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Serious Business Part 2

Companies such as Cypher Genomics (see related story) show that entrepreneurship is alive and well at UC San Diego’s Rady School of Management.

That fact recently gained international notice.

London’s Financial Times newspaper, in its recent ranking of MBA schools, determined that Rady ranked seventh in the world for entrepreneurship. Researchers came up with their ratings by polling university alumni. Stanford University took top honors for entrepreneurship.

The Financial Times also ranked the Rady School as 19th in the world in faculty research, based on the number of times faculty members have published papers in top academic journals.

It was the school’s first appearance in the poll.

Robert Sullivan, the school’s dean, likes the numbers. “In time we will do even better,” he said.

From the beginning, UCSD’s management school has had a scientific bent, said Sullivan, noting that it is what founding committee members such as Malin Burnham, Irwin Jacobs and Harvey White wanted.

Today as it prepares to wrap up its first decade, the school is steadily increasing its presence in the business community.

Alums Are Creating Jobs

Its 730 alumni have started 50 to 60 companies, Sullivan said. Those companies are raising capital and employing people, the dean noted.

Most Rady graduates are in San Diego, though Sullivan noted a contingent in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Graduates include Sergey Sikora, who received his MBA in 2006. Sikora is president of Stemedica Cell Technologies Inc.’s cardiac division, which has a product that could be a blockbuster, Sullivan said.

He also noted that Andrew Anjello, who is set to receive his MBA this year, is involved in a promising wireless health company called Telemedx.

On the research front, Rady School Professor Vish Krishnan leads a team that is working with medical school faculty to come up with new processes for hospital emergency rooms. The group wants to improve how those visits turn out in the end. And it wants to improve patient satisfaction.

According to Rady School staff, faculty members are also working to improve human creativity, increase the flow of ideas to solve social problems, and develop products and services to improve the environment.

Sullivan, the school’s founding dean, has been credited with hiring faculty away from other high-profile business schools. He previously led the business school at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.

The dean said he regularly sees “sparks” of great ideas at the school.

In public remarks, the dean frequently makes the point that eventually one of the students will create the next Qualcomm Inc.

“It will happen,” he said. “Time is on our side with our graduates.”

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