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Summer Grants awarded to three Vanderbilt MBAs

Summer Grants awarded to three Vanderbilt MBAs

Three members of the MBA class of 2018 at Vanderbilt Business have received Summer Grants, a new award designed to support Vanderbilt student entrepreneurs between their first and second years of class.
Vanderbilt MBA student James Murray awarded $25,000 Sohr Grant for Startup

Vanderbilt MBA student James Murray awarded $25,000 Sohr Grant for Startup

James Murray, a Vanderbilt Business MBA student, has been awarded a $25,000 Sohr Grant to support his startup, NewsCart, a cloud-based content aggregator designed for enterprise-level communications teams. Collecting internal and external sources of news for newsletters, press releases, and other media can be a time-consuming process for communications professionals. Utilizing machine-learning to gauge individual […]
Vanderbilt Business Team Wins the 2nd Annual Iowa MBA Business Analytics Case Competition

Vanderbilt Business Team Wins the 2nd Annual Iowa MBA Business Analytics Case Competition

IOWA CITY, IA — A Vanderbilt Business team comprising Abhinav Verma (MBA ’18), Mai-Linh Hoang (MBA ’18), Tomohiro Nara (MBA ’18), and Trevor Proctor (MBA ’18) took first place and a $5,000 prize at the Iowa MBA Business Analytics Case Competition last Friday. The competition featured 15 business schools from across the US. Teams from the […]
Vanderbilt Entrepreneurship Association Holds Inaugural Owen Venture Competition

Vanderbilt Entrepreneurship Association Holds Inaugural Owen Venture Competition

The Vanderbilt Entrepreneurship Association (VEA), in partnership with Launch Tennessee (LaunchTN), hosted the first Owen Venture Challenge (OVC) for Vanderbilt Business students last week. Patrick Morsches (MBA ’18), Jeffery Hull (MBA ’17), and Rachel Rock-Blake (MBA ’18) took 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place, respectively, earning cash prizes and the chance to compete in the statewide University Pitch […]
Elder Mobility Gap Focus of Inaugural Lyft & Brookdale Vanderbilt Case Challenge

Elder Mobility Gap Focus of Inaugural Lyft & Brookdale Vanderbilt Case Challenge

Article by Elayne Crain Citing the Community Transportation Association, Lyft – a rideshare transportation network and the main industry competitor to Uber – posits that 3.6 million Americans miss or delay medical appointments due to a lack of reliable transportation. Looking for solutions that Lyft could use to fill that transportation gap led them to […]
Vanderbilt MBA Team Wins Wharton PAC Case Competition

Vanderbilt MBA Team Wins Wharton PAC Case Competition

A Vanderbilt Business team composed of Justin Jones (MBA ’17), Ben Hodges (MBA ’17), and Andrew Ewbank (MBA ’17) took first place at the Wharton People Analytics Conference (PAC) case competition on Thursday. Jones, Hodges, and Ewbank beat out teams from Harvard, Texas A&M, Maryland, and UConn to earn first place and a $5,000 prize. Jones […]
Inside the It City, Nashville

Inside the It City

Call it buzz. Call it sizzle. Call it Music City mojo. By almost any measure, Nashville is an It City. Publications from The New York Times to GQ, Southern Living to Rolling Stone, and Bon Appetit to Business Insider have sung its praises. Our branding may still have country music at its core (and given […]