We support the campus statement In Solidarity and the Petition for Justice for Black Lives at UC Merced against systemic racism and for social justice.
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 terminal MM and PhD/MS degree programs focus on identifying and executing management 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.
UC Merced doctoral candidate and MCS affiliate Felber Arroyave and colleagues published in the leading science policy and management journal Research Policy, a member of the prestigious...
Study identifies increasing prevalence of "flammable nights", a paradigm mediated by climate-change resulting in hotter drier nights, which decreases fire-fighters' ability to...
The Academy of Management Review (AMR) hosts a video series called the "AMR Origins Series" that interviews authors publishing in AMR in an attempt to understand how their theory paper was...
