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Dean Nicole Woolsey Biggart: Eco-Conomy
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Dean Nicole Woolsey Biggart. Reflections as dean of the UC Davis Graduate School of Management. Wednesday, April 1, 2009. Economic development historically has meant access to favorable agricultural production conditions such as good land and climate, or resources such as valuable minerals, fish, or wood. With industrialization, having cheap energy and access to a good a port were valuable to the manufacture and distribution of goods. The natural bounty of Ecuador brings adventurous travelers and their d...
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Dean Nicole Woolsey Biggart: Banana Republic
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Dean Nicole Woolsey Biggart. Reflections as dean of the UC Davis Graduate School of Management. Wednesday, April 1, 2009. Depending on your age when you hear the phrase “banana republic” you likely think of a repressive undeveloped Latin American dictatorship, or you think of hip clothes of the sort worn by colonials who were elites in tropical countries. From now on, when I hear “banana republic” I will think of Dole’s corporate banana operations in Ecuador. We were met at a gas station on the outskirts...
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Dean Nicole Woolsey Biggart: For Profit, For Purpose
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Dean Nicole Woolsey Biggart. Reflections as dean of the UC Davis Graduate School of Management. Wednesday, March 25, 2009. For Profit, For Purpose. We have been listening to and experiencing some pretty amazing things about business and economic life in Latin America but our visit yesterday to two Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) the Kallari Cooperative http:/ www.kallari.com/. And the Maquipucuna Foundation http:/ maqui.myweb.uga.edu/. Rebeca’s story then takes on a madcap character- raising ...
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Dean Nicole Woolsey Biggart: We Stand at the Center of World Trade
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Dean Nicole Woolsey Biggart. Reflections as dean of the UC Davis Graduate School of Management. Sunday, March 22, 2009. We Stand at the Center of World Trade. I could see why cruise ships take this trip. Not only is it a bird’s eye view of an engineering marvel, it is a trip through a lush tropical landscape. The whole trip takes 24 to 48 hours and the crossing fee can be well over $100,000. The largest tariff ever was more than $300,000. Posted by UC Davis. Uc davis graduate school of management. I enjo...
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Dean Nicole Woolsey Biggart: September 2008
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Dean Nicole Woolsey Biggart. Reflections as dean of the UC Davis Graduate School of Management. Thursday, September 18, 2008. Last year UC Davis hosted the first annual AlwaysOn GoingGreen conference, a confab of entrepreneurs and investors trying to figure out what the new green revolution was all about. There were people with ideas, and people with money, and they were doing a strange mating dance, circling and wondering “Are you what I’m looking for? It was interesting to be part of something that is ...
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Dean Nicole Woolsey Biggart: November 2008
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Dean Nicole Woolsey Biggart. Reflections as dean of the UC Davis Graduate School of Management. Friday, November 21, 2008. UC Davis study: Women still lag in holding top business posts. At a press conference on Monday, November 18, we released our fourth annual UC Davis Study of California Women Business Leaders. The UC Davis Graduate School of Management, in partnership with the Palo Alto-based Forum for Women Entrepreneurs and Executives. It's a disappointment and a missed opportunity to include a more...
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Dean Nicole Woolsey Biggart: Dean's Message
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Dean Nicole Woolsey Biggart. Reflections as dean of the UC Davis Graduate School of Management. Monday, May 4, 2009. Financial Collapse Final Examination:. C) both (a) and (b). D) neither (a) or (b). At the recent annual meeting of AACSB International, the largest and most global accrediting body for business education, 1,200 attendees considered the same question I posed above. What, if anything, could we be doing differently to develop business leaders who will face more complexity than any previou...
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Dean Nicole Woolsey Biggart: Ecuador Enchantment
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Dean Nicole Woolsey Biggart. Reflections as dean of the UC Davis Graduate School of Management. Tuesday, March 24, 2009. Our last visit was to a factory that makes shirts and caps with embroidered logos for businesses such as the local Pepsi distributor and for tourist venues like the Galapagos Islands. Wil and I were expecting perhaps a sweat shop- this is a low-wage country- but the factory was clean and well lit and had little turnover. Again, we were pleasantly surprised by Ecuador. Posted by UC Davis.
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Dean Nicole Woolsey Biggart: May 2009
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Dean Nicole Woolsey Biggart. Reflections as dean of the UC Davis Graduate School of Management. Monday, May 4, 2009. Financial Collapse Final Examination:. C) both (a) and (b). D) neither (a) or (b). At the recent annual meeting of AACSB International, the largest and most global accrediting body for business education, 1,200 attendees considered the same question I posed above. What, if anything, could we be doing differently to develop business leaders who will face more complexity than any previou...
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Dean Nicole Woolsey Biggart: August 2008
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Dean Nicole Woolsey Biggart. Reflections as dean of the UC Davis Graduate School of Management. Friday, August 22, 2008. The original Academy was located outside the gates of the bustling city of Athens, had high walls, and an olive grove. The phrase “the groves of academe” suggests scholars walking through the trees thinking great thoughts and separated by a wall from the politics and commerce of the day. I’ve been told that the little pocket at the end of our hoods is a vestige of the pouch that ...