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Featured by Poets & Quants: Meet our MBA Class of 2022
Check out the story and profiles of 11 of our new MBA students featured on one of the top business school media sites.
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Students Invest After Gamestop Stock Surge
Following the recent Gamestop stock surge, professor Brad Barber says mostly-amateur retail investors used Reddit as a forum to coordinate their attacks on short-sellers and students flocked to easy-to-use brokerage apps, like Robinhood, to take
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West Sac's Origin Materials Going Public in $925 Million SPAC Merger
UC Davis alum John Bissell’s eco-friendly bioplastics firm, which transformed through the Mike and Renee Child Institute for Innovation and Entrepreneurship, will go public in a nearly $1 billion deal with SPAC Artius Acquisition Inc.
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2021 Travelers Auto Insurance Review
In a review of Traveler's Auto Insurance, Associate Professor Ashwin Aravindakshan details the average insurance consumer decision-making process from assessing customer reviews to finding deals.
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Wrightspeed to Participate in Stifel Virtual Transportation and Logistics Conference
At this year's Stifel’s Virtual Transportation & Logistics Conference, GSM Lecturer and Wrightspeed CFO Suzy Taherian says we are witnessing a once-in-a-generation transformation, noting a five-fold increase in electric vehicle use this decade.
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Professor Hemant Bhargava Recognized among Top 100 Academic Data Leaders in the World
Professor Hemant Bhargava becomes the only UC Davis academic named to the top-100 list by CDO Magazine.
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Tesla’s Advantage: EVs Cannot Succeed Without Developing Parallel Supercharging Networks
Management scholars argue for platform model with both vehicle and chargers
Traditional carmakers are spending billions on developing EVs. But they should take a leaf out of Tesla’s books and invest in a supercharger network to support their cars.
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Counties With More Cannabis Dispensaries Show Reduced Opioid Deaths
First time county-level association between opioid deaths and dispensary prevalence found
Professor Greta Hsu's study is the first to examine the association between active cannabis dispensaries and opioid-related mortality rates at the county level.
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A New Reason Investors Shouldn’t Try to Time the Stock Market
A New Reason Investors Shouldn’t Try to Time the Stock Market
How big have these platforms become? Professor Brad Barber and colleagues conclude that activity on Robinhood now accounts for roughly one-third of all retail trading volume in the stocks that are most popular among Robinhood users.
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The Economist Ranks Faculty Quality No. 2 Globally, MBA in Top 50
The Economist’s 2021 Which MBA? ranking rates our faculty quality second worldwide and the UC Davis MBA among the top 50 globally and top 30 in U.S.
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New Children's Book, Behind the Mask of COVID-19 for Kids, Now Available
MBA alumna Aimee Carroll presents her debut children's book, Behind the Mask of COVID-19 for Kids. This illustrated children’s book provides a simple and easy-to-understand explanation of the virus and the pandemic.
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The Deep Divide: How Can America Heal?
With deep political division across the country, Professor Kimberly Elsbach explains to CBS13 why many people choose to identify with smaller, like-minded groups. "We have a human need for distinctiveness," she says and notes that regional leaders