How worried should long-term investors be about the coronavirus pandemic? Professor Alan Taylor says “it’s an open question, since we have never had an age pyramid like this in past great pandemics.”
The coronavirus pandemic could harm the economy for decades if past patterns are a guide, according to Professor Alan Taylor, drawing on data going back to the 14th century.
UC Davis experts agree hoarding is wrong, but as Professor Donald Palmer explains, panic buying might actually be a rational response to public officials' messages during a chaotic crisis.
Professor Donald Palmer and UC Davis experts say political leaders' messages during COVID-19 outbreak scared people into over-buying—a rational response.
Professor Donald Palmer joins KCRA 3 TV News for a live question and answer session about hoarding and government messages to public about coronavirus pandemic.
Working remotely? Distracted by kids and dealing with shelter in place? Professor Kimberly Elsbach shows how to "be seen" by staying in touch with your supervisor.
Two, maybe three phones are ringing, your children are screaming for lunch, your
Amid the Coronavirus pandemic, Professor Donald Palmer describes how dissonant messages from public leaders have further eroded trust in government during times of crisis that brings with it panic buying and stock market collapse.
Professor Emerita | Fellow, Academy of Management
Ph.D., Industrial Engineering, Stanford University
Research Expertise
Perceptions of individuals and organizations, including perceptions of legitimacy, creativity, and trustworthiness.
Kimberly D. Elsbach is a professor emerita of management and previously held the Stephen G. Newberry Chair in Leadership (2005-2021) at the Graduate School of Management, University of California, Davis. She is also an International Research Fellow at the Center for Corporate Reputation, Oxford University, Editor-in-Chief for Academy of Management Annals, and co-founder and organizer of the Davis Conference on
Professor
Stephen Garcia is a professor in the Graduate School of Management at the University of California, Davis. He was previously professor of psychology and professor of organizational studies at the University of Michigan, where he also held faculty appointments at the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy and Stephen M. Ross School of Business.
Garcia is an expert on the psychology of competition and a scholar in the field of judgment and decision-making. He is the lead editor of The Oxford Handbook of the Psychology of Competition (2024), the first of its kind volume to organize the literature
Lecturer
Ph.D., Computer Science, UC Davis, 2025
Master of Science (M.S.), Computer Science, Sonoma State University, 2017
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer and Electrical Engineering, UC Davis, 2004
Research Expertise
Visualization, AI in Education and API Design
Areas of Expertise
Business Analytics, Technology Management
Mak Ahmad has 20+ years of experience in the tech industry working as a software engineer and product manager for Microsoft, Roblox, Instagram, Tiktok, Salesforce and Google. Among many products, he worked on Instagram Reels, Google partner platform, Istio and also co-founded aip.dev.
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Lecturer and Former Robert A. Fox Executive-in-Residence
Master of Science (M.S.) in Management - Concentration in Finance, MIT, 1985
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) in Managerial Economics, UC Davis, 1983
Research Expertise
Alternative investing, portfolio management, investment cycles, fixed income
Areas of Expertise
Finance
Eamonn Dolan served as chief investment officer and managing director of CM Capital (CMC), managing diversified portfolios emphasizing alternative investments. He was responsible for asset allocation, strategy formulation, manager selection, process design, and leading the investment team. Currently, he serves on CMC’s
Professor | Associate Dean of Undergraduate Programs | Robert W. Glock and Miriam R. Glock Endowed Chair in Management
Ph.D., Stanford University, Graduate School of Business
Greta Hsu is a professor of management at the Graduate School of Management at University of California, Davis. She received her Ph.D. in Organizational Behavior, M.S. in Statistics, and M.A. and B.A. Sociology from Stanford University. In July 2025, she was named the Robert W. Glock and Miriam R. Glock Endowed Chair in Management.
Through her research, Hsu develops understanding of how market categories are socially constructed, how they are used and strategically manipulated by market actors, and how they shape market evolution and
Lecturer
Ph.D., Organizational Behavior, Carnegie Mellon University/Tepper School of Business
Gary Katzenstein’s career interests span the intersection of three areas: leadership, design/innovation, and international business. Katzenstein teaches courses that include Leading People, Power and Politics, Applied Innovation, International Management/Strategy and International Business Development. Katzenstein has taught at the Haas School of Business/UC Berkeley, the UCLA Anderson School of Management, the NYU Stern School of Business, the Johnson School of Management at Cornell University, the Rady
Professor, Maurice J. and Marcia G. Gallagher Chair in Finance
Ph.D., Economics, Stanford University, 2001
Research Expertise
Venture Capital, Private Equity, Sustainable Finance, Institutional Investing, Entrepreneurial Finance, Technology Finance
Ayako Yasuda is a professor of finance at the Graduate School of Management, University of California, Davis, where she holds the Maurice J. and Marcia G. Gallagher Chair in Finance. She is a senior fellow of the Asian Bureau of Finance and Economic Research (ABFER) and a fellow of the Private Equity Research Consortium.
Yasuda is an applied financial economist whose research focuses on venture capital, private
Professor Emerita
Ph.D., Harvard University
Research Expertise
Empirical analysis of quantitative and qualitative field-based data as well as survey data to study performance management and cost accounting in and at the boundaries of the firm (e.g., lean production, supplier performance management, customer profitability and lean consumption), integration of strategy, operations management and management accounting practices, and design of cost accounting systems, cost allocation mechanisms, and cost-based transfer pricing policy
Professor Emerita Shannon Anderson is an expert on the design and implementation of
Professor Emeritus
Ph.D., University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Research Expertise
Accounting, response of nonprofit organizations to economic incentives
Professor Robert Yetman is an expert on corporate tax, financial accounting, income tax, U.S. and international financial accounting, and nonprofit accounting and tax issues. His research concentrates on the effect of taxes on business decisions and the response of non-profit organizations to economic incentives. Yetman recently examined why some tax-exempt charities choose to be taxed on their unrelated business income, and how such behavior is not always
Professor
Ph.D. Operations and Information Management, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, 2004
Master of Arts (M.A.), Operations and Information Management, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, 2001
Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Management Information Systems, School of Economics and Management, Tsinghua University, 1998
Research Expertise
Business analytics, big data analytics, predictive modeling, artificial intelligence and machine learning
Professor Yinghui (Catherine) Yang focuses her research on business intelligence, big data, machine learning, data mining methods for
Professor | Michael and Renée Child Professorship in Business
Ph.D., Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
Research Expertise
Careers, job mobility, organization theory, organizational behavior, social networks, technology and innovation
Professor Gina Dokko’s primary research focus on the consequences of job mobility and careers. She studies how portable experience is, and how peoples’ job mobility and career histories enable and constrain learning, innovation, performance and social capital for both themselves and their employers. She has found that people’s career backgrounds affect not only the knowledge and skills they bring to new opportunities
Professor Emeritus
Ph.D., State University of New York, Stony Brook
Research Expertise
The causes, processes, and consequences of wrongdoing in and by organizations, and the role of power and politics in corporate decision making.
Consulting
Community health needs assessments, group decision-making facilitation.
Professor Emeritus Donald Palmer studies why otherwise law-abiding, ethical and socially responsible people participate in wrongful courses of behavior. His conclusions are based on an understanding of basic psychological, social psychological, and sociological processes that shape human behavior.
Lecturer
Marybeth Kavanagh joined the Graduate School of Management as a lecturer in 2018 after spending 30 years with IBM Corporation leading numerous software development and technical consulting engagements. Kavanagh’s extensive experience working with clients to achieve critical business goals through technological improvement and organizational change strategies gives her an excellent foundation for advising MBA student teams’ Integrated Management Project consulting projects for client organizations.
Since her retirement from IBM, Kavanagh changed her professional focus and became a Licensed