The first ever winner of the Bay Area Sports Business Awards is the Bay Area Women's Sports Initiative (BAWSI), recipient of the Sports Business Advocate Award. The award recognizes bold thinkers who have reshaped how the industry operates and cleared a path for those coming up behind them, and BAWSI has spent two decades building that path.

Ravi Bapna, an AI and digital transformation scholar who has spent 25 years studying how platforms shape human behavior, from early internet auctions to online dating to AI, recently joined the Leavey School of Business as dean, arriving from the University of Minnesota.

As generative AI continues to disrupt and reshape industries ranging from Hollywood to higher education, consumers are still grappling with one question: what still counts as authentic creativity?

The Leavey School of Business is excited to welcome eight new tenure-track and teaching-track faculty this year across accounting, finance, information systems and analytics, management and entrepreneurship, and marketing. Learn more about our newest faculty members below.