USD School of Business Administration Launches Innovation Week
On April 28th, the University of San Diego School of Business Administration kicked off its official Innovation Week. The goal of the week was to bring together social entrepreneurs, upstart innovators and thought leaders in an on-campus celebration designed to help community members and students go from “wild dream” to “wildly successful.” Continue reading…
The Return on Investment of the Rady MBA
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The constantly changing landscape of business means that those who stand still fall behind. To be successful, business professionals must constantly pursue new knowledge, skills, and experiences. They must also immerse themselves in innovation and invest in their career. One of the best ways to do all of this: earn an MBA.
The Best San Diego Finance MBA Programs
The finance industry has always gone hand-in-hand in the MBA. Even as MBAs are becoming increasingly popular in other industries, finance is still the biggest MBA job sector and accounts for 22 percent of all MBA jobs, according to the 2014/15 QS TopMBA.com Jobs and Salary Trends Report.
The San Diego Metro is yet another business school destination chock full of MBA programs with finance concentrations. Here are a few of the top San Diego finance MBA programs: Continue reading…
Rady School Welcomes New Social Entrepreneur in Residence
Thanks to strong student interest in creating socially important ventures and the timeliness of topics focused on civic engagement and immigration, USD’s Rady School of Management has welcomed its first Social Entrepreneur in Residence. Christina Fialho, Co-Founder and Executive Director Community Initiatives for Visiting Immigrants in Confinement (CIVIC) will briefly join the Rady School as a professor and speaker. Fialho’s nonprofit work to end the U.S. immigration detention system made her an obvious choice. Continue reading…
5 Years of Healthy Job Growth in San Diego
For the fifth year in a row, San Diego has boasted healthy job growth. In fact, according to the California Employment Development Department, the city’s unemployment rate fell to 4.2 percent in December from 4.3 percent in November and 4.8 percent earlier in 2016. The numbers are impressive and far below California’s overall 5.2 percent unemployment rate. Continue reading…
Rady’s 2016 Business Accelerator Success
The Rady School of Management at UC San Diego is known for its heavy focus on entrepreneurship. Not only does the Rady MBA program offer various electives—as well as a Lab to Market capstone course focused on developing the next great entrepreneurs—but the school is also home to two accelerator programs including the StartR Accelerator. And for StartR, 2016 was an exciting year in entrepreneurship.
StartR is a non-profit accelerator program designed for Rady students and alumni. Its goal is to provide entrepreneurs with the tools and skills they need to start and grow their business. In 2016, StartR was responsible for launching ten new business ventures. But that’s not all; participants in the program also took home multiple prestigious awards throughout the year.
Below is a detailed look at some of the top achievements for StartR in 2016.
Key StartR Achievements 2016
- Braykion, a healthcare system designed to rid the health care environment of preventable infections, became the seventh StartR team to be accepted into EvoNexus.
- StartR teams took home multiple local awards including the Social Innovation Challenge; the Entrepreneur Challenge, EvoNexus Demo Day, CONNECT’s Most Innovative New Product Awards and more.
- TEDxSanDiego’s Innovation Alley featured two StartR teams (Aira and Braykion).
- The 2017 cohort welcomed ten new teams in November 2016, and it’s the most gender diverse group to date.
- StartR teams raised more than $7 million in funding, bringing the total funding since 2013 to over $23 million.
- Clarify Medical and Grolltex were named to Xconomy’s 12 San Diego Tech Startups to Watch.
- The Wall Street Journal’s Startup Showcase included Aira, a tech service for the visually impaired, as a finalist.
To learn more about all of Rady’s achievements with StartR Accelerator in 2016, visit the school website and check out the news article. And to find out more about StartR, the free six-month long acceleration program located on the Rady School campus, head on over to the StartR website.
