“Trust me,” says Andy McCain, BA’84, MBA’86. “As you get older, you really start to reflect on. the people, places and institutions that had a profound impact on you.” For McCain, Vanderbilt is near the top of that list—and the decision to attend often feels a lot like fate. As a high school senior in […]
New research from a Vanderbilt Business professor looks at why businesses fail to follow rules through a unique lens
The report provides the most detailed look yet at the impact of apology legislation on such claims. The researchers are Larry Van Horn, associate professor of management, law and health policy, and executive director of health affairs at the Owen School; W. Kip Viscusi, University Distinguished Professor of Law, Economics and Management; and Benjamin McMichael, […]
And Goldsmith would know: Before she was a behavioral scientist at the Owen School, specializing in the impact of scarcity on decision-making, she was a contestant on the third season of the show. “I’d watched Seasons 1 and 2. I expected all the competition and the deprivation,” she said. “What I didn’t expect, and what […]
President Donald Trump issued an executive order on June 24 designed to bring price and quality transparency to health care markets. Larry Van Horn, associate professor of management, law and health policy, and executive director of health affairs at the Owen School, spoke at the White House signing ceremony. Here’s some of what he had […]
Posavac is the E. Bronson Ingram Professor of Marketing at the Owen School. The study, “Adult Separation Anxiety Disorder Symptomology as a Risk Factor for Thin-Ideal Internalization: the Role of Self-Concept Clarity,” conducted with clinical psychologist Heidi Posavac, recently was published in the journal Psychological Reports. Thin-ideal internalization has been linked to numerous distressing and […]
Duke Energy CEO Lynn Good kicked off the Owen School’s 2018–19 Distinguished Speakers Series, a student-run initiative that brings high-profile executives to Vanderbilt for intimate conversations with management students and faculty.
New research by Ray Friedman, Brownlee O. Currey Jr. Professor of Management, shows that cultural norms can affect how we respond to mistreatment at work—but that it’s possible to shift that perspective. The paper appears in the European Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology. In some countries, such as the United States, people strive to […]
Chancellor Emeritus Nicholas S. Zeppos awarded the Founder’s Medal for the Owen School to Matthew Davis, MBA’19, at the university’s main Commencement ceremony. Owen Commencement speaker Cindy Kent, MBA’99, MDiv’01, Best Buy board member and longtime health care executive, spoke about the keys to living “your best, wild and precious life.” “The truth of the […]
Who: Melissa Thomas-Hunt, a professor of management and the vice provost for inclusive excellence at Vanderbilt University, joined Vanderbilt in July 2017. She earned a bachelor of science in chemical engineering from Princeton and a master of science and Ph.D. in organization behavior from Northwestern University. Her long and distinguished teaching career includes professorships at […]
Operating a business—any business—is a challenging endeavor. But when that business happens to involve a family, perhaps one that’s generations old, some unique obstacles must be considered. Among them: how to plan for succession when one generation has a different vision for the company than the next. Or how to separate one’s professional and personal […]
Xiaoyan Jiang, MBA’01, is a strong believer in the transformative power of international travel. Travel can be an ice-breaker in a conversation, a point of contact that turns a stranger into a friend, and the key to a vast professional network. Jiang has experienced it firsthand. While working for some of the biggest names in […]
Vanderbilt Owen’s Executive Education programs are stepping in to help, developing custom courses for global companies such as Alba, Bridgestone and Nissan that offer strategies for uncertain times. Led by professors like Ranga Ramanujam, Dick Daft and Joe Ryan, the courses explore the concept of a VUCA—Volatility, Uncertainty, Complexity, Ambiguity—world and teach the skills needed […]
Nate Luce, MBA’14, says he got his first real taste of serious marketing work when he enrolled at Owen. He joined the Owen Bloggers club and helped start the #owenlife social media hashtag, which is still in use today. He also coordinated the contest to rename the Thursday night happy hour to “Closing Bell.” “I […]
