Welcome to the Web site of the University of California Riverside’s A. Gary Anderson Graduate School of Management. I invite you to explore our site and learn about our dynamic and challenging learning environment. At AGSM we are all about growth. We are the program of choice for students, recruiters, and faculty members who wish to focus on how to identify and evaluate growth opportunities, how to launch and develop, as well as manage and sustain, those opportunities. AGSM is also about personal growth; it is a place where you learn to be a manager and a leader, a contributor to business, and a contributor to community and society.
Growth is not just a platitude at AGSM; it is real and all around us. Southern California can only grow in one direction. UCR and AGSM are directly in the path of that growth. The Inland Empire in which AGSM resides is one of the fastest growing regions of the United States. With a population of more than four million, it has more people than 24 states. The U.S. Department of Commerce has forecast that the Inland Empire will grow faster than any other area in the United States over the next decade. But growth is not just what is happening in our region.
AGSM faces the important growth markets of the future along the Pacific Rim, in Asia, and in South America. All of the growth industries of the future are in our backyard: biotechnology, nanotechnology, information technology, communications, and health care services. The Inland Empire is also the center of one of the largest and most important distribution hubs in the world, a hub that will continue to grow as international trade grows.
At UCR’s Anderson School you are part of a living laboratory in which you can see and experience firsthand the issues, opportunities, and problems associated with growth. You will interact with one of the most diverse student bodies found at any University. Growth requires a willingness to embrace diversity—diversity in markets, diversity in the workforce, diversity in the community.
You will also find that growth is also a theme of our curriculum and scholarship. Our faculty focuses on entrepreneurship, technology transfer, e-commerce, supply chain management, information technology, health care management, communications, and international business. Our curriculum provides opportunities for students to obtain the knowledge, skills, and perspectives necessary for managing growth. And, we challenge our students to grow as individuals, as leaders, as managers, and as contributors to community.
We are proud of the AGSM mission and we are proud to be a part of the growing Inland Empire.
We invite you to come grow with us.
David W. Stewart, Dean