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Purpose-Driven Isn’t Always People-Driven: 3 Ways to Change
Creating purposeful work for your employees
Purpose only gets you so far to a great workplace and employee fulfillment. It shouldn’t be a veil for other practices.
I’ll avoid the cliché lecture about a need for “authenticity” in a purpose-driven business, and will be more specific.
Here are

#CrazyForTillamook – My MBA Summer Internship
My three months immersed in cheese and spreads
I have long known that I wanted to work in the food industry, and recently I had the chance to explore that dream with a summer internship at Tillamook.
As a food connoisseur, and someone who’s passionate about the farm-to-fork revolution, this was

Building a Network at Work
Folsom’s PRO Unlimited attracts growing team of UC Davis MBA students
As a Sacramento Part-Time MBA student, it’s been refreshing to enter an educational atmosphere that encourages collaboration, relationship building and elevated thinking.
The same can be said of PRO Unlimited in Folsom, where I work as a business

Navigating Your Business Analytics Job Search
Panelists from Google and People.ai offer advice, tips, lessons learned
Following our inspiring Commencement ceremony at UC Davis in June, my M.S. in Business Analytics classmates and I are preparing for our next big step as we kick-off our careers. Some grads have already received offers, while others continue to

Breaking Down Barriers to an MBA
Plan ahead as you begin your graduate business education journey
“Personal development is the belief that you are worth the effort, time and energy needed to develop yourself.”
— Denis Waitley, The Psychology of Winning
Advancing your personal and career journey takes more than just desire. It requires the

5 Job Search Tips: What it's "Like" at Facebook
“Practice your skills, network and don’t stress,” says MSBA alumnus Sharad Jain
In a Q&A with MSBA student Rohan Ranshinge, alumnus Sharad Jain shares advice from his career search and landing a role as a data specialist at Facebook.

Open Sesame: One-on-One with Alibaba’s Shanxing Gao MSBA 18
Advice, lessons for success after graduation
We had the opportunity to meet with Shanxing Gao, a Master of Science in Business Analytics (MSBA) alumnus of the charter class in 2018. He spoke about his work experiences, his takeaways from the MSBA program and job and interview tips.
After

How Faculty Encouraged My Ph.D. Pursuit
Finding career mentorship through MPAc
Two years after I graduated with a UC Davis Master of Professional Accountancy (MPAc) degree, I was working in the San Francisco Bay Area as a senior associate at KPMG—a Big Four accounting firm. Going to UC Davis helped me land that opportunity.
Gr

Finding a Passion for Accounting
Undergrad accounting courses at UC Davis paid dividends
My undergraduate experience at UC Davis was a confusing time. I didn’t know who I was or who I wanted to be, but I knew that I was in the right place. Through my courses, I discovered that I had an interest in accounting. What drew me in was that

Old School Sales Tactics Still Work
Editor's note: Alumnus Chris Jackson, a founder, CEO and chief technology officer for several firms, contends we rely too much on digital outreach vs. calls and personal touch.
Working a Phone Will Generate More Sales Than an Email Campaign
This is

The Organizational Values… of Myself
“Put your money where your mouth is.”
Or, to put it another way.
“If you’re not willing to accept the pain real values incur, don’t bother going to the trouble of formulating a values statement.”
A 2002 Harvard Business Review article by Patrick M
Capitalizing on the Cloud
MSBA offers prep to become Amazon Web Services Cloud Practitioner
With the growing popularity and application of cloud solutions, the UC Davis Master of Science in Business Analytics program offered a free prep course for Amazon Web Service’s (AWS) Cloud Practitioner certification. It was a wonderful opportunity