School of Business

For outfielder Nadia Witt, softball is more than just a game. Originally from Oregon, she recalls spending much of her early childhood in the field, watching her parents Kevin and Martha play slow-pitch softball.

The business world has undergone sizable changes in the past decade due to the ever-growing reliance on data and technology.

During her keynote address before a group of women business students, Sophia Fischer shared her personal experience with how people from similar backgrounds do not experience the workplace in the same way.

During his internship with the city of Moreno Valley, MBA student Joe Wu has jumped into new areas of business. “I have learned an incredible amount about the commercial real estate world,” he says. “One of my duties is to aid in attracting commercial real estate clients to the city – industrial, office, and medical...

Simon Isaac’s mantra is “Be comfortable with the uncomfortable.” When he decided to earn an MBA at the A. Gary Anderson Graduate School of Management (AGSM), he intentionally lived that refrain. “It was something I didn’t think I could do at first, but I gave it a shot,” he says.

Nadia Witt, a first-year MBA student at the A. Gary Anderson School of Management (AGSM), wants to make an impact through sports. As a Highlander, Witt is heavily engaged with UCR athletics, serving as the softball team captain. She credits softball for crucial life lessons and was a catalyst for moving to California from her...

“Experiential learning” is a term bandied about in academia, but how does it work in practice? Associate Professor of Management Ye Li at UCR’s School of Business lays out exactly what it looks like within his graduate courses.

Enthusiasm is contagious, according to Professor of Marketing Rami Zwick. “And experiential learning is more effective than ‘book’ learning,” he says.

The most effective way to engage a college student with material is through experiential learning.

January 22 marks the beginning of the Year of the Rabbit. Lunar New Year, often referred to as Chinese New Year, is an annual holiday celebrating the second new moon after the winter solstice.

A student in a course taught by Management Lecturer Alexandru Roman wrote a review of the class: “Professor Roman encourages us to start thinking like CEOs. His class requires discussion and the ability to speak publicly, which really helps us.”

UCR Business School Lecturer John Acker encourages his students “to argue like grownups,” he says. “To see their classes as an opportunity to mature, not just as a place to learn.