Role Facilitator, Business Skills for PhDs in Academia and Beyond Title Professor and Altec Styslinger Foundation Bicentennial Chair in Business Administration; Senior Associate Dean for Professional Degree Program, UVA Darden School of Businesss Email [email protected] Bio/Description Education: B.Sc., Ben-Gurion University; M.Sc., London School of Economics; Ph.D., M.Res., London Business School Professor Yael Grushka-Cockayne's research and teaching activities focus on data science, forecasting, project management and behavioral decision-making. Her research is published in numerous academic and professional journals, and she is a regular speaker at international conferences in the areas of decision analysis, project management and management science. Prof. Grushka-Cockayne is an award-winning teacher, winning the Darden Morton Leadership Faculty Award in 2011, the University of Virginia's Mead-Colley Award in 2012 and the Darden Outstanding Faculty Award in 2013 and 2022 and Faculty Diversity Award in 2013 and 2018. In 2015, she won the University of Virginia All University Teaching Award. Prof. Grushka-Cockayne teaches the core "Decision Analysis" course, an elective she designed on project management and an elective on data science. She has served as the leader of the open enrollment courses "Project Management for Executives" and "The Women's Leadership Program." Before starting her academic career, she worked in San Francisco as a marketing director of an Israeli ERP company. As an expert in the areas of project management, Prof. Grushka-Cockayne has served as a consultant to international firms in the aerospace and pharma industries. She is a UVA Excellence in Diversity fellow and a member of INFORMS, the Decision Analysis Society, the Operational Research Society and the Project Management Institute (PMI). She is an associate editor at Management Science and Operation Research and the President-elect of the INFORMS Decision Analysis Society. In 2014, Grushka-Cockayne was named one of "21 Thought-Leader Professors" in Data Science. Her recent "Fundamentals of Project Planning and Management" Coursera MOOC had over 100,000 enrolled, across 200 countries worldwide. Her "Data Science for Business" Harvard Online course, launched in 2021, has taught hundreds of learners around the world. Today’s doctoral students will be offering solutions to tomorrow’s business and societal problems. The GradFUTURES initiative provides a platform for doctoral students to engage first-hand with current day business problems, inspiring them to consider the broad impact their work can have. Related News Business Skills Program for PhDs Develops Acumen Vital to Academic and Non-Academic Careers Upcoming Professional Development Events Dec 2 Creating a Toy Windmill: 3D Modeling Workshop Dec 3 Getting Started with LaTeX Dec 4 Office Hours for Humanities and Social Sciences Graduate Students (In Person) Dec 4 Office Hours with Leonard Cassuto Dec 4 American Higher Ed Learning Cohort Session 5: Professionalization- Degrees, Other Credentials, Careers Dec 5 Managing Active Research Data Dec 7 Writing to Influence: How Academia Inspires Action with Christopher Paul Harris Dec 7 LaTeX Drop-in Consultations Dec 7 Cynthia Dwork: It’s in Your Phone. It’s in Your Browser. It’s in Your Redistricting Data! … It’s Differential Privacy. Dec 8 30 Minutes Towards Better Bibliographies and Footnotes! (online) Dec 8 Introduction to Environmental Studies Library Research: Water Use and Availability Dec 11 Office Hours for Humanities and Social Sciences Graduate Students (In Person)
