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Diverse students in front of new Business Building

New Business Building Wins Architecture Award

UC Riverside’s new School of Business building has won an American Architecture Award, which recognizes design excellence and innovation. The building, which opened in fall 2024, was honored in the schools and universities category in the 2025 awards announced on Oct. 30 by the Chicago Athenaeum Museum of Architecture and Design. The museum partners with...
By Imran Ghori | Inside UCR |
A woman diserns prices at a grocery store (Getty Images)

Study Finds Moral Costs in Over-pricing for Essentials

When companies hike prices on essentials like food, medicine, or medical devices, the financial rewards may be immediate—but the reputational damage may linger and ultimately cost more in the long run.
By David Danelski (david.danelski@ucr.edu) | UCR News |
Illuminate fundraising evening 2025

Illuminating Futures: $112,000 Raised for Student Experiential Learning

More than 80 donors, alumni, community leaders, faculty, and students gathered on October 10 for the UC Riverside School of Business’s inaugural Illuminate: A Night for Student Success. Hosted at the Riverside home of longtime UCR supporter and School of Business Dean’s Advisory Board Chair Ching Liu, the evening celebrated the value of experiential learning...
2025 Emerging Careers Summit, three panelists

In-person Advice from Alumni Professionals

Nearly 250 students attended the UCR School of Business Emerging Careers Summit on Oct. 24, 2025.
By Laurie McLaughlin |
UCR Business Marketing Professor Thomas Kramer

Understanding Consumers and Their Psychology

UCR marketing professor and associate dean Thomas Kramer is named Anderson Presidential Chair, leading consumer behavior research and a no-electronics, student-centered classroom.
By Laurie McLaughlin |
Hyeik Kim

Connecting Finance Concepts to Student Goals

Hyeik Kim joins UCR finance faculty; student-centered teaching; research: private equity, corporate finance, governance; RFS study on airport privatization.
By Laurie McLaughlin |
2025 FLEAP Leadership Experience in Brazil with Kyle Ingram

Lessons Come to Life in Brazil

The FLEAP Brazilian Leadership Experience 2025 was in partnership with Fundação Dom Cabral (FDC), one of the top business schools in the world and ranked No. 7 globally by the Financial Times.
By UCR Business |
Simran Kamra

“Supersafe Beauty” at Juice Cosmetics

Simran Kamra ’24 MBA applies her UCR education to lead innovation at Juice Cosmetics, advancing the family’s clean, safe, and inclusive beauty brand that blends Ayurveda and modern science for global growth.
Wendy Romero ’19 BA ’22 MBA, founder and CEO of Love 4 Life, works with children as part of an annual outreach in Mexico, helping children make pledges not to bully.

Applying an MBA To Make a Difference

UCR alumna Wendy Romero ('19 BA, '22 MBA) abandoned her medical path to use her UCR MBA to establish and expand Love 4 Life, a nonprofit dedicated to anti-bullying and suicide prevention.
By Darin Estep |
Inside of a warehouse

Report: IE Warehouse Workers Make Gains Through Collective Action

In “State of the Unions: California Labor in 2024,” UCR researchers offer details on the growth, salaries, ethnicities, and ongoing struggles of warehouse workers in Riverside and San Bernardino counties.
By Randy Black | UCR News |
Madrid airport

Private Equity Takes Airports to New Heights

A comprehensive study spanning two decades and four continents found that private equity ownership significantly boosts airport performance.
By David Danelski (david.danelski@ucr.edu) | UCR News |
Professor Aruhn Venkat

Welcome, Assistant Professor of Accounting Aruhn Venkat

UCR's new Accounting Professor Aruhn Venkat researches how business tax policy impacts labor, investment, and innovation, with findings that tax subsidies can boost local innovation despite complex consequences from tax avoidance and whistleblower laws.
By Laurie McLaughlin |
Scott Ganz, professor UCR Business

Welcome, Assistant Professor of Management Scott Ganz

Scott Ganz joins the UCR School of Business faculty this fall quarter and will teach students how to get people who want different things to work together.
By Laurie McLaughlin |
American Airlines acquired TWA in 2001

Nostalgia is an Asset in Company Acquisitions

A UCR study found nostalgia comforts employees during acquisitions, easing fears of job loss, status, or growth, and reducing the urge to send résumés.
By David Danelski (david.danelski@ucr.edu) | UCR News |
Laurence Akiyoshi UCR School of Business alumni

Decades in the Making

UCR MBA alum Laurence Akiyoshi shares his lifelong learning journey, global consulting career, and leadership insights from one of the best business schools.
By Laurie McLaughlin |
GMAC with Joy Jones, Maribel Segura, and Patrick Latimer

UCR Joins Council of Global Business Schools

UC Riverside’s School of Business has been accepted into the Graduate Management Admission Council (GMAC), a prestigious global association of leading graduate business schools.
By David Danelski (david.danelski@ucr.edu) | UCR News |
UC Riverside AGSM at Forte Foundation Conference in June 2025

Forté Foundation Partners with UCR Women Leaders

Through its Forté Foundation partnership, the UCR School of Business advances women’s leadership in business at one of the best business schools and UCR MBA programs.
Kyle Ingram and undergraduate business students in a classroom

UCR Scholar Reimagines Student Engagement

Kyle Ingram, an assistant professor of teaching in the School of Business at UC Riverside, takes this strategy to new heights with a college teaching method he developed called “Carry the Class.”
By David Danelski (david.danelski@ucr.edu) | UCR News |
The Bakeri Family

‘There Was No Fear of Failure’

Follow Jagat Bakeri’s UCR MBA journey to leading global e-commerce at Symphony Limited, blending passion, resilience, and entrepreneurship in India.
By Darin Estep |
Professors for the School of Business with their Teaching Awards 2025

Faculty Receive Student-voted Awards

At the May 23 UCR School of Business Spring Banquet, the annual student-voted awards were presented to five faculty members by student leaders.
By Laurie McLaughlin |