Turner Family Center summer fellows seek to provide secure mobile banking for refugees
The Owen Student Government Association (OSGA) kicked off the academic year with an Opening Bell ceremony to welcome students and remember rising second-year MBA student Nii Amar Amarfio, who passed away last week in California. The cause of death has not yet been determined, but the coroner’s office is investigating natural causes. Nii was interning at the […]
Our Career Insider series continues with a look at two different internship paths – Operations and General Management. We talked with Ben Rasmus, who is interning at Land O’ Lakes in an operations capacity, and Yashar Pirasteh, a Leaders to Executives intern at T-Mobile. We followed up with them at the end of the summer […]
For first-year students looking to change job functions, mastering the personal story is critical — finding the parallel between past experiences and future job requirements is essential to convincing employers you’re right for the job. For MBAs with more “traditional” backgrounds, this can be a straightforward task. But how do the poker players and heavy […]
For the majority of MBA students, summer is a time for internships. We’ve asked several first-year students about their internship journeys, and how they got their positions. We checked back with them at the end of the summer to get their thoughts on the experience. This week, we spotlight students concentrating in Marketing. We talked with […]
For the majority of MBA students, summer is a time for internships. We’ve asked several first-year students about their internship journeys and how they got their positions. We checked back on them at the end of the summer to get their thoughts on the experience. This week, we spotlight a student concentrating in Finance, specifically […]
For the majority of MBA students, summer is a time for internships. We’ve asked several first-year students about their internship journeys, and how they got their positions. This week, we spotlight students concentrating in Human and Organizational Performance, or HOP.
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.
Adena Friedman (MBA ‘93), CEO of Nasdaq, delivers remarks to Vanderbilt University’s Owen Graduate School of Management’s Class of 2017.
Publication: Poets & Quants: 2017 Best MBAs Student Caroline Collins, who graduates from Vanderbilt Owen Graduate School of Management this week, is interviewed about her experience in business school. She mentions the Corporate Strategy course taught by Brian McCann, associate professor of strategic management, and her involvement in Owen’s Women in Business Association. Tim Vogus, associate […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Every spring, students in the Vanderbilt MAcc program intern at the accounting firms known as the “Big Four” (Deloitte, EY, KPMG, and PwC). The opportunity is truly unique – students hone their craft at an industry leader during accounting’s busiest season, leveraging a paid, hands-on experience to build the technical and soft skills they’ll need […]
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 […]
