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What’s an MBA Consulting Project Like?
How we teamed up with the NBA’s Sacramento Kings on international expansion
With international expansion a lucrative frontier for fan growth and revenue for NBA teams, the Sacramento Kings' partnership with my UC Davis MBA student team for a winning strategy was nothing short of a slam dunk.

Poets&Quants Ranks UC Davis Full-Time MBA in Top 20 among Public Programs
Mash up of Financial Times, U.S. News, Bloomberg, LinkedIn and Princeton Review
The Poets&Quants 2023-2024 MBA rankings combines the most influential business school rankings in the world: U.S. News & World Report, The Financial Times, Bloomberg Businessweek, and for the first time LinkedIn‘s debut MBA ranking and Princeton Review‘s annual list of the best.

A Look at Organizational Behavior from NASCAR Fans to the Cattle Industry
Poets&Quants: UC Davis Thought Leadership Video Series
From NASCAR fans and remote workers to the cattle industry and creative designers, UC Davis Graduate School of Management Professor Emerita Kim Elsbach shares her research on social psychology, self-perception, and behavior in organizations.

UC Davis MBA Tips for Applicants
Our admissions team offers you more than 30 tips on your essays, recommendations, resume, test scores and interviews to help you complete your online application.

Unlocking the Power of Python in Accounting
How my elevated coding skillset will set me apart
“Those with Python skills will be able to navigate an accounting world that prioritizes innovation, efficiency and high-level data analysis,” writes MPAc student Matthew Ejiogu.

Which Artist’s Tour Crashed Ticketmaster’s Site? My Journey in the 2023 UC Davis-Financial Times Biz Quiz
Mentorship of Professor Ayako Yasuda leads us to success
Battle of the b-schools: MBA student Akshaj Aravind Raghavi shares UC Davis' strategy for the Biz Quiz that tested the global business news knowledge of teams from 11 schools. A UC Davis MBA team took second place for the second consecutive year.

Full-Circle: How My Internship at Crowe Led to UC Davis—and Back
MPAc combined with field experience launches my rewarding career in auditing
After two internships at Crowe, Nicolas Oropeza shares how the UC Davis MPAc program propelled him to rejoin the global firm and launch a rewarding career.

Digital Payment Platforms Can Easily Be Misused for Drug Dealing, Researchers Suggest
UC Davis Faculty Pantelis Loupos and Jörn Boehnke Say Buyers and Policy Regulators Should Vigilantly Guard Against Illicit Use
A study published in the Annals of Operations Research by UC Davis Faculty Pantelis Loupos, Jörn Boehnke and Ying Gu of the University of Washington revealed that among 2 million Venmo users and 23 million transactions analyzed over two years, more

Decoding Illicit Networks: Fintech Apps are New Frontier for Illegal Drug Trafficking
Drug dealers go digital, deeply embedded in Venmo
Assistant Professor Pantelis Loupos blogs about his research using sophisticated machine learning to uncover how illegal drug dealers have co-opted Venmo—and the need for more regulatory measures and innovations in crime prevention.

Talking Tableau: Former Vice President Jock Mackinlay on Data Visualization
Powerful visuals unlock collaborative potential
MSBA Lecturer Mak Ahmad hosted Tableau's Former Vice President Dr. Jock Mackinlay who shared his insights on data visualization, collaboration and passion.

Cal Poly Pomona 1st, UC Davis 2nd in UC Davis-Financial Times Biz Quiz
Watch the video of the final round and see all the winners
At our second-annual UC Davis-Financial Times Biz Quiz on November 17-18, 2023, we hosted three dozen graduate students on teams from 11 universities to go head to head in the buzz-in, quiz contest on global business news from FT. The contest kicked off with an executive interview with Marcie Frost, CEO of CalPERS.

UC Davis Online MBA Ranks in Top 20 of Poets&Quants' 2024 List of Best in U.S.
Top 5 on West Coast for recent alumni satisfaction measures
The UC Davis Online MBA program, the first and only online MBA in the University of California system, has been ranked among the top 20 in Poets&Quants 2024 list of “The Best Online MBA Programs in the U.S."