Rady School of Management, UC San Diego

High-power individuals are more likely to blame others if they perform poorly. They are also more likely to punish them. Recent #RadyResearch from Yidan Yin (Ph.D. '21) and Associate Professor Pamela K. Smith:

Recent #RadyResearch published in PLOS revealed republicans became more vaccine hesitant during the pandemic. "What we think is going on is that different perceptions of threat from COVID-19 may be driving these differences in vaccine hesitancy and those perceptions of threat may in turn be driven from different sources of news," Ariel Fridman, a PhD candidate at Rady told NBC 7 San Diego news. Read more: https://ucsdnews.ucsd.edu//republicans-became-more-vaccine

#RadyCares Update: Last month, the Rady community came together during UC San Diego's Day of Caring to support Speech & Debate. The generosity from so many alumni and friends inspired our anonymous donor to match all gifts for this team, for a grand total of $12,430! The funds raised make it possible for the Speech & Debate team to pursue its dream of representing UC San Diego in tournaments across the country. Thank you to everyone who made such an important impact! https://blog.rady.ucsd.edu//uc-san-diego-speech-and-debat/

You've heard the phrase "don't believe everything you read on the internet." What about what you read in academic journals? Professor Uri Gneezy and Assistant Professor Marta Serra-Garcia discovered that many findings in the fields of social sciences and medicine don’t hold up when other researchers try to repeat the experiments. Read about the "replication crisis": https://bit.ly/3f8xREQ

Lauren Hackney (FE MBA ’23), William Quinn (MSBA ’21) and Chiara Dorigo (MBA ’18) are among the 29 participants selected for the The Scripps-Rady Ocean Plastic Pollution Challenge! Over the next six months, they will work in teams to identify effective, evidence-based approaches that will curb the flow of plastic into the ocean. Read more: https://bit.ly/39iEjpC

#RadyResearch: The new year is a time when many of us are tackling goals and resolutions. How can you actually make your new habits stick? Associate Professor Wendy Liu shares tips based on her research:

"Your support has meant everything in a year like no other. We wish you a holiday season filled with warmth, peace, and joy. May the year ahead bring hope and beautiful memories made with the ones you love." -Dean Lisa Ordóñez

A gift of any size to the Rady Graduate Fellowship Fund helps make education possible for the next generation of business leaders, changemakers and innovators. For your #GivingTuesday consideration : https://crowdsurf.ucsd.edu/project/22087/donate

From all of us at the #RadySchool, we wish you a safe, happy and healthy Thanksgiving holiday. Thank you for being part of a community that aims to make a positive impact on the world

Thank you to all of our veterans for your service and sacrifice, today and every day. We wish you a safe and happy holiday

Rady School and UC San Diego faculty discuss COVID-19, behavioral finance, artificial intelligence and more with experts from the Brandes Institute and beyond during the Brandes Institute/Rady Virtual Summit series. Register here to attend: https://bit.ly/3ntu5Yz

After graduating from the Rady School, Denise (MBA '10) and Steven (MBA '09) Longley built careers on Wall Street. They returned to San Diego to make a big impact on the local tech scene:

Please help us welcome our new students! Orientation begins today for the classes of Full-Time MBA '22, FlexWeekend MBA '22, FlexEvening MBA '23, MFin '21, MSBA '21 and MPAc '21. Leave well wishes or advice in the comments below

Do you remember the old days of sampling freebies at your local grocery store? There are a few reasons we were drawn to samples in the first place, according to Professor Uri Gneezy:

"My greatest pleasure is to see a fantastic person who is really valuable reach even higher heights, even if this means that they will eventually leave to progress in their careers. If you are focused on improving others around you, then you will always get their best when they work with you." - Dean Lisa Ordóñez We are honored to have spent the past year under Dean Ordóñez's leadership! In a recent interview with GlobalMindED Conference, she speaks about her upbringing as a double first generation graduate, battling impostor syndrome early in her career, and why being a good leader means being a good listener: https://conta.cc/34PMCYp

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Welcome and congratulations to our new Associate Professor of Economics, Anya Samek! In recognition of her impact as a leading young scholar, Samek was recently awarded the 2020 Vernon L. Smith Ascending Scholar Prize by the International Foundation for Research in Experimental Economics (IFREE). Samek, who joins the Rady School from University of Southern California, has produced significant research using experiments to understand human behavior in the areas of philanthropy, health and charitable giving. Read more: https://bit.ly/2Dyziw4

Professor Allan Timmermann was tapped by FiveThirtyEight to help design a series of surveys about the U.S. economic recovery. He shares his expertise on which measurements matter, and what surprises him so far:

Congratulations to Krisztina Büti, who was selected by our FlexWeekend MBA 2020 graduates for Excellence in Teaching! Büti’s research interests involve empirical corporate finance, behavioral finance and information processing in financial markets. Among her accomplishments, Büti's dissertation won the John F. Doukas award at the 2016 Annual Meetings of the European Financial Management Association. She holds a CFA designation, an MBA degree, and an MA in Economics. Well done, Professor Büti! https://bit.ly/3iSdFqu

Associate Professor Charles Sprenger was selected by the FlexEvening MBA class of 2020 for Excellence In Teaching! Sprenger's research focused on the fields of Behavioral Economics and Experimental Economics, including subjects such as intertemporal choice behavior, economic risk preferences and the relationship of time preferences to certain economic behaviors. Not only that, Sprenger is also a UC San Diego alum, having earned his Ph.D. in Economics here! https://bit.ly/2ZmJ9gP