by Sara Jones Any newcomer to San Diego soon learns that it is a small-business and startup town. About 94 percent of the 97,000 businesses in San Diego are small businesses.1 On average, these small businesses have between three and 10 employees. They span industries as diverse as retail, finance, and manufacturing. As different as…
by Elanor Williams Amazing technological advances have reduced the constraints that our physical bodies and minds place on our performance. Medications can increase people’s ability to concentrate, to stay awake or get a good night’s sleep, or even make full use of the oxygen in their blood. Implants can make the blind see or the…
by Tyler Presnall For one weekend in November of 2012, Sony Electronics USA welcomed more than 40 MBA students to its San Diego headquarters for its annual Case Competition. Grouped in teams of four with strangers from other top MBA programs across the country, participants were given 24 hours to develop 15-minute business pitches in…
by Erica Dawson I do not remember why I decided to jump out of a plane. But I had reserved a date, put down a sizeable – and nonrefundable – deposit, and, most significantly, bragged to everyone I knew that I was going to do it. There was no backing out, despite the fact that…
by Saurabh Bajaj and amit Rai Toward the end of 2012, marketing managers at Qualcomm, the world’s leading mobile chipset provider by revenue, were reevaluating the progress they had made in a new business-toconsumer marketing initiative. Qualcomm had gone to great lengths to market its Snapdragon system on a chip (SoC) technology. The company was…
by Andrew Ajello San Diego is at the forefront of development of new medical technologies in a time of vast change to the health care regulatory infrastructure. Demographic shifts in the U.S. population are adding more than 30 million people to a health care system already experiencing a shortage of health care providers. The Aff ordable…
by Aung Kyaw Myo and Prarthana Srikanth On May 30, 2013, Dutch microelectronics firm ASML completed its $3.7 billion cash-and-stock acquisition of San Diego-based Cymer. The deal – financed in part by industry leaders Intel, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., and Samsung – could prove pivotal in the development of the next generation of microprocessor fabrication…
by Allan Timmermann Ever wondered why it is so difficult to forecast stock prices, movements in exchange rates, or the direction of the gold market? It is certainly not for lack of trying. Legions of professional fund managers, institutional investors, laymen, and market gurus are constantly scouring for any empirical evidence, news story, mathematical model,…
by Drew Beal “How many peoples’ lives have been affected positively – that’s where I get my jollies,” said Ernest Rady, founding donor of the Rady School of Management, from across a mammoth desk in the executive office at his firm, American Assets Trust (AAT), on a recent Tuesday. Mr. Rady had just returned that…
by Robert Sullivan July 1, 2003, was the Rady School of Management’s inaugural date – it is our reference point for when our community imagined a possible graduate business school at UC San Diego. “Imagined” is a true descriptor of the times, since our school launched with very few resources and even fewer commitments. Through…