Faculty Perspective
Women At The Top? Not So Much
Wendy Beecham is the Managing Director of Executive Education at UC Davis. She has over 25 years of leadership experience, and has coached c-level business leaders on executive performance.
Walk in Your Customer’s Shoes
Wendy Beecham is the Managing Director of Executive Education at UC Davis. She has over 25 years of leadership experience, and has coached c-level business leaders on executive performance.
Connect with Your Audience
Lessons for Business Leaders from the Presidential Election
Steven Currall is the Dean of the UC Davis Graduate School of Management. In this blog, he analyzes President Obama’s successful communication strategies during the election, and provides executives and leaders with the tools to leverage trust building and active listening tactics.
Selling Mechanisms & Savvy Consumers
Lessons from the Travel Industry
Associate Professor of Management Rachel Chen studies operations and supply chain management, service operations, and dynamic pricing. In this blog, she teases out key takeaways from her most recent research on travel industry selling mechanisms.
How We Learn:
It’s about Engagement, Collaboration, and Flexibility
Wendy Beecham is the Managing Director of Executive Education at UC Davis. She has over 25 years of leadership experience, and has coached c-level business leaders on executive performance.
Corporate Responsibility
Beyond the Bottom Line
The Graduate School of Management has a long-standing commitment to driving positive change through the power of business, embracing community and ethical principles, and putting our collective ideas into action to build a better world.
Sustainability and corporate responsibility are woven into the very fabric of our culture, and the larger UC Davis community. Our new MBA curriculum deepens the integration of responsible business ethics, corporate citizenship and environmental sustainability. And we are widely recognized for pioneering research and teaching that ensures that business education is part of the solution to the challenges of globalization and the promise of an inclusive, sustainable global economy.
People make mistakes—this includes investors saving for retirement and CEOs of major corporations. Our Center for Investor Welfare and Corporate Responsibility is the first step in both avoiding these mistakes and minimizing the damage that might be done by them.
— Professor Brad Barber, Director, UC Davis Center for Investor Welfare and Corporate Responsibility
Here are just a few examples of our collective commitment to the triple bottom line:
- Principles for Responsible Management Education – One of the first 100 business schools in the world—among 20 in the U.S.—to adopt the United Nations Global Compact’s first international guiding framework for academic institutions to advance corporate social responsibility.
- Thought Leadership – Our expertise and initiatives advance the debate among educators, business, government, consumers, media, interest groups and stakeholders on today’s most critical issues.
- Center for Investor Welfare and Corporate Responsibility – Promotes research, teaching, courses and student activities that bridge scientific and ethical principles in corporate practices.
- International Recognition – The Aspen Institute Center for Business Education’s Beyond Grey Pinstripes survey ranks UC Davis among the top eight small business schools and among the top 10 percent worldwide for integrating social and environmental stewardship into curricula and scholarly research.
- Green Technology Entrepreneurship Academy – The UC Davis Child Family Institute for Innovation and Entrepreneurship hosts the premier academic program for commercializing green technology innovations, and is a springboard for moving green tech research out of the lab and into the world.
- UC Davis Energy Efficiency Center – Led by Professor Nicole Woolsey Biggart, the nation’s first university-based center of its kind offers opportunities to work with industry to commercialize cutting-edge, energy-efficient technologies.
- Student Activities and Outreach – From the GSM Professional Net Impact chapter to the Community Consulting Group and our ethics pledge, our student activities promote integrity in business and community involvement.