Press Releases

Ron Rubin Makes Contribution to Sonoma State's Wine Spectator Learning Center

July 15, 2015

Rohnert Park, CA - Ron Rubin, of The Rubin Family of Wines, is honored to have committed a gift to the Wine Spectator Learning Center, the future home of the Wine Business Institute at Sonoma State University. The generous gift, one of the largest gifts in the campaign, will be

Valuing urban open space using the travel-cost method and the implications of measurement error

Publication: Journal of Environmental Management

Publication Date: May 11, 2017

The Great Cork Debate 2012: Cork Stages a Comeback

Publication: Case Studies in Wine Business Management (Book)

Publication Date: February 27, 2014

Does franchising pay? Evidence from the restaurant industry

Publication: The Service Industries Journal

Publication Date: 2013

Managing People: Human Resource Management in the Wine Industry

Publication: Wine Business Management / Economie et Management du Vin (Book)

Publication Date: 2014

Professor Armand Gilinsky, Jr., Korbel Professor

An Exploratory Investigation into Strategic Resilience in the US Wine Industry

Via grounded field research, involving four case studies of wine businesses, we assessed perceived strategic resilience in the key wine regions of Napa and Sonoma Counties recently impacted natural disaster by applying content analysis to eight qualitative interviews from personnel at four bonded wineries.