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Welcome to the March Edition of What’s Current, Anderson’s Community Newsletter

Women’s History Month 2026

Women History Month

WBC co-presidents Amy Dang (’26) and Dina Chang (’26) are enthusiastically in your corner

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Max Bracey’s (’26) Outdoor Passions Are Steering His Professional Path

Max Bracey

In business and nonprofit, Anderson’s Net Impact president works toward environmental justice

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Vitals 2026 Highlighted the Urgency of Rethinking Healthcare

Vitals

Students and alumni reported from the largest HBA conference yet, themed Innovation Under Pressure

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From Grammys to Emmys to Olympics, Andrew Simon (’98) Is in the Thick of It

LA Live

L.A. Live’s new general manager oversees operations and business performance across an iconic, 4‑million‑square‑foot campus

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Morrison Center Case Competition Puts Students in Front of Hewlett Packard Executives

Case Competition

Using a synthetic data set modeled on HPE’s real marketing, product and financial data, Anderson student teams pitched strategy recommendations

Congratulations, 1st and 2nd place teams

MSBA student Jacinta Escaffi (’26) describes a winning experience

Andres Terech assesses the future of marketing

Does a Bruin Ever Really Need a Reason to Say #BeatSC?

Sammi Weintraub

ASA VP of community impact Sammi Weintraub (’26) reports from the Veterans’ Garden in West L.A. to explain the good cause behind the Anderson-Marshall rivalry

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Meet Our 2026 Outstanding Alumni Service Award Recipient

Joanne Haase 2026 Outstanding Alumni Service Award Recipient

Joanne Haase (’84) believes your degree should come with a lifelong professional community and shared purpose, long after graduation

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U.S. Economy Poised to Reaccelerate in 2026 as Fiscal Stimulus and AI Investment Intensify

Forecast

UCLA Anderson Forecast reports California growth still outpaces the nation, but employment weakness continues

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Anderson’s New Women in SoCal Series Builds Industry Connections for Students and Alumnae

Women in SOCAL

Michelle Handoko (’26) was inspired by the conversation with executives at Kilroy Realty

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Margaret Shih Honored as a Society for Personality and Social Psychology Fellow

Margaret Shih

Recognized for distinguished contributions to the field, Anderson’s interim dean will also serve as vice chair of the SPSP Fellows Committee in 2026

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International Women of Courage Are Still Speaking Out

Women of Courage

UCLA Anderson partnered campuswide to invite three IWOC alumnae who continue to mobilize and advocate for communities

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Maxwell & Schweighauser among Poets & Quants’ Most Disruptive MBA Startups

Most Disruptive MBA Startups

Class of 2025’s Matthew Maxwell and Jack Schweighauser help artists uncover and recover missing music royalties through data-driven catalog analysis

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Do You Have to Be a CEO to Get on Board?

Osborne

Joining a chorus of 100 Black Voices, Al Osborne underscores the importance of cognitive diversity and cultural belonging in corporate governance

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The Annual Entertainment and Media Case Competition Endures Because Companies Benefit, Too

Media Case Competition

Paramount executive Howard Hsieh (’09) explains how a small idea turns into something meaningful when people on both sides are excited about it

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How Can MBA Students Use New Technology Strategically and Responsibly?

Lucy Yu

Lucy Yu (FEMBA ’28) asks Dan Priest, PwC’s first U.S. chief AI officer, about the human value proposition

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Anderson’s Winter 2026 Venture Accelerator Program Kicks Off!

Venture Accelerator

Meet the new cohort of hand-picked founders as they as they build, test and grow startups over the next four months

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What Sparks Tech Adoption? Learning Competitors Are Ahead

Faculty on the Review

Ricardo Perez-Truglia’s study finds that firms start tech upgrades after learning peers have done their own

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Coming Up
04/02 SoCal ETA Conference
04/10 Morrison Center CMO Roundtable
04/17 Sports Leadership and Management Salon

Anderson in the News

Faculty insights in the global press

Nature 
How common depictions of wealth distributions can bias people to underestimate inequality 
Having an informed electorate is vital to sensible policymaking. Craig Fox and co-authors find that people harbor misperceptions and distorted judgment about the true extent of inequality. They tested ways to mitigate biases and propose presentation guidelines that promote more accurate impressions. 

Daily Bruin 
Senate Bill 607 aims to authorize AI as research concentration at Cal ISIs 
California SB 607 would formally recognize artificial intelligence as a research concentration at UC research institutes. AI is already integrated across Anderson’s master’s and doctoral programs, and Henry Friedman believes the bill can help serve as a vehicle for innovation. 

Newsweek 
California Mansion Tax Choking Construction 
In an analysis of new construction filing in Los Angeles, Ph.D. student Yingru Pan compared pre-pandemic statistics with those from 2023–24 to determine whether a tax passed by voters is having unintended consequences on the L.A. housing market. 

Industry Week
The Iran supply chain crisis is hurtling toward collapse
The domino effect paralyzing the manufacture of everything from life-saving oncology treatments to the silicon chips powering the AI revolution heralds a structural failure and permanent volatility. Chris Tang warns that the U.S. isn’t insulated from it, even as a net exporter of energy.

 

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