The Ernest and Julio Gallo Management Program leverages strengths in engineering, natural and social sciences at UC Merced. Together, this unit serves as a cross-functional hub for interdisciplinary research in management science, for partnerships with for-profit and nonprofit enterprises and public organizations, and for education programs that address the growing need for managers who are well-versed in the complex problems associated with coupled human and environmental systems.
The MCS department and MIST graduate group share a highly multi-disciplinary faculty joined around a common interest in how arrangements of people, organizations, information, technology and the natural world give rise to complex adaptive phenomena that pose difficult — often grand — challenges to society. As such, our undergraduate programs (DSA, MIST and MAD) and graduate programs in management (MS and PhD) focus on identifying and executing strategies that seek balance and alignment among social justice, environmental resources and economic welfare — i.e. toward the long-term sustainability of people, planet and profit (PPP).
Our mission is to train the next generation of PPP managers and scholars using a distinctive multidisciplinary approach. Curricula provide a wide range of opportunities to gain management training via case studies, field exercises, internships and development of information-driven decision-making skills — all of which are required for successful administration of public and private resources, as well as service- and innovation-oriented enterprises, in the 21st century. Coursework stresses innovation, engineering and vigilance for emerging technologies that open the way for alternative sustainable and renewable approaches to institutional operations, resource management and service delivery.
Two research articles - including the October 24 Cover Article - published in Science by MCS Profs. Crystal Kolden & John Abatzoglou and coauthors. Read the abstacts below and follow the...
Recent UCM doctoral graduate Dr. Felber Arroyave and MCS professors Jenkins and Petersen published two papers exploring the impact of science policy on knowledge management and other...
Study identifies increasing prevalence of "flammable nights", a paradigm mediated by climate-change resulting in hotter drier nights, which decreases fire-fighters' ability to...
