Harvard Kennedy School

Stanford Graduate School of Business

ITMO University

Selected as one of five other students to receive a US Government grant to attend and represent UCLA at the one week conference, where my team competed against universities around the world, and pitched several social enterprise business plans in front of 10 investors at the social venture competition, and selected to win first place.

UCLA Anderson School of Management

Using Starbucks Coffee as a case study, analyzed financial impact of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Public Relations (PR) campaign; observed overall positive return on investments during 10-year period. Analyzed stock price variability • Awarded $10,000 research grant; traveled to Antigua, Guatemala to investigate coffee farms’ supply-chain and operations My research interests include: socially responsible businesses and investing, methods of firm strategy, supply chain, measuring environmental performance, clean technologies, international trade and agreements, economic policy, etc.