for the U.S. pursuit of energy independence. That’s because the President is unlikely to take any major steps to ban shale drilling operations in the United States but is more likely than contender Mitt Romney to stay the course on accelerated time lines for higher efficiency standards (CAFE) to 54.5 miles per gallon by 2025
Believe It or Not, Social Responsibility and Green Advocacy Can Improve Oil Company Stock Performance
Written by Amy Myers Jaffe
Authors Paul Griffin and Yuan Sun demonstrate in their new paper a reliable association between companies’ CSR disclosure intensity and political interests. The authors work supports the notion that when the political interests of managers and stakeholders noticeably converge it encourages significantly higher voluntary CSR intensity.