Videos spotlight projects in healthcare, marketing, AI-powered customer insights
Watch videos for a deep dive into the innovative practicum projects that teams of Master of Science in Business Analytics (MSBA) students have developed solutions for partner companies and organizations. Learn more about how your organization can benefit from partnering with us.
"The ceiling of where this can go is incredible."
UC Davis and Financial Times' Biz Quiz brings together student teams from California to New York for an intense, nationwide competition. Teams battle in buzzer-style rounds, showcasing business knowledge and national recognition.
UC Davis MBA teams consult on market research for new products
The UC Davis Innovation Institute for Food and Health at its annual Partner Summit today announced an expanded collaboration with Denmark-based BioInnovation Institute (BII) to accelerate commercialization of discoveries in protein nutrition.
Key takeaways as an organizer of Metro EDGE’s Emerge Summit
Sacramento MBA Ryan Advincula recaps Metro EDGE’s Emerge Summit—which he helped organize—featuring sessions led by classmates and faculty on workplace evolution, personal branding, and stereotypes.
Leading conversations on motherhood, mental health and mentoring
From bookworm to keynote speaker, recent graduate Leticia V. Garay reveals how the Metro EDGE: Emerge Summit shaped her journey as a first-generation MBA alumna. As a third-time speaker at the annual event, she reflects on overcoming fears, embracing growth, and finding her voice in leadership.
Developing skills in tech inventory and operations management
Full-time MBA student Ravi Teja Viswavarapu blogs about his summer internship with the NBA’s Sacramento Kings, putting his MBA skills into play and gaining career-changing experience in tech inventory and operations.
Our UC Davis MBA experience as community leaders
Sacramento MBA student Marisol Ibarra goes behind the scenes of Metro EDGE’s Executive Insight event, connecting young professionals with CEOs and leaders at Sacramento companies and non-profits.
Collaborating with executives from Bucher Vaslin North America
MBA student Tara Rahimi blogs about the leading an Integrated Management Project team to assess and strategize marketing concepts for wine industry supplier Bucher Vaslin North America (BVNA).
Buy Better: Optimal User Paths and Spending
Students will have an excellent opportunity to understand customer journeys and online purchase behavior, as well as participate in the full life cycle of data attributions model developments. This is a small, nimble silicon valley startup and students will get to work directly with the founders who are subject matter experts in their fields.
Establishing Aircraft Condition by Predictive Maintenance
Students on this project will provide a set of software tools and create staff workflows to convert the unstructured condition data into quality structured condition data as efficiently as possible.
Future of Computing Devices
Qualcomm's Snapdragon compute platform brings the best of your smartphones together with the best of your laptop. Students on this project will dive deep into the ever-growing Compute market and analyze consumer needs, changing market demands and rapidly growing technological advancements to provide business insights to Qualcomm.
Fourth-Grade Math and Markov Chains: The Little Chatbot That Could
This project is something completely different. Students will work with the conversational AI startup to build a chatbot which will take the best instruction from the best math teachers and make it available to students worldwide.
Forecasting the Future: KQED's Broadcast & Membership Evolution
Students will perform an in-depth analysis of KQED's members with respect to their age and historical giving, including channels by which they give (direct mail, digital, and on-air pledge). While working on this project, students will gain deep skills in data analytics, modeling and consumer trends.
DHCS Health Informatics
Working with the DHCS team will give students invaluable experience and insight into the California health services programs. Students will get an in-depth insight into the collection, analysis, management, and dissemination of quality data and data products for programs to make sound, data-driven decisions supporting program needs and requirements regarding health care in California.
Establishing a Commanding Presence in the Emerging Fleet Industry Market
Students will get a first-hand view of how financial models and pricing information drive a successful business. They will work on pricing and discount analysis, revenue management, and various customer segmentation methods along with the ins and outs of the electric vehicle domain.
Improving Management Effectiveness in Organizational Change
The Challenge of changing a business is in the risk that its organization will not successfully adapt to the accompanying new demands. This project will give students invaluable experience and insight onto the organizational design industry. It will also require students to develop a demonstrable capability to use and coordinate predictive analytics, business user collaboration platforms, and management communications.
Store to Store Inventory Transfer to Improve Inventory Efficiency. When Machine Learning Meets Optimization (Phase 2)
The objective of this project is to take the learnings from the optimization model in Phase one (completed last year) and continue to improve upon the logic to involve more parameters and data points as well as expand the scope to include Online Consumer demand and transfers back to regional distribution centers to support that demand. This project will enable students to apply their skills in a very challenging and critical area in the field of supply chain analytics.
This project sought to modernize the interview process as part of the talent acquisition system in the Human Resources department. The student team conducted research and provided recommended solutions for standardizing and updating the interview process in order to meet institutional compliance and strategic goals.
As the U.S. workforce continues to evolve and change, how will Starbucks continue to attract and retain top talent? Through an analysis of partner (employee) sentiment, management interviews, evaluation of current market trends and competitive analysis, the team identified gaps and provided recommendations for a three-year talent retention plan.