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 […]
A Georgia Institute of Technology professor is bringing her ground-breaking, nationally recognized entrepreneurship program here, teaming Vanderbilt Owen Graduate School of Management students with those in the engineering and law schools for an entrepreneurship class that uses real-life examples. Four groups presented their ideas recently at the Owen School, explaining how their designs work, […]
Dean Johnson welcomes the new students to Vanderbilt at the Dean’s Welcome Reception. 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 more than 300 students in the incoming […]
The importance and value of analytics in health care will be the topic of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS) Healthcare 2015 Conference July 29-31 at the Nashville Omni Hotel. The INFORMS Healthcare 2015 Conference will include plenary presentations by leaders at the intersection of analytics and health care and feature […]
Owen School collaborators were part of three trans-institutional projects selected for the initial set of awards from Vanderbilt’s new Trans-Institutional Program (TIPs). “I am pleased to see the active collaboration of Owen faculty across campus. These projects illustrate the broad range of inter-disciplinary scholarship at Owen.”, said M. Eric Johnson, dean of the Owen Graduate […]
The head of United Way of Rutherford and Cannon Counties has been awarded a full-tuition scholarship to Vanderbilt Owen Graduate School of Management’s Executive MBA program. Meagan Flippin was selected by the Owen School, which each academic year funds one two-year scholarship valued at about $100,000. “We are pleased to have a leader of a […]
An acclaimed talent development program for high-potential minority MBA students is being brought to Vanderbilt University’s Owen Graduate School of Management through a new partnership with Management Leadership for Tomorrow (MLT). MLT is a prominent nonprofit organization that provides talented black, Hispanic and Native American men and women with critical elements to succeed at […]
Strategic Innovation (Online Program) Feb. 9–March 6 Finance and Accounting for Non-Financial Managers March 2–4 Executive Leadership March 16–18 Leadership Coaching March 30–31 Achieving Operational Excellence April 20–21 Negotiation Skills for Managers April 27–28 Leading Change May 4–5 Communication Strategies for Senior Leadership May 11–12 Contact: Paula Varney, (615) 343-2412 Contact Person: Jim Patterson […]
A former Chevron and University of Virginia executive will lead the Executive Development Institute at Vanderbilt’s Owen Graduate School of Management. Robert “Skip” Culbertson will oversee Owen’s program of non-degree classes for working professionals as executive director beginning Sept. 1. “Skip is exactly the person Owen needs to move our non-degree executive programs to the […]
Nonprofit leaders across the country can now apply for nonprofit sponsorship in Vanderbilt’s Executive MBA program.
Owen Graduate School of Management Professor David A. Owens is part of a star-studded on-line conference that seeks to continue efforts where peace talks between Israel and the Palestinians have fallen short. The “YaLa Young Leaders” conference takes place May 25 at its Facebook site. Owens, professor for the practice of management and innovation, is […]
NEW YORK, May 12, 2014 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — NASDAQ OMX today announced two new senior leadership roles, further strengthening the depth and breadth of its leadership team, while advancing the company’s strategy to provide companies and financial professionals with technology solutions and intelligence to successfully navigate the global capital markets. Adena Friedman will rejoin NASDAQ […]
NASHVILLE, Tenn. – Military veterans and current soldiers alike are a familiar sight in the halls of Owen Graduate School of Management at Vanderbilt University. “Usually we’ll have eight to 12 military students in a class of 50 to 60 EMBA students,” said Juli Bennett, executive director of executive degree programs at Owen. “With many […]
