Prof. Steve Conroy, Director of the USD Center for Peace and Commerce
The third annual Social Innovation Challenge (SIC), sponsored by USD’s Center for Peace and Commerce, held its awards ceremony on May 3. Ten finalists competed for the $42,500 in prize money. Many thanks to Steve Conroy, Director of the CPC, and Nadia Auch, Assistant Director of the CPC, for all of their work throughout the year for this program.
Steve had this to say about USD’s competition for …Read Full Article
OnMyBlock co-founders, Morgan Schwanke and Jordan Jadallah
Venture Vetting (V2) student finalists pitched their entrepreneurial ideas to a panel of four angel investors in a competition for a share of the $25,000 prize last night at the USD School of Business. Of the original 32 business venture ideas – nearly double the number of entries over last year – four pitched to the judges.
Each finalist made a 7-minute pitch to the panel, followed by a 10-minute one-on-one pitch with each …Read Full Article
Dean Pyke and Justin McAnear outside Apple headquarters
Some cities just have a buzz. I remember traveling with my family to Hong Kong and Singapore to give lectures at some universities and do teaching for Accenture. I had been to Hong Kong prior to that, but never to Singapore. People told me that Hong Kong has a continual buzz, and Singapore has a continual hum, and it was true. Hong Kong is constantly in motion, and Singapore hums with efficiency. …Read Full Article
A current USD School of Business MBA student, Jayla Siciliano ’13, is finding new life for wine spritzers in her start-up company, Bon Affair.
Find out how Jayla went from working in product development and design for both Diesel and Burton Snowboards to reinventing the wine spritzer. (Hint: It had a lot to do with breaking through the perception that this is a women-only drink.) Her story appeared yesterday in this New York Times blog post. (Click on title, above, for links.)
Poster for Fertitta and Breitling presentation at USD School of Business
Yesterday I saw what could be the future for some of our current USD School of Business students. I wasn’t looking into a crystal ball; I was looking at a friendship formed 25 years ago at USD that crystallized into an extremely successful business relationship.
Lorenzo Fertitta (BBA ’91) and Tom Breitling (BA ’91) were roommates at USD; today, Lorenzo is Chairman and CEO of Zuffa, LLC (which owns and …Read Full Article
David Pyke, Ph.D., has been dean of the School of Business Administration (SBA) at the University of San Diego since 2008.
Formerly, he was professor of Operations Management, and associate dean at the Amos Tuck School of Business Administration at Dartmouth College.
He obtained his BA from Haverford College, MBA from Drexel University, and his M.A. and Ph.D. from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.
