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Financial Times: UC Davis No. 2 in Organizational Behavior

Business Wire, Jan 30, 2008

UC Davis MBA Program among Top 30 in U.S. and 58th Worldwide

DAVIS, Calif. -- The Graduate School of Management at the University of California, Davis, is ranked second in the world for the study of organizational behavior, according to the Financial Times' Global MBA 2008 survey released Monday. It is the second consecutive year the Financial Times has ranked UC Davis among the top two business schools in the world for organizational behavior.

Overall, the Financial Times ranked the UC Davis MBA program 28th in the U.S and 58th in the world -- up from last year's rankings of 47th and 76th, respectively.

The Financial Times' rankings are based on data collected from two main sources: alumni and business schools. The FT rankings focus on alumni career progress, diversity and faculty quality. Of the 20 criteria used to determine the overall rankings, eight are based on alumni questionnaires. Most of the top 10 rankings in specialties are based on alumni recommendations.

The Financial Times Group is one of the world's leading business information companies, and publishes the Financial Times, an international daily business newspaper, which is printed in 19 cities and has a daily circulation of more than 480,000 and a readership of more than 1.6 million worldwide.

The complete Financial Times Global MBA 2008 rankings are available at: http://www.ft.com/businesseducation/globalmba2008.> The study of organizational behavior examines how people, individuals and groups act in organizations. Faculty of the Graduate School of Management who study organizational behavior include:

* Dean Nicole Woolsey Biggart Expertise: economic and sociological networks; management of innovation; social bases of technology adoption.

* Professor Kimberly Elsbach Expertise: leadership and management of reputation and image.

* Professor Donald Palmer Expertise: the role of human behavior in corporate governance, including white-collar crime; he also serves as editor of the leading academic publication in the field, Administrative Science Quarterly.

* Associate Professor Andrew Hargadon Expertise: intersection of technology and innovation; management of innovation; technology innovation; entrepreneurship and new product development.

* Associate Professor Beth Bechky Expertise: how teams of people interact as they accomplish work in various settings, including the film industry.

* Assistant Professor Greta Hsu Expertise: how organizations and their identities evolve in markets.

* Assistant Professor Siobhan O'Mahony Expertise: the social, technical, and legal factors that influence cumulative innovation; management of technology; managing people in modern organizations; entrepreneurship.

The UC Davis Graduate School of Management's other most recent accolades include:

* U.S.News & World Report's America's Best Graduate Schools: Ranked among the top 50 full-time MBA programs in the U.S. for 12 consecutive years.

* Beyond Grey Pinstripes 2007-2008 Survey: The Aspen Institute's Center for Business Education ranks the UC Davis MBA program among the top 30 in the world for integrating issues of social and environmental stewardship into curricula and research.

* The Wall Street Journal/Harris Interactive 2007 Survey: Corporate recruiters surveyed by the Journal rank the Graduate School of Management among the top 30 regional business schools in the nation, and No. 6 in the world for preparing graduates for the technology, Internet and telecom industries.

* The Economist Intelligence Unit, a division of The Economist magazine group, ranks the UC Davis MBA program among the top 40 in the U.S. and 71st in the world in its global business school survey. The UC Davis Graduate School of Management placed 26th for faculty quality.

* Forbes' "Best Business Schools" ranks the UC Davis Working Professional MBA program 16th among part-time MBA programs nationwide based on graduates' five-year return on investment.

About the UC Davis Graduate School of Management

Established in 1981, the UC Davis Graduate School of Management offers an interactive and collaborative learning environment distinguished by world-class faculty members renowned for their research and teaching, highly selective admissions, innovative and entrepreneurial students, and prime locations in Northern California's economic hubs. The school provides management education to 112 full-time MBA students on the UC Davis campus and 350 Working Professional MBA students at campuses in Sacramento and the San Francisco Bay Area.

Learn more at: http://www.gsm.ucdavis.edu.