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May 25, 2001
Dr. Marvin Waldman and Dr. Osman F. Güner, both participants in the UCSD Extension's Executive Program for Scientists and Engineers, were named as the most successful business strategists in the 2001 Capstone Business Simulation Competition held on April 28.
The scientists defeated more than 200 other business school competitors in 146 teams to take first place in this worldwide business simulation contest.
Waldman and Güner, R&D and marketing directors from Molecular Simulations Inc. of San Diego, were tested on their ability to effectively run a fictitious multimillion dollar corporation.
In the finals, they spent one day participating in a simulation that mirrored the decisions executives might make while running a company over eight years. They turned a cumulative profit of $249,894,560 for their fictional company, almost $80,000,000 more than their next closet competitors, a team from Istanbul, Turkey.
"We applied the tactics and strategies we learned in the UCSD class," says Güner, "and we were able to gain an early lead, then maintain this lead by leveraging a more defensive strategy toward the end."
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Cubic Defense Systems, a subsidiary of San Diego-based Cubic Corp., has made a strong entrance into the common data link business after successfully completing a major test of its CDL capabilities at the Naval Air Warfare Center China Lake near Ridgecrest.
In a series of tests, Cubic's CDL synchronized with legacy government CDL systems and communicated navigation data, digital audio, and pseudo-random test data.
The tests were conducted by the Department of Defense's Joint Interoperability Test Command.
Based at Fort Huachuca, Ariz., the JITC conducts independent compliance, interoperability, operational tests and evaluations or assessments, and verifies or certifies Command, Control, Communications, Computers and Intelligence (C4I) systems that are used by U.S. military services and agencies or are being considered for potential U.S. military acquisition.
The China Lake tests demonstrated the Cubic CDL's compliance with the DoD's test standard CDL communication system — the Modular Interoperable Surface Terminal.
The Cubic-built terminals successfully communicated with the MIST across the full band of test frequencies. The Cubic system also completed error free Bit Error Rate testing on high data rate and low data rate channels.
"Our equipment performed all of the tests flawlessly," says Kirk Clemmensen, program manager of product development for Cubic Defense Systems' Tactical Electronics Products group. "Successful JITC testing at China Lake is a very effective demonstration of the capability of Cubic's DSP-based CDL equipment. We greatly appreciate the Navy, Air Force, and JITC's support for these tests," Clemmensen remarked. "They have a good motive — they want the benefits of modern, low-cost designs for their users."
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The San Diego International Sports Council announced Bob Payne has been named the winner of the fourth annual Robert Breitbard Award.
The Robert Breitbard award is named after one of the founding members of the Sports Council, longtime San Diego businessman and sports entrepreneur Robert Breitbard.
This is the highest award given annually by the organization and was presented last evening to San Diego business leader Bob Payne.
The first three recipients of this honor were Bob Breitbard, Ron Fowler and Herb Klein.
Payne is a 30-year member of the Sports Council and past chairman and current member of the San Diego Super Bowl Task Force, past president and current member of the board of the Holiday Bowl and on the board of the San Diego Hall of Champions.
"Bob Payne has been a business and sports leader in our community for many years," says Bill Allen, vice chairman of the San Diego International Sports Council. "His leadership, experience and support have been a vital resource in bringing world-renowned sporting events to our region."
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Deltyme Corp., headquartered in San Diego, has designed a customized shopping cart solution that can be installed on existing Web sites.
The cart is designed for companies that have the need for features not found in "off the shelf" shopping carts products.
"While the $25 a month solution is viable for some small businesses, our solution is designed for large scale organizations that require a highly customized product," says Alan Cole, president of Deltyme.
The Deltyme shopping cart allows store owners to update inventory levels, set up product categories, and create "sales events" with associated items.
The customized shopping cart includes installation and setup on the existing hosting environment, an administrative console page, and three hours of instruction.
"This product is really designed for the client who wants to take their site to the next level," adds Alan. "The degree of control passed on to the store owner allows them to have a site that is self-sufficient and easy to maintain."
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The Village Hat Shop launched the fourth generation of its e-commerce Web site this month, www.villagehatshop.com.
Headquartered in San Diego, the haberdashery has four bricks-and-mortar locations in San Diego, Long Beach and Sacramento.
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