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Drawn to Leadership: Creative Pursuits Helped Prepare Ashleigh Spragins to be ASI President and a Maritime Representative

A former engineering student, Spragins chose business for leadership and management opportunities.

How to Get on Track for Career Success

Ronda Beaman took her Leadership and Career Success class to the Aero Hangar to illustrate how the formula for success is about the sum of its parts.

Quick Pitch: Students Offer Their Startup Ideas During Annual Competition

The Elevator Pitch, put on by the Center for Innovation & Entrepreneurship, features students from across campus "selling" their business ideas.

Lessons From the Dojo: How Martial Arts Helped Khushi Sharma Become a Leader

Once a shy child, the information systems student took on public roles a college ambassador, with Women in Business and her business fraternity

Focused on the Code: Startup Aims to Allow Developers More Time to Develop

Devscribe seeks to limit the tedious and repetitive task of creating accurate instructions for users.

Medication Management: Startup Seeks to Simplify Patient Prescription Schedules

One Fountain Health is creating a device designed to preserve independence for people juggling multiple prescriptions.

Pursuing Her Passions: Business Grad Anaïs Lohier Turns to Biological Data at Yale

Lohier, who studied at sea while at Cal Poly, also volunteers at a vintage French car race dedicated to her grandfather

A Seaweed Solution: Converting Ocean Waste into Food Packaging

Ecoplasticity’s seaweed-based coating is designed to replace the plastic coating inside takeout containers.

A Bright Idea: Capstone Class Challenges Students to Create Light Fixture Startups

Students in John Paulick’s Applied Business and Production Management course created decorative light fixture startups, tackling design, prototyping, marketing, and resource management in a 10-week project

Cal Poly Finance Team Advances in Global Competition with Analysis of PayPal Stock Outlook

A detailed analysis of PayPal’s stock outlook helped a team of Cal Poly students surpass hundreds of others recently in the CFA Institute Research Challenge

Start Your Engines: Business Students Help Cal Poly Racing Team Cross the Finish Line Behind the Scenes and Behind the Wheel

The Cal Poly Racing Team is made of students in all majors: finance, mechanical engineering, aerospace engineering, business administration — even music and physiology

Double Masters Equals Double Opportunities

After earning a masters degree in Quantitative Economics, grad business student Amanda Walker re-enrolled for another degree in the MS Business Analytics program—and is looking ahead to a career in data analytics

Resilience Amid Challenge

The last year led many people across the world to search for new sources of strength. Here, students and faculty reflect on where they found resilience and insight during challenging times.

Business Athletes

Keep an eye on these three Cal Poly business student athletes excelling within their sports

Core Philosophies

Internships, immersive projects, and getting the most from my Cal Poly education, inside and outside the classroom

I Tried My Luck at Cal Poly’s Annual Egg Drop – and Here’s How it All Went Down 

I'm no expert in packaging or physics, so when asked to compete in Cal Poly’s annual egg drop and write about it, I was as intrigued as I was apprehensive.