Anderson Holds FT MBA Info Session
The Office of MBA Admissions at UCLA Anderson School of Management will be hosting an information session for its Full-Time MBA program. The event will be held Jan. 21 from 5 p.m. to 6 p.m. The event will be held at the Anderson School of Management campus. During the event, prospective student can get more information on the program’s curriculum, the admission process and student life at Anderson.
Anderson MBA students range from 22 to 42 in age with the average age of students being 29. The average work experience of each student is five years, with 63 percent of students having between three and six years of work experience.
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 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.
Anderson Alum’s Company Helps Human Trafficking Victims
Anderson School of Management MBA alumnus Carissa Phelps is helping victims of human trafficking with the skills she honed as a UCLA Anderson student. Her company, Runaway Girl, works with victims to get them off the street and on a path to healing.
For Phelps, this topic is important and intensely personal and essential for her current work.
US Secretary of Treasury Visits Anderson
United States Secretary of the Treasury Jack Lew visited with the UCLA Anderson School of Management‘s Class of 2016. Lew’s visit consisted of a wide-ranging conversation that covered such issues as world economic growth, international sanctions against Russia, U.S. corporate tax inversions and stemming the flow of funds to ISIL (Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant).
Ian Katz, who covers the Treasury for Bloomberg, moderated the conversation.
