John Mackey, Co-founder and Co-CEO of Whole Foods Market and author of “Conscious Capitalism: Liberating the Heroic Spirit of Business” offers a spirited defense of free enterprise and argues that businesses can have a positive societal impact while being profitable. Q&A moderated by Dean and Professor Steven Currall. Series: "UC Davis Graduate School of Management's Executive Speakers and Special Events" [Business] [Show ID: 24960]
Apr 08, 2013•59 min
John Ferriter joined Octagon in 2010 as managing director of Octagon Entertainment. An Emmy-nominated producer, he has been instrumental in packaging and selling some of the most popular shows on television, including “Project Runway,” “The Biggest Loser,” numerous Garth Brooks specials, “Chelsea Lately” and “Keeping Up with the Kardashians,” to name a few. He has also helped sign, develop and expand the careers of countless personalities, including Piers Morgan, Nancy O'Dell, Dr. Drew Pinsky an...
Apr 08, 2013•58 min
Sarah Penna is a veteran of the digital production space having held senior roles at Current TV, MWG Media, & DeFranco Inc. Drawing from her brand management and production experience, Sarah co- founded Big Frame, a media company and talent management firm in Los Angeles, and has overseen the careers of several successful online video creators. Series: "Innovator Stories: Creating Something from Nothing" [Business] [Show ID: 24430]
Apr 01, 2013•59 min
John Lusk is the author of the best-selling book, The MouseDriver Chronicles which follows the invention and launch of a computer mouse that looks like a golf-club head. He is currently the Founder and CEO of Rivet & Sway, an online source for prescription eyewear. Series: "Innovator Stories: Creating Something from Nothing" [Business] [Show ID: 24429]
Mar 25, 2013•59 min
A professor of mechanical engineering at the University of Michigan for 23 years, Sridhar Kota worked on a one-year fellowship at the White House as assistant director for advanced manufacturing helping to identify strategies and policies that strengthen the U.S. manufacturing base. Series: "Distinguished Innovator Lectures" [Business] [Show ID: 24410]
Mar 18, 2013•53 min
While a freshman at UCSB, Matt Vlasach founded Pacific Swell Networks, Inc., an outsourced IT services company, with a business partner in Los Angeles. In 2010, Matt sold off Pacific Swell Networks and joined Unwired Revolution, an enterprise mobility consulting and integrating firm. Series: "Innovator Stories: Creating Something from Nothing" [Business] [Show ID: 24274]
Mar 11, 2013•59 min
Don Charlton refers to himself as a "pixel pusher.” In 2009, he designed, built and launched The Resumator, a recruiting platform which recently earned a spot on Entrepreneur magazine's list of 100 Brilliant Companies. Series: "Innovator Stories: Creating Something from Nothing" [Business] [Show ID: 24428]
Mar 04, 2013•59 min
Anne Simpson is the Senior Portfolio Manager, Investments and Director of Corporate Governance at CalPERS. It is the largest public pension system in the United States with approximately $224 billion under management. She addresses incoming MBA students at UC Davis about the role of companies and corporations today and historically. She also explores corporate governance and how it needs to be refined to create better companies. Series: "UC Davis Graduate School of Management's Executive Speaker...
Nov 19, 2012•47 min
Chris Cox, the Vice President of Product at Facebook, talks about what it’s like to be part of one of the fastest growing and most disruptive companies on the planet. Cox is interviewed by Alexis Madrigal, the Senior Editor of The Atlantic. Series: "The Atlantic Meets The Pacific" [Public Affairs] [Business] [Show ID: 23983]
Nov 19, 2012•52 min
Marten Mickos shares the benefits and challenges involved in building businesses in the open source and cloud computing spaces. As CEO of MySQL AB for seven years, Mickos grew that company from a garage start-up to the second largest open source company in the world. He is now CEO of Eucalyptus Systems whose underlying technology was developed at UC Santa Barbara. Since its origin as an academic research project in 2007, Eucalyptus has become the dominant open source cloud solution, boasting ove...
Oct 29, 2012•58 min
Kerri Pollard is the president of Commission Junction, an online advertising company owned by ValueClick. Her primary responsibility is to oversee the operations of Commission Junction’s U.S. offices. She has a bachelor’s degree in journalism. Series: "Innovator Stories: Creating Something from Nothing" [Business] [Show ID: 24160]
Oct 22, 2012•50 min
The 13th annual New Venture Competition provides a hands-on opportunity for campus innovators to learn about successful venture creation, beginning with the evaluation of new business opportunities, working with potential clients/customers for market validation, crafting a concise oral pitch, drafting a compelling executive summary and financial projections, and learning how to raise necessary capital for launch. Series: "Innovator Stories: Creating Something from Nothing" [Business] [Show ID: 2...
Oct 15, 2012•2 hr 29 min
Mark Templeton is president and CEO of Citrix Systems, a leading provider of virtualization, networking and cloud computing technologies that let people work and play from anywhere on any device including work using virtual meetings, desktops and datacenters. Series: "Innovator Stories: Creating Something from Nothing" [Business] [Show ID: 24127]
Oct 08, 2012•1 hr 19 min
Big Bang is the annual UC Davis Business Plan Competition organized by MBA students of the Graduate School of Management. The goal of the contest is to promote entrepreneurship at UC Davis and the region supported by the university. Series: "UC Davis Graduate School of Management's Executive Speakers and Special Events" [Business] [Show ID: 24106]
Sep 17, 2012•1 hr 11 min
Jim Moffatt, Chairman and CEO of Deloitte Consulting, LLP, gives his perspectives on leadership in this presentation at the UCLA Anderson School of Management. Series: "UCLA Anderson School of Management Distinguished Speaker Series" [Business] [Show ID: 23884]
Jul 02, 2012•1 hr 7 min
Will Marré , Co-Founder of the Covey Leadership Center, offers an inspiring talk for executives, managers and recent graduates on how to take control of their careers by maximizing their talents, passions and opportunities. Marrés presentation was the keynote address at a day-long Career Boost Camp sponsored by UC San Diego Alumni and UCSD Extension’s Center for Life/Work Strategies. Series: "Career Channel" [Public Affairs] [Business] [Show ID: 23680]
Jul 02, 2012•1 hr 15 min
Unite to Light, Inc., is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit entity based in Santa Barbara which designs, manufactures, and distributes low cost solar powered lighting to citizens of developing countries. The principals explain why and how their version of a socially responsible entrepreneurial company was launched, along with their business philosophy in executing its operations. Series: "Innovator Stories: Creating Something from Nothing" [Business] [Show ID: 23634]
Apr 16, 2012•58 min
The MIT Forum - in a joint program with UCSB’s Technology Management Program - addresses how the current negative economic climate has made fund-raising for startups much more complicated. Three experts, each of whom represent different segments of the investment community: angel investing, VC investing, and private equity venture investing, will share their insights on leveraging and maximizing opportunities to attract and secure funding. Series: "Innovator Stories: Creating Something from Noth...
Apr 09, 2012•1 hr 47 min
Michael Dukakis served an unprecedented three, four-year terms as governor of Massachusetts and was the 1988 Democratic nominee for president. Since leaving office, he has served as a visiting professor at many colleges and universities including Harvard University, University of Hawaii, Northeastern University and UCLA. Series: "UC Davis Chancellor's Colloquium Distinguished Speaker Series" [Public Affairs] [Business] [Show ID: 22900]
Apr 09, 2012•57 min
Jason Nazar is the Co-Founder and CEO of Docstoc.com, the premier online website for small businesses that provides a selection of documents and resources to help start, grow and manage your small business and professional life. Docstoc is a top 500 worldwide website that reaches over 20M people a month. Jason was previously a partner at Venature LLC, a consulting group focused on accelerating the growth of new ventures. There he worked with dozens of tech companies to improve their strategy, sa...
Mar 19, 2012•1 hr 18 min
Adult language: Seth Epstein is a creative CEO/start up entrepreneur and Emmy award winner for the rebrand of the X-Games. From humble beginnings in a garage, Seth built a pioneering creative agency, which was later acquired by Razorfish. Seth has directed commercials, rebranded TV networks globally, overseen web re-brands of all sizes, rebranded companies and products, architected e-commerce solutions and built sophisticated mobile platforms. He has also developed consumer goods and started ori...
Mar 05, 2012•1 hr 47 min
Roger Strauch is Chairman of The Roda Group, a seed stage venture capital group, based in Berkeley, California focused on clean technology. His firm, co-founded in 1997 with Dan Miller, provides entrepreneurs the resources, environment, and guidance to launch and grow their high technology businesses. Series: "Distinguished Innovator Lectures" [Business] [Show ID: 23263]
Feb 20, 2012•55 min
Garrett is a co-founder of Alta, and was also a Partner at Burr, Egan, Deleage & Co. founder of Ask.com and a co-founder of Alta Partners. He has more than two decades of experience in the fields of software development, systems engineering and corporate development. Garrett also founded Ask Jeeves, now Ask.Com, a leading Internet search engine which is now part of IAC. Series: "Distinguished Innovator Lectures" [Business] [Show ID: 23261]
Feb 06, 2012•46 min
Keval Desai discusses his 20 year history in Silicon Valley, including time spent at Google and Digg. He relates his experiences in product management with mobile and Internet start-ups. Series: "Distinguished Innovator Lectures" [Business] [Show ID: 23023]
Dec 19, 2011•46 min
Alex Le, executive producer of CityVille by Zynga, discusses his experiences as an entrepreneur in the era of social network games. Series: "Distinguished Innovator Lectures" [Business] [Show ID: 23022]
Dec 12, 2011•50 min
Tom Byers brings his passion for teaching and communicating with technology venture students to this talk on his path to entrepreneurship, with anecdotes about both the successful and not so successful experiences that shaped his evolving career. Series: "Innovator Stories: Creating Something from Nothing" [Business] [Show ID: 22003]
Dec 05, 2011•59 min
Explore the legal needs of tech starts ups with Lawrence Cohn who represents medical device, pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies and investors in their corporate transactions, private venture capital and public securities financing, mergers and acquisitions, licensing, strategic alliances, and technology transfers. His clients range from early-stage start-ups to public companies with global operations. Series: "Innovator Stories: Creating Something from Nothing" [Business] [Show ID: 22756...
Nov 28, 2011•57 min
Jeff Sandefer runs an energy investment firm, Sandefer Capital Partners, that holds over a billion dollars in assets. For the last sixteen years, Mr. Sandefer has also taught entrepreneurship at the graduate level. Four years ago Mr. Sandefer and a band of successful entrepreneurs left a nationally recognized program they had built at the University of Texas to start the Acton School of Business. For two consecutive years, Acton was rated among the top MBA programs in the country by the Princeto...
Nov 28, 2011•36 min
Darrell Brown, Senior Vice President, US Bank, argues that in order to teach managers to be successful and prosperous where others fail, one must engage an entrepreneurial mindset in a world that embraces the status quo. Series: "Creativity and Innovation" [Humanities] [Business] [Show ID: 21578]
Nov 28, 2011•48 min
Rich Lechner Vice President, Energy & Environment, IBM "Sustainability on a Smarter Planet" Abstract The world is becoming increasingly instrumented, interconnected, and intelligent - in a word, 'smarter'. Organizations now have the ability to see the exact condition of practically everything in near real-time and can leverage this information to achieve financial, environmental, social, and operational benefits. This session will use case studies to provide a broad overview of how technolog...
Nov 21, 2011•55 min
