Publication: Fast Company According to a new study, the higher up the corporate ladder you climb, the more likely you might be to engage in unethical behavior. Study co-author Jessica Kennedy, assistant professor of management, is quoted.

Publication: Poets & Quants You’ve heard of “Humans of New York,” photographer Brandon Stanton’s series of interviews with random people on the streets of the Big Apple. What began in 2010 as a collection of photos morphed into a book and blog that has gained cultural cache in the form of 18 million Facebook followers and hundreds of imitators […]

Publication: Vanderbilt News A leading thinker on innovation and creativity who was the first faculty member to teach at the Wond’ry sits down for a wide-ranging discussion with Vanderbilt University Chancellor Nicholas S. Zeppos on the second episode of The Zeppos Report podcast. David Owens, professor of the practice of management and innovation at the Owen Graduate School of Management, is featured.

Publication: Legal Reader (Blog) Apology laws. We’ve all seen them in action on the various doctor shows out there, or maybe you’ve experienced them in person. A new Vanderbilt University study has revealed that apology laws do not reduce “the number of medical malpractice suits filed, or the amounts paid out.” In fact, the opposite has […]

Publication: Hospital Review More than 30 states have adopted apology laws that prohibit a physician’s apology to a patient from being admissible in a malpractice lawsuit. Although apology laws are intended to reduce malpractice lawsuits by allowing physicians to freely express their condolences or apologies to patients or their families, a recent study from Vanderbilt University […]

Publication: Inc. Magazine A compilation of details is provided to give entrepreneur-licensees an understanding of what they want and need to do with intellectual property. David Owens, professor of the practice of management and innovation, is quoted.

Higher-ranking positions may blind people to unethical practices they are typically responsible for stopping

Medical malpractice claims are not influenced by doctors who apologize

Publication: Nashville Post Vanderbilt University’s trans-institutional undergraduate business minor will launch this fall, following its formal approval in December by the four undergraduate schools and the VU Owen Graduate School of Management. M. Eric Johnson, Ralph Owen Dean of the Owen Graduate School of Management and Bruce D. Henderson Professor of Strategy, is quoted.

Publication: The Tennessean Astrophysicists, artists, celebrity chefs and clinical psychologists will be among the speakers at the eighth annual TEDxNashville. The two-day event, which will be held March 17-18 at TPAC, celebrates community building and “ideas worth spreading.” The list of speakers includes James Crowe Jr., Ann Scott Carell Professor of Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology and […]

The Vanderbilt MS Finance program is excited to announce that it has been designated as a STEM degree program. The designation allows international students to prolong their training in the US by 24 months. How does it work? Under the Optional Practical Training (OPT) program, international students who graduate from colleges and universities in the United […]

International monetary expert and Federal Reserve governor was a longtime professor at the Vanderbilt Owen Graduate School of Management

Vanderbilt University’s Owen Graduate School of Management announced the formation of a new corporate partnership program designed to broaden and deepen ties with MBA employers at a Nov. 4 meeting of its Board of Visitors. The initiative brings a new level of formality to the longstanding hiring relationships between the Owen School and top companies […]

Graduates from the full-time MBA program at Vanderbilt’s Owen Graduate School of Management reported median base salary earnings of $110,000 per year, marking a nearly 5 percent increase from the previous year, which until now had been the highest on record. This year’s robust hiring was led by health care and management consulting. At commencement […]

When a university like Furman consistently funnels well-rounded, high-caliber graduates to a top-rated master of accounting program like the one at Vanderbilt University, it makes perfect sense to establish a more formal relationship in order to nurture and sustain it.  And that is why Furman and Vanderbilt’s Master of Accountancy (MAcc) program at the Owen […]