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Your Team Struggling? Coffee May be the Answer, Study Suggests
If your team has been slow to get on the same wavelength, Dean H. Rao Unnava and Professor Vasu Unnava found coffee may be the trick to get back on track.
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36 Million Unemployed: How AI can Create Jobs
For Forbes, Lecturer Suzy Taherian says AI startups like PHIXED at UC Davis, for example, can move the pharma industry towards biomanufacturing 4.0 and create additional data-analysis jobs.
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Winning Others Over: Courtney Schultz Now Consulting with PwC
Former sprint freestyle swimmer and 2018 Aggie graduate Courtney Schultz carved out a path through our Master of Professional Accountancy program to a consulting position at PwC.
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Spotlight: Ana Parra Vera MSBA 20
Master of Science in Business Analytics
M.S. in Business Analytics student Ana Parra Vera shares her experience as a student leader in the San Francisco program, and her virtual "Zoom"ba for her classmates to keep fit.
Why the UC Davis MSBA program in San Francisco?
The parts of the
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Design Thinking Helps Us Thrive in Virtual Relationships
How to collaborate virtually with one another through empathy
With digital work and social spaces virtualizing our experiences, MBA student Justin Owens, a design-thinking expert at IBM, says empathy becomes key to collaboration.
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This is Best Time for M&A, if you can Realize the Synergy
For Forbes, Lecturer Suzy Taherian says it's a buyer's market right now and might be the best time for CFOs to make a strategic acquisition due to the sharp drop in public and private equity markets.
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Canadian Policy on Corporate Emissions Translates to Higher Market Value
Professor Paul Griffin's 12-year study of carbon emissions data of Canadian companies shows the country's aggressive greenhouse gas regulations are paying dividends for stock valuations.
Sonja Hongisto-Bowman MBA 91 Honored for Her Volunteerism
Uber ambassador recognized with 2019-20 Outstanding Service Award
Double-Aggie Sonja Hongisto-Bowman is one of only two alumni to earn both the Outstanding Service and the Distinguished Achievement awards.
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Over $200 Billion in Impairments to Hit Corporate Earnings
For Forbes, Lecturer Suzy Taherian says the COVID-19 pandemic has forced finance executives to closely examine impairments of assets, expected to be more severe than the 2008 recession.
GSM Alumni Association Honors Shyama Chakroborty MBA 96
2019-2020 Distinguished Achievement Award
A true "Rocket Man," Shyama Chakroborty MBA 96 has distinguished himself in the space exploration field.
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MBA Alumnus Mac Clemmens Honored with Rising Star Award
Tech entrepreneur named GSM Alumni Association's first Rising Star recipient
Clemmens is the founder and CEO of Digital Deployment, Inc., a Sacramento-based custom website design and development company for institutions, government, non-profits, and associations.
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How Every Entrepreneur Wins in the Big Bang!
We’re proud to be one of 16 finalists
Sacramento Part-Time MBA student Teri Slack is co-founder of StarBio, one of 16 finalist teams in the 2020 Big Bang! Business Competition.