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Business Skills for PhDs in Academia and Beyond: Data Science in Business
by GradFUTURES
Louis A. Simpson B60
Louis A. Simpson B60, Princeton, NJ, United States
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Instructor: Yael Grushka-Cockayne, Professor and Altec Styslinger Foundation Bicentennial Chair of Business Administration, Senior Associate Dean for Professional Degree Programs, UVA Darden School of Business
Cohort Description: Most people associate the term “business” with the private sector. However, business skills and models are widely applied in every sector: public, private and non-profit (which includes academia). You are acquiring many transferable skills in your Ph.D. program that can be applied in academic roles as well as within a variety of industries and job functions. Join the business skills learning cohort to better understand foundational concepts and language of business. This learning cohort includes experiential learning in the form of group capstone presentations under guidance of alum mentors.
Broad Topics include:
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Purpose, ethics, and responsibility: stakeholder theory
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Analysis of strategy and operations
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Data science in business
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Leadership and mentoring
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Negotiation
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Financial 360
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Business Communications
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Business of higher ed
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Yael Grushka-Cockayne
Professor of Business Administration; Altec Styslinger Foundation Bicentennial Chair in Business Administration; Senior Associate Dean for Professional Degree Programs
Darden School of Business, University of Virginia
Education: B.Sc., Ben-Gurion University; M.Sc., London School of Economics; Ph.D., M.Res., London Business School
Professor Yael Grushka-Cockayne's research and teaching activities focus on data science, forecasting, project management and behavioral decision-making. Her research is published in numerous academic and professional journals, and she is a regular speaker at international conferences in the areas of decision analysis, project management and management science. Prof. Grushka-Cockayne is an award-winning teacher, winning the Darden Morton Leadership Faculty Award in 2011, the University of Virginia's Mead-Colley Award in 2012 and the Darden Outstanding Faculty Award in 2013 and 2022 and Faculty Diversity Award in 2013 and 2018. In 2015, she won the University of Virginia All University Teaching Award. Prof. Grushka-Cockayne teaches the core "Decision Analysis" course, an elective she designed on project management and an elective on data science. She has served as the leader of the open enrollment courses "Project Management for Executives" and "The Women's Leadership Program."
Before starting her academic career, she worked in San Francisco as a marketing director of an Israeli ERP company. As an expert in the areas of project management, Prof. Grushka-Cockayne has served as a consultant to international firms in the aerospace and pharma industries. She is a UVA Excellence in Diversity fellow and a member of INFORMS, the Decision Analysis Society, the Operational Research Society and the Project Management Institute (PMI). She is an associate editor at Management Science and Operation Research and the President-elect of the INFORMS Decision Analysis Society.
In 2014, Grushka-Cockayne was named one of "21 Thought-Leader Professors" in Data Science. Her recent "Fundamentals of Project Planning and Management" Coursera MOOC had over 100,000 enrolled, across 200 countries worldwide. Her "Data Science for Business" Harvard Online course, launched in 2021, has taught hundreds of learners around the world.