DAVIS, Calif.--()--International business school leaders Steven C. Currall, dean and professor of management at University of California, Davis, Graduate School of Management and Wendy Beecham, a former CEO and now managing director of executive education at the UC Davis management school, will be available to meet with reporters by telephone or in person when they visit several of China’s major cities May 15-21.
Currall and Beecham can discuss business school trends, including opportunities in the United States for Chinese residents as well as new trends innovation, entrepreneurship, economic development and other topics of interest to Chinese readers. This will be Currall’s sixth trip to China.
They will meet with top academic and business leaders in Beijing, May 15-16; Shanghai, May 17-18; and Hong Kong, May 19-21 to forge new partnerships, continue discussions on executive education, and establish greater collaboration between the University of California, Davis, and leading Chinese universities and business schools.
Possible interview topics:
- Strengths of UC Davis Graduate School of Management and opportunities for business education: clean technology, partnerships with U.S. business school/research universities and industry. UC Davis’ global leadership and expertise in converging issues of food, water, health, society, energy and the environment.
- Custom and niche executive education programs in U.S. with a potential to develop joint programs in China. www.gsm.ucdavis.edu/execed
- Entrepreneurship; innovation; venture capital; research commercialization.
- Economic links to Northern California and Silicon Valley.
- U.S. business school/MBA/Master of Professional Accountancy student experiences, and growing number of applications from Chinese prospective students to U.S. business schools.
- New trends in business school curricula for MBA and accounting students.
- Philanthropy for business schools, including the latest UC Davis endowment to accelerate research-based business development at the Child Family Institute for Innovation and Entrepreneurship. http://entrepreneurship.ucdavis.edu
About Steven Currall
Currall joined UC Davis in July 2009 from London Business School, ranked by The Financial Times as the No. 1 business school in the world. He was visiting professor of organizational behavior and entrepreneurship and faculty co-director of the Institute of Technology at London Business School. Simultaneously, Currall was vice dean of enterprise and professor of management science and innovation in the Faculty of Engineering Sciences at University College London, and was founding chair of the Department of Management Science and Innovation.
http://gsm.ucdavis.edu/faculty/steven-c-currall
About Wendy Beecham
Beecham joined UC Davis in 2011. She was CEO of Watermark (formerly the Forum for Women Entrepreneurs and Executives) an organization of experienced women leaders in the San Francisco Bay Area. She spent the majority of her career in electronic publishing, holding a variety of senior leadership roles including senior vice president of a division at LexisNexis Group and managing director of London-based Sweet & Maxwell Group, a legal division of the Thomson Corporation.
http://gsm.ucdavis.edu/profile/wendy-beecham
About the Graduate School of Management at the University of California, Davis
Dedicated to preparing innovative leaders for global impact, the UC Davis Graduate School of Management is consistently ranked among the premier business schools in the United States and internationally. The school has nearly 600 MBA students enrolled in full-time and part-time MBA programs on the UC Davis campus, in Sacramento, Calif., and in the San Francisco Bay Area. A Master of Professional Accountancy program starts this autumn. U.S. News & World Report ranks UC Davis among the top 8 percent of MBA programs in the United States. The Economist ranks the school’s faculty quality No. 6 in the world, and The Financial Times ranks the school No. 1 worldwide for the percentage of female faculty members. The Aspen Institute ranks the school among the top 10% worldwide for integrating environmental and social responsibility.
About the University of California, Davis
For more than 100 years, UC Davis has engaged in teaching, research and public service that matter to California and transform the world. Located close to the state capital, UC Davis has more than 32,000 students, more than 2,500 faculty and more than 21,000 staff, an annual research budget of more than $684 million, a comprehensive health system and 13 specialized research centers. The university offers interdisciplinary graduate study and more than 100 undergraduate majors in four colleges—Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, Biological Sciences, Engineering, and Letters and Science. It also houses six professional schools—Education, Law, Management, Medicine, Veterinary Medicine and the Betty Irene Moore School of Nursing.