Rohini Chakravarthy was only 17 years old when she had her first epiphany. An undergraduate at Johns Hopkins with an eye on medical school, Chakravarthy was volunteering for an organization that connects patients with nonmedical resources: healthy food, transportation and insurance benefits. “One of the very first patients I saw was a 17-year-old girl just […]
Emily Baker Tobin, BA’87, MBA’92, the new chair of the Owen Alumni Board, first reconnected with the school about 10 years ago. In the decade since, she’s invested in the school with her time and gifts, but the benefits have flowed both ways. In addition to Owen’s strong alumni network, Tobin has also gained from […]
Berk Sensoy’s study of asset management leverages research findings to develop models and systems that quantify performance of companies, investors and even management.
As a six-year member of the U.S. women’s national in-line hockey team, Charlotte Nicholson earned three golds, two silvers and a bronze. After graduating from Duke, she earned her MAcc degree from Vanderbilt in 2010. She joined KPMG’s audit division, but never left her love for the game behind. Now a manager in KPMG’s advisory […]
John Hawkins, MBA’92, is familiar with the juggling act. During his time at Vanderbilt, he was balancing the life of a newly married husband with the demands of business school. So it’s particularly fitting that the scholarship Renee and John Hawkins established now supports Alrutz, and by extension, his family. As a second-year MBA student […]
Whenever a business or organizational leader comes to campus, whether as part of the student-run Distinguished Speaker Series or simply to meet with students and faculty, Dean Eric Johnson always has one favor to ask: Sit down for a 10-minute video interview.
Tim Perry has never been one to follow convention. When most of his high school classmates in Kansas City decided to attend nearby state universities in Kansas, Perry instead went south to the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville, where he majored in finance. Upon graduating, he again bucked the trend, choosing to enroll directly in […]
Kim Newton might be consulting with a greeting card executive at Hallmark in Kansas City one day. The next day, her team might be addressing a challenge for the company’s Crayola, ornament or home décor businesses. Then, the following week, she might be focused on the digital intersection of greeting cards and Silicon Valley. It’s […]
Two alumnae establish new scholarships to help strengthen Diversity at Owen In 1976, less than a decade after the first 10 students enrolled at Vanderbilt’s new Graduate School of Management, Amy Conlee began her business education. “I was at Owen at a very early stage,” recalls Amy Conlee, MBA’77. Our class size was only […]
Learn how Jack Rutledge, BMus’03, MBA’09, a Blair School of Music undergraduate, turned his talent for music and business to become head of catalog and selection for Amazon Music. Q. What do you do? My team manages Amazon’s digital supply chain, acquiring audio music files and metadata from record labels, and then presenting those products […]
Elliot Waterbury, MAcc’15, died June 14, 2017, in New York City. He was 25. Elliot was born and raised in St. Petersburg, Fla. He earned a master’s in accountancy and business valuations from Vanderbilt University in 2015 and was name valedictorian. Before coming to Vanderbilt, Elliot attended Florida State University, graduating summa cum laude in […]
Students on Professor David Parsley’s DC Trek in April met with several notable economic figures in the nation’s capital, including Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen, who shared perspectives on leadership and monetary policy. The trek is open to students in Parsley’s Business and the World Economy and Seminar in Monetary and Fiscal Policy courses. The […]
Jessica Kennedy busts the myth that women are bad negotiators
Students regularly fill Averbach Auditorium for talks and visits from CEOs, entrepreneurs, and other business leaders, but one new entrepreneur may have drawn listeners for a slightly different reason: star power. In Nashville to open a flagship store for her new business, actress Reese Witherspoon spoke to members of Vanderbilt’s Women’s Business Association about the […]
