

Celebrating Pride: Finding Each Scientific Measure of Happiness at UC Davis
Being involved with the LGBTQ+ community fuels my passion and engagement
Full-Time MBA student Ash Bagla shares what it’s like to balance hard work, community engagement and find positive fulfillment at business school.

How MSBA Students Are Driving Value for Client Firms
How my practicum project set me up for success
“Our work as students results in big changes for our partners and the opportunity to expand our technical knowledge and gain real-world experience.”

7 Keys to Mastering Your MSBA Practicum Project
Our group experience will pay dividends in your future job interviews
Working well with your practicum team comes down to seven tangible steps, says MSBA student Keshore Suryanarayanan.
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
- 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.
- 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
- 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
- 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.

Our 7 Core Actions for Diversity
Bringing inclusion practices into the real world
Building on UC Davis’s No. 1 ranking by QS for inclusiveness, diversity and internationalization, the Graduate School of Management has a commitment to seven core “Actions for Diversity.”

4 Lessons from the 2021 UC Davis-ANA Data-Driven Digital Marketing Conference
Execs from Google, Blackrock, Univision and Zappos.com offer brand insights
MSBA student Julia Wallace tuned in to learn from leaders from four well-known and influential brands during the UC Davis-ANA Data-Driven Digital Marketing conference.

MBA Team Finds About 23% of Sacramento's Workforce May Leave the Region within Three Years
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.

UC Davis Graduate School of Management to Offer Interest-Free Deferred Tuition for Online MBA Students
Pilot program designed to increase access to higher education
New deferred tuition pilot program aims to reduce the financial barriers to pursuing an MBA by helping students avoid interest payments.

Serving on a Board: How Women in Leadership Opened My Eyes
Finding female mentorship with the PUENTES board
Bay Area Part-Time MBA student Meagan Travlos served on a non-profit board through the student-led Women in Leadership Board Fellows Program.

Square Partners with MBAs to Dig into Sustainable Cryptocurrency Mining
Will cryptocurrencies enable eco-friendly economic empowerment?
MBA student Christine Dillman shares the challenge posed by Square: Create a financial model for Bitcoin mining that takes into account important environmental goals.

Why UC Davis is a Great Place for Entrepreneurs
“Aggie Innovators” are changing the world
“This truly was the apex of my education—blending my scientific expertise with my business acumen and my entrepreneurial spirit,” says MBA alumna Teri Slack.
UC Davis Health Comprehensive Cancer Center
- Determined resources necessary to support and sustain palliative care clinic based upon recent growth and projected demand; demonstrated impact and key variables in allocating resources and support, organizational structure needs and defining the value proposition of the clinic to the health care system.
Sacramento Metro Chamber
- Assessed what employees are looking for at various stages in their career and how regional businesses are meeting those goals with an evaluation of KPI benchmarks used to measure employment opportunities, deployment of survey to address workforce needs in the region, and development of a KPI scorecard.
Indigo Agriculture
- Supported the development of the company’s transportation management platform (TMS) through an assessment of competition, identifying points of differentiation, and recommendations for how best to position and communicate the value of the platform to customers.
Bayer Pharmaceuticals
- Explored opportunities to partner with “hidden gem” universities and innovators to develop a competitive advantage for therapeutic pipeline assets.
Textil Del Valle
- Performed market research, evaluated key competitors and tested consumer interest in potential products and brand concepts to assess overall market attractiveness and next steps for high-impact Peruvian textile exporter, developing a sustainable clothing brand intended to reach the North American market in 2021.