Institutes and Centers

     

Type of Offering

Institutes and Centers
Center for Entrepreneurship
Business School Housing? Yes
Number of Faculty: 5
Contact Name: Wilton Agatstein
Contact Email: wagatstein@ucdavis.edu

The Center for Entrepreneurship co-sponsors the Sustainable Enterprise Speaker Series (SESS) which is offered throughout the year, with approximately 30 attendees per event. The SESS hosts founders of sustainability-minded start-up companies who discuss challenges and opportunities in triple-bottom-line entrepreneurship. The events draw a mix of MBA students, PhD's and other community members, and provides an excellent opportunity to network and engage the larger campus and Davis communities.

Center for Investor Welfare & Corporate Responsibility
Business School Housing? Yes
Number of Faculty: 1
Contact Name: Brad Barber
Contact Email: bmbarber@ucdavis.edu

The Center's focus is on using science to improve corporate practices and investor welfare. While much is written about best practives in business, often the advice offered is based on intuition or hunch rather than solid economic theory or well-documented empirical evidence. To infuse science into practice, the center promotes research, teaching and service that emphasizes the rigorous application of scientific principles to investment management and corporate practices.

Energy Efficiency Center
Business School Housing? No
Number of Faculty: 4
Contact Name: Ben Finkelor
Contact Email: bmfinkelor@ucdavis.edu

The Energy Efficiency Center (EEC) was established in 2006 with a challenge grant from the California Clean Energy Fund as the first university-based energy efficiency center in the United States to focus on the transfer of technology into the marketplace. Together with out network of technology, university and strategic partners, the Energy Efficiency Center at the University of California Davis identifies promising energy-efficient technologies, develops viable business ventures around those technologies, and connects those ventures to the financial, physical, intellectual, and social capital that will be critical to their success.

LAM Research Leadership Skills
Business School Housing? Yes
Number of Faculty: 1
Contact Name: Becky Heard
Contact Email: bjheard@ucdavis.edu

The LAM Research Leadership Skills Program helps students become more effective leaders in the workplace - and in life. Designed to complement the rigorous UC Davis MBA curriculum, these workshops offere hands-on training to deepend and strengthen your professional skills. The workshops are taught by well-know leadership experts. Some of the topics include:

- Coaching for Excellence

- Leading and Facilitating a Team

- Leader As Communicator

- Emotional Intelligence

- The Art of Self Promotion

- Time Management & Organization

- Ethics and Integrity

- Values Based Leadership