Pitching Ideas Successfully Can Hinge on Your Project Leader’s Style
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Pitching Ideas Successfully Can Hinge on Your Project Leader’s Style

QUICK SUMMARY:

  • Team members should align their idea pitches to the style of their creative project leader
  • Creative project leaders most often self-define themselves as “idealists” or “pragmatists”
  • Idealists are more likely to be receptive to low
Pitching Ideas Successfully Can Hinge on Your Project Leader’s Style
Pitching  ideas to leaders
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Pitching Ideas Successfully Can Hinge on Your Project Leader’s Style

Source: By Steven Wilson

Professor Kim Elsbach shares new research examines leadership personality traits and how they affect ideas being accepted and rejected.

Quick Summary:

  • Team members should align their idea pitches to the style of their creative project leader
  • Cre
Audit Committees Not Compromised by Big-Four Alumni
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Audit Committees Not Compromised by Big-Four Alumni

Benefits include higher audit quality, lower fees, timelier reporting

Source: by Steven Wilson and Ben Haimowitz, American Accounting Association

Assistant Professor Paul Wong and his co-authors explain how the familiarity of a former partner who sits on the company’s audit committee can actually be a benefit.

A former partner of a Big-Four accountancy sits on the audit committee of a company

Extreme Heat Impacts Firms’ Stock Value
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Extreme Heat Impacts Firms’ Stock Value

First study to quantify the impact of physical climate risk on corporate market values

Climate change is making business and investors sweat.

Research from the University of California, Davis, finds episodes of extremely hot weather lead to declines in market value. This is especially true in the South and Southeast, and for small

UC Davis Graduate School of Management to Offer Online MBA
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UC Davis Graduate School of Management to Offer Online MBA

The Graduate School of Management at the University of California, Davis, is launching a fully online Master of Business Administration degree — the first in the 10-campus university.

MBA@UCDavis is now accepting applications, and its first cohort

Will Snyder Awarded for Excellence in Teaching
MPAc Executive Director Will Snyder
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Will Snyder Awarded for Excellence in Teaching

UC Davis Academic Federation honors MPAc executive director for his many contributions to students

The UC Davis Academic Federation has named MPAc's executive director for its Excellence in Graduate and Professional Teaching Award.

The UC Davis Academic Federation recently named Will Snyder as the recipient of its Excellence in Graduate and

Professor Donald Palmer Contributes to Australia’s Investigation of Child Sexual Abuse in Organizations
Professor Donald Palmer provides expert analysis of institutional cultures
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Professor Donald Palmer Contributes to Australia’s Investigation of Child Sexual Abuse in Organizations

Institutional failures account for many of the 4,400 cases

Source: By Brad Hooker

A royal commission has delivered the most extensive report of its kind, with Professor Palmer providing expert analysis of institutional cultures. 

Quick Summary:

  • Royal Commission delivers most extensive report of its kind on child abuse in
Bay Area Part-Time MBA Marks 20 Years Serving San Francisco Region
Three Bay Area MBA students in front of Golden Gate Bridge 2005
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Bay Area Part-Time MBA Marks 20 Years Serving San Francisco Region

"MBA by the Bay" builds bridges, prepares top talent for global innovation hub

Image Jeff Rosenlund, Megan Conway and Austin Nwaochei, members of the first cohort of Bay Area MBAs, at the Golden Gate Bridge in 2005.

The Graduate School of Management last fall launched a Bay Area MBA program — and certainly it will benefit from UC Davis forays into the Bay Area business community. For the MBA program, students can take weekend classes at the San Ramon Valley