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
On the Friday before Mod III exam week, students from the Vanderbilt Owen Graduate School of Management traveled from Nashville to Omaha, NE, for an intimate meeting with billionaire business magnate, investor and philanthropist Warren Buffet. Cherrie Clark, Professor of the Practice of Management and Program Director for the Vanderbilt Master of Science in Finance […]
Arkansas Congressman French Hill returned to his alma mater Feb. 19 to speak with students from the Vanderbilt Law School and the Owen Graduate School of Management about his work on the Financial Services Committee and current issues in the banking sector. The congressman also met with Chancellor Nicholas S. Zeppos during his visit. In […]
Thirteen Vanderbilt University faculty members named to endowed chairs were honored for their academic achievements during a celebration on Thursday, Feb. 18, at the Student Life Center. “This group … really represents a microcosm of what happens at this university every single day,” said Susan Wente, provost and vice chancellor for academic affairs. “From […]
Take an inside look at tips for successful marketing internship interviews from the Vanderbilt Business Career Management Center
Staff from Owen’s Career Management Center took 25 students to Seattle and the Bay Area to visit 14 different tech companies, including Twitter, Facebook, Google, AirBnB and Amazon. Tech companies have been paying increasing attention to Owen students in recent years; Amazon was the top hiring company of Vanderbilt’s MBA class of 2015 and Owen […]
