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2021 GRADUATION CELEBRATION FULL-TIME MBA PRO G R A M THURSDAY, JUNE 10, 2021
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PROGRAM
WELCOME
Antonio E. Bernardo
Dean and John E. Anderson Chair in Management
Gene D. Block
Chancellor
KEYNOTE ADDRESS
John E. Kao (’87)
CEO, Alignment Healthcare
FULL-TIME MBA STUDENT CLASS SPEAKER
Kathryn V. Solomon
Candidate for the Master of Business Administration in
the Full-Time MBA Program
RECOGNITION OF THE FULL-TIME MBA GRADUATES
Antonio E. Bernardo
Dean and John E. Anderson Chair in Management
Miguel M. Unzueta
Senior Associate Dean of MBA Programs,
Professor of Management and Organizations
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MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT
Congratulations, UCLA Class of 2021! It is my honor to join your family, friends and
the entire University of California community in celebrating you and your wonderful
accomplishment. Amid historically challenging circumstances across the globe, you have
worked hard, persisted and persevered, in pursuit of your UC education.
I hope you will always take great pride in what you have achieved at the University of
California, and in being a part of the UC family for life. This great university will always be a
part of you, and UC will always be indelibly better for your time here as students.
UCLA alumnus and American hero Jackie Robinson once put it this way: “A life is not
important except in the impact it has on other lives.” You leave UCLA with the knowledge,
skills and confidence you need to go out into the world and create your future — and to
change our planet for the greater good of all.
Your graduation is a milestone reflecting your resilience, your strength and limitless hope
for the future. The world faces unprecedented challenges. You are the leaders who will help
heal what is wounded and right what is wrong. As you embark on this journey, know that
you are ready. We are behind you, cheering you on and wishing for ease, joy and fulfillment
in the path ahead of you.
Go forth, Bruins, and make the world a better, brighter place. Fiat lux — let there be light!
Michael V. Drake, M.D.
President, University of California
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MESSAGE FROM THE CHANCELLOR
Congratulations, Class of 2021!
Graduation is the culmination of many years of determination, diligence and hard work. I
hope you are proud of all that you have accomplished, and that your time at UCLA has
broadened your horizons, deepened your relationships, strengthened your skills and
helped you grow as people.
I also encourage you to take time to honor those who helped you on your journey and have
been rooting for you from the start: your family, friends, mentors and peers.
You are entering an era that needs your creativity, brilliance and passion. This pandemic
has taught us important lessons about vulnerability and inequality, but also about service,
empathy and community. As we recover from the pandemic, you are well-equipped to
contribute to the creation of a more prepared, more resilient and more just society.
At UCLA, we affirm values of compassion and inclusion, careful research and thoughtful
analysis, innovation and collaboration. Those are the very virtues that will serve you as you
make your way through this challenging moment and beyond.
This UCLA community you have been a part of, the community you helped create and the
broader alumni community you are now joining will be with you always. May they give you
strength and inspiration.
Congratulations once again. We can’t wait to see where you’ll go from here.
Fiat lux,
Gene D. Block
Chancellor
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MESSAGE FROM THE DEAN
To the UCLA Anderson Class of 2021:
On behalf of the UCLA Anderson community, my heartfelt congratulations to you upon earning your
MBA or Ph.D. degrees. That joy is surely shared by your family, friends, faculty and colleagues, who
know better than most what it took to reach this day. And on behalf of the graduates, thank you to
everyone who supported the Class of 2021 along the way!
At times, it may have felt as if today would never come.
Graduating from UCLA Anderson, even in ordinary circumstances, is a signal achievement, a credit to
your tenacity, intelligence and drive. But this past year has been anything but normal, and you and your
classmates needed extraordinary resilience to make it through. You have also endured more hours on
Zoom or other remote platforms than anyone would have wanted.
Yet, you persisted — and succeeded.
The global pandemic has tested, and continues to test, every one of us. There are many who have felt
the impact of the coronavirus directly, and we grieve their losses and suffering. For each of us, the
pandemic has affected how we work and live, and those changes will influence our collective future for
years to come.
The past year has also been scarred by the continuing scourge of racial injustice. The deaths of George
Floyd and others have cast a necessary spotlight on the historic inequities and racist violence that
continue to afflict our society. I am grateful to everyone who has worked to build a more just, equitable
and inclusive community here at Anderson and beyond.
In your time at Anderson, you have worked hard and overcome many obstacles. You spent significantly
less time than you might have liked as in-person students on our beautiful campus. But you have
adapted, innovated and grown, as leaders do whenever a challenge, or opportunity, arises. You have
dug deep, drawing on our common values as you prepare to live ethical lives of meaning and purpose.
Your relentlessness, passion and work ethic have secured your place for life in the UCLA Anderson
community. We hope you will stay in touch and come back often; we will always be here for you and
cheering you on. I wish you great success and happiness in all your endeavors.
Congratulations!
My very best,
Antonio E. Bernardo
Dean and John E. Anderson Chair in Management
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KEYNOTE SPEAKER
John E. Kao (’87)
CEO, Alignment Healthcare
John Kao (’87) is founder and CEO of Alignment Healthcare, a consumer-centric platform
delivering customized health care in the United States to seniors and those who need it most
— the chronically ill and frail — through its Medicare Advantage plans.
Kao has committed a long career to the health care industry and has served in executive roles at
CareMore Medical Enterprises, the TriZetto Group, PacifiCare Health Systems, Secure Horizons
USA and FHP International. He believes strongly in the tenets of servant leadership, serving on
various boards of nonprofit organizations, and he is a member of UCLA Anderson’s Board of
Advisors. Prior to earning his MBA at Anderson, he received his bachelor’s degree from Santa
Clara University.
MESSAGE FROM THE ASSOCIATE DEAN OF ALUMNI RELATIONS
Dear Anderson Class of 2021:
Congratulations on earning your MBA, and welcome to the UCLA Anderson Alumni Network! Your journey
in achieving this goal has been unlike that of any other graduating class, so for that you should be
exceptionally proud. We welcome you into the Alumni Network with open arms. We are 41,000 alumni
strong and are standing by to welcome you anywhere you go in the world.
This year, even though I did so virtually, I was able to meet and work with more students than ever before, so
I take great delight in personally inviting you to all of our alumni events and programs. Joining our Alumni
Network is just one more step in your lifelong connection to Anderson.
You will find the UCLA Anderson Alumni Network to be a tremendous resource. It will help you stay
connected to your classmates, expand your professional associations and navigate career changes, as well as
provide you with lifelong learning opportunities. It’s easy to stay connected through our new-alumni website:
anderson.ucla.edu/alumni/new-alumni.
This site features a to-do list to help you access all of the alumni resources, as well as a calendar of activities,
chapter contacts, email lists and much more. Be sure to keep your personal profile updated so that you
receive the digital Assets magazine and News@Anderson.
We encourage you to attend programs in your city, take a leadership role and organize an event, help us
mentor students and reach out to new admits. It’s all possible through the UCLA Anderson Alumni Network.
We are committed to becoming a vital resource to enhance your alumni experience and ensuring that UCLA
Anderson is a key partner in your professional success and personal growth.
We hope you and your families enjoy our graduation celebration. And remember: An Anderson student for a
few years . . . an Anderson alumnus for life!
The UCLA Anderson Alumni Network will help you move forward and upward!
Warmly,
Jill Baldauf (’81)
Associate Dean of Alumni Relations
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STUDENT AWARDS
The Class of 2021 comprises graduates from the following regions of origin:
Albania, Brazil, Canada, Chile, China, Colombia, Greece, Hong Kong, India, Israel, Japan, Lebanon,
Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malaysia, Mexico, Netherlands, Pakistan, Peru, Republic of Georgia, South
Korea, Spain, Switzerland, Taiwan, Thailand, United Kingdom and United States of America
Dean’s Award for Outstanding Service in the MBA Program
Parth T. Chauhan
Edward W. Carter Fellows J. Fred Weston Award
Awarded to graduating students in the top 2% of the Awarded to students for academic excellence in finance
MBA program
Jacob L. Fries
Michael Chios
Hassan El Zein Sungwon Han
Ariela Raquel Kruger Ryan H. Leeka
Andrew H. Schurr Nicole L. Panega
Raena D. Sumiyoshi Robert Quan
Songyi Wang Russell J. Reeve
Jane Shangyu Zhu Annabelle M. Wilde
Benjamin C. Wu
Decisions, Operations and Technology
Management Outstanding Student Award
Outstanding Student in Global Management
Hassan El Zein and Leadership Award
Raena D. Sumiyoshi
Kathryn V. Solomon
Jenessa Shapiro Award for Excellence in
Management and Organizations
Ariela Raquel Kruger
Briskin Award for Excellence in Marketing
Jacob L. Fries
10 «John S. Long Award Entrepreneurial Excellence Capstone Award
Awarded to outstanding students in real estate Awarded to the teams with the greatest business impact,
team dynamics, rigorous academic research and effective
Songyi Wang communication through the Business Creation Option
(BCO) program
Patrick C. Ayers
Strategy Outstanding Student Award
Pallavi Bhandari
Lauren M. Clark Frank R. DiZenzo, Jr.
Alexander S. Frumkin Mitchella Gilbert
William R. Knutsen
Aleksandre Kokhreidze
Deloitte Consulting Award
Colton H. Pace
Awarded to an Applied Management Research (AMR) team
Mackenzie C. Seder
Tony Chuang Raena D. Sumiyoshi
Adrian Philippe Matthias Hochstrasser Raylan Diany Vaz
Marc O. Hodel
Joseph F. Roohan
Mark Shikerman
Edward V. Sedgwick III Memorial Award
Awarded to an Applied Management Research (AMR) team
for the best written report
Sarah H. Chase
Nixenia de Haro
Sean P. Lawry
Kalyn S. Saulsberry
Siddhant Singhal
» 11FACULTY AWARDS
Full-Time MBA Teaching Excellence Award
Selected by the Full-Time MBA Class of 2021
Elisa Long
Associate Professor of Decisions, Operations and Technology Management
Fully Employed MBA Teaching Excellence Award
Selected by the Fully Employed MBA Class of 2021
Terry Kramer
Adjunct Professor of Decisions, Operations and Technology Management
Citibank Teaching Award
Ian Larkin
Associate Professor of Strategy
Dean George W. Robbins Assistant Professor Teaching Award
Hengchen Dai
Assistant Professor of Management and
Organizations and Behavioral Decision Making
Neidorf “Decade” Teaching Award
Recognizes decade-long teaching contributions
Hal Hershfield
Associate Professor of Marketing and Behavioral Decision Making
Eric and E Juline Faculty Excellence in Research Award
Recognizes excellence in research by assistant professors
Elisabeth Honka
Assistant Professor of Marketing
Valentin Haddad
Assistant Professor of Finance
J. Clayburn La Force Faculty Leadership Award
Recognizes outstanding service by the school’s faculty
Sanjay Sood
Faculty Chairman; Deputy Dean of Academic Affairs
Professor of Marketing and Behavioral Decision Making
Dean’s Prize for Outstanding Faculty Mentorship of Ph.D. Students
Recognizes outstanding service by the school’s faculty
Nico Voigtländer
Dean’s Term Chair in Management,
Professor of Global Economics and Management
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MESSAGE FROM MIGUEL M. UNZUETA
Dear Graduating Full-Time MBA Class of 2021:
On behalf of everyone at UCLA, and especially the faculty, staff and administration of UCLA Anderson’s
Full-Time and Fully Employed MBA programs, we congratulate you on your graduation. That you completed
your master’s degree while grappling with a global pandemic makes your accomplishment even more special. I
commend you on your grit, resilience and ability to adapt to an unprecedented public health crisis.
We have had the pleasure of getting to know you during your time here at Anderson. You impressed us with
your commitment to learning and enthusiasm. We’ve watched you grow as business leaders and take pride
in knowing that you have begun to apply the many concepts covered in your studies to your professional
lives. We’ve been delighted to see you forming a whole new network of colleagues and friends, as you’ve
spent time together in the classroom, traveled the world together in our international programs, agonized
with your groups over course assignments and collaborated with your fellow classmates to pull together club
and social events. Beyond enjoying you as people and as students, we at Anderson have also benefited
greatly from the countless volunteer hours that many of you have spent to make our school a better place.
We thank you for your dedication.
We know the hard work that you’ve put in to earn your MBA and are confident that your Anderson experience
will not only be one of your best memories, but it will also contribute significantly to greater achievements in
your lives.
We wish you continued success in the next stages of your careers and look forward to hearing about your many
accomplishments in the years ahead. Please remember that you will always be a part of the Anderson family.
We offer you our heartfelt congratulations on a job well done.
Sincerely,
Miguel M. Unzueta
Senior Associate Dean of MBA Programs
Professor of Management and Organizations
14 «FULL-TIME MBA PROGRAM
MASTER OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION
The UCLA Anderson two-year, Full-Time MBA program is consistently recognized as one of the elite MBA
programs in the country. General management skills developed in required core courses create a solid
foundation for specialized knowledge, which is acquired through advanced electives in various functional
fields. The curriculum includes the six-month Applied Management Research (AMR) field study program, in
which student teams conduct research that yields comprehensive analyses and practical recommendations
to U.S. and international organizations.
George C. Abu-Saba Ariana C. Cernius Pallavi Doshi Thomas R. Hische
David S. Adelman Matthew A. Chambers Allie M. Drabinsky Emily J. Hite
Raghav Agarwal Rachael L. Chan Julia M. Egan Ling-Yu Erica Ho
Paul Ahn Andrew W. Chang Hassan El Zein* Walter Ho
Noah G. Aldonas Norman Chang Francisco Elizondo Gonzalez Adrian Philippe Matthias
Felipe Alvarez Llano* Sheng Jui Chang Charlotte C. Fagan* Hochstrasser*
Brian G. Amabile Tsz-Yi Chang Andrew B. Feldman Marc O. Hodel
Carl J. Anderson Sarah H. Chase Douglas B. Finkelstein Jessica Kathryn Hodgson
Douglas S. Anderson* Parth T. Chauhan Lauren M. Fior Keiko D. Hoen
Aiden S. Arami Carmen Andrea Chávez William P. Forrester Thomas G. Holevas, Jr.
Jeronimo Armella Olazabal Iram Z. Cheema Thomas J. Foster* John K. Holland
Paige E. Armstrong Andy J. Chen Daniel Fotinich* Youngki Hong
Julia S. Arrhenius Bryan C. Chen David D. Frank Emily D. Houghton
Sruthi Atmakuri Jessica Y. Chen Jacob L. Fries* Jonathan Hu
Patrick C. Ayers* Siqi Chen Alexander S. Frumkin* Jiali Huang
Kyle N. Baird Justin Yu Lun Chien John Fullerton Pauline T. Huynh
Yash Bajaj Kayo Chin Katherine C. Gaffney* Shinsun Hwang
Samuel J. Bakula Michael Chios* Eyal Gal Lookmaan I. Ismail
Zachary S. Balin* Ryan S. Chiu* Shridhar Gambhir Carol S. Issa
Samyukta Balsubramani Tony Chuang Yuan Gao Shailaja Iyer
Siddharth Bansal Brian W. Chung Deepak Garg Erica K. Jackey
Jordan Elizabeth Barillas Douglas O. Clair Mitchella Gilbert Wan Ik Jang
Daniel J. Beckerman Lauren M. Clark* Brandon K. Gold* Brett H. Jensen
Mitzi Benavides Alexa T. Cohen Patrick J. Gorman Meredith B. Jordan
Miriam B. Berbert Matthew J. Coleman* Matthew E. Grace Austin J. Josiah
Kyle O. Berka Briana H. Corcia Robert M. Grech Yongwha Jung
Pallavi Bhandari Abbott E. Cowen Katherine E. Gridley Kelly M. Kaine
Michael C. Bobbe John L. Cowen* Cheng Gu Praneet Kakani*
Michael H. Bode Austin D. Crane Cristobal Tomas Guell Jie Kang
Hunter C. Bonge Toma Cubrilo Escobar Joseph A. Kao
Eric D. Brilliant Wayne Denton Dailey Samadrita Guin Arun Gajendran
Aritra Gupta Karunamurthi
Brianna C. Buhaly Nixenia de Haro
Mayank Gupta Luke Katz
Mai V. Bui* Adi Debel
Alexandra R. Guthy Brian M. Kaufman
Alem C. Bulcha Jacob Derhagopian
Sungwon Han Amy A. Kaufmann
David D. Calica Frank R. DiZenzo, Jr. *
Douglas G. Hanly Jasvir Kaur
Tyler K. Cantarano Kevin T. Doherty
Varun Hariharan Maho Kawai
Sanchen Cao Eduardo Javier Dominguez
Ebel George Z. He* Brennan J. Kelly
Benjamin M. Capano
Alberto Dominguez Xuan He Patrick M. Kerin
Audre Cekanaviciute
Martinez Lastra Trent E. Ketterer*
* The UCLA Anderson Honor Society recognizes the top 15 percent of the graduating class. » 15Karan Khurana Xing Li Katharine Jane Meister Nicole L. Panega Bo Ra Kim Michelle F. Liang Nicholas F. Menefee* Niven H. Patel Ji Eun Kim Ruidong Liang Qingmin Meng Danielle F. Pegnato Junghwan Kim Maura C. Liebendorfer* Dimitrios Michalakis Hershel S. Perlmutter Joshua P. Kimmel Mehdi M. Limonadi Blake S. Miller Marco Petriella Levi Kirkland David H. Lin* Lindsay A. Miller Christopher G. Petros William R. Knutsen Frannie Lin Rohit Mittal* Ashesh Prakash Keerthi Kocherlakota Jenny M. Lin Jama A. Mohamed Yue Qi Christopher P. Kohlenberger Szu-Yu Lin Christina M. Moller Robert Quan* Aleksandre Kokhreidze Aaron T. Ling Abhijit Singh Mor Ellen Adler Quirk Pasakorn Komutikanon Davannah H. Linkon-Fryzer Charles C. Moran Asad Rafi* Ariela Raquel Kruger* Abigail J. Lipka William T. Morgan Divya Rao Apurve A. Kumar William G. Liu Swathi Mummini Thomas A. Reece Paige N. LaBlonde Ying-Ju Lo Jacobsun M. Murphy Lauren E. Reed* Avichal Lalvani* Ani J. Loshkajian* Sara G. Nager Russell J. Reeve* Terence S. Lam Annie Yi-An Lu Sagar G. Naik William J. Regan Koe B. Langdon Chuong H. Luc Christopher G. Nee Mirela Ribeiro Kosminsky Camille Lasker Ziheng Lun Christopher T. Nguyen* Laura Richardson* Sean P. Lawry* Vinh K. Luong Amanda L. Ni Jonathan D. Rieck* Jongmin Lee Taylor K. Madsen Maximiliano Olivares Hunter L. Rogers Jungyoen Lee Pawan K. Mannava* Frank Alexis Olivera Siroya Rohit Tzu Ying Lee Pedro Marcus Bodnar Corrales Chandraprakash* Ryan H. Leeka Jacob E. Markus* Daniel J. Orleans Fredel Romano Zhen Lei Donald B. Maruyama Jerome C. Orzech Robinson Romero Gaelen B. LeMelle-Brown Gabrielle Jules Mazher Shun Osako Joseph F. Roohan Jiaxuan Li Meredith A. McGowan Colton H. Pace Jason B. Rosenberg * The UCLA Anderson Honor Society recognizes the top 15 percent of the graduating class. 16 «
Steven J. Rosenfield Sarah M. Smurthwaite Raylan Diany Vaz Venkata K. Yadati
Justin D. Royal Kathryn V. Solomon Krishna Phanindra Kan Yanazawa
Orlando Andres Rubio Ankit Sood Swaroop Vege Amy Yang*
Velandia Luke Christopher Spain Abhishek Venkataramana Quentin Yip
Nicole M. Rudolph Alan Spindel Olvera Prakhar Verma Hyunjung Yoon
Karnam Kashyap Saharia Dhivya Sridhar Michael T. Vilardo Kaylan Young
Takuto Saito Yaowaret Sriwongkol Akarsh Vinod* Wan-Yi Yu
José Sampedro Molina Jordan M. Stern Penelope M. Vorissis Takehiro Zako
Taylor C. Sargent Jarenn Stewart Tom Hongyu Wan* Juan Sebastian Zapata
Thomas Sauer Thomas M. Stewart* Bowen Wang Yihan Zhang
Kalyn S. Saulsberry Aaron G. Stoppelmann Jane H. Wang Lucy M. Zhou
Bharat Saxena Balagopal Sudhakaran Kathy Wang Qingyue Zhou
Scott A. Schulkin Krishna Richard Wang Jane Shangyu Zhu*
Andrew H. Schurr* Raena D. Sumiyoshi* Songyi Wang*
Mackenzie C. Seder Garrett M. Szafman* Caroline B. Ward
Rosa E. Segura Krystal E. Sze Patrick J. Warwick
Tanjeet Singh Sehgal Holden W. Tamchin Jordan R. Washer
Shoshana B. Seidenfeld Rachel S. Tang Robert A. Whirty
Dongwoo Seo Thomas J. Tarca Thea M. Whyte
Nachiketha K. Shamaprasad Emre Titizer* Annabelle M. Wilde
Ankita Sharma Kevin Le Truong Warren B. Williamson
Adrian M. Sheppe David S. Tseng Ashley S. Wiser*
Gui Feng Shi Shubhankar Tyagi James W. Wolf
Mark Shikerman Joseph K. Umanzor Kyle J. Wolf
Christopher P. Shum Jaanhvi A. Vaidya Benjamin C. Wu
Siddhant Singhal Paul R. Valencia Ergi Xhoxhaj
* The UCLA Anderson Honor Society recognizes the top 15 percent of the graduating class.
» 172021 BOARD OF ADVISORS
Caroline W. Nahas (B.A. ’70) Janice Durbin Chaffin (’81) Kipling Hagopian (’66)
Chair, Former Group President, Managing Partner,
UCLA Anderson Board of Advisors Consumer Business Unit, Apple/Oaks Partners LLC
Senior Advisor, Symantec Corporation
Korn Ferry Michele Havens (‘05)
William M. Cockrum President,
William S. Anderson (J.D. ’88) Adjunct Professor, West Region,
Vice Chairman,, UCLA Anderson School of The Northern Trust Company
UCLA Anderson Board of Advisors Management
Executive Chairman, Mike Hopkins (’01)
Brian Cornell (B.A. ’81, CERT ’91) Senior Vice President,
Topa Equities Ltd.
Chairman and CEO, Prime Video and Amazon Studios
Founder and Chief Executive Officer,
Target
First Beverage Group
Diane Hoskins (’87)
Richard R. Crowell (’80) Co-CEO,
Stewart Bainum, Jr. (’70)
Partner, Gensler
Chairman,
Vance Street Capital LLC A.
Choice Hotels International Inc.
Jason C. Hsu (Ph.D. ’05)
Steven Crown (’77) Chairman and Founder,
William L. Ballhaus (’98) Co-President and General Partner, Rayliant Global Advisors
Chairman, President and CEO, Henry Crown & Company
Blackboard Inc. G. Bradford Jones
James L. Easton (B.S. ’59) Partner,
Donnalisa P. Barnum (’86) Chairman, Redpoint Ventures
Former Partner and Portfolio Jas. D. Easton Inc.
Manager, John E. Kao (’87)
The Capital Group Companies Inc. Phyllis F. Easton CEO,
Alignment Healthcare
Dan Beckerman (B.A. ’92, ’96) Brian Farrell (’78)
President and CEO, Former Chairman and CEO, Dennis J. Keegan (B.A. ’74, ’80)
AEG THQ Inc. Manager,
Adjunct Professor, Karkiden Holdings LLC
Michael Berchtold (B.A. ’85, ’87) UCLA Anderson School
CEO, of Management Ynon Kreiz (’93)
Berchtold Capital Partners Chairman and CEO,
Jay Ferguson (’94) Mattel Inc.
Nanette J. Boden (’11) Managing Partner,
COO, Vicente Capital Partners Daniel V. Leff (Ph.D. ’97, ’01)
The Everyday Robot Project, Co-Founder and Managing Partner,
X (formerly Google X), Alphabet James B. Freedman (’78) Waverley Capital
Chairman and Managing Director,
George Boutros (’86) Intrepid Investment Bankers Lawrence Leisure (’73)
CEO, Co-Founder and Managing Partner,
Qatalyst Partners Joel Fried (B.S. ’84, ’86) Chicago Pacific Founders
President,
Michael Burns (’92) PRIMECAP Management Company Melvin D. Lindsey (’99)
Vice Chairman, Founder and Managing Partner,
Lionsgate Greg Geiser (’82) Nile Capital Group Holdings LLC
Founder, President and CEO,
Andy Campion (B.A. ’93, ’03) Wedgewood Enterprise Corporation Thomas E. McCarthy (’80)
Executive Vice President and Co-President,
Chief Financial Officer, William O. Grabe (’63) McCarthy Cook
Nike Inc. Advisory Director,
General Atlantic B.
18 «James Moffatt (’87) Ronald D. Sugar (B.S. ’68, M.S. ’69, Alfred E. Osborne, Jr.
Vice Chairman, Ph.D. ’71) Sr. Associate Dean, Professor and
UCLA Anderson Board of Advisors Chairman Emeritus, Faculty Director,
Board Member and Senior Advisor, Northrup Grumman Corporation Price Center for Entrepreneurship
Global CEO and Vice Chairman, & Innovation
Deloitte Consulting (Retired) Eric Wedbush (’98) UCLA Anderson School
President & CEO, of Management
Peter W. Mullin Wedbush Capital
Chairman, William P. Pierskalla,
Mullin Enterprises Richard S. Wiley (’80) Distinguished Professor Emeritus
Non-Executive Chairman, and Dean Emeritus,
Robert S. Murley (’74) Sky Holding Company LLC UCLA Anderson School
Past Chair, of Management
UCLA Anderson Board of Advisors Susan Wojcicki (’98)
Senior Advisor, CEO, Kate Pletcher (’07)
Credit Suisse YouTube President,
UCLA Anderson Alumni Network
John R. Muse (’74) Thomas T. L. Wu (’75) Founder & CEO,
Chairman, Founder and Chairman of the Board, The Tree House Partners
Muse Family Enterprises Taishin Financial Holding Co. Ltd.
Sanjay Sood
Loay H. Nazer (B.S. ’87, ’89) Richard S. Ziman Faculty Chairman
Founder and Chairman, Chairman, Deputy Dean of Academic Affairs
Nazer Rexford Industrial Realty Professor of Marketing
Trustee, UCLA Anderson School
Shelby Notkin The Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert of Management
Chairman, Foundation UCLA
Capital Group Private Client Services Bruce G. Willison (B.A. ’70)
(Retired) EX OFFICIO MEMBERS Dean Emeritus and Professor
Antonio E. Bernardo of Management,
Joan A. Payden Dean and John E. Anderson Chair UCLA Anderson School
President and CEO, in Management of Management
Payden & Rygel Investment
Management J. Clayburn La Force (M.A. ’58,
EMERITUS MEMBERS
Ph.D. ’62)
James A. Collins (B.S. ’50)
Bernardo Quintana (’68) Dean Emeritus,
Chairman Emeritus,
Chairman, UCLA Anderson
Sizzler International Inc.
Empresas ICA S.A. B. de C.V. School of Management
Gerald L. Parsky
Scot Rank (’89) Donald G. Morrison
Chairman,
Former CEO, Professor Emeritus and Chair Emeritus,
Aurora Capital Group
Grupo LALA and WalMart de Mexico William E. Leonhard Chair
in Management, Rockwell A. Schnabel
Eugene S. Rosenfeld (’56) UCLA Anderson School Chairman,
President, of Management The Sage Group
Forest Lane Group
Judy D. Olian Charles E. Young, (B.A. ’55, M.A. ’57,
Gary H. Schoenfeld (B.A. ’84) President, Ph.D. ’60)
President and COO, Quinnipiac University Chancellor Emeritus and Professor,
Fashion Nova Dean Emerita and Professor Emerita, UCLA Meyer and Renee Luskin
UCLA Anderson School School of Public Affairs
Harry E. Sloan (B.A. ’73) of Management
Chairman and CEO,
Eagle Equity Partners, LLC
» 19UCLA ANDERSON FACULTY
PROFESSORS Bennet Lientz Iris Firstenberg
Reza H. Ahmadi Steven A. Lippman Janis S. Forman
John Asker Kevin F. McCardle Gonzalo Freixes
Corinne Bendersky John McDonough Brian Frons
Daniel Benjamin Bill McKelvey Levon Goukasian
Antonio E. Bernardo Bruce Miller Steven Greene
Sushil Bikhchandani Daniel J. Mitchell Peter Guber
Randolph E. Bucklin Frank G. Mittelbach Jason C. Hsu
Felipe Caro Don Morrison Terry Kramer
Mikhail Chernov William G. Ouchi Robert McCann
John Cho William P. Pierskalla Jeff Moorad
Charles J. Corbett Richard Roll Gerald J. Nickelsburg
Samuel A. Culbert Moshe Rubinstein Harry Sloan
Magali Delmas Richard P. Rumelt Eric H. Sussman
Aimee Drolet Rossi Eduardo S. Schwartz David Wessels
Sebastian Edwards Carol A. Scott Thomas Wurster
Andrea Eisfeldt John P. Shelton
Christopher L. Erickson E. Burton Swanson ASSOCIATE ADJUNCT PROFESSORS
Craig R. Fox Walter A. Torous Lori Santikian
Stuart A. Gabriel Brett M. Trueman Andres Terech
Mark Garmaise Bruce G. Willison
Paola Giuliano ASSISTANT ADJUNCT PROFESSORS
Noah J. Goldstein ASSOCIATE PROFESSORS George Abe
Carla Hayn Anand V. Bodapati John Blevins
Uday S. Karmarkar Eugene Caruso Heather Caruso
Marvin B. Lieberman Judson Caskey Constança Esteves-Sorenson
Francis A. Longstaff M. Keith Chen Leo Feler
John W. Mamer Sanford DeVoe Matthias Kahl
Alfred E. Osborne, Jr. Henry Friedman James Kim
Kumar Rajaram Hal Hershfield Jennifer McCaney
Peter Rossi Ian Larkin Dylan Minor
Mariko Sakakibara Lars Lochstoer Ehud Peleg
Rakesh K. Sarin Elisa Long Matthew Schmitt
Margaret J. Shih Catherine Mogilner Holmes Jennifer Walske
Suzanne B. Shu Tyler Muir Nathan Wilson
Sanjay Sood Stavros Panageas
Olav Sorenson Stephen Spiller VISITING PROFESSORS
Avanidhar Subrahmanyam Jennifer Whitson Raffaella Giacomini
Christopher S. Tang Wesley Yin Steve Hendry
Miguel M. Unzueta Shi Zhang Holger H. Kraft
John Villasenor Scott Lenet
Nico Voigtländer ASSISTANT PROFESSORS Christine Loh
Romain Wacziarg Fernanda Bravo Aman Mahajan
Ivo Welch Francisco Castro Hamed Mamani
Robert Zeithammer Hengchen Dai Lori Van Deloo
Christian Dippel Seema Yasmin
PROFESSORS EMERITI Jana Gallus
David Aboody Ashvin Gandhi VISITING ASSISTANT PROFESSORS
Shlomo Benartzi Valentin Haddad Carey Banner
Michael J. Brennan Barney Hartman-Glaser Corey M. Cederquist
Bhagwan Chowdhry Bernard Herskovic Matthieu Gomez
Lee G. Cooper Brett Hollenbeck Uri M. Maoz
Bradford Cornell Elisabeth Honka
Michael R. Darby Sylvia Hristakeva SENIOR LECTURERS
José De La Torre Jennifer Kao Jane Guerin
David K. Eiteman Mark Kim Ariella D. Herman
Donald Erlenkotter Jessica Kim-Gina David S. Ravetch
Eric G. Flamholtz Beatrice Michaeli
Arthur M. Geoffrion Velibor Misic LECTURERS
Robert Geske Christopher Poliquin Jeremy Abramson
Martin Greenberger Daniel Saavedra Kambiz Aghili
Mark S. Grinblatt Franklin Shaddy Derek Alderton
Dominique M. Hanssens Auyon Siddiq Tamara L. Berges
John S. Hughes Clémence Tricaud Casey Borman
Sanford M. Jacoby Xinxin Wang Maria K. Boss
Harold H. Kassarjian Melanie Wasserman Peter Cowen
Archie Kleingartner Sherry Jueyu Wu Susanne Daniels
J. Clayburn La Force Paulo de Rezende
Barbara Lawrence ADJUNCT PROFESSORS Kristian Di Gaetano
Edward E. Leamer William M. Cockrum Alex Dill
David Lewin Brian Farrell Jody Dunitz
20 «Jonathan Funk
Julie Ann Gardner Treloar SENIOR ACADEMIC LEADERSHIP TEAM
Tom Georgis
Andrew Gross Antonio E. Bernardo
Guy Guyadeen
Dean and John E. Anderson Chair in Management,
Paul B. Habibi
Steve Hartman Professor of Finance
Ward Hendon
Todd Holloway Sanjay Sood
Brian Horner Faculty Chairman, Deputy Dean of Academic Affairs,
Gary Hutchinson
George Ingersoll Professor of Marketing and Behavioral Decision Making
Rashed Iqbal
Eric Johnson Charles Corbett
Mark Karlan Faculty Vice Chair, IBM Chair in Management,
LeeAundra Keany
Professor of Operations Management and Sustainability
Gordon L. Klein
Alan Kleinman
Robert Koepp Sebastian Edwards
Neha Kumar Senior Associate Dean of Global Initiatives,
Renée LaBran Faculty Director of the Center for Global Management,
Jeffrey Lapin
Jonathan Lasch Henry Ford II Chair in International Management,
Jason Lee Professor of Global Economics and Management
Franck Leveneur
Ming Lu
Marvin Lieberman
Michael Montgomery
Dinesh Moorjani Senior Associate Dean, Faculty Director of the Doctoral Program,
James Myers Harry and Elsa Kunin Chair in Business and Society,
Daniel A. Nathanson Professor of Strategy
Douglas Neil
Brian Newton
Gayle S. Northrop Miguel M. Unzueta
Jason Owen Senior Associate Dean of MBA Programs,
Reggie Panaligan Professor of Management and Organizations
Paul Park
Matthew Pierce
Gregory Pollack Felipe Caro
Robert René Faculty Director of Master of Science in Business Analytics Program,
Farhad Rostamian Bing (’86) and Alice Liu Yang Endowed Chair in Management,
Bruce Rothman
Professor of Decisions, Operations and Technology Management
Ed Sabin
Jamal Salmon
Bill Sanders Mikhail Chernov
Jeff I. Scheinrock Faculty Director of Master of Financial Engineering Program,
Molly Schmid Warren C. Cordner Chair in Money and Financial Markets,
William Seeger
Kathleen Smalley
Professor of Finance
Brad Sparks
John Tabis Carla Hayn
Anil Tammineedi Director of Global Immersion Program,
Mark Thomas
Ernst and Young Chair in Accounting, Professor of Accounting
Michael Thompson
John B. Ullmen
Kwame Ulmer Gonzalo Freixes
Danylo Vashchilenko Associate Dean of Fully Employed and Executive MBA Programs,
Kenton Weaver Adjunct Professor of Accounting
Eddie Weinhaus
Michael Williams
Elizabeth Woo Robert Weiler (’91)
William Yu Associate Dean of MBA Program
ACADEMIC COORDINATORS
Francesca Baugh (M.Ed. ’02)
Ariella D. Herman
Julie Slayton Executive Director of Executive MBA Program
RECALLED Paul Brandano (’06)
Stephen Cauley
Bradford Cornell Executive Director of Master of Science in Business
George T. Geis Analytics Program
Edward Leamer
David Lewin
Alysa Turkowitz
Steven Lippman
John O’Brien Executive Director of Master of Financial Engineering Program
Moshe Rubinstein
Carol Scott
Victor Tabbush
» 21HISTORY OF UCLA ANDERSON SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT
UCLA Anderson School of Management was founded as the College of Business Administration in
1935 by forward thinkers who saw past the depths of the Great Depression. We began as an
undergraduate program and the first professional school in UCLA history. Initially housed in just one
office of Royce Hall, our faculty of seven taught economics and accounting as well as typing,
shorthand and auctioneering.
Howard S. Noble, then chair of economics in UCLA’s College of Letters and Sciences, was appointed
our first dean in 1938. Under his leadership, the school received national accreditation and began
granting an MBA degree within two years. But in 1941, enrollment plummeted as 90 percent of our
student body went off to war. In the education boom following the war, enrollment doubled.
Accounting remained our focus.
The vision of our second dean, Neil H. Jacoby, was to expand our curriculum to include finance,
marketing and “the emerging fields of operations management and computer science.” Jacoby also
shifted the school’s focus from an undergraduate degree with an MBA option to an upper division
and graduate program. He established an executive education program, presided over the first
Business Forecast (now the UCLA Anderson Forecast) and created the first-of-its kind field study
program (Applied Management Research). He also relocated the school to its own building.
Succeeding Jacoby, George Robbins served a two-year tenure during the height of the Vietnam War.
He approached campus unrest at the time as a real-world organizational case study. Robbins was
succeeded in 1970 by Harold Williams, who would later become chairman of the U.S. Securities and
Exchange Commission and president of the J. Paul Getty Trust. Williams established Anderson’s
still-standing commitment to develop management leaders in the arts and nonprofits. He also
cultivated the strong culture that remains Anderson’s hallmark today.
Our next dean, J. Clayburn La Force, served 16 years as a professor of economics in the Graduate
School of Management prior to being named dean in 1978. La Force established new income streams
to support growth, created endowed chairs, established executive (EMBA) and fully employed
(FEMBA) MBA programs, set the stage for a center dedicated to entrepreneurship and raised private
funding to construct a new school complex.
A $15 million donation from John E. Anderson (B.S. ’40) and Marion Anderson in 1987 — at that time
the largest individual gift to the University of California — made the goal of a new complex achievable.
Our school was renamed in Anderson’s honor and construction planning began for our current
six-building campus. La Force’s successor, William Pierskalla, increased national and international
outreach and expanded EMBA, FEMBA and executive education classes. During Pierskalla’s tenure,
Professor Alfred E. Osborne, Jr., officially dedicated the Harold Price Center for Entrepreneurial Studies
(now the Harold and Pauline Price Center for Entrepreneurship & Innovation). Bruce Willison, former
president and COO of Home Savings of America and chairman, president and CEO of First Interstate
Bank of California, succeeded Pierskalla as dean in 1999. Facing sharp state budget cuts, he further
increased fundraising efforts while establishing important new centers in real estate and entertainment
(now the Richard S. Ziman Center for Real Estate and the Center for Management of Enterprise in
Media, Entertainment & Sports). He also launched Anderson’s global executive MBA program
(UCLA-NUS Executive MBA) in partnership with the National University of Singapore.
Judy D. Olian was appointed in 2006 as Anderson’s first female dean and one of the first in the
country. During her nearly 13-year tenure at Anderson, Olian expanded Anderson’s degree portfolio
to include the Master of Financial Engineering and Master of Science in Business Analytics. She also
22 «oversaw the establishment of the Laurence and Lori Fink Center for Finance & Investments and
expanded Anderson’s research centers to include the Center for Global Management, the Easton
Technology Management Center and the Morrison Family Center for Marketing and Data Analytics.
She established a specialization in social impact and oversaw the launch of the UCLA Anderson
Venture Accelerator. In 2014, Olian led Anderson’s transition to a financially self-sufficient model for
all professional programs. During her tenure, she raised more than $430 million in philanthropic
support, including the largest gift in the school’s history — $100 million given in 2015 by benefactor
Marion Anderson— which will support student financial aid and fellowships, faculty and research,
and program innovations. In addition, it is helping to fund the new student-centric Marion Anderson
Hall. Alfred E. Osborne, Jr., Anderson’s longtime senior associate dean for external affairs, served as
interim dean of the school from July 2018 to July 2019. Under his leadership, the Price Center
created a number of management development programs, including five in partnership with health
care giant Johnson & Johnson.
In July 2019, Professor of Finance Antonio Bernardo was appointed UCLA Anderson’s ninth dean.
Formerly the Joel Fried Chair in Applied Finance at UCLA Anderson and, previously, the Robert D.
Beyer Term Chair in Management, Bernardo began his academic career at UCLA Anderson. Now the
John E. Anderson Chair in Management, he has been a member of the finance faculty since 1994.
Since its establishment 85 years ago, UCLA Anderson has become a world-renowned learning and
research institution with a decidedly forward focus. Never content with how things are, we look to
the future to discover and chart what will be.
Three qualities define the essence of who we are:
• We share success: Performance and innovation are not about winning at the expense of others.
• We think fearlessly: Our faculty and students provoke new thinking and experimentation with
bold ideas.
• We drive change: We are dissatisfied unless we can measure our efforts against tangible impact.
Today, we congratulate our graduates, who are the realization of Anderson’s mission and our future.
As a land grant institution, UCLA acknowledges
the Gabrielino/Tongva peoples as the
traditional land caretakers of Tovaangar
(Los Angeles basin, Southern Channel Islands).
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