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Pitching Ideas Successfully Can Hinge on Your Project Leader’s Style
Professor Kim Elsbach shares new research examines leadership personality traits and how they affect ideas being accepted and rejected.
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- Team members should align their idea pitches to the style of their creative project leader
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Audit Committees Not Compromised by Big-Four Alumni
Benefits include higher audit quality, lower fees, timelier reporting
Assistant Professor Paul Wong and his co-authors explain how the familiarity of a former partner who sits on the company’s audit committee can actually be a benefit.
A former partner of a Big-Four accountancy sits on the audit committee of a company
Extreme Heat Impacts Firms’ Stock Value
First study to quantify the impact of physical climate risk on corporate market values
Climate change is making business and investors sweat.
Research from the University of California, Davis, finds episodes of extremely hot weather lead to declines in market value. This is especially true in the South and Southeast, and for small
UC Davis Graduate School of Management to Offer Online MBA
The Graduate School of Management at the University of California, Davis, is launching a fully online Master of Business Administration degree — the first in the 10-campus university.
MBA@UCDavis is now accepting applications, and its first cohort
Will Snyder Awarded for Excellence in Teaching
UC Davis Academic Federation honors MPAc executive director for his many contributions to students
The UC Davis Academic Federation has named MPAc's executive director for its Excellence in Graduate and Professional Teaching Award.
The UC Davis Academic Federation recently named Will Snyder as the recipient of its Excellence in Graduate and
Professor Donald Palmer Contributes to Australia’s Investigation of Child Sexual Abuse in Organizations
Institutional failures account for many of the 4,400 cases
A royal commission has delivered the most extensive report of its kind, with Professor Palmer providing expert analysis of institutional cultures.
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- Royal Commission delivers most extensive report of its kind on child abuse in