A CFO’s Guide to Carbon Offsets

Professor and Xpansiv CFO Suzy Taherian details how carbon offsets can fill the gap between climate commitments and the limits of abatement technology for CFO Magazine.
Professor and Xpansiv CFO Suzy Taherian details how carbon offsets can fill the gap between climate commitments and the limits of abatement technology for CFO Magazine.
'Face time bias' is a real phenomenon affecting employees working remotely, says Professor Emeritus Kim Elsbach, who found that bosses tend to favor employees who they can see at work, regardless of what they're actually doing.
Professor Ayako Yasuda says that all future limited partner agreements with venture capitalist firms should include a contingency clause that spells out a mechanism for disclosing and potentially expelling "questionable" LPs from the fund.
View video interview with UC Davis Full-Time MBA student Cleona Tsang, who recently earned the Outstanding Future Marketing Scholarship from the American Marketing Association’s Sacramento Valley chapter.
Jason Mikami MBA 96 is an engineer and senior executive at Uber by day, and a winemaker by night as he continues his family’s 100-year history of grape farming in Lodi.
Lecturer
Master of Science (M.S.), Engineering Management and Leadership, Santa Clara University, 2004
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Mechanical Engineering, Santa Clara University, 1997
Research Expertise
Supply chain digitalization, supply chain risk and resiliency, supplier relationship management, FDA, ISO 13485:2016, and MDSAP regulations
Areas of Expertise
Business analytics, operations management, management & organizations, technology management
Four UC campuses are represented in the finals of the 22nd annual UC Davis Big Bang! Business Competition. Winners will be announced May 26 at the Big Bang! Awards Ceremony.
Worldwide business school organization recognizes commitment to diversity, equity, inclusion
The Graduate School of Management's 21-Week Anti-Racism Challenge was awarded for its efforts to elevate diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging in its community.
“I thought the curriculum had the perfect balance among math, computing and business-based subjects which aligned with my goal of holistically enhancing my business analytics acumen. The practicum project, spanning the length of the program, made the prospect all the more exciting because it presented an opportunity to apply the concepts I learn then and there. The icing on the cake was the location of San Francisco, as studying in the Bay Area is akin to being in the epicenter of the analytics revolution.”
The war in Ukraine has galvanized the West, says GSM Finance Professor Ayako Yasuda: “Startups do have real reasons to worry about receiving funding from (venture capital firm) DST (Global).”