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How Can Academic Research Help My Company?
UCR Sloan Center faculty's innovative academic research has direct industry relevance and provides a deeper understanding of today's challenges, yielding powerful recommendations on how business practice can be improved. One example of the Center's practical insights is the book Beyond the Basics: Research-Based Rules for Internet Retailing Advantage. Written by the Center's MBA and Ph.D. students under the direction of Professors and Novak, the volume draws on rigorous academic research to provide a wide range of industry recommendations such as "Managing Consumers' Forgiveness When Online Recommendations Go Bad" and "Cognitive Lock-In: How Internet Retailers Can Create Cognitive Loyalty."
Value Proposition
The UCR Sloan Center provides a window on emerging trends and developments that can help corporate sponsors "future-proof" against explosive change. Corporate sponsors have early exposure to cutting-edge, industry relevant research that can improve business practice, access to outstanding undergraduate and MBA student talent for internship and career placement opportunities, and the potential to obtain special customized projects that address their unique and immediate business challenges. In addition, sponsors have advance opportunities to participate in the Center's annual conference and other programs and events (at special sponsor rates). These events provide opportunities to network with and learn from other corporate sponsors, share best practices, and influence Sloan Center research priorities.
How Do I Join? T
he Sloan Center, a nonprofit, University of California research initiative, accepts corporate sponsors who find significant value in supporting university-based research that can advance industry best practice and recognize the importance of strengthening the bonds between academia and industry. UCR Sloan Center corporate sponsors commit a minimum of $2500, renewable annually, to support the mission of the Center. In addition, sponsors may request a customized class project (conducted by Center faculty and students) for an additional $2500. Additional opportunities exist for customized proprietary projects conducted by Center faculty and their graduate students, priced according to project scope.
Learn More If your company is interested in becoming a corporate sponsor of the UCR Sloan Center for Internet Retailing, or to learn more about the Center, please contact Brent Hunter, Director of Development, at brett.hunter@ucr.edu or call 951.827.6201.
Corporate Sponsors. From 1994-2006, corporate sponsors for the Sloan Center, eLab, and Project 2000 include: CDnow, Daimler-Chrysler, FedEx, Digeo, Financial Services Technology Consortium, First Horizon, Focalink, Gaylord Entertainment, HotWired Ventures LLC, Hewlett-Packard, Ingram Entertainment, Interval Research Corporation, iVillage, J.C. Bradford, Land’s End/Sears, NCR Knowledge labs, Neomodal, Netscape, Nielsen Media Research, O’Reilly & Associates, Pitney Bowes, Roche-Diagnostics, Rouse Company, SBC, Shop at Home, Sprint, Sterling Commerce, Sun Microsystems, Vulcan Ventures, VF Corporation, Walmart.com, Yankelovich Partners.
Government, foundation, and university support has been provided by: Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, American Association for Advancement of Science, The Aspen Institute, The Freedom Forum First Amendment Center, Marketing Science Institute, John and Mary R. Markle Foundation, National Science Foundation, University of California Riverside, and Vanderbilt University.
