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

Charlotte Nicholson (MAcc ’10) is no stranger to the hockey rink. As a six-year member of the U.S. women’s national in-line hockey team, she earned three golds, two silvers, and a bronze. After graduating from Duke with a BS in Economics and Biological Anthropology & Anatomy, she earned her MAcc degree from Vanderbilt and went […]

Publication: Poets & Quants Poets & Quants annual employment report analysis finds that Vanderbilt’s Owen Graduate School of Management sent the highest percentage of 2016 graduates of any elite U.S. business school into the healthcare industry.

Publication: Science Newsline Most people who buy a new car, electronic device or music album online want to enjoy the purchase as long as possible, but a new study has found that enjoyment of the experience declines faster for people who are aware of the product’s price. Lead author Kelly Haws, associate professor of management, is […]

Publication: Venture Nashville Connections Michael Bryant, the first Director of the Center for Entrepreneurship, is profiled.