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Oakland Bottle Shop Co-founded by MBA Alum Featured in Bon Appetit
Alkali Rye, co-founded by Kori Saika Chen MBA 19 and Jessica Moncada Konte, introduces spirits made by underrepresented BIPOC distillers, brewers, and winemakers, and is featured in Bon Appetit's "Oakland Is America’s New Queer Food Capital."
MBA alumnus Mark Otero Raises $15 Mil. for New Web3 Gaming Venture, Azra Games
Prolific gaming entrepreneur and MBA alumnus Mark Otero's new blockchain/Web3 gaming venture, Azra Games, closed a $15M seed round led by Andreeson Horowitz plus NFX, Coinbase Ventures, Play Ventures and Franklin Templeton.
The Power of Networks: Professor Hargadon Shows How Networks Drive Innovation
New, radical, disruptive ideas have long been considered the foundation of innovation; but, according to Professor Andrew Hargadon, ideas need a network to be successful.
Startups Make a Splash at the UC Davis Big Bang! Business Competition
Held in person for the first time since 2019, the 22nd Annual Big Bang! Business Competition presented over $100,000 in prize money and in-kind awards to early-stage startups in the food and agriculture, health, energy/sustainability, and social
Celebrating the Largest Graduating Class in School History
75% increase from five years ago
This year’s graduating Class of 2022 contains a record-breaking 449 graduates, including two program-highs.
Becca Litman MBA 22 Honored as a ‘Leader and Change Agent’ for Diversity, Equity, Inclusion
A recipient of the 2022 Chancellor’s Achievement Awards for Diversity and Community, Litman served on the School's Faculty Committee on Diversity and as a leader in the Action for Diversity initiative.
Sodontuya Nerguidavaa Named to Poets & Quants' "100 Best & Brightest MBAs: Class of 2022”
Celebrates “the embodiments of excellence and the voices of their schools.”
Full-Time MBA student Sodontuya Nerguidavaa has been recognized among Poets & Quants "100 Best & Brightest MBAs," which celebrates MBAs who are “the embodiments of excellence and the voices of their schools.”
A CFO’s Guide to Carbon Offsets
Professor and Xpansiv CFO Suzy Taherian details how carbon offsets can fill the gap between climate commitments and the limits of abatement technology for CFO Magazine.
'Face Time' Bias may be Working Against Those Working from Home
'Face time bias' is a real phenomenon affecting employees working remotely, says Professor Emeritus Kim Elsbach, who found that bosses tend to favor employees who they can see at work, regardless of what they're actually doing.
Anti-Russia Sanctions Spur VCs to Unravel Ties to 'Toxic' Money
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.
Full-Time MBA Student Cleona Tsang Earns AMA Outstanding Future Marketer Scholarship
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.
MBA Alum: Uber Exec by Day, Family Winemaker by Night
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.