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My Q&A with Professor Jörn Boehnke, Inspiring the Art of Data Analytics
“You'll have the skills to turn raw data into solid gold.”
MSBA student catches Srishti Agarwal sits down with Professor Jörn Boehnke who shares his insights after dedicating 20 years of experience in data analysis.

Because You Love the Movie, I Know It Will Fail
Positive critics reviews signal film will be a flop; negative reviews—a hit!
Assistant Professor Pantelis Loupos partners with MSBA students to analyze the correlation between movie critics’ pre-release reviews and opening weekend box office revenue. Their results will surprise you.

Automated College Degree-Planning Tool Wins Top Prize in Annual UC Davis Business Competition
Device to Improve Post-Harvest Maize Yields in Africa Takes Home 2 Prizes Totaling $20,000
A team of two UC Davis MBA students and a senior computer science major received the $20,000 first prize for the best innovation and $10,000 more as the People's Choice winner in the 23rd annual Big Bang! Business Competition on May 23.

My Top 5 (honest) Reasons Why You Should Get an MBA
Redefine who you are, make life-long friends, become a collaborative leader, and exceed your goals
Jessica Cheng shares tips on how her Bay Area MBA has enabled her to seek challenges, gain knowledge and become a risk-taker.

A New Beginning: My Journey to Grad School as a First-Gen Student
My inspirations, dreams and aspirations
MPAc student Cievia Xiong describes her experience as a first-generation Hmong- American student, and how her family, friends and “ghost-mentors” inspire her to maintain a work-life balance while pursuing her career goals.

Disney Storyteller’s MBA Adventure: Tackling Challenges to Shape the Future of News
My experience navigating career, family, and education
Bay Area MBA and Emmy award-winning TV news director Joshua Hubbard reports how he manages to balance school, family and career and using his new skills to cover stories in the fast-paced news business.

Chinatown Foot Patrol Works to Keep Oakland's AAPI Community Safe
Lecturer Marc Lowe: "I wanted to do something to help the Chinese community."
For a story kicking off Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month, CBS News interviews Lecturer Marc Lowe as he joins a highly visible citizens' foot patrol group in Oakland's Chinatown to help deter hate crimes in the area.

Mika Shang Honored among Poets&Quants' 100 Best & Brightest MBAs
Now in its 9th year, P&Q's Best & Brightest celebrates MBA excellence
Congratulations to second-year Full-Time MBA Mika Shang, recognized among the business school movers and shakers who "rally their peers; the mentors who champion; the visionaries who awaken; and the volunteers who shoulder the heaviest burdens."

MSBA and MBA Students Dig Deep into Data from Z by HP
How we organized UC Davis Aggie Hack: 5,000+ BigQuery jobs and Redshift queries in 48 hours
Student body president Sumanth Munnangi lifts the veil on the UC Davis Aggie Hack 2023, in which teams generated more than 5,000 BigQuery jobs and Redshift queries in 48 hours to develop marketing insights for Z by HP.

UC Davis Aggie Hack 2023 Puts Business Analytics to Work
How our team combined creativity, expertise and curiosity
A member of TechEmpowerHER, winner of the Analytics Excellence Award, MSBA student Vaaridhi Mathur shares how they learned something new every hour during the 48-hour hackathon to deliver marketing insights for Z by HP using data analytics and machine learning.

NASA to Deloitte: How UC Davis Opened Doors of Opportunity
UC Davis MPAc preparing me for accounting career at Big 4
MPAc student Rushana R. Galeeva credits UC Davis for opening doors that led to her landing an internship at NASA headquarters in Washington D.C. and landing a plum job offer with Deloitte in San Francisco.

My Q&A with Janie Chang, New MPAc Academic Executive Director
Updated accounting curriculum to meet industry demands
MPAc Associate Director Zoë Richardson catches up with new Academic Executive Director Janie Chang who shares her background and vision for the program.