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Top Industries for MBAs: Going Beyond Traditional Tech
Learn what opportunities await for MBAs in non-traditional tech
Are tech companies still attracting MBAs willing to change careers?
Twenty years ago, there was a constant battle between investment banking and consulting to attract the best candidates from business school.
Fast forward to today and consulting
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Bringing a Military Mindset to Business Analytics
MSBA student William Gao transitions to grad school
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(Editor's Update, March 2021: Now an MSBA alumnus, William Gao is a data scientist at Western Digital in the San Francisco Bay Area.)
Over the past six months, I’ve had the opportunity to meet and work with very diverse and talented classmates in
MPAc Curriculum Updated to Stay Ahead of the Curve
Redesigned MPAc courses reflect strong grounding in accounting fundamentals
We’d like to let you know of exciting updates to our curriculum as the educational needs for practicing accountants continues to evolve.
UC Davis MPAc has redesigned our course offerings to reflect a strong grounding in accounting fundamentals, as
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Dialed into World-Class Customer Service
Headsets.com CEO Mike Faith turns up the volume
Customer service is one of those terms that I hear in the most general sense, but Mike Faith takes it to a new level—he’s a customer service fanatic.
Faith is the founder and CEO of Headsets.com, the leading headset supplier in North America with
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Becoming a Lawyer with an MBA
Laying the Groundwork
After graduating from the University of Virginia, I moved to San Francisco, where I worked in customer success at two startups. My roles involved talking to clients, creating customer-training materials, and understanding the
10 Tips to Get the Most from Your MBA Consulting Project
Set realistic expectations for you and your team to succeed together
As a first-year UC Davis MBA student, all you can do is wait for the tidal wave to hit you.
You start hearing both triumphant and intense stories about the IMPACT project, our capstone course known by that acronym as Integrated Management Project
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5 Ways to Unleash Your Business Analytics Superhero
Build Your Strengths Harnessing Data
Ranked among the top 10 best business analytics programs in the country and in the top 25 in the world, the UC Davis M.S. in Business Analytics program is a complete package — exceptional faculty who get to know you by first name, a well-designed
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Louis Biggers MBA 08
Intel Corporation
Louis Biggers MBA 08 reflects on industry challenges and collaborative solutions. As a senior application engineer at Intel Corp., UC Davis MBA alumnus Biggers is helping the chip giant move into a data-centric world. He's working on enabling sensor
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Digital Therapeutics: Video Games Can Be Healthy
Co-founded by Tony Simon, Cognitive is a Davis-based therapeutic company developing "digital therapeutics" — treatments in the form of virtual reality games to reduce cognitive and motor impairments in brain injury patients and children with
Students Outline Bold Vision in Leadership Summit
Student-led collaboration draws five programs together
What happens when you bring 30 student club leaders to a summit? You get ideas that are bold, inspiring and almost impossible to achieve (sort of).
The Fall 2018 Leadership Summit, held Nov. 11 at the Bay Area MBA campus in San Ramon, brought
Success in 60 Days: Our Road to Runner Up at Adobe Analytics Challenge 2018
The Adobe Analytics Challenge business case competition tests university student teams’ ability to solve business problems using Adobe’s analytics products and real-world data from leading organizations.
This year's competition sponsor, wireless
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What’s Next in the Disney-Netflix Streaming Battle?
Professor Hemant Bhargava shares his insights on Netflix's future and its preparedness as Disney plans to launch a competing video streaming service, stating, 'Netflix also has other ammunition, too.'