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Dr. Gustavo Grodnitzky presenting at the CFO Roundtable at USD

Twice a year the USD School of Business hosts a CFO Roundtable with several prominent firms, including Cushman & Wakefield, U.S. Bank, and KPMG.  This invitation-only event gathers about 40 CFO and other corporate finance leaders for high level speakers and panels.  Last Friday, we heard from a psychologist with the exotic name of Dr. Gustavo Grodnitzky.

Gustavo is an expert in the multigenerational workforce and helps companies understand how to …Read Full Article

Rainbow for Newtown; photographed in Del Mar, October 2012

San Diego is far from Newtown, but our hearts are joined with theirs in grief for their tragic loss.

On behalf of the students, staff and faculty of the USD School of Business, I want to express our deep sorrow and compassion, as well as our hope for healing, for the Newtown community.

We will continue to keep you in our thoughts and prayers.

Dr. Denise Dimon, Director, USD Ahlers Center for International Business; Associate Provost for International Affairs

The SBA’s own, Dr. Denise Dimon, was named USD’s 2012 Woman of Impact last week for her outstanding work building USD into the #1 university for travel abroad for our students.

Dr. Dimon has capably and enthusiastically supported all things international for the School of Business for many years.  As Director of the Ahlers Center for International Business, she and her Ahlers team arrange study abroad …Read Full Article

Congratulations to our USD team of undergraduate supply chain management students for taking top honors for the second year in a row at the Institute for Supply Management™’s (ISM) Services Group Conference in Phoenix. Jessica Dey, Adam Sitcoscy, and Austin Slakey competed last week against teams from many schools, including Arizona State University, Michigan State University, Rutgers University, and Western Michigan University.

The three students chosen to represent USD were selected through a rigorous competitive process open to all supply chain …Read Full Article

It turns out that reading local papers can have a financial upside. Every day I receive far more business publications than I have time to read. I have to decide how much attention to give to national sources, say, the Wall Street Journal and Bloomberg BusinessWeek, and how much to local papers such as the U-T San Diego, the San Diego Business Journal, and the San Diego Daily Transcript.  In addition to reading as much as I can of the …Read Full Article