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Celebrating Our 2026 Student and Teacher Award Honorees
Recognition for outstanding achievements at Evening of Excellence
Each year our community recognizes outstanding teachers, students and graduates who embrace the School’s core values of passionate and energetic leadership, and who demonstrate a commitment to team building and service. Learn more about this year's honorees.
From Goldman Sachs to Amazon: Building My Career Through Analytics
UC Davis MSBA turned my frustration into transformation
Alumna Maria Ahumada MSBA 22 reflects on her team's Practicum project, her technical growth and the career-defining experiences that prepared her for success at Amazon while mentoring the next generation of Latinas in tech.
Meet Our 2026 Commencement Student Speakers
Graduates reflect on growth, challenge and what's next
Three members of the Class of 2026 will take the stage at Commencement to share their inspirations, experiences, and journeys with their fellow graduates, families and friends. We asked them about their student experience and what's next.
Our Road to the Big Bang! Finals: Building AI-Powered AgTech Focused on Cattle Health
UC Davis MSBA project plants seed to solve $2B dairy cow industry drain
MSBA alumnus Jeremy Twumasi Ampofo, the CEO of HerdSense, a Big Bang! Business Competition Residency Award winner, shares how his team is innovating at the intersection of machine learning and AI integrated with cutting-edge, ruggedized hardware to eliminate subclinical lameness in dairy cattle.
Global Leaders Strategize on Solutions at UC Davis Food and Health Summit
The IIFH Partner Summit 2026: Signals and Strategy in Food & Health—Technology and Investment
Researchers, CEOs and VCs gathered in Monterey for our Innovation Institute for Food and Health's Partner Summit to explore the complex challenges transforming global food systems. This work connects closely with our Food & Ag Industry Immersion for MBA students. View video.
Dean H. Rao Unnava: May 2026 Big 3 Video
Global leaders strategize on food and health innovation | Counterintuitive personal branding | Big Bang! awards $100,000 to student entrepreneurs
Dean H. Rao Unnava’s final Big 3 video highlights global collaboration on food and health innovation, Lecturer Vanessa Errecarte’s new book on personal branding, and trailblazing student entrepreneurs win big at the 26th annual Big Bang! Business Competition.
Why Banning ‘Dynamic Pricing’ Could Backfire on Consumers
Professor Hemant Bhargava: outlawing such algorithms would not make prices fairer.
Maryland is about to become first in the nation for all the wrong reasons, writes Distinguished Professor Hemant Bhargava. The state’s assembly recently passed a bill that would ban an algorithmic tool used by businesses called “dynamic pricing.”
Gov. Newsom Signs Executive Order on State Agency Job Disruptions Due to AI
Professor Hemant Bhargava: "AI will reshape society through the choices we make."
Distinguished Professor Hemant Bhargava's warning about California’s new AI workforce initiative comes as the tech rapidly reshapes entry-level and white-collar jobs, raising questions about training, economic disruption and the future of work.
26th Annual Big Bang! Awards Nearly $100,000 in Prizes to California-based Teams
Team of Master of Science in Business Analytics grads win Residency Award
Out of 90+ entries, the Mike and Renée Child Institute for Innovation and Entrepreneurship celebrated eight promising ventures tackling challenges in animal health, education, healthcare, sustainability, food systems, and social impact.
Meet Four Students from UC Davis’ Newest Major
Building the future of business
As UC Davis launches its new undergraduate business major, Professor Greta Hsu, the program’s leader, and four inaugural students reflect on helping shape the program and show how the new major ties into broader interdisciplinary opportunities.
The Statistical Foundation Behind AI, Finance and Modern Business
As AI reshapes business, UC Davis Distinguished Professor (Emeritus) Chih-Ling Tsai’s new book explores the statistical foundations quietly powering machine learning, data analytics and modern decision-making.
Nature Is Good for Business—and We Now Have Numbers to Show It
Distinguished Emeritus Professor Paul Griffin and his co-author found that businesses operating in areas with healthier ecosystems tended to generate higher sales and profits, based on their study of New Zealand data.