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Comcast Is Paying Up for Sky: Now What?
By many measures, Comcast overpaid to acquire British pay TV firm Sky -- but if transformation is Comcast’s goal, the cost could be justified, experts say.
Jesse Rosales Climbs K2 Like It’s His Job
MBA Alum: It takes management skills, process-oriented goals and a strategic vision
Jesse Rosales didn’t climb a mountain in a day.
Summiting the second highest peak in the world—a feat more consuming and dangerous than scaling Mt. Everest—took years of preparation, perseverance and every project management skill in his toolbox.
Meet the Firms: The Largest Career Networking Event for New Accounting Students
The Big 4 firms joined with boutique accounting companies and state agencies to recruit new talent
The 7th Annual Meet the Firms networking event brought together recruiters from 24 public and corporate accounting firms to meet our largest class of incoming Master of Professional Accountancy students.
More than 175 students, recruiters, senior
The Blockchain Revolution in Food
Media coverage of blockchain in the food supply chain are a good reminder that technological innovations aren’t just for revolutionaries. Sometimes they are even better at entrenching the entrenched.
This article on blockchain in the food supply
Raising Innovations
The relationship between the core business strategy and its innovation portfolio is tricky. But maybe not as tricky as companies make it.
This relationship between the core business strategy and its innovation portfolio is tricky. But maybe not as tricky as companies make it. Molly Fleming writes in MarketingWeek:
In a results call for investors today (10 July), PepsiCo CEO Indra
Diving into Big Data, Touring Uber and Networking with Alums—All Before Day 1
April Chen gets an early start on networking before her Master of Business Analytics program
With a week to myself in San Francisco, I leapt into the world of big data, toured Uber’s headquarters and spent time with alums.
I had just left my role as a senior financial systems analyst in a mid-sized technology consulting firm in Minneapolis
Protecting Energy Groups From Climate Lawsuits Is A Bad Idea
Financial Times op-ed by Professor Paul Griffin
Professor Paul Griffin co-authors an op-ed in the Financial Times based on his latest research about how well fossil fuel firms are informing investors.
Post-Truth Meat
Are policy makers trying to stop the future of food? Or are they simply asking the new ultra-hyped, venture-backed food companies to earn their seat at the table?
Are policy makers trying to stop the future of food? Or are they simply asking the new ultra-hyped, venture-backed food companies to earn their seat at the table?
Government policy has always played a role in innovation, sometimes impeding it and
What Our Scholars are Reading this Summer
14 recommendations from politics, economics, history and more
It's peak summer with the mercury toying with triple digits here on campus in Davis. Many are taking time to reboot and get ready for fall. We asked some of the brightest people we know—our faculty—what they've been reading during their time. It's
Raydiant Oximetry Raises $1 Million Seed Round
Raydiant Oximety, winner of the 2017 UC Davis Big Bang! Business Competition, has raised $1 million seed round of venture capital and secured $200K+ in grant funding from the National Institutes of Health. The startup produces fetal pulse oximeter
UC Davis MBA Grad Pledges to Support Economic Growth in Liberia
Amazon manager dedicates education and network to supporting the rebuild of his homeland
Siah Gaye MBA 18 chose the Bay Area Part-Time MBA program for its reputation—and to stay close to his mother. The last time they were separated, he was just learning to walk, his country was at war, and his mother was hiding him from the men who
Did You Experience the Platform Economy Today?
Platform-enabled marketplaces, and other Internet-based goods and products with digital components and network effects are transforming the very idea of what a business is, how it creates value, and how it should be managed.
Platform-enabled