International first-year Vanderbilt MBA students discuss how they identified and landed their summer internships

Publication: Vanderbilt News Vanderbilt University remains firmly positioned among the nation’s top graduate and professional schools in the latest U.S. News & World Report “Best Graduate School” rankings. Owen Graduate School of Management is mentioned.

Publication: The Conversation Professor Jessica Kennedy discusses her latest research on the relationship between rank and principled dissent within the context of recent events at Uber, Wells Fargo, and other organizations.

Student teams identified ways to address ethical and leadership issues related to food contamination and the resulting financial fallout

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 […]