What's Current April 2024

April 2024

 

Dear Anderson Community,

These past weeks have been among the most challenging in UCLA’s history. We have a great deal of work to do across the university to rebuild a sense of community in which everyone feels safe, welcomed and respected. The purpose of this newsletter is to recognize and celebrate the
individuals and activities at Anderson that make our school strong. So, in that spirit, I want to share some positive highlights from April at Anderson. I hope that all of us will pull even closer together now so that we can move forward with trust and confidence in each other.

Dean Tony Bernardo
 

The Late Juliette MacKay’s (’21) Dedication to People and Planet Will Live On Through Fellowships

The funding campaign lauched by her EMBA classmates is working to meet a goal of $100,000 by May 31

 
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#UCBruinsEverywhere, Global Immersion Edition

EMBA Tommy Harris (’24) reflects on his experience in United Arab Emirates during Anderson’s course Dubai and Its Evolving Role in the UAE, Middle East and the World

 
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The Business of Sports at UCLA Anderson

Andy Campion (B.A. ’93, ’03) and Eric Johnson (B.A. ‘91) invited special guest @iambarondavis to kick off our new class, Global Ecosystem of Sports

 
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UCLA Anderson’s Quants Take NYC

True to MFE tradition, the Class of 2024 spent spring break visiting some of the top firms in New York to learn about their creative approaches to the complexities of today’s markets

 
Yasaswy Aluri (MFE ’24) Dhruv Shah (MFE ’24)
 

Farewell Messages from Your Outgoing Club Leaders

With ASA elections over and leadership transitions underway, AnderTech and MCA’s presidents share words of encouragement to their successors

 
David Chen (’24) Arjun Rajesh (’24)
 

Cultivating an Engaged Community

Olivia LeVine (’25) shares her goals as incoming ASA president

 
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Evelyn Hou and Top 100 Wealth Advisor David Hou (B.A. ’88, ’92) Take the Ethical Lead

As sponsors of Anderson’s annual Ethics Summit case competition, they congratulated the 2024 winning team with $10,000

 
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AnderTech and Entrepreneur Association Packed Korn Hall to Embrace AI

Offering a VC’s perspective, Google’s Alex Dumas described the “third shift” in technological development and application

 
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Nike’s Noel Kinder Drives Change Because He Understands How Change Is Made

Incoming Net Impact president Veronica Seng (’25) reflects on how Anderson alumni and guest speakers have influenced her to become a transformative leader in sustainability

 
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The World Is Learning Why UCLA Anderson Spreads Happiness

Cassie Holmes tells Poets & Quants’ John Byrne how her class is a part of our greater design for students’ balance and success in life

 
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Beyond GDP, Consider the Entire Nation’s Well-Being

Professor of Behavioral Economics and Genomics Dan Benjamin has devised an index, scoring each U.S. locale

 
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ANDERSON CROSSWORD #1

Flex your business school vocabulary, and exercise your brain with our first-ever word puzzle

 
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Nursing Home Industry Profits Obscured by Related-Party Transactions

Management and real estate deals with owners’ firms siphon off most profits, according to new research by assistant professor of strategy Ashvin Gandhi

 
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Anderson in the News

April highlights in the global press

McKnight’s Long-Term Care News
Nursing homes bury 63% of profits in related-party tunnels, but not all play the game
Ashvin Gandhi’s new study indicates the need for more audited financial reporting by state and federal regulators, to ensure better-informed decisions can be made about long-term care funding.

Forbes
The rebirth of EV battery-swapping services and why their time is now
Chris Tang notes that despite positive trends in clean mobility, charging an electric vehicle remains an inconvenient experience that has sparked renewed interest in EV battery-swapping services.

Washington Post
How your future self can help your present well-being
Hal Hershfield maintains that just because time travel takes place inside our heads doesn’t mean it can’t change reality.

National Law Review
Cornerstone Research Experts in Focus
Andrea Eisfeldt explains her research into asset market liquidity and corporate solvency in the context of financial and economic crises such as the COVID-19 pandemic.

LAist
‘Mansion Tax’: 1 year in, revenue is way lower than projected
ULA passed by 58% last fall, but critics of the measure, like Eric Sussman, see it as an impediment to getting projects built in a housing-constrained market.

USA Today
Are all 99 cent stores closing?
Brett Hollenbeck studied how the rapid growth of Family Dollar and 99 Cents Only stores might have contributed to their mass closures. But he says the format isn’t going away.

Financial Times
Online microbusinesses lower local unemployment
The UCLA Anderson Forecast’s new research with GoDaddy’s Venture Forward finds that online businesses with 10 or fewer employees are creating up to seven jobs for every one entrepreneur, compared to only two a few years ago.