Jim Olson
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Jim Olson

Lecturer, Robert A. Fox Executive in Residence, 2013

Jim Olson founded the WestShore Management Group in April of 2007, continuing a distinguished career after leading several high technology businesses for two Fortune companies and serving for nine years as CEO of SkyStream Networks, the top rated IPTV video head-end provider worldwide. WestShore Management Group provides Interim CEO, corporate consulting, and executive development services for both public, and private, venture-financed companies.

Most recently, Olson was executive vice president of video compression systems at TANDBERG Television. He became part of the company’s senior

Jörn Boehnke
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Jörn Boehnke

Assistant Professor

Ph.D., University of Chicago

Research Expertise
Applied Microeconomics, Quantitative Marketing, Empirical Industrial Organization, Labor Economics, Online Market Platforms, Dynamics of Customer Behavior and Pricing

Jörn Boehnke's research primarily revolves around the dynamics of marketing, pricing, and consumer behavior in online platforms. These platforms foster direct interaction between retailers and their customers, reducing search costs, and enabling consumers to compare various products simultaneously. Through his meticulous data collection and analysis, Boehnke succeeds in revealing

Vince Vengapally
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Vince Vengapally

Lecturer

Master of Business Administration (MBA), Wharton School of Business

Vince Vengapally is currently working in Product Management for Google Workspace. Vince leads various Google efforts around digital whiteboarding and develops Google Meet Hardware for Meeting Rooms and Classrooms. 

Vengapally was formerly the Vice President of Technology for the Oakland Athletics. He oversaw technology initiatives for the ball club, spanning fan facing technology and business systems. A major focus for the A's was a transition from a traditional on-premise enterprise software environment to a hybrid cloud

David Woodruff
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David Woodruff

Professor, Associate Dean for Faculty and Research

Ph.D., Northwestern University

Research Expertise 
Business analytics, operations and management science, planning and scheduling under uncertainty, optimization

Professor David Woodruff's research concerns computational aspects of optimal decision making. He is particularly interested in problems with a mix of discrete and continuous choices with multiple time stages when there is significant uncertainty. His research includes solution algorithms, problem representation and modeling language support. He has worked on applications in operations, logistics, science, and has been involved

Victor Stango
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Victor Stango

Professor

Ph.D., University of California, Davis 

Research Expertise 
Consumer and firm behavior in banking markets, behavioral economics, industrial organization.

Professor Victor Stango’s research focuses on household financial decision making over both short- and long-term time horizons. His current work examines how behavioral influences on consumer decision-making are related to each other, to cognitive abilities and other demographics, and to financial decisions and outcomes. That work is supported by grants from the Michigan Retirement Research Center (MRRC), and by the Pension Research Council

Doy Charnsupharindr
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Doy Charnsupharindr

Lecturer

Master of Business Administration (MBA), University of California Berkeley 
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Stanford University

Doy Charnsupharindr is a lecturer at UC Davis Graduate School of Management and UC Berkeley’s Haas Business School, teaching MBA-level courses focusing on developing leadership, communications, and coaching skills. He teaches High Impact Leadership courses at Berkeley Executive Education at UC Berkeley, and has been a guest lecturer at the Berlin School for Creative Leadership (Germany) and Nanyang Business School (Singapore). He coaches and leads workshops for some of the

Jim Wunderman
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Jim Wunderman

Lecturer

Lecturer Jim Wunderman serves as the president and chief executive officer of the Bay Area Council, a business-backed public policy organization in the Silicon Valley. Led by its CEO members, the Bay Area Council is the strong, united voice of more than 275 of the largest Bay Area employers, representing more than 500,000 workers, or one of every six private sector employees. Since becoming CEO in 2004, Wunderman has led the 64-year-old public policy organization to become one of the most influential, effective institutions of its kind.

Prior to the Bay Area Council, Wunderman held key

Alan M. Taylor
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Alan M. Taylor

Professor

Ph.D., Harvard University

Research Expertise 
International trade, finance, macroeconomics and economic history

Professor Alan Taylor teaches economics and finance at the University of California, Davis, with appointments in the Department of Economics and the Graduate School of Management. He is also a research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research in Cambridge, Mass., and a research fellow of the Center for Economic Policy Research in London. He serves as a co-editor at the Journal of International Economics.

His publications include numerous articles in a range of

Jerome Suran
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Jerome Suran

Senior Lecturer Emeritus

Research Expertise 
Corporate strategy, technology management, global strategy, budget control models, strategic planning, ethics

Senior Lecturer Emeritus Jerome J. Suran works at the Graduate School of Management and in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of California, Davis. He was awarded the Doctor of Engineering, honoris causa, from Syracuse University for his pioneering work in transistor and integrated circuit technology and for the development of the General Electric Company implantable cardiac pacemaker in 1976.

At the Graduate School of

Robert H. Smiley
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Robert H. Smiley

Professor Emeritus

Ph.D., Stanford University 

Research Expertise 
Economics, strategy, public policy, competitive strategy, energy economics, public policy analysis, anti-trust policy, regulation

Consulting 
Public utilities, telecommunications, wine industry, energy, strategy

Professor Emeritus Robert Smiley is an authority on competitive strategy, economics and economic trends, industrial structure, public policy analysis, antitrust policy and regulation. He can also comment on the impact that acts of terrorism, war and other major events can have on financial markets and business and consumer confidence.

Gregory Perelman
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Gregory Perelman

Lecturer

Ph.D., History, Russian State University for Humanities, 2006
Master of Business Administration (MBA), Yale School of Management, 1997
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Economics, UC Los Angeles, 1995 

Gregory Perelman has worked in the U.S. banking industry since 1990. For the last 20 years, he has been employed by Wells Fargo Bank in various finance and management positions. He is based in San Francisco, where he conducts analysis of small business credit markets in the U.S. and internationally.

Perelman has been an adjunct professor at California State University since 2001 and University of

Todd Mirell
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Todd Mirell

Lecturer

Teaching Expertise
Real Estate Finance and Development

A vice president at Union Bank, where he manages relationships with several of the top real estate developers in Northern California, Lecturer Todd Mirell has held previous positions with Preferred Capital Advisors as a senior associate, McMorgan & Company as a real estate investment analyst and with CB Richard Ellis Inc. as a property tax assistant/marketing specialist. 

Mirell earned both his MBA and B.S. in managerial economics from UC Davis.

Why are Shelves Empty at Sacramento-Area Budget Stores?
Mad Dash for Discount Clothes
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Why are Shelves Empty at Sacramento-Area Budget Stores?

Professor Shannon Anderson says to expect sparse inventory at discount stores for a while because many household items are made in Southeast Asia, which has been hit hard by the coronavirus pandemic.

NASCAR Fans Identify with Patriotism, Southern Tradition
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NASCAR Fans Identify with Patriotism, Southern Tradition

Some fan values might clash with ban of Confederate flag

Some fan values might clash with the car racing organization’s ban of the Confederate flag, following protests against racial injustice, according to Professor Kim Elsbach’s study.

Employees Need To Feel Connected: Leaders Have To Be Human
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Employees Need To Feel Connected: Leaders Have To Be Human

For Forbes, Lecturer Suzy Taherian says business leaders shouldn’t ignore the crucial task of rebuilding company culture following changes to corporate strategies and processes due to COVID-19.