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Students Team Up on Solutions in COVID-19 Challenge
MSBA and MBA students partner on creative analyses of pandemic data
Judged by data experts at Google and Affirm, MSBA and MBA students teamed up in a two-week challenge to find creative, actionable data-driven insights to the spread of COVID-19.
The UC Davis COVID-19 Challenge brought together M.S. in Business

What Is The Shape Of Economic Recovery? V, U, Or L
What will the economic recovery look like? Lecturer Suzy Taherian discusses V, U and L-shaped recovery curves for multiple businesses in her latest blog for Forbes.

A Look Back: How Web Search Ads Emerged, Transformed Business
Professor Hemant Bhargava blogs about his landmark 2007 study on the early days of search advertising, recently honored with INFORMS' Test of Time Paper Award.
(Editors’ Note: Bhargava, Feng and Pennock’s 2007 landmark paper “Implementing Sponsored

Similar but Better: When Product Comparisons Are Traps
Research by Greta Hsu examines the growth of vape devices and how the makers of such products took steps to get them quickly accepted. These steps in turn led them into a trap of their own making.

New Drama On Business Interruption Insurance: Refunds, Higher Premiums And Legal Battles
Lecturer Suzy Taherian discusses the dramatic fluctuations in insurance costs and reimbursements due to the global pandemic and what roles businesses will play going forward.

Metro EDGE Business Response Spotlight: UC Davis
Sacramento's Metro EDGE young professionals group highlights the Graduate School of Management's all-hands on deck pivot to transition to virtual classes for the Spring quarter.

Resilient MBA: 5 Advantages MBAs Have Sailing Into The Crisis
For Forbes, Lecturer Suzy Taherian shares the five hidden advantages MBAs have that make them more resilient and better able to succeed in this uncertain job market.
(Editor’s note: This article by Suzy Taherian first appeared on Forbes’ CFO Network

Promoting Advantages of Product Category, Whether It Is Craft Beer or E-cigarettes, Can Backfire
UC Davis Study Examines How E-cigarettes’ Reputation Declined Over Time
Professor Greta Hsu’s research of efforts to promote e-cigarettes as a healthier alternative to combustible cigarettes have instead backfired.
Industries often position products to tout the benefits of one category over another—such as the higher


Student Spotlight: Kalina Springer MBA 21
Full-Time MBA
"One of my favorite things about UC Davis and the GSM and why I decided to come here was because of the pillars of collaboration and the clubs and all of the student engagement and everybody's commitment to socializing and being a support system for

How to Manage the COVID-19 Recovery
Professor Hemant Bhargava advises policymakers that reopening the economy should be viewed as a collection of simultaneous, rapid, data-driven science experiments.

How to Manage the COVID-19 Recovery
Professor Hemant Bhargava advises policymakers that reopening the economy should be viewed as a collection of simultaneous, rapid, data-driven science experiments.
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Battling Burnout — Overcoming Chronic Workplace Stress
Professor Kim Eslbach says it's better to prevent burnout rather than treat it, and the best way to prevent it is boosting employee engagement, which clearly addresses the no-control-or-autonomy cause of burnout.