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.
Linda Oubre Joins Team to Extend San Francisco Corporate Relations
To develop top management talent and foster economic development across Northern Cal-ifornia and beyond, the Graduate School Management is expanding its footprint, extending its outreach and building relationships across the San Francisco Bay Area.
Give Air Passengers an “Out” during Delays
Marketing Science, 2012
Instead of holding customers captive in an idled plane on a tarmac during unforeseen delays, airlines should give passengers the choice to leave or stay—and compensate them either way.
Building Recognized for Ecofriendly, Pioneering Design
Since opening in September 2009, Gallagher Hall has been recognized and presented as a case study in excellence for its pioneering, ecofriendly design, and engineering and sustainability features.
The awards and honors include:
Gallagher Hall Going Solar
Sun Power Expected to Bring LEED Platinum Rating
Sunshine will soon provide a boost of renewable energy to power the Graduate School of Management’s campus home, Maurice J. Gallagher, Jr. Hall, and the adjoining UC Davis Conference Center, helping to push the year-and-half-old ecofriendly buildings into the elite class of green construction.
Rx for Managing Innovation & Change
Custom Program Offers New Approaches for Genentech Leaders
The marriage of the pharmaceutical and biotech industries has been a fountain of innovation, delivering a steady flow of revolutionary treatments for patients with serious or life-threatening conditions. Today, the drug industry faces many challenges to its business model and research and development productivity, ranging from healthcare reform price pressure to increased competition from generic medicines as many branded drugs lose patent protection.
Women Faculty: UC Davis No. 1 Among World’s Top B-Schools
Among the world’s top business schools, the UC Davis Graduate School of Management continues to have the highest percentage of full-time faculty who are women, according to the 2011 Global MBA Rankings by the Financial Times.
Reflecting its emphasis on diversity, the School for the second consecutive year has the highest percentage of women faculty—42%—among the Financial Times’ top 100 business schools, whose faculties averaged about 24% women.
Glass Ceiling
Women Scarce at top in California
Women may have become a force in other professions, but they remain a conspicuous minority in the board rooms and executive suites of California’s 400 largest public companies.
Men still hold roughly nine of every 10 highest-paid management and board positions, a ratio that continues to remain largely unchanged in the six years the Graduate School of Management has conducted the “UC Davis Study of California Women Business Leaders.”
Laura Tyson Urges Investment in Research, Education, Infrastructure
Economist Laura Tyson, a presidential advisor and professor at UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business, has gauged the pulse of the U.S. economy for a long time. As the nation recovers from the worst recession since the Great Depression, she believes investment in research, education and infrastructure are more important than ever.
Information Rules
Google’s Chief Economist Mines Predictive Power of Search
With two-thirds of the global search market, Google logs an estimated 34,000 searches per second. That’s two million searches per minute, 121 million per hour, three billion per day, 88 billion per month and roughly one trillion a year, according to the latest ComScore data.
Tapping into this massive treasure trove of real-time data to literally take the pulse of the Web, and gain insight into human behavior and reactions, is surprisingly easy—and free.
Leading Organizational Change
Dynamic Duo Kevin Johnson and Michelle Rhee Disrupt Status Quo
Faced with ever-shrinking budgets and powerful opposi- tion from the status quo, both Sacramento Mayor Kevin Johnson, the former NBA all-star, and his fiancée Michelle Rhee, the founder and CEO of StudentsFirst, have pushed against established special interests in attempting to restructure city government and reform public schools.
Suspicious Insider Trading around Company Debt Renegotiation
Insiders have reaped substantial profits from increased trading of a faltering company’s stock when the firm is renegotiating its debt, according to a recent study by Professor Paul Griffin and colleagues David Lont and Kate McClune of the University of Otago, New Zealand.
11th Annual Davis Conference on Qualitative Research Investigates the How and Why of Decision Making and Behavior
by Jacqueline Romo
The 11th annual Davis Conference on Qualitative Research in April attracted invited scholars to share alternative approaches to qualitative research methods, develop new ways to think about data and continue to build a community of researchers from diverse disciplines.
New Finance Symposium Focuses on Hedge and Mutual Funds
by Jacqueline Romo
Assistant Professors Ayako Yasuda and Roger Edelen recently teamed up to organize the UC Davis Symposium on Financial Institutions & Intermediaries 2011, a one-day conference that brought more than two dozen leading scholars and practitioners to Gallagher Hall on April 1.
This first annual event focused on the nexus of mutual and hedge funds, drawing on the expertise at the School. “Roger and I picked a topic that not only showcased the GSM finance faculty, but one that would encourage engagement from practitioners and academicians alike,” explained Yasuda. “This invitation-only event brought together people knowledgeable about intermediaries from very different perspectives.”
University-City Partnerships Key to Urban Sustainability
The need for sustainable communities is a major economic, social and environmental issue that involves housing, transportation, energy and other infrastructure investments to protect the environment, promote equitable development and address the challenges of climate change. Achieving success in urban sustainability requires close cooperation between local, state and federal officials and crucial collaborations, such as city-university partnerships.
Optimizing Ad Spend to Maximize Profits
Journal of Marketing Research, 2012
What is the optimal advertising budget and allocation that maximizes profits across multiple regions and over time? The chief marketing officer of a Fortune 500 company raised the question after she noticed that increasing her company’s advertising expenditures enhanced sales as expected, while profits diminished.
Family Businesses Benefit from Outside Directors
The governance of a family business can be more complex than that of non-family-owned private companies because of the central role of the family that owns and typically leads the business. In a family business, the management, the family and the ownership group all need governance—and outside oversight.
Crying at Work, A Woman’s Burden
Employees who cry at work are routinely perceived as unprofessional and weak, and occasionally perceived as manipulative, according to research by Professor Kimberly Elsbach that is receiving significant national attention. Most recently, Forbes magazine featured her findings in its January 2011 article, “Crying at Work, A Woman’s Burden.” Elsbach explained that women are more likely to cry in the workplace than men: “Because women aren’t socialized like men they carry an extra burden of emotional labor.”
Energy Efficiency: The First Line of Defense
To enhance U.S. energy security, reduce greenhouse-gas emissions and strengthen the economy, the Obama administration has made clean and renewable energy a top priority. But most of the payoff for that investment will be over the long term. Energy efficiency is the fastest, cheapest and cleanest solution to implement now.
Introducing Our New UC Davis MBA Curriculum
We are strengthening our internationally ranked UC Davis MBA program by launching a new, innovative curriculum this fall that further integrates globalization, responsible business ethics and sustainability.
Alumni Association Class Notes
1983
Betsey Archer: Retirement is coming up. At the end of the year, I will be selling my financial planning practice and moving into “the next phase.” I can’t believe it’s been 28 years since we survived as the “first class.”