Innovator
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SPRING /SUMMER 2011
MBA CURRICULUM INNOVATION
U C DAV I S G R A D UAT E SC HOO L O F M A NA G E M E N T
BEYOND CLASS
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28 International Study Trip: Czech Republic, Hungary 30 MBA Consulting Center Team Benefits Brocade 31 Students Meet the Oracle of Omaha 32 Student Standouts Honored 34 Jill Abrams ‘03 and Cathinka Wahlstrom ’91
Recognized with Alumni Association Awards
S T U D E N T S P O T L I GHTS
FA C U LT Y F O C U S
36 Nicole Pedro Puts Down Roots in
6 Prasad Naik: Demystifying the Science of Marketing
Agribusiness Finance
37 Rob Loranger Goes the Distance for
FA C U LT Y N E W S & R E S E A R C H
Fortune 100 Companies
8 Energy Efficiency: The First Line of Defense 8 Optimizing the Next-Generation Power Grid 9 Product Bundling Can Lead to Market Distortions 9 Family Businesses Benefit from Outside Oversight 10 Accelerating Low-Carbon Business Innovation 10 Crying at Work, A Woman’s Burden 11 How Investors React to Company Disclosures 11 University-City Partnerships Key to Urban Sustainability 12 New Symposium Explores Hedge and Mutual Funds 12 Davis Conference on Qualitative Research 13 Suspicious Insider Trading around Debt Renegotiation
38 Heather Brown Aims to Heal Health Care A L U M N I S P O T L I G HT
39 Leonard Bryan ’03: Man on a Mission NEWS TICKER
40 News in Brief about Our Community I N A P P R E C I AT I O N
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DISTINGUISHED SPEAKERS
14 Kevin Johnson and Michelle Rhee on Leading Organizational Change 15 Google’s Chief Economist Mines Predictive Power of Search 16 Clif Bar’s Kevin Cleary Raises the Bar on Sustainability 17 Laura Tyson Urges Investment in Research, Education, Infrastructure
43 Mark Otero ‘07 Names Faculty Resource Center 44 May Seeman ’89 Boosts Faculty Research 44 Nilisha Agrawal ’08 Establishes Student Award 45 The Campaign for UC Davis: Invest in the GSM 46 Thank You! Dean’s Advisory Council and Business Partners
A L U M N I A S S O C I ATION
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SCHOOL NEWS
18 Glass Ceiling Still Intact: Women Scarce at Top of Corporate California 20 Rx for Managing Innovation at Genentech 21 Gallagher Hall Goes Solar 22 Linda Oubre to Extend San Francisco Corporate Relations 23 Peer-to-Pier: How Innovative Companies and People Stay on Top
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I N N O VAT I O N A N D E N T R E P R E N E U R S H I P
24 UC Davis Innovation Hub Would Speed Tech Transfer
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Special Report: UC Davis Center For Entrepreneurship 25 ECO Catalytics’ High-Tech Ink Drives Fuel Cells Forward 26 Ignite Lights a Fire for Aspiring Entrepreneurs Graduate School of Management University of California, Davis One Shields Avenue Davis, CA 95616-8609 (530) 752-7362 innovator @ gsm.ucdavis.edu Current and back issues of the Innovator are available online. www.gsm.ucdavis.edu/Innovator
Dean Steven C. Currall Associate Deans Hemant Bhargava Michael Maher Assistant Dean– Student Affairs James R. Stevens
Assistant Dean– External Relations & Development Anya Reid Assistant Dean– Business & Finance Mary McNally
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Managing Editor Timothy Akin Senior Director of Marketing and Communications Associate Editor Marianne Skoczek
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