Graziadio Holds PT MBA Info Session
The Graziadio School of Business and Management will be holding an information session for its Part-Time MBA program. The information session will be held Jan. 10 at the Encino Graduate Campus. The event will begin at 10 a.m. and last for 90 minutes.
The information sessions are designed to provide prospective students with an overview of the Graziadio School of Business and Management and the programs offered by the school. Prospective students will also have the opportunity to meet current students, faculty, staff and alumni. During the information session, attendants will also learn more about financial aid opportunities and the application process.
Graziadio Opens New Campus for Exec Education
The Graziadio School of Business and Management has opened a new campus for executive education. The new Silicon Valley Center is located in the San Francisco Bay area in San Jose, California.
The Silicon Valley Center serves communities throughout the San Francisco Bay Area including San Francisco proper, Peninsula, North Bay, East Bay, South Bay, Silicon Valley, Santa Clara, San Jose, Sunnyvale, Cupertino, Saratoga, Palo Alto, Milpitas, Campbell, Los Gatos, Gilroy, Stanford, Fremont, Redwood City, San Mateo, and Pleasanton.
Graziadio Student Shares Experience
Graziadio School of Business student Cynthia Fields offers an insight to her first semester in a distance learning class for prospective students in the Graziadio Voice blog. Fields is pursuing her Master of Science in Organization Development at Graziadio.
Fields writes:
“Upon making the decision to pursue a second graduate degree, finding a program that offered flexibility for working adults such as me was imperative. Therefore I was thrilled when I located Pepperdine’s Master of Science in Organization Development (MSOD) program. In addition to its being one of the top-ranked programs of its kind in the nation, I became aware of its distance learning format.”
David M. Smith Named Interim Dean of Graziadio
David M. Smith, senior associate dean and associate professor of economics, has been named interim dean of the Graziadio School of Business and Management, effective August 1, 2014.
“I am honored to serve the university in this capacity. We have a great team of faculty and staff to help advance the Graziadio School over the coming year, to pursue our strategic priorities, as well as fulfill the university mission,” Smith said.
Graziadio Offers Applied Neuroleadership Exec. Certificate
Pepperdine University, in collaboration with the NeuroLeadership Institute, introduced the Executive Certificate in Applied Neuroleadership.
It is a six-month certificate program and is the only program to combine the NeuroLeadership Institute’s online seminars with face-to-face application workshops taught by faculty from the Graziadio School of Business and Management’s Master of Science in Organization Development program.
The program’s main goals are to create measurable breakthroughs in yourself, your team and your organization by fostering significant productivity gains through focused attention, improve thinking and performance, maximize the social brain for collaboration and innovation and to build a network of like-minded leaders as a trusted resource. Continue reading…
