From: Strategy & Operations Management Association
Date: February 18, 2020
Subject: [SOMA] Newsletter - 2/18
SOMA Club Events: Lunch & Learn with Professor Tang - Managing Global Supply Chains in the Industry 4.0 Era – February 18th
Join SOMA for a speaker series event with Professor Tang on Tuesday Feb. 18th from 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM! Industry 4.0 creates a “force” to make companies to rethink the way they manage their supply chain. In this presentation, Professor Tang shall examine the following questions: How should companies leverage various evolving technologies (Additive Manufacturing, Advanced Robotics, Artificial Intelligence, Autonomous Vehicles, Blockchain, Drones, Internet of Things, etc.) to improve their supply chain competitiveness? What kind of value (economic, social and environmental) can these technologies bring? What are the potential pitfalls? Register HERE Analytics Workshop #4 - R – February 22nd This Saturday, Feb. 22nd from 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM, our Director of Analytics, Siqi Chen, will teach an analytics workshop on R! The goal of the workshop is to provide an overview of the basics of R and serves as a starting point to those interested to understand how data science can be applied to perform analysis and solve business problems. You will learn how to do variable assignments, basic structures, creating functions, making graphics and perform statistical analysis in R. We hope that by the end of the workshop you will understand the basics of R and feel more confident tackling an online e-learning R course. The target audience is someone with no R experience who wants to learn new data analytics skills. Register HERE DOJ/Company Events: Hyundai/Genesis DOJ - March 6th
If you are interested in the automotive industry, there will be a DOJ (alongside other MBA programs) to visit Hyundai/Genesis in Fountain Valley, CA on Mar. 6th from 8:30 AM - 1:00 PM. There are 15 spots available. If you are interested, please sign up in MyCareer via the link below by Feb. 21. Register HERE Shout Outs/Announcements: Caselet Writing w/ Professor Karmarkar Prof. Karmarkar is looking to form a small group of students [2-3] to put together short cases on important current topics. One of the problems faced all the time in teaching is that the HBS cases are often too old and too late, and also not oriented to some of the key issues of interest in our classes. For example, the best Amazon case he can find is at 2016, the best Google case is 2014, the Disney case is 1995. Now professors try to bring these up to date, but that is just in the class discussion! Since this is a pilot with SOMA, he is thinking of producing possibly 2-3 caselets and is super flexible with timing. If you are interested, contact gabriela.gonzalez.2020@anderson.ucla.edu! Evolve Conference 2020: The Changing Consumer – February 21st Retail Business Association’s 4th-annual EVOLVE Conference will take place on Friday, Feb. 21st, from 9:00 AM - 5:30 PM. The lineup of speakers features keynotes by Grant Barth – former CMO of Levi’s, business leader for 16+ years at Nike, and current Founder and President at ThenWhat, Inc –and Ghadi Hobeika, CMO US and Group CDO of Westfield, and a founders keynote panel featuring founders of APL, Lunya, The Bouqs Company. SOMA will have a panel on Sustainability in the Retail Supply Chain featuring exciting speakers from companies such as The Honest Company, Beauty Counter, and CommunityMADE. We are looking forward to an insightful panel discussions and hope to see you there! Register HERELearn More Social Impact Consulting Corps (SICC) Information Session – February 25th The Social Impact Consulting Corps unites MBA students and the academic community with nonprofit organizations and social enterprises to help achieve greater social impact. Over the course of a nine-to-ten-week consulting engagement across the spring quarter, your team will provide strategic and operational guidance to participating organizations to overcome challenges such as fiscal management, operations, marketing, and leadership transition. Participants will have the opportunity to participate in a social impact consulting workshop with McKinsey Senior Partner (and Anderson alum!) Dilip Wagle on May 1. If you are interested in learning more, please register for the information session on February 25th. Instagram:
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