UCLA Anderson School of Management Trains Head Start Heroes
UCLA Anderson School of Management’s Harold and Pauline Price Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation (Price Center) will partner with the University of Massachusetts’ Donahue Institute in training executive leaders and managers for excellence in Head Start programming.
As part of a $6 million per year, five-year award, the Price Center will strengthen its Head Start Management Fellows Program. UMass Donahue will apply its share of this funding to lead the Head Start National Center on Program Management and Fiscal Operations (NCPMFO).
Golden Gate Ageno Alum is Bay Area’s Most Admired CEO
At an event hosted by the San Francisco Business Times on November 11, 2015, Golden Gate University Ageno School alumnus Bernard J. Tyson received the Bay Area Most Admired CEO award.
Tyson, who received his MBA in health service administration from the Golden Gate University in 1984, is the CEO of Kaiser Permanente. The panel of judges for the award included business and academic leaders from across the country.
UIC School of Business IDS Seminar Series With Matthew Taddy
On Friday, December 4 from 1:45PM – 3:45PM, Matthew Taddy, an associate professor of Econometrics and Statistics at Chicago Booth, will speak at the UIC School of Business. Taddy’s appearance comes as part of the school’s Information and Decision Sciences (IDS) Seminar Series, where each week, IDS faculty from across the nation bring their latest research to faculty, staff and students. Continue reading…
Smith School International Education Week Kicks Off With Global Competence in Business Panel
According to a news story on the university’s website, The University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business kicked off International Education Week with a panel discussion on Global Competence in Business. The panelists reflected on the way that global security, sustainability, environmental performance and supply chain security are all modern day issues that impact all multinational companies.
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Novartis CEO Talks Health Care Industry At Carey Leaders + Legends Series
Joseph Jimenez, CEO of pharmaceutical giant Novartis, spoke at a Q&A session at the Carey Business School last month as part of the school’s Leaders + Legends speaker series. The talk was entitled “A Time for Change: The Future of Healthcare” Continue reading…
San Diego Ranked as Top 10 City for Job Growth in 2015
San Diego, California was ranked as one of the top 10 cities for job growth in 2015, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. The ten cities on the list have experienced the strongest non-agricultural job growth over the first three quarters of 2015. Overall, projections from the study show that the U.S. could add as many as three million jobs this year—a 2.2% monthly average job growth. San Diego tied for eighth place with Denver and Portland with a 3.1% job growth for 2015. San Diego’s growth beat out overall California growth, which was up just 3.0% for the year. Continue reading…
