{"id":30215,"date":"2022-10-10T10:00:45","date_gmt":"2022-10-10T14:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mbamission.com\/blog\/?p=30215"},"modified":"2022-10-10T10:00:58","modified_gmt":"2022-10-10T14:00:58","slug":"professor-profiles-george-geis-ucla-anderson-school-of-management","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mbamission.com\/blog\/professor-profiles-george-geis-ucla-anderson-school-of-management\/","title":{"rendered":"Professor Profiles: George Geis, UCLA Anderson School of Management"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left\"><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mbamission.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/George-Geis.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-7970 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mbamission.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/George-Geis-300x225.jpg\" alt=\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mbamission.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/George-Geis-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.mbamission.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/George-Geis.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Many MBA applicants feel that they are purchasing a brand when they choose a business school. However, the educational experience you will have is what is crucial to your future, and no one will affect your education more than your professors. Today, we profile\u00a0<\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.anderson.ucla.edu\/faculty-and-research\/strategy\/faculty\/geis\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong><em>George\u00a0Geis<\/em><\/strong><\/a>\u00a0<em>from the UCLA Anderson School of Management.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>George Geis\u00a0<\/strong>has been voted Outstanding Teacher of the Year five times while at UCLA Anderson, most recently in 2012. In the past, Geis has served as the associate dean and faculty director of the Anderson Executive MBA program as well as faculty director of the school\u2019s Mergers and Acquisitions Executive Program. Geis has also maintained a\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/maprofessor.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>mergers and acquisitions blog<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0and a\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/biopharmatop.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>biotech corporate development blog<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>One alumnus described Geis to mbaMission as an experienced investor and a funny and credible guy. The graduate added that he had very much enjoyed the guest speakers Geis brought to class, as well as the strategic analysis of the board game industry, covered in a case discussion about the game Trivial Pursuit.<\/p>\n<p><em>For more information about the UCLA Anderson School of Management and 16 other top-ranked MBA schools, check out our free\u00a0<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/shop.mbamission.com\/collections\/insider-s-guides\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong><em>mbaMission Insider\u2019s Guides<\/em><\/strong><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,31],"tags":[181,209],"class_list":["post-30215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-professor-profiles","category-ucla-anderson","tag-professors","tag-ucla"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>George Geis, UCLA Anderson School of Management<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"No one will affect your education more than your professors. 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