Industry Spotlight: Defense Industry in San Diego
MBAs have a lot to consider when choosing a job after graduation. Behind “fulfillment,” “salary,” “upward mobility,” and “potential impact on the planet and its inhabitants,” the deciding factor is often the city where MBAs will make a home until that 401K kicks in. San Diego, California – a mid-sized Pacific Coast metropolis of around 1.36 million and just a 15-minute walk from the Mexican border – is hard to top in terms of both livability and professional opportunity.
11 Best MBA Clubs in San Diego
Your MBA is what you make it. If you sit back and passively attend classes, it won’t do you much good.
But if your goal is to discover new opportunities, expand your network, and enhance your skills, then you need to participate outside of class. The truth is that if you don’t get involved in some kind of extracurricular activity you will miss out on the full benefits of your MBA experience Continue reading…
Incubating at IDEO: Experts to Speak at USD School of Business This Week
According to a press release on the school website, the University of San Diego School of Business will host Melanie Bell-Mayeda, associate partner and managing director at IDEO, and Clark Scheffy, partner at IDEO, on April 12 as part of the Ahlers Center for International Business Speaker Series. IDEO (pronounced “eye-dee-oh”) is an award-winning global design firm that takes a human-centered, design-based approach to helping organizations in the public and private sectors innovate and grow. Continue reading…
Start-Up Success in Cali Not Limited to Silicon Valley
When most people think of start-up success and the associated culture, their minds take them to Silicon Valley and the San Francisco Metro. The Rady School of Management, located 7 hours down I-5 in San Diego, is trying to change that. Continue reading…
Rady and Jacobs Schools Partner Up For Technology Management and Entrepreneurism Fellowship
The Rady School of Management and the Jacobs School of Engineering are partnering up for an exciting new fellowship program focused on Technology Management and Entrepreneurism in the San Diego Metro. The program brings graduate students from engineering programs together with upstart MBAs for a four-course, 16-unit fellowship that puts emphasis on technologies with commercialization potential. Continue reading…
Which San Diego Universities Produce the Most Local Leaders?
Our City San Diego completed a survey of the top leaders—CEOs and presidents—at the largest San Diego-based companies to find out where they went to school. The survey found that only 15.3% of 250 local leaders went to local universities. Continue reading…
