Lifelong Learning
UCLA Anderson introduces Lifelong Learning—a new, ongoing series of learning sessions led by Anderson faculty—offering practical insights across three core areas to support Anderson alumni’s professional development.
Lifelong Learning is delivered by UCLA Anderson Executive Education.
Upcoming Sessions
Motivation and Incentives
Jana Gallus
Associate Professor of Strategy and Behavioral Decision Making
Monday June 17, 2024 | 12:00 p.m. – 1:00 p.m. PST (Live Online)
Looking for ways to motivate people for success beyond financial incentives? This session showcases the most applicable research on incentive strategies designed to enhance individual motivation and organizational performance. Professor Gallus focuses on today’s knowledge economy and discusses the implications of an increasingly digital workforce for innovation management and strategy.
Data Visualization: Presenting Your Ideas through Data
Stephen Spiller
Associate Professor of Marketing and Behavioral Decision Making and Associate Dean of the Anderson Ph.D. Program
Friday August 23, 2024 | 12:00 p.m. – 1:00 p.m. PST (Live Online)
We communicate data to others all the time, and the way we choose to present that data matters. Whatever our audience - manager, employee, coworker, customer, family, friend or other stakeholder – the same data, presented in different ways, can lead to very different outcomes. Professor Spiller’s session addresses how to use data effectively to present our messages, considering the role of metrics, context, and core visualization principles.
Choice Architecture: How to Nudge Others to Make Better Decisions
Craig Fox
Harold Williams Chair and Professor of Management, Area Chair
Friday September 20, 2024 | 12:00 p.m. – 1:00 p.m. PST (Live Online)
Leaders succeed or fail not only on the decisions that they make, but also on their ability to positively influence the decisions of others. Professor Fox explores the ways in which decision makers fall short of idealized models of rational behavior, and how leaders can structure choice environments to promote better decisions within their organizations. The session examines the tools of choice architecture, drawing on the disciplines of behavioral economics and experimental psychology, including the Nobel Prize-winning work of Daniel Kahneman and Richard Thaler.
Communicating for Impact
Bob McCann
Adjunct Professor of Management and Organizations and Director of the Leadership Communication Program
Wednesday November 20, 2024 | 12:00 p.m. – 1:00 p.m. PDT (Live Online)
Structure and communicate verbal messages that are audience-centric, concise, memorable, and persuasive. Professor McCann's session explores how to address a wide variety of stakeholders using an audience/target mentality, which can add power to ideas, ensure data stick, and drive home key points.
Ethical Leadership
Eugene Caruso
Professor of Management and Organizations and Behavioral Decision Making; Faculty Co-Director, Inclusive Ethics Initiative
Thursday, March 14, 2024 | 12:00 p.m. – 1:30 p.m. PST (Virtual)
People who work together often assume that others share their values and agree on what is important, fair, and ethical. However, we know from experience that two people looking at the same situation may come to vastly different conclusions about what is “right.” Failing to appreciate the perspective of others can lead people to be blindsided when what looks like an easy choice provokes unexpected and passionate opposition. This session will explore the ways that decisions can maximize value while also being respectful, honorable, and ethical.
The Benefits of Fresh Starts
Hengchen Dai
Associate Professor of Management and Organizations and Behavioral Decision Making
Friday, February 16, 2024 | 12:00 p.m - 1:30 p.m. PST (Virtual)
Professor Dai will share research on how fresh starts—moments that lead people to feel psychologically separated from the past—affect our decisions, motivation, and job performance. This session will investigate how and why transition points in our lives both can inspire people to aggressively begin pursuing a new goal and give people reasons to slack off. The insights from this session will help you leverage the power of fresh starts while avoiding the pitfalls when you try to influence others and when you are motivating yourself.
ESG Reporting
Maggie Delmas
Professor of Strategy; Faculty Director, Center for Impact
Friday, April 19, 2024 | 12:00 p.m. – 1:30 p.m. PST (Virtual)
Corporate Environmental Social and Governance (ESG) reporting is all over the news these days and the ESG reporting landscape is fast moving. Managers face a bewildering number of options to adopt or disclose corporate sustainability metrics in the areas of ESG, but little accompanying information that can help them pick the most useful or effective metrics. While most companies have great ESG stories to tell, they are not sure how to share these publicly. In this session, we will help you understand what the foundational ESG metrics are and how to disclose and infuse sustainability within the company culture and leadership.
Updates on the Latest Faculty Research
Looking for engaging stories on key aspects of business and how we work today? Check out the UCLA Anderson Review for short articles on Anderson faculty's groundbreaking research, and listen to the How the World Works podcast with Warren Olney.
What Happens at Hotels When Laws Restrict Airbnbs?
In New York, small and budget hotels — competitors to short-term rentals — raised prices
Professor Mariko Sakakibara explains
Technology’s Hidden Role in the Accountant Shortage
Software that saves time and money may paradoxically be resulting in a shortage of accountants
Professor Henry L. Friedman explains
What Happens When Dollar Stores Come to Town
Study uncovers the deleterious effects on public health over a ten-year period
Listen to Marketing Professor Brett Hollenbeck
Research Shows Female Political Candidates Are Judged More Harshly by Voters
Comparable municipal elections and pandemic policies reveal a tidy social experiment hiding beneath
Listen to Economics Professor Clemence Tricaud
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How to access UCLA Anderson Lifelong Learning programs
Just follow the links below to access program pages where you can review the details and register to attend. Programs are delivered through UCLA’s online learning management system BruinLearn.
Next Session
Fall 2023
Start Date: October 7, 2023
Finish Date: February 12, 2024
Delivery: In Person
Program Fee: $23,000
Winter 2023
Start Date: October 7, 2023
Finish Date: February 12, 2024
Delivery: In Person
Program Fee: $23,000
Focus on Anderson faculty
Explore our professors’ research in the Anderson Review
Professor of Management and Organizations; Area Chair
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Title Associate Professor of Management and Organizations and Behavioral Decision Making
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