Rady Partners with Athena San Diego to Mentor Female Entrepreneurs
At UCSD’s Rady School of Management, developing women in business has always been a priority. In fact, just this year, the full-time MBA class welcomed 39 percent female students. And now, they’re taking their work one-step further. In partnership with Athena San Diego—which has worked for 20 years to connect and support women in STEM (science, technology, engineering and math)—Rady is offering mentorship to female founders and leaders as part of its mystartupXX accelerator. Continue reading…
2 Rady Startups Named Among San Diego Startups to Watch
There’s no doubt that the Rady School of Management at UC San Diego is a leader in innovation. The school is home to two accelerators—StartR Accelerator and mystartupXX—as well as an MBA program with a focus on entrepreneurship. So, it’s no wonder that when Xconomy reviewed San Diego’s top startup companies for 2017, two of Rady’s companies made the list. Continue reading…
Advice From A Rady MBA
Getting into a top MBA program isn’t a simple feat, and the challenge doesn’t stop with admissions. After starting the program, MBAs are faced with a myriad of difficulties including the seemingly impossible challenge of balancing school, work and life.
For Aleena Karamally, an MBA student at the Rady School of Managment at UC San Diego, surviving her MBA program has taken “an abundance of ambition, drive and determination to tackle papers, projects and readings.” To help other MBAs in a similar position, she wrote a blog on the Rady website offering five tips for finding balance. Continue reading…
Rady Students Showcase Startups at 4th Annual StartR Demo Day
UCSD’s Rady School of Management published an article on the fourth annual StartR Demo Day, a twice-a-year acceleration program that provides “students and alumni the tools needed to start and grow their businesses” through “hands-on company development and mentorship.”
According to the article, StartR companies have “raised in excess of $22 million,” with eight startups gaining admission to prestigious incubator EvoNexus.
Six teams presented their innovative startup plans at the most recent conference:
AirCourse offers “access to food options across the airport” for hungry flyboys and girls. “Travelers input flight departure times and gate numbers,” and in return the app displays “available food options that will be delivered before departure.”
MobeWash is an eco-friendly, “waterless mobile car washing service” designed with California’s drought in mind.
Clarity Genomics is a “platform for integrative analysis of direct-to-consumer microbiome, metabolome and genome sequencing results that enables users to import sequencing data from testing services.”
Apollo Mail employs a chat-style view to “redefine how e-mail is accessed and viewed” by mirroring a “standard text message screen rather than a traditional e-mail format.”
Diario is a device that “allows children to document their feelings throughout the day.” Diario links up with “parent’s smartphones, which allows the parents to track how their children are feeling.” Probably not going to fly with teens.
Braykion is a “wearable smartband system” that “monitors, records and remind healthcare workers to wash their hands throughout the day, and especially before and after interacting with a patient.”
Rady Alum Saves San Mateo County Ice Skating Rink
UCSD’s Rady School of Management published an article by alumna Sarah Feldman ’15—a Tesla Motors data analyst with a “life-long passion for ice skating”—about how her MBA skillset helped her save a San Mateo County ice skating rink.
San Diego MBA Programs that Waive the GMAT and GRE Requirement
When prospective business school students plot out their path to an MBA, there’s often one obstacle that looms large in the distance, causing stomach knots to fasten and throats to dry: the standardized admissions test.
