US Business School Leaders Visiting China Available for Interviews ...

DAVIS, Calif.?(BUSINESS WIRE)?

International business school leaders Steven C. Currall, dean and
professor of management at University of California, Davis, Graduate
School of Management and Wendy Beecham, a former CEO and now managing
director of executive education at the UC Davis management school, will
be available to meet with reporters by telephone or in person when they
visit several of China?s major cities May 15-21.

Currall and Beecham can discuss business school trends, including
opportunities in the United States for Chinese residents as well as new
trends innovation, entrepreneurship, economic development and other
topics of interest to Chinese readers. This will be Currall?s sixth trip
to China.

They will meet with top academic and business leaders in Beijing, May
15-16; Shanghai, May 17-18; and Hong Kong, May 19-21 to forge new
partnerships, continue discussions on executive education, and establish
greater collaboration between the University of California, Davis, and
leading Chinese universities and business schools.

Possible interview topics:

• Strengths of UC Davis Graduate School of Management and opportunities
  for business education: clean technology, partnerships with U.S.
  business school/research universities and industry. UC Davis? global
  leadership and expertise in converging issues of food, water, health,
  society, energy and the environment.
• Custom and niche executive education programs in U.S. with a potential
  to develop joint programs in China. www.gsm.ucdavis.edu/execed
• Entrepreneurship; innovation; venture capital; research
  commercialization.
• Economic links to Northern California and Silicon Valley.
• U.S. business school/MBA/Master of Professional Accountancy student
  experiences, and growing number of applications from Chinese
  prospective students to U.S. business schools.
• New trends in business school curricula for MBA and accounting
  students.
• Philanthropy for business schools, including the latest UC Davis
  endowment to accelerate research-based business development at the
  Child Family Institute for Innovation and Entrepreneurship. http://entrepreneurship.ucdavis.edu

About Steven Currall

Currall joined UC Davis in July 2009 from London Business School, ranked
by The Financial Times as the No. 1 business school in the world.
He was visiting professor of organizational behavior and
entrepreneurship and faculty co-director of the Institute of Technology
at London Business School. Simultaneously, Currall was vice dean of
enterprise and professor of management science and innovation in the
Faculty of Engineering Sciences at University College London, and was
founding chair of the Department of Management Science and Innovation.

http://gsm.ucdavis.edu/faculty/steven-c-currall

About Wendy Beecham

Beecham joined UC Davis in 2011. She was CEO of Watermark (formerly the
Forum for Women Entrepreneurs and Executives) an organization of
experienced women leaders in the San Francisco Bay Area. She spent the
majority of her career in electronic publishing, holding a variety of
senior leadership roles including senior vice president of a division at
LexisNexis Group and managing director of London-based Sweet Maxwell
Group, a legal division of the Thomson Corporation.

http://gsm.ucdavis.edu/profile/wendy-beecham

About the Graduate School of Management at the University of
California, Davis

Dedicated to preparing innovative leaders for global impact, the UC
Davis Graduate School of Management is consistently ranked among the
premier business schools in the United States and internationally. The
school has nearly 600 MBA students enrolled in full-time and part-time
MBA programs on the UC Davis campus, in Sacramento, Calif., and in the
San Francisco Bay Area. A Master of Professional Accountancy program
starts this autumn. U.S. News World Report ranks UC Davis
among the top 8 percent of MBA programs in the United States. The
Economist ranks the school?s faculty quality No. 6 in the world, and The
Financial Times ranks the school No. 1 worldwide for the percentage
of female faculty members. The Aspen Institute ranks the school among
the top 10% worldwide for integrating environmental and social
responsibility.

www.gsm.ucdavis.edu

About the University of California, Davis

For more than 100 years, UC Davis has engaged in teaching, research and
public service that matter to California and transform the world.
Located close to the state capital, UC Davis has more than 32,000
students, more than 2,500 faculty and more than 21,000 staff, an annual
research budget of more than $684 million, a comprehensive health system
and 13 specialized research centers. The university offers
interdisciplinary graduate study and more than 100 undergraduate majors
in four colleges?Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, Biological
Sciences, Engineering, and Letters and Science. It also houses six
professional schools?Education, Law, Management, Medicine, Veterinary
Medicine and the Betty Irene Moore School of Nursing.

www.ucdavis.edu

Article source: http://finance.yahoo.com/news/u-business-school-leaders-visiting-000500148.html

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