Fifteen graduate enterprise college students from 4 UC campuses put their brains and buzzer fingers to work final Saturday (Nov. 5) within the first-ever UC Davis-Monetary Occasions Biz Quiz.
Held on the UC Davis Convention Middle, the competitors — considered the primary of its form for any graduate enterprise college within the nation — supplied money prizes for the groups with the most effective information of enterprise information.
After a whole lot of questions — starting from who just lately acquired Twitter to which nation has probably the most CEOs named Christian — the $3,000 first-place award went to the Rady Faculty of Administration, UC San Diego; second place and $2,000 went to the UC Davis Graduate Faculty of Administration; and third place and $1,000 went to UCLA Anderson Faculty of Administration.
The 4 highest-scoring people, together with the GSM’s Gordon Chang in third place, additionally walked away with money prizes.
The prizes totaled $8,000 for memorizing info and understanding ideas revealed in just lately revealed articles within the Monetary Occasions. The media firm offered subscriptions for the scholars and funded the prizes.
The competition comprised two elements: written assessments Friday and Saturday, and the buzz-in, hourslong contest Saturday.
Dean Rao Unnava of the Graduate Faculty of Administration stated he plans on making the competitors for information information an annual occasion.
Information literacy
Unnava stated it’s vital for college kids to be acquainted with and to learn the information, typically a vanishing facet of on a regular basis faculty life. Working with co-sponsor Monetary Occasions, he hopes to reverse the development and make college students news-literate.
“Enterprise addresses each facet of society,” he stated as the ultimate spherical of competitors concluded. “In enterprise, you maintain individuals, you maintain the setting, you maintain the financial system. … You need to perceive all these features of society, and it’s vital to maintain up on information of all types.”
Andrew Jack, international training editor on the FT, stated: “We had been delighted to accomplice with UC Davis for this pioneering Biz Quiz to exhibit the worth of stories in informing the subsequent technology of managers and entrepreneurs.
“Congratulations to all the scholars, coaches and colleges that competed so onerous and carried out so nicely. We sit up for this enjoyable occasion rising ever bigger sooner or later.”
