Hemant Bhargava
Distinguished Professor, Jerome and Elsie Suran Chair in Technology Management
Associate Dean for Academic Affairs
Director, Center for Analytics and Technology in Society
Julie Morris
Lecturer and Director, Food & Ag Industry Immersion
Master of Business Administration (MBA), Harvard University
Julie Morris is an experienced technology executive with over 25 years in leadership roles ranging from startups to large Fortune 500 companies. She is currently director of the Food & Agriculture Industry Immersion at the UC Davis Graduate School of Management, having previously served as director, technology innovation at the World Food Center at UC Davis.
Michelle Higgins
Professor
Ph.D., University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Research Expertise
Accounting, financial reporting and valuation
Professor Michelle Higgins' (fna Yetman) research interests are in financial reporting quality, governance and taxation. She expands beyond the boundaries of the commonly investigated U.S. for-profit corporation by investigating international and nonprofit settings. Her research has been published in the Journal of Accounting Research, the Accounting Review, National Tax Journal, Management Science, Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, and the Journal of Accounting and Public Policy. She teaches the core MBA and MPAc course in financial accounting, as well as an accounting for non-financial managers course in the Wine Executive Program.
Higgins received her Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She earned her Master of Accounting Science from the University of Illinois, Champaign, and her MBA from Texas A&M University. She earned her Bachelor of Business Administration from Stephen F. Austin State University. She is a certified public accountant in Texas and a member of the American Accounting Association.
Awards
- Best Paper Award 2013, American Accounting Association Annual Meeting, Government and Nonprofit Section Annual Meeting.
- Dean’s Faculty Research Scholar, UC Davis Graduate School of Management, 2009-10.
- Small Grant in Aid of Research, UC Davis, 2007-09.
- New Faculty Research Grant, UC Davis, 2005.
- Faculty Research Fellow, University of Iowa McGladrey Institute, 2002-03.
Scholarship, Educational Foundation for Women in Accounting, 1999.
David S. Bunch
Professor Emeritus
Ph.D., Rice University
Research Expertise: Marketing research, marketing science, decision and management sciences, consumer choice behavior, choice modeling, new product development and introduction
Professor David Bunch is an internationally recognized expert on marketing research, marketing science and decision and management sciences. His research interests include consumer choice behavior, choice modeling, new product development and introduction, travel behavior, vehicle choice and alternative fuel vehicles.
Amber Beckler
Lecturer
Master of Business Administration (MBA), UC Davis Graduate School of Management
Charles Ansbach
Lecturer
Charles Ansbach has worked with major corporations nationally and internationally representing not only their interests in discussions as donors to major nonprofits/NGOs but also in appeals for support and partnership made by community groups. In those many interactions, he learned why most corporate CSR programs fail and how to fix them. Ansbach has learned what CSR directors must do to manage their programs inside corporate structures and the practical sides of serving effectively in that role.
Kelly Wilson
Lecturer
Master of Business Administration (MBA), Yale University
Wilson is a principal with Vivid Cyan Studio (vividcyan.com) with more than 30 years of experience in strategy and marketing in both consulting and industry roles. In consulting, she spent a decade as a partner at Accenture and as a principal at Ernst & Young. In industry, she served in senior vice president and chief marketing officer roles with Wells Fargo, Blue Shield, Paradigm and McKesson.
Judith Kjelstrom
Lecturer
Ph.D. in Microbiology, University of California, Davis
Judy Kjelstrom (aka Dr. Judy) has a rich background in health science and biotechnology education and training, clinical laboratory science, microbiology, program administration, mentoring and leadership. From 2004 to 2018 she directed the UC Davis Biotechnology Program (est. 1986), a novel program that partners effectively across the campus and with the life sciences industry. Although the program is small in the number of personnel, it is involved in a large number of cross-disciplinary projects:
Paul Bianchi
2019 & 2020 Robert A. Fox Executive in Residence
Masters in Management, University of Kent, Canterbury
B.S., Managerial Economics, UC Davis
Paul Bianchi is an experienced and successful human capital executive and consultant with over 25 years of high-technology leadership experience from innovative companies like NeXT, Apple, Ask Jeeves, PeopleSoft and Illumina.