MSBA News
The Making of an MSBA Program
Industry demand, diverse class drive UC Davis Master of Science in Business Analytics program launching this fall.
Why Amazon Should Pick Sacramento
Note to Jeff Bezos and Amazon: Sacramento region is PRIME for your second headquarters.
Poets & Quants Features New M.S. in Business Analytics
Professor Hemant Bhargava tells Poets & Quants our MSBA charter class has “phenomenal” gender diversity with 55% women.
My Journey from Silicon Valley to UC Davis’ MSBA Program
I could probably attribute my thirst for data to many aspects of my life and personality. I’m excited to take my penchant for data analytics and my career to the next level through UC Davis’ MSBA program.
Why I Chose the UC Davis MSBA Program
My career goal is to work in high-tech companies in Northern California. Not only is San Francisco a dream place to work with data, it is also a place where I plan to build my family and social network.
3 Must-Haves: Educating a Workforce in Business Analytics
Professor Hemant Bhargava says the buzz started a few years ago: MBAs in the U.S. were infected with “Big Data Fever.”
UCD’s New GSM Dean: A Conversation with Rao Unnava
“Students coming here want to make a difference,” Unnava said. “I’ve never seen such a thing.”
He agreed that many might think of getting an MBA as primarily a financial pursuit, but students here say “it’s more important to make a difference through their careers” than to make money.
Your Week as a UC Davis MSBA Student
As a prospective UC Davis MSBA student, you might be wondering what your week might look like – especially since classes are held on Fridays and Saturdays.
What is Prescriptive Analytics? A Conversation with UC Davis
We spoke with UC Davis Professors Dr. Bhargava and Dr. Saigal to learn more about prescriptive analytics and how it’s used in business settings. We also discuss their thoughts on the fundamentals of a solid analytics education, the UC Davis approach to teaching analytics, and the top resources for analytics students.
Put Your Skills into Practice
At our recent kick-off event for the UC Davis MSBA program, Bryan Kirschner, Google’s API strategy lead, summed up the importance of hands-on learning by saying: “making the shift to be able to learn from doing and experimentation, is a tremendous advantage over the old way of doing things, and that’s something that there is a crying need for . . .”
UC Davis Master of Science in Business Analytics Kick-Off Celebration, Jan. 23, 2017
More than 100 attendees and headline speaker, Bryan Kirschner, head of APIs for Google, gathered at Gallagher Hall to help us officially launch our Master of Science in Business Analytics program. The 10-month program will be held in San Francisco, the heart of the big data revolution.
Dive Into Data With a Master’s in Business Analytics
Sanjay Saigal, executive director of the business analytics master’s program at the Graduate School of Management at University of California—Davis, says many mid-career business professionals are returning to school to get business analytics degrees so they can advance in their companies.
Analyze This
“We’re living in a different world now where it’s really information that will be the differentiator. The product is important, but data and the information you can derive from that will be the key difference for firms in today’s data-driven world.” says Associate Professor of Marketing Ashwin Aravindakshan.
UC Davis Shares R&D Magazine Top 100 Innovation Award
Professor David Woodruff teams with researchers from Sandia National Labs and Purdue University on open-source software for business, science and engineering
A powerful and flexible open-source software package developed by a team that includes UC Davis Graduate School of Management Professor David Woodruff was selected as one of the 100 winners of the 2016 R&D 100 Awards.
Local Universities Rush to Launch Programs on Data Analytics
UC Davis is offering a higher-level master’s of science and business analytics that will involve more coding, said Hemant Bhargava, the program’s academic director.
#MSBA Twitter Chat
November 10, 2016
Leadership in the Digital Enterprise: Combining data science tools and managerial savvy to lead organizational change.
Big Data Revolution
Big data has forever altered the way businesses operate, from marketing and supply chains, to competitive strategy and human resources. A tidal wave of data continues to wash over companies. The challenge is how to harness that flood to make informed decisions that propel firms forward.