Anderson Hosts CES Campus Event
UCLA Anderson School of Management will welcome the acclaimed CES (previously called the Consumer Electronics Show). The event will be held Jan. 8, 2015. This is the first campus-sized version of CES. The event will focus on new technologies and learning about them through talks, panels and keynotes as well as Technology Tables.
The themes of the event include the Internet of Things, Wearables, Robotics, Virtual Reality and Connected Cars. The event will be hosted by Anderson’s Easton Technology Leadership Program (ETLP) in association with the school’s High Tech Business Association, a student organization with more than 450 members that serves as the gateway to high-tech industry for UCLA Anderson students.
Anderson Assoc. Dean Receives EMBAC Award
Associate dean of the Fully Employed MBA Programs at Anderson School of Management, Gonzalo Freixes, received the 2014 Bud Fackler Service Award from the EMBA Council. Freixes is also the faculty director of the Applied Management Research Program and the former associate dean of UCLA Anderson’s Executive MBA.
The council named the award after Bud Fackler, the late director of the EMBA program at the University of Chicago and one of the council’s founders. The Bud Fackler Service Award recognizes contributions to EMBAC and to EMBA programs worldwide, including efforts to help other programs, to share best practices and to raise the quality of EMBA programs.
Anderson Holds Info Sessions
UCLA Anderson School of Management is offering several upcoming information sessions for its MBA program. These events are held on campus as well as online.
The on campus MBA information sessions will be held: Nov. 19, 2014 at 5 p.m., Nov. 24 at 11:30 a.m., Dec. 1, 2014 at 5 p.m. and Dec. 8, 2014 at 11:30 a.m. All of these on campus events will be held in Suite B-201 Gold Hall at the UCLA Anderson campus.
Anderson to Hold Creativity and Innovation Seminar
UCLA’s Anderson School of Management is holding a Creativity and Innovation Seminar. The program is for chief officers of global concerns, leaders of corporate functions across the enterprise, rising executives and entrepreneurs. The seminar will be held Oct. 27-31, 2014.
The Creativity and Innovation in the Organization seminar prepares attendants to foster a creative mindset across their enterprise and to exploit uncertainty and chaos to unleash powerful ideas that drive results. The program is the brainchild of the incomparable Moshe Rubinstein, who, in 2000, was named one of the Top 20 Professors of the Century at UCLA. It aims to immerses participants in comprehensive insights, frameworks and tools on how to ignite innovation that drives results.
