Davis MBA Student Shares Experience
Amber Lewis is a full-time MBA student at the UC Davis Graduate School of Management. She will graduate this spring from the program. Lewis explains that she enjoys attending UC Davis for her MBA for three main reasons. The first is the caliber of students in the program. The median GMAT scores and GPA earned by students in the Full-Time MBA program at Davis are 690 and 3.18. The second reason why she enjoys the program is the community that is created among the students and the faculty. The third reason is the quality of education that she has received. “I know that it will progress my career beyond my imagination,” Lewis said
In regards to her educational experience at Davis, Lewis specifically comments on the consulting project that students have to complete. Students work with a company to serve as consultants on projects that will help to students to hone their business management skills that they have learned in the program. “It is an opportunity that I would not necessarily have gotten at another school, but because of our relationship with the community, the school was able to facilitate that, which is a phenomenal opportunity to apply my classroom learning outside of the classroom,” Lewis said.
Anderson Professor Gives $10 Million
UCLA Anderson School of Management professor emeritus, Donald Morrison and his wife have given the school a gift of $10 million. The Morrison’s gift will go toward the launch of a new marketing center. The new marketing center will be named the Morrison Family Center for Marketing Studies and Data Analytics. This is the largest single gift from a UCLA Anderson faculty member.
The Morrison Family Center will be a global resource for academics and practitioners as they use data and analytical tools to advance understanding of consumer markets and behaviors. The center will help to enhance UCLA Anderson’s marketing curriculum and academic research. The center will interface with the practicing marketing community and professional activities in this rapidly expanding field.
New Haas Course Studies Crowdfunding
UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business has joined with the Fung Institute for Engineering Leadership to create CrowdBerkeley. CrowdBerkeley will focus on teaching and understanding the power of crowdfunding. The course will provide a premier hub of education, research, and learning engagement on all topics related to crowdfunding. Throughout the course, students will learn how to raise equity without traditional investors, create credit and loan models without brick-and-mortar lenders and understand the implications of new currencies.
CrowdBerkeley is led by the faculty director of the College of Engineering’s Fung Institute for Engineering Leadership, Lee Fleming, assistant professor Adair Morse, Berkeley-Haas Finance Group, Professor Laura D’Andrea Tyson, director of the Haas School’s Institute for Business and Social Impact, Dr. Richard Swart, who has joined IBSI as a Scholar in Residence and the Berkeley-Haas Center for Social Sector Leadership.
Davis Ranked for Best Quality of Education
Graduateprograms.com has ranked the UC Davis Graduate School of Management no. 21 in the top 25 business schools that offer the best quality of education. For the data, GraduatePrograms.com surveyed over 10,000 current and former business school students about their programs to find which places offer the best quality of education.
The best quality of education was based on the schools where students have access to relevant, interesting, and challenging courses taught by qualified professors. Students ranked their schools on a scale from 1 to 10. The scores for each school were averaged together to come up with the final ranking score.
New Merage School Building Complete
Construction for the new building for the Paul Merage School of Business at UC, Irvine has been completed. The University will hold a grand opening celebration for the new business school building on May 8, 2015. An open house for current students, alumni and prospective students will be held from 2 to 6:30 p.m. This interested in attending the open house can register online.
The University broke ground for the new building on Jan. 9, 2013. The building is the first new facility added to the business school campus since 1989. The building was constructed as part of The Merage School’s Building for the Future campaign. The campaign is a $50 million building initiative that plans to better the school through new student learning opportunities, faculty research, community engagement, and facilities and grounds.
Anderson Venture Comp. Helps Start Alumni Business
UCLA Anderson School of Management alumnus Kelsey Doorey had plans to go in to the corporate retail industry after completing business school. It wasn’t until she entered the 2013 Knapp Venture Competition, that she thought about pursuing a different idea. Doorey won the competition and the $15,000 prize with her idea for an e-commerce rental service for designer bridesmaid dresses. Two of the competition’s judges also offered additional funding for the start up. “The competition literally changed my life in one night,” said Doorey.
“Vow to be Chic” is the fusion of Doorey’s retail and entrepreneurial dreams. Customers can rent designer bridesmaids dresses and Little White Dresses online starting at $50. The company’s website calls it, “An affordable, convenient, and stylish alternative to the status quo. Bringing an age-old tradition into the 21st century.” After the event is over, customers simply send the dress back in the provided prepaid packaging.
