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 […]
The Owen School’s new students are the personification of Vanderbilt’s vision of what a world-class business program should be. The class is diverse in its global reach, professional experience, education and ethnicity. Each of the 175 students in the incoming classes has a fascinating personal story to tell. For more on the incoming students at […]
Norton is a Nashville native and graduate of the Vanderbilt University Owen Graduate School of Management, and served in the U.S. Marine Corp. for a decade, commanding Marine infantry platoons overseas and overseeing the operations of 37 Marine recruiting facilities. Norton will report to C. Wright Pinson, MBA, M.D., Deputy CEO and Chief Health System […]
Michael Lewis’ best-selling book Flash Boys describes a phenomenon where investors place buy or sell orders for a stock based on an acceptable quoted price only to see that price change unfavorably at the moment the trade is executed. The culprits, according to the book, are high-frequency traders (HFTs), which employ complex computer algorithms and […]
Millennials—those who were born in the 1980s and 1990s—have emerged as the largest age cohort in today’s U.S. workforce, bringing digital savvy and an “always-on” mentality to most jobs. Yet millennials and Generation Z, who were born in the late 1990s and 2000s, are also challenging traditional employers with their professional restlessness and increased need […]
EMBA alumni created two functional prototypes for bullet-proof vests
The normally jubilant sounds of a warm Friday afternoon on Vanderbilt’s campus were punctured by grief, as family, friends, classmates, faculty and staff filled Benton Chapel on March 18 to mourn the death of Taylor Allen Force, a first-year MBA student at the Owen Graduate School of Management. Force, a 28-year-old West Point graduate […]
Publication: Poets and Quants On March 8, Eric Johnson, dean of the Vanderbilt Owen Graduate School of Management was in Guatemala City with students, faculty and staff on a spring break business trip when he got the news that something had gone terribly wrong across the world on another excursion for 28 MBA students, accompanied by […]
Meet 2010 EMBA alum and consultant Kevin Cowherd
Meet EMBA 2011 alum and sales professional Erin Tomlinson
Meet 2011 EMBA alum Beth Torres
