Turn ideas into action.
Develop creative solutions for top food and ag executives that address their business challenges.
Live Case Studies
Our Food & Agriculture Industry Immersion invites top executives to class to present live case studies about the pressing challenges they face. You'll team up to develop solutions on the fly and present to the leaders the same afternoon.
You'll benefit from these deep dives with top industry executives to better understand the complex forces shaping and driving this industry that have game-changing importance on local, national and global levels. Leverage UC Davis' global leadership in food and agriculture to advance your career.
Consulting Projects
The cornerstone of our MBA curriculum is our IMPACT courses (Integrated Management Project + Articulation and Critical Thinking), which build on your broad foundation of business knowledge and skills.
You'll put your collective business skills and knowledge to work on a 10-week IMPACT team project. These projects are proposed by partner companies, often including top agribusinesses and startups in food, nutrition and health.
More than 80 percent of our clients adopt or implement our MBA student teams’ solutions and recommendations.
Recent projects for leading food and ag companies include:
- Blue Diamond Growers - Research potential opportunities in promising areas for new verticals, partnerships and associated technology innovations in the almond industry and beyond.
- Coca Cola Company - Assessed the industry for whitespace opportunities in plant-based beverage categories, considered consumer usage and barriers, and identified new platforms and constructed an innovation pipeline.
- Driscoll's - Assessed technological advancements in agricultural production, including evaluation of key issues, financial impact modeling and generation of a high-level deployment “road map” for targeted potential solutions for world's largest berry grower.
- E. & J. Gallo Winery - Analyzed the capability to optimize inventory throughout the enterprise through evaluating the benefits of rebalancing vs. production; demonstrated financial advantages via working capital; and created a prototype for the process for the world's largest family-owned winery.
By creatively responding to actual business challenges, you'll deepen the analytical, technical and leadership skills you need to succeed while helping companies grow their businesses.