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Employees Need To Feel Connected: Leaders Have To Be Human
For Forbes, Lecturer Suzy Taherian says business leaders shouldn’t ignore the crucial task of rebuilding company culture following changes to corporate strategies and processes due to COVID-19.

Can Artificial Intelligence Create Jobs?
Undergraduate Lisa Illes and her startup are featured in this look at how AI can create jobs. 2020 Big Bang! award winner PHIXED SYSTEMS is an advanced analytics platform technology for bio-manufacturing. This blog is excerpted from a story by

“We're only physically distancing, not socially distancing.”
MSBA student leader Ana Parra Vera promotes fun, community building
While sheltered-in-place, MSBA student Ana Parra Vera collaborated on ways to build community, including a COVID-19 data competition and leading virtual "Zoom"ba workouts.


Tim Stallings MBA 98
Tim Stallings MBA 98, co-founder and vice president of merchandise for the Sacramento Republic FC soccer club, shares his experience helping to build a professional sports franchise with big plans to bring it to the national stage — and how his UC

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.

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.

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.


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

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.

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.

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.