Content Tagged with: School of Business

Asian street food, ice cream, custom cakes and more on the menu this fall

A new café, an ice cream shop, and Asian street food are among the new campus dining options that UC Riverside students and employees can discover this fall. The campus will also be able to enjoy expanded hours at NOODS: The Noodle Bar and look forward to the launch of an online cake ordering service. Meanwhile, campus venues like the Barn and the...

By Imran Ghori |

New UCR business analytics major responds to marketplace

Responding to industry demands, the UCR School of Business will soon offer an undergraduate degree in business analytics. Those who complete the major will bring to the marketplace their ability to use quantitative methods to extract value from ever-increasing volumes of data to improve business decision-making processes. As analysts, the program’s...

By David Danelski |

UCR professor recognized for consumer psychology scholarship 

Margaret “Meg” C. Campbell, an associate dean, professor of marketing and Anderson Presidential Chair in Business Administration at UC Riverside’s School of Business, has received the Fellows Award for Outstanding Contributions to the Field of Consumer Psychology. The Society for Consumer Psychology, or SCP, a top professional organization of...

By David Danelski |

School of Business building enters next phase of construction

UC Riverside’s new School of Business building entered a new phase of construction recently as work moves forward for an August 2024 opening. In late December, the school and construction team celebrated the midpoint of construction as crews poured the final concrete placement for the frame of the building. “The super structure is what we call it —...

By Imran Ghori |

UCR professor creates AI resource group for campus

Navigating the new world of Artificial Intelligence, or AI, can be difficult for the average user. Figuring out how to best use those tools in a university setting poses even more questions. A new Slack workspace offers UC Riverside instructors and staff members a forum to come to together to answer those questions. Rich Yueh, an assistant...

By Imran Ghori |

UCR welcomes 52 new faculty members

UC Riverside welcomed 52 new permanent faculty members for the 2023-2024 academic year who come from a variety of disciplines and research interests. The new faculty members offer expertise on a wide range of subjects, from American politics to robot artificial intelligence to plant biochemistry. They include researchers from several top...

By UCR News |

Business professor Max Joo wins long-term impact award

The INFORMS Society for Marketing Science recognized UCR assistant business professor Mingyu "Max" Joo with the Don Morrison Long Term Impact Award

By David Danelski |

UCR School of Business maintains international accreditation

The UCR School of Business accreditation by the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB International) has been extended by five years.

By David Danelski |

UCR to see another construction boom

UC Riverside will see a major increase in construction activity in the coming months with several significant projects nearing completion or beginning soon. Those include a new School of Business building, which held its groundbreaking on April 27, and completion of a new School of Medicine building that will open this fall. Preliminary plans are...

By Imran Ghori |

School of Business celebrates groundbreaking for its new building

UC Riverside celebrated a new chapter for the School of Business with a groundbreaking ceremony for a new instructional and administrative building that will provide increased space and modern facilities to meet growing enrollment demands. Campus and community leaders gathered Thursday, April 27 at former Parking Lot 8, where the four-story, 63,400...

By Imran Ghori |

Marketing professor is finalist for long-term impact award

Mingyu “Max” Joo, assistant professor of marketing in UCR’s School of Business, has been named one of five finalists for the Don Morrison Long Term Impact Award for a journal article based on his dissertation research that explores television advertising and related online searches. A winner is expected to be announced at the Marketing Science...

By David Danelski |

UC Riverside faculty are honored at promotion ceremony

UC Riverside honored promoted faculty members at a luncheon at the Alumni and Visitors Center on Jan. 30. About 40 people attended, including Chancellor Kim A. Wilcox. Supervisors and colleagues joined those who were honored in celebrating their efforts. Promotions occurred across UCR schools, including the College of Humanities, Arts and Social...

By Julia Woock |

Meet UCR’s new faculty members

For fall quarter 2022, UC Riverside welcomed 34 new permanent faculty members from a variety of disciplines. Learn more about the new faculty below: College of Humanities Arts and Social Sciences Sahin Acikgoz, an assistant professor of religious studies, is a member of the executive committee of the Middle East and Islamic Studies Program. They...

By Imran Ghori |

Meet 2021-22's new faculty members

This year, UC Riverside hired 16 new faculty members from a variety of disciplines. Learn more about the new faculty members below: College of Natural and Agricultural Sciences Simon C. “Niels” Groen, assistant professor of evolutionary systems biology in the Department of Nematology, earned his Ph.D. in plant sciences at the University of...

By Ananya Paul |

New Master of Science in Business Analytics at UC Riverside

The program, offered jointly by the School of Business and the Department of Statistics, launches in fall 2021

By Holly Ober |

UC Riverside MBA program receives STEM designation

International students can apply for optional professional training that allows for three years of U.S. employment after graduation

By Holly Ober |

LaunchPad completes first year of entrepreneurial program

UC Riverside students took part in bootcamps, a pitch competition, and received mentoring from business professionals as part of the first year of the program known as Blackstone LaunchPad powered by Techstars. The program, which had been offered at UCLA since 2014, expanded to all UC campuses in fall 2019. It offers tools and resources for budding...

By Imran Ghori |

Two UCR faculty members named among best business professors

Two UC Riverside School of Business professors have been named to the Poets & Quants Top 40 Under 40 MBA Professors list for 2020. Ye Li, 36, and Marlo Raveendran, 37, are both assistant professors of management. Li has been a faculty member since 2012 while Raveendran joined UCR in 2013. Poets & Quants, a publication covering business schools and...

By Imran Ghori |

Business professor named journal editor

Thomas Kramer, a UC Riverside professor of marketing, has been named a co-editor of the Journal of Consumer Psychology, one of the top academic journals covering psychology relating to consumer behavior. Kramer, an associate dean for undergraduate business programs at the UCR School of Business, is a member of the editorial team that will oversee...

By Imran Ghori |

Business class teaches 85 students about teamwork

A new cross-campus partnership yields hands-on experience for students.

By Sandra Baltazar Martinez |