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.
Steven Currall, UC Davis – Hub Culture Interview at GGCS3
Steven Currall, the Dean of the Business School at UC Davis talks to Sarah Backhouse of Hub Culture at the Governor’s Global Cilmate Summit in Davis. He has been key to the organization and coordination of the GGSC3.
Super green!
Meet Mayor Kevin Johnson’s Greenwise Sacramento Leadership Team
Over the last four years, I have focused much of my personal time and the newspaper’s resources on trying to answer a simple question: What can we do to increase the odds that our great, great grandchildren will live on a habitable planet? I was therefore delighted when Mayor Kevin Johnson told me a few months ago that he was going to launch a Greenwise Sacramento initiative, a communitywide, yearlong effort to make Sacramento the greenest region in the country.
CEIBS Executive President Zhu Xiaoming Meets with Dean of University of California, Davis Business School
Shanghai campus — CEIBS Executive President Professor Zhu Xiaoming this afternoon met with Dean and Professor of Management in the Graduate School of Management at the University of California, Davis Steven Currall and Principal Officer for International Business Development, UC Davis Health System Dr. Cheyenne Currall. CEIBS’ Dean’s Office Director Helen Xu and MBA Programme Operations Director Yvonne Li also attended the meeting during which both sides explored the potential for future collaboration.
UC Davis Clean-Tech Forum Shows Support for AB 32
The University of California Davis on Wednesday launched an effort to establish a clean-energy hub in the Sacramento region and Bay Area that would drive innovations out of laboratories and into the marketplace.
More than 270 people attended a half-day event to kick off the effort to create a network of researchers, governments, corporations and investors.
UC Davis Business School is No. 1 for Women Faculty
The University of California Davis Graduate School of Management has the highest percentage of women faculty among the top 100 business schools in the world, according to The Financial Times.
The Glass Ceiling Remains in Place
Women have made little progress in breaking the glass ceiling at California’s top publicly traded companies, according to a report scheduled to be released today.
Citing “a bleak picture of the progress of women in corporate leadership” over the last five years, the report said that women held just 10.6% of executive positions and board seats at the state’s biggest companies this year, a slight decline over 2008.
S.F. Nurtures Female Execs, Study Finds
A glass ceiling still looms over California companies, although it’s less prevalent in San Francisco, according to a report to be released today.
Women account for just a handful of top leaders at California’s 400 largest public companies, said the study from the UC Davis Graduate School of Management.
UC Davis Names New Business Dean
The UC Davis Graduate School of Management has tagged as its new dean a London professor and “academic entrepreneur.”
The university announced Wednesday it has appointed Steven Currall, a vice dean and faculty member who holds joint positions at University College London and the London Business School, as its new dean effective July 1.
Few Women on Boards of State’s Largest Firms
For a state that considers itself a hip, progressive trendsetter, California looks like anything but that when you peek inside the executive suites and boardrooms of its 400 largest companies.
Five years after UC Davis initiated the first study of the gender split at the top of corporate California, men still hold nearly nine of every 10 positions, according to the latest survey released today by our Graduate School of Management.
UC Davis’s Energy Efficiency Center Makes Conservation Sexy
Professor Andrew Hargadon, the founding director of the UC Davis Energy Efficiency Center (EEC), was featured in the May issue of Fast Company. The article recognized Hargadon’s leadership at the forefront of the energy efficiency wave by fostering networks linking entrepreneurs, scientists, venture capitalists and business students.
University College London Opens New Department
University College London has celebrated the opening of its £11.4m Engineering Front Building in an official ceremony attended by former minister for science, Lord Sainsbury.
Prof Steve Currall, vice-dean of enterprise and head of the Department of Management Science and Innovation, said: ‘We have a vision of UCL as a hub for enterprise and innovation activities and that is why we have made this significant investment.
Geographical Clusters of High Technology Business:
The United Kingdom and London Kingdom and London
New Home for Innovation at UCL
More than 20 years ago Steve Currall came to the UK doing a masters at the LSE. Now the American innovation professor is running a UCL department from a brand-new £11 million building.
Public Perception of Nanotechnology
Steven Currall has looked at people’s willingness to use new commercial products containing nanomaterials. Elizabeth Corley has found that nanotechnology is the first emerging technology where scientists are more concerned about the risks than are the public. Dan Kahan reports on public perception to nanotechnology.
Steve Currall presents to Parliamentary Select Committee
Innovation, Universities and Skills Select Committee invites Steve Currall to present
Visiting Professor of Organisational Behaviour and Entrepreneurship Steve Currall presented remarks to the Innovation, Universities and Skills Parliamentary Select Committee on 9 January.
Steve Currall addresses Parliamentary Committee on Innovation
Professor Steve Currall, Head of UCL Management Science & Innovation (MSI), last week delivered a presentation to the Parliamentary Select Committee on Innovation, Universities & Skills in Westminster.
In his talk, he discussed the role of science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) graduates in developing economic prosperity in the UK. He argued for the development of education programmes for STEM students to develop entrepreneurial and business leadership skills that can be brought to bear in the companies they work for after graduation.
UCL Launches Centre for Academic Entrepreneurship
University College London (UCL) has launched an ambitious plan to boost its private funding by creating a new commercial science department that it hopes will entice top international researchers.
The department plans to hire up to 15 new researchers who would boost the university’s private funding. So far, the department has enticed five research-active academics from top-tier universities including Cambridge, Stanford and Cornell.
Think Small to Think Big
Steve Currall, professor of enterprise and the management of innovation at University College London, has been appointed to nTAG, the Nanotechnology Technical Advisory Group, which advises the US President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology.
Debunking the Nanotech Myths
Public attitudes toward nanotechnology are currently pretty neutral. It’s up to government and the media to provide realistic assessments of risks and rewards
Nanotechnology has been around for years, but the general public is just beginning to learn about it. While many other emerging technologies have been boldly presented to the world’s consumers (for instance, genetically modified food), nanotechnology remains something of an enigma.
Consumers Accept Nanotechnology