Left to right: Umbrellas with solar-powered charging stations at UCLA Anderson; UCLA’s co-generation power plant; Bruin Bike Share Along with the S.A.F.E. Collection Center for household hazardous waste, solar panels atop Ackerman Student Union, the UCLA Bike Shop and bike fix-it stands and air pumps stationed around campus, UCLA is... Continue reading

By Amanda Sol Peralta (’20) National Hispanic Heritage Month always prompts me to reflect on the community that I unwittingly joined when I moved to the U.S. 25 years ago. This fall, as I begin business school at UCLA Anderson, it’s made me recommit to how this community has enriched... Continue reading

By Paul Feinberg Adriana Martinez (’02) believes that every person counts. And when it comes to the 2020 United States census, it’s her responsibility to make sure every Californian is counted. In August, Governor Jerry Brown appointed Martinez deputy director of outreach for the state’s California Complete Count effort. The... Continue reading

By Lauren Wolfen (’19) When I walk into the welcoming, open courtyard at UCLA Anderson, I am inevitably greeted by section mates, group project team members and friends, who have all quickly become some of my most trusted sources of advice, suppliers of a great laugh or a good story,... Continue reading

By Paul Feinberg For Daniel Tsai, it's all about family. And love. Tsai and his brother Richard, together, lead the immensely successful financial services business their father founded and that has become the second largest in Taiwan. His professional achievements are many, but Daniel Tsai makes clear that his family... Continue reading

Left to right: Aadhar Jain (’19), Founders Bootcamp founder Richard Dahan, Emily Kosko (FEMBA ’19,) Connor Doyle (’19), Andrew Grone (’18) By Elise Anderson Ever meet teenage disruptors? They are aspiring entrepreneurs under the age of 19 with plans to change the world. Twenty of these budding business leaders came... Continue reading

By Brett Sanchez (’19) Pay it forward: I’m sure most have heard the expression. Thanks to Wikipedia (my undergraduate professors would shudder to know I’m citing a wiki), I found out we may be able to trace the concept back to Ben Franklin, at least: I do not pretend to... Continue reading

By Carolyn Gray Anderson UCLA Anderson Professor Magali Delmas asserts the most important component to slowing climate change is information. “In 20 years we will all have a lot of information about everything we consume,” she says. “We’ll know the impact of the meat we eat … we’ll know the... Continue reading

A quintet of UCLA Anderson students was commissioned by Conservation International Guyana to assess the feasibility of blockchain technology to solve a major challenge in the implementation and scaling of the Community Development Plan (CDP) in Guyana. The work was conducted in the group’s Applied Management Research (AMR) project, the... Continue reading

UCLA Anderson Academic Awards Dinner, June 7, 2018 Congratulations, UCLA Anderson Class of 2018! The Anderson community acknowledges your dedication and academic achievements: GLORIA APPEL PRIZE The Gloria Appel Prize is given annually to graduating MBA students who have demonstrated outstanding achievement in entrepreneurial studies and student leadership. The full-time... Continue reading

“China presents to the world an economic model that’s been fairly successful and has lifted millions and millions of people out of poverty. It’s a very different economic model than the U.S. economic model,” says UCLA Anderson Forecast Director Jerry Nickelsburg. “People are looking at both economic models and trying... Continue reading

China is where Fritz Demopoulos (’97) decided to launch his career and make his life after b-school. Turning down a lucrative ― and stable ― offer in Europe, Demopoulos trusted his instinct for opportunity and headed for Asia. The decision paid off. Fritz Demopoulos and UCLA Anderson Interim Dean Al... Continue reading

UCLA Anderson’s 2018 commencement ceremony, like others before it, celebrated the degrees and accomplishments of the newest graduates of its three MBA programs, along with a scattering of brand new Ph.D.s. But unlike any such event at Anderson in more than a dozen years, Friday’s celebration also marked the end... Continue reading

By Julie Ortega (’19) I’m always amazed by how many pathways can lead into social impact careers. As a first-year MBA student specializing in social impact, I find it heartening that: a) people from so many industries have found ways to fold impact into their disparate interests; and b) I... Continue reading

U-Defi, the 2018 Knapp Venture Competition first place winners and recipients of a Pritzker Group Fellows Program investment, left to right: Aditya Marathe, Van Nguyen, Thanh Thuy Dan Pham, Cynthia McKee By Carolyn Gray Anderson It was an evening of surprises as the 2018 Knapp Venture Competition distributed more than... Continue reading

By Carolyn Gray Anderson UCLA Anderson is on a growth trajectory — in excellence, reputation and numbers. Yet Anderson is one of only three leading U.S. business schools without a recent expansion to keep pace with enhanced programs, top faculty and students. As we prepare students for meaningful global careers... Continue reading

Professor Sanjay Sood engaged Paramount Television and Digital Entertainment President Amy Powell in conversation and audience Q&A By Carolyn Gray Anderson UCLA Anderson alumni from 44 class years ― ranging from 1962 to 2017― convened for the May 4–5 Alumni Weekend, starting with the annual conference and Dean Judy Olian’s... Continue reading

By Elise Anderson It was a far cry from what Arash Nasibi (’14) had envisioned as an MBA student. A former computer scientist with a focus on management consulting, Nasibi took a sharp left turn shortly after enrolling in a core strategy class with professor Phillip Leslie, and just kept... Continue reading

The student consultants traveled to Bangkok to meet with doctors and administrators on the Siriraj Hospital International Relations team. Pictured left to right: Anita (Pei-Yu) Ho; Larry (Wen-Yan) Chang; John Hamilton, special assistant in the UCLA Vice Chancellor’s Office; Dr. Vitoon Chinswangwatanakul; Dr. Thawatchai Akaraviputh; Dr. Thawornchai Limjindaporn; Xiao Hu;... Continue reading

By Michael Eister (’17) While still a student at UCLA Anderson, I accepted an internship with a CEO whom I met on a visit to Yangon, Myanmar, one of the several global immersion trips organized by UCLA Anderson’s Center for Global Management. My primary task was to investigate an opportunity... Continue reading

By Paul Feinberg One of the few things that could get you fired at Under Armour, company founder and CEO Kevin Plank told a UCLA Anderson audience this week, is this statement, which betrays a recalcitrant mindset: “That’s the way we’ve always done it.” Companies like his must anticipate and... Continue reading

UCLA Anderson students and staff collaborated to produce Impact Week. Back row, left to right: Impact@Anderson program manager Kelly Chung, Karthik Patange (’18), Qingqing Wu (’18), Katie Donovan (’18), Impact@Anderson director Bhavna Sivanand (’14); front row, left to right: Janna Stucky (’19), Elizabeth Heredia (’19), Jessica Lin (’18), Molly Tarrant... Continue reading

Ryan Dumlao, Melody Akbari and Varun Chalupadi at the Lynk booth at Mum’s Village, a convention in Nairobi UCLA Anderson MBA students conduct Applied Management Research (AMR) projects in lieu of a thesis. The nation’s first business school field study program, AMR partners students with top organizations to solve a... Continue reading

By Paul Feinberg With daily headlines regarding U.S.-Sino trade relations as a backdrop, UCLA Anderson Forecast economist William Yu remains skeptical that the two nations will engage in a full-blown trade war, despite the public posturing of U.S. President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping. “Global trade imbalances cause... Continue reading

HSRC staff in Sweetwaters, South Africa, with Angela Tseng and Erin Kelm (far right and third from right, respectively) UCLA Anderson MBA students conduct Applied Management Research (AMR) projects in lieu of a thesis. The nation’s first business school field study program, AMR partners students with top organizations to solve... Continue reading