From Pantries to Professions: Alumni Couple Give $8M for Holistic Student Support

Alumni Michael and Joelle Hurlston endow deanship at Graduate School of Management

Hurlstons with Dean H. Rao Unnava

Joelle and Michael Hurlston want all students at the University of California, Davis, to have every opportunity for a successful future. The alumni and longtime donors are giving $8 million to support Aggies' basic needs, career development, innovation opportunities and graduate school experiences.

United Nations

  • Project was to create an overall business strategy encompassing marketing, outreach and partnership to reach objectives for their Knowledge Graphs for Social Good (KG4SG) initiative.

Olam Food Ingredients

Olam
  • Provided direction surrounding opportunities to expand the scope of demand for spices in a targeted $20B+ industry including segmentation, identifying possible entry points, product format recommendations, and go-to-market and channel positioning strategy.

American Honda Co.

Honda
  • Identified three, high-value opportunities for the company to pursue in the energy solution space to make effective use of renewable energy to meet carbon neutral company goals, specifically, opportunities that utilize renewable energy such as solar power generation, offshore wind power generation, fuel cells, mobile batteries, and battery systems for electric vehicles through a PEST analysis.

Harrando & Co
Harrando & Co.
  • Explored exporting products to the U.S. with the goal of positioning high-end Moroccan olive oil to be competitive with European brands through market research (including FDA requirements and process for U.S. market distribution), competitive assessment and target markets, buyer value analysis, go-to-market plan and delivery roadmap.

Genentech
Genentech
  • Project supported the Environmental Health and Safety (EHS) team; interviewed team members to understand and codify internal best practices, determined pain points and analyzed solutions, integrated market-leading best practices and recommended Agile approach for the organization.

Brandyn Lee MBA 23
Brandyn Lee

UC Davis is a wonderful community to network and fulfill your in interest for a particular academic course. I chose UC Davis for graduate school because of the prestigious education and well-known alumni around the globe.

UC Davis has always been a place for opportunity and growth which is why I chose this phenomenal school. 

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