James Murray, a Vanderbilt Business MBA student, has been awarded a $25,000 Sohr Grant to support his startup, NewsCart, a cloud-based content aggregator designed for enterprise-level communications teams. Collecting internal and external sources of news for newsletters, press releases, and other media can be a time-consuming process for communications professionals. Utilizing machine-learning to gauge individual […]
The Chief Operating Officer of LEAD Public Schools has been awarded a full-tuition scholarship to Vanderbilt Business’ Executive MBA program. Nathan Madigan was selected by the Vanderbilt Owen Graduate School of Management to receive the two-year scholarship, awarded each academic year and valued at roughly $100,000. “Nathan exemplifies the qualities we look for in a […]
On May 12, Adena Friedman (MBA ’93), CEO of Nasdaq, will address the 2017 graduates of Owen Graduate School of Management at Vanderbilt’s Recreation and Wellness Center. Ahead of the event, she answered a few questions about her time at Vanderbilt Business, described the value of a business school education, and dispensed some advice for incoming MBAs. […]
IOWA CITY, IA — A Vanderbilt Business team comprising Abhinav Verma (MBA ’18), Mai-Linh Hoang (MBA ’18), Tomohiro Nara (MBA ’18), and Trevor Proctor (MBA ’18) took first place and a $5,000 prize at the Iowa MBA Business Analytics Case Competition last Friday. The competition featured 15 business schools from across the US. Teams from the […]
The Vanderbilt Entrepreneurship Association (VEA), in partnership with Launch Tennessee (LaunchTN), hosted the first Owen Venture Challenge (OVC) for Vanderbilt Business students last week. Patrick Morsches (MBA ’18), Jeffery Hull (MBA ’17), and Rachel Rock-Blake (MBA ’18) took 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place, respectively, earning cash prizes and the chance to compete in the statewide University Pitch […]
Every spring, students in the Vanderbilt MAcc program intern at the accounting firms known as the “Big Four” (Deloitte, EY, KPMG, and PwC). The opportunity is truly unique – students hone their craft at an industry leader during accounting’s busiest season, leveraging a paid, hands-on experience to build the technical and soft skills they’ll need […]
Publication: Nashville Post Officials with Vanderbilt University’s Owen Graduate School of Management are targeting an early August completion for the most significant facelift the Walker Management Library has received to date, funded in part by a $1.4 million donation from the estate of Thomas B. Walker Jr.
Publication: FTI Journal Professor Craig Lewis moderates a discussion on the state of central counterparties clearinghouses (CCP) and whether they have become too big to reduce counterparty risk in the derivatives market and systemic risk in general.
Publication: Futurity Lower pitches in voices or music in advertisements lead consumers to infer a larger product size, according to a new study.Research from Professor Kelly Haws is spotlighted.
Article by Elayne Crain Citing the Community Transportation Association, Lyft – a rideshare transportation network and the main industry competitor to Uber – posits that 3.6 million Americans miss or delay medical appointments due to a lack of reliable transportation. Looking for solutions that Lyft could use to fill that transportation gap led them to […]
Publication: PHYS.org Lower pitches in voices or music in advertisements lead consumers to infer a larger product size, according to a new study by Kelly Haws and researchers at Georgia Institute of Technology.
Publication: Research Horizons Lower pitches in voices or music in advertisements lead consumers to infer a larger product size, according to a new study by researchers at Georgia Institute of Technology and Vanderbilt University. Kelly Haws, Professor at Vanderbilt’s Owen Graduate School of Management, co-authored the study.
Wireless conference technology? Check. New study rooms, including a conference room that can seat 12? Check. Updated communal areas, featuring a gas-lit fireplace on the first floor for fireside chats with distinguished guests? Check. Books? That’s a different story. After opening its doors 35 years ago, the Walker Management Library at Vanderbilt Business is getting its […]
Publication: Venture Nashville Connections Chancellor Nicholas S. Zeppos has begun “The Zeppos Report” podcast and recently interviewed David Owens, professor of the practice of management and innovation at Owen Graduate School of Management and faculty director of the Vanderbilt University Accelerator–Summer Business Institute. Owens is quoted in the article.
Kelly Haws’ latest research identifies a new correlation between price and consumption
