On an uncharacteristically rainy night on November 29, 700 attendees gathered in Hollywood to honor Netflix Co-founder and CEO Reed Hastings with the 2018 John Wooden Global Leadership Award. Interim Dean Al Osborne said that Hastings' "visionary thinking about how teams can be organized for high performance and success … has earned him this recognition.” CEO of YouTube Susan Wojcicki (’98) joined Hastings on stage for a conversation about a wide range of topics, including Netflix's evolution from a DVD rental service to a content producing, streaming giant. She also asked about the company’s legendary 100-slide culture deck authored by Hastings—one that was required reading for Wojcicki in her early days at Google. “The first trick is, we don’t try and keep things or preserve them. We try to improve. Our culture is good but we need to make it better,” said Hastings.

Recognized for embodying Coach' Wooden’s focus on ethics, team spirit, skill, hard work and loyalty, students Jessica Barnette (MPH ’14, FEMBA ’19), Leah Maddock Loh (MPH ’05, EMBA ’19), Gerry Sims (’19) and Ryan Tan (UCLA-NUS EMBA ’19) were also recognized with 2018 John Wooden Global Leadership fellowships. Read more. 

As one of the first schools to create a field study program, UCLA Anderson’s Applied Management Research (AMR) program has provided the services of our MBA consulting teams to 3,000 clients worldwide. The types of projects that MBA students have taken on over time reflect the changing landscape of business and student interests—most notably with marked jumps in interest in tech and social good. 

Moreover, these funded consulting projects are making a real impact. John Stankey (’91), CEO of WarnerMedia, said of a team he supervised "The compilation of their work was the best AMR project—bar none—I have been involved with. It was even better than mine!...Hopefully, they feel similar benefit from the overall experience and opportunity to work with their AT&T coordinates." Read more. 

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Gain insights on a variety of business topics from cutting-edge research by UCLA Anderson’s faculty in this month’s UCLA Anderson Review.

Every business is a tech business today. On January 17, 2019, UCLA Anderson's Easton Technology Management Center's 5th annual CES @ UCLA Anderson will bring together entrepreneurs and executives to provide a glimpse of the latest innovations and their potential impact. The themes for CES 2019 are autonomous vehicles, smart cities, the work place of the future, and other disruptive offerings developed in UCLA research labs, startups, and global organizations. Featured speakers include Adam Cheyer (UCLA MS '93), Co-Founder of Siri, Greg Isaacs (’99), VP International at ZipRecruiter, Steve Raymond (’00), CEO of 8i, and Noelia Marcos (’14) Sr. Manager of Product at Ticketmaster. Plus, connect with Epson, HP Mobility, DroneBase, and Survios at the tech exhibit and reception. Register.

» Connect with the Anderson community at a Anderson@CES event during Las Vegas' CES 2019 on January 9! 

What is the workplace of the future going to look like and are we prepared for it? A group of UCLA Anderson faculty weigh in on the drivers that will affect the U.S. workforce and workplace over the next decade. 

Find out what Professor Jerry Nickelsburg, Suzanne Shu, Uday Karmarkar and Edward Leamer also had to say about the workplace of the future.