Marshall Toplansky, MBA is a Clinical Assistant Professor of Management Science at the Argyros School of Business and Economics. He is also an advisor of the CWS Incubation Lab. We talked about some thought provoking topics like Artificial Intelligence.
Most recently, Marshall co-authored (along with Joel Kotkin) The OC Focus, a multi-year research publication that has identified strategic directions for the growth of Orange County.
Marshall holds an MBA from Harvard Business School, and an ...
Marshall Toplansky, MBA is a Clinical Assistant Professor of Management Science at the Argyros School of Business and Economics. He is also an advisor of the CWS Incubation Lab. We talked about some thought provoking topics like Artificial Intelligence.
Most recently, Marshall co-authored (along with Joel Kotkin) The OC Focus, a multi-year research publication that has identified strategic directions for the growth of Orange County.
Marshall holds an MBA from Harvard Business School, and an undergraduate degree from SUNY Albany in Political Science/Chinese Studies. He is Senior Advisor at The Cicero Institute, based in Salt Lake City, Utah and serves on the board of directors of Double Check, LLC, Harvard Business School Association of Orange County and until recently also of the global NGO Church World Service.
Marshall began his career in advertising at Ogilvy & Mather. He rose through the ranks over an 8 year period and left to serve as VP, Marketing for US Robotics. Marshall also held top roles such as Senior Vice President of Sales and Marketing at Open Environment, VP of Marketing Insight and Strategy at Gateway, and CEO at Core Strategies, Inc. In 2011 he was elected to the Computing Industry Hall of Fame for his role in creating the A+ Certification program, the world’s largest computer service professional certification program.
An entrepreneur at heart, Marshall co-founded the sentiment analysis company Wise Window in 2008, which was acquired by KPMG in 2012. While Managing Director at KPMG, Marshall co-founded the firm’s Center of Excellence for Data & Analytics. After spending a couple of years as a consultant and board member, Marshall joined the Argyros School in June 2017.
In this episode he talks about the historian and philosopher Yuval Noah Harari and especially about his hook Homo Deus. He also talks about his podcast with Joel Kotkin.
Marshall is also on Twitter and Facebook
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