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.
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.
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).”
UC Davis Graduate School of Management students Shreyanshi Khanna and Ian Earley were introduced as the new board fellows of the Davis Opera House in a partnership with the GSM’s Women in Leadership club.
Comstock's annual salute to extraordinary women breaking barriers and rising to the top
UC Davis Sacramento Part-Time MBA student Preet Ahluwalia, owner and chief investment officer of GNP Capital Partners, graces the cover of the March 2022 Comstock's. Read her experience pivoting in business and empowering women entrepreneurs.
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Business experts express optimism and concern over the Capital Region’s 2022 economic outlook. The Metro Chamber partnered with UC Davis Graduate School of Management MBA students to identify which of Sacramento’s attributes mattered to employees.
Online MBA alumnus and Big Bang Business Competition winner featured
Online MBA alumnus Angel Melchor's new venture INN>CHG recently won our Big Bang! Business Competition as the Yolo County-based startup builds an Airbnb-like service to eliminate range anxiety for electric vehicle drivers.
“Even though it’s called the VC market, more and more of that money is not from VC investors,” says Ayako Yasuda, professor of finance at the UC Davis Graduate School of Management and Research Fellow of the Private Equity Research Consortium. “That
Prof. Paul Griffin calls for a borderless mandate for company climate risk discourse in an article in the journal Nature Energy—a move in line with recommended actions from the recent UN Climate Change Conference in Glasgow.
Lecturer Suzy Taherian says despite a low national unemployment rate of 4.8%, there's a labor shortage in California involving both low-skilled and high-skilled workers due to numerous factors, such as childcare, more people working for themselves
MSBA student Susannah Schulze shares what it was like to participate in the UC Davis Summer Abroad UK Perspectives in Global Management program and travel to Edinburgh, Scotland.
Professor Don Palmer explains how financial and performance pressures on startup leaders—like Theranos' Elizabeth Holmes—can make them susceptible to misconduct, until their "fake it till you make it" mantra goes wrong.
In an interview with the New York Times, professor Ayako Yasuda discusses private equity investment companies that have pumped billions of dollars into fossil fuel projects, buying up offshore platforms, building new pipelines, and extending
When should drivers consider getting full coverage auto insurance?
Lecturer Suzy Taherian comments on California insurance options, deductibles, and when drivers consider dropping full coverage from their car insurance policy in her interview with Wallet Hub.
"Our hope is that this is perhaps a groundbreaking way of doing things," says Dean H. Rao Unnava of the new pilot program for interest-free deferred tuition for the Online MBA program.
Poets&Quants’ John Byrne writes that Dean Unnava believes the deferred tuition program could increase the available pool of applicants by as much as 20% because it makes the Online MBA degree more accessible to candidates.
"The key to MBA application success lies beyond GMAT scores or work experience," says Valerie D. James, Assistant Dean of Student Affairs at the UC Davis Graduate School of Management.
A new workforce study from the Sacramento Metro Chamber and a team of UC Davis MBA students revealed about a quarter of the more than 400 Sacramento-area workers surveyed may leave the region within three years.