What's Current March 2024

March 2024

 
Welcome to the March edition of What’s Current! We kicked the month off with our annual Pulse Entertainment, Sports & Technology Conference and followed with two more powerful events
in celebration of Women’s History Month — a conversation with recipients of the U.S. Secretary of State’s 2024 Women of Courage Award and our own Velocity Women’s Leadership Summit. We share highlights of all three events below, along with spotlights on a number of Anderson’s many transformative leaders.

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Transformative Leaders in Entertainment and Sports Brought a Packed House at Pulse 2024

Pulse honored Game Changer Ted Sarandos, co-CEO of Netflix, for pushing the frontiers of innovation in entertainment, influencing audiences and leading the industry’s evolution

 
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A Powerful Belief in Oneself

Anderson’s annual Velocity Women’s Leadership Summit celebrates the success we achieve amid challenges

 
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International Women of Courage Honorees Speak Up — Often at Great Personal Risk

For Women’s History Month, Anderson’s EDI team and WBC convened a panel with three exceptional leaders recognized for inclusive excellence and the positive change they’re making

 
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With an Entrepreneur’s Passion, Kristin D. Ashcraft (’09) Creates Conduits for People’s Connections

Her active leadership roles across UCLA Anderson’s network have earned her the 2024 Outstanding Alumni Service Award

 
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Fascinated by Finance

Payden & Rygel’s Asha Joshi (M.A. ’81, ’85) takes an interest in the people behind the numbers

 
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Monique Lawshe (’90) Is Elected President of the Los Angeles City Planning Commission

A valued member of the UCLA Ziman Center’s advisory board, she combines real estate finance and development skills with a deep commitment to educational and social service partnerships

 
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For All It’s Worth

The Fink Center’s Lori Santikian teaches the art and the science of corporate valuation

 
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UCLA Anderson Forecast Sees Restrained Growth in 2024, but the Likelihood of a U.S. Recession Fades

Our economists note that California’s economy still outpaces the nation’s but faces the same political and geopolitical risks

 
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How to Maximize the Positives of Generative AI and GPT

Meta’s Arun Rao (’13) unveils developments in this transformational form of AI

 
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UCLA Anderson’s Storied Art Collection Has a Steward

With an interest in art that stems from his college days at MIT, Professor Emeritus Don Morrison acts as “unofficial” curator

 
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Hollywood Restructuring and the Writers and Actors Strikes of 2023

UCLA Anderson Forecast director Jerry Nickelsburg assesses the economic impact

 
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What Happens When Dollar Stores Come to Town

Brett Hollenbeck’s study uncovers the deleterious effects on public health over a 10-year period

 
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An Olympian Legacy That Keeps the People in Its Heart

Mariana Behr Andrade’s (’02) Olympic education program continues to make a profound impact in her native Brazil

 
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Business Efficiency Needn’t Be the Enemy of Personal and Public Well-Being

Anderson’s Charles Corbett: Operations managers can take into consideration happiness, equity and sustainability

 
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How Do Behavioral Science Findings Transfer across Contexts?

Hengchen Dai and co-authors have published fresh research on the schism between what people in a hypothetical scenario say they will do, and what people actually do

 
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Anderson in the News

March highlights in the global press

Wall Street Journal
What difference does a stock analyst’s name make? A lot, at least for CEOs
Research co-authored by Brett Trueman reveals that analysts who share the same first name with the CEO of a company they cover seem to get better insights than those who don’t.

Financial Times
Business school teaching case study: How electric vehicles pose tricky trade dilemmas
How should western policymakers use subsidies and tariffs to encourage drivers to switch to EVs? Chris Tang probes the arguments with an “instant teaching case study.”

Time
How ‘time poverty’ at work makes you less healthy
Cassie Holmes finds that a sense of not having enough time to do what you need to do or want to do makes an outsized impact on worker well-being.

University of California
The problem: Information homogenization and censorship bias
In a study asking ChatGPT to take on jobs that have, until recently, only been done by humans, Francisco Castro found that whatever the task, the more a group of people relied on AI, the less variety emerged in their aggregate work.