{"id":10779,"date":"2013-01-09T11:30:25","date_gmt":"2013-01-09T16:30:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mbamission.com\/blog\/?p=10779"},"modified":"2022-07-24T09:21:28","modified_gmt":"2022-07-24T13:21:28","slug":"professor-profiles-william-s-cockrum-ucla-anderson-school-of-management","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mbamission.com\/blog\/professor-profiles-william-s-cockrum-ucla-anderson-school-of-management\/","title":{"rendered":"Professor Profiles: William S. Cockrum, UCLA Anderson School of Management"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Many MBA applicants feel that they are purchasing a brand when they choose an MBA program to attend, but the educational experience itself is crucial to your future, and no one will affect your education more than your professors. Each Wednesday, we profile a standout professor as identified by students. Today, we profile<strong> William Cockrum<\/strong> at the<em> UCLA Anderson School of Management<\/em>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full\" title=\"William Cockrum\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mbamission.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/bill-cockrum.jpg\" alt=\"William Cockrum\" width=\"160\" height=\"200\" align=\"right\" \/>William \u201cBill\u201d Cockrum has won numerous teaching awards\u2014including the Teaching Excellence Award from UCLA Anderson\u2019s second-year students in 1998 and 2002\u2014has become a \u201clegend\u201d for the case-study entrepreneurial financing course he teaches and is credited on Anderson\u2019s Web site with playing a key role in the school\u2019s number one ranking for entrepreneurship by the <em>Financial Times<\/em>. He has taught more than 6,000 students at Anderson and was even recognized as the top entrepreneurship professor in the nation in a 1996 <em>BusinessWeek<\/em> (now <em>Bloomberg Businessweek<\/em>) survey.<\/p>\n<p><em>For more information about the UCLA Anderson School of Management and 15 other top-ranked MBA schools, check out the <a href=\"https:\/\/shop.mbamission.com\/collections\/insider-s-guides\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">mbaMission Insider\u2019s Guides<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many MBA applicants feel that they are purchasing a brand when they choose an MBA program to attend, but the educational experience itself is crucial to your future, and no one will affect your education more than your professors. Each Wednesday, we profile a standout professor as identified by students. 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