Owen Graduate School of Management celebrated Commencement May 12. All told, the Class of 2017 received 173 MBAs and 39 Executive MBAs, 48 master’s of science in finance, 47 master’s of accountancy, and 14 master’s of marketing. Members of the 2016 master’s of management in health care and EMBA programs also participated. After a welcome […]
Highlights from Reunion 2015 https://magazine.owen.vanderbilt.edu/owen-family-reunion/
Photos by Daniel Dubois, Brett Israel and Harkirat Sareen DOWNTOWN AT THE WILDHORSE Two weeks before their U.S. classmates arrived at Vanderbilt, a bus full of incoming students from China, Mexico, India, Peru, Vietnam, Germany, and several other countries pulled up to the curb on Second Avenue in downtown Nashville. The students nervously stepped off […]
Belinda Grant-Anderson, BE’83, MBA’90, earned a Vanderbilt School of Engineering degree and is in leadership at one of the world’s largest telecommunications companies. So what does the engineer say is her company’s top advantage? People. “People are the greatest asset we have,” she says, “and diversity makes us a stronger, more competitive company. Research has […]
In 1957 a high school counselor told Maria Renz’s mother that her ambition to be a nurse was too lofty. “As a result, my mom always said—with so much conviction—that you can be whatever you want to be,” says Renz, MBA’96. “And I believed it.” Today Renz holds a coveted job in the business world. […]
To learn how one of the most influential business leaders thought, worked and strategized, you could read Bruce D. Henderson’s books. You could engage a business consultant in the firm he founded, Boston Consulting Group. Or you could have lunch with his widow, Bess Henderson, who was at BCG in its early days and who […]
Like the stock market and the world economy, the marketplace for MBA talent is in constant flux. For Vanderbilt and its students, preparing for the future means keeping a constant eye on hiring trends, technological developments and geographical shifts, among a dozen other parameters. With employment figures in for the Class of 2015, Vanderbilt Business […]
Former Apple executive Mike Janes, MBA’84, still remembers the message Sam Richmond, former dean of Vanderbilt’s Owen Graduate School of Management, delivered to students on their first day of classes. “You’re going to work really hard and you’re going to learn a lot of stuff—and within five years it’ll all be obsolete,” Richmond told the […]
Once a quarter, the top management of nearly every publicly traded company in the U.S. gathers around a speakerphone or webcam in a conference room and talks to brokerage firm analysts about earnings. The calls begin with prepared remarks that provide an overview of last quarter’s performance, followed by a question-and-answer session. The ritual started […]
There’s a popular misconception that artists don’t understand finance and businesspeople don’t appreciate the arts. Don’t tell Ann Marie and Greg Brink that. CreativeBrinkGreg Brink, EMBA’03, is a senior risk manager at Fannie Mae and has spent his career working with commercial mortgages. His wife, Ann Marie, is a professional musician who is the associate […]
Transitioning into your fourth job is a wholly different proposition than landing your first. “Graduating students have recruiters come to the school to hire them, but as an experienced hire, you have to motivate yourself to go through the job search process,” says Lacy Nelson, MEd’89, Owen’s associate director of Executive and Alumni Career Services. […]
The Owen School can say that, too (all our students are talented high achievers), but we tend to not group people together. Each person is individual, unique and vital to the makeup of our student body. To learn more about incoming students, Senior Associate Director of Admissions Suzanne Feinstein, EMBA’01, polled them on several questions […]
Whether engineering a nutcracker to allow Senegalese women to press and sell a highly desirable nut oil or gathering market data on the need for an inexpensive gastric cancer test in the middle of Honduras, Vanderbilt students involved in Project Pyramid have proven the viability and value of social enterprise. Now they’re moving it to […]
Students take charge in Owen’s current 40+ student-run groups and associations. When you have fewer than 600 students, everyone is expected to lead.
Just because you’re a business professor doesn’t mean you have to be all business, all the time, and Owen faculty are no exception. Among them are a champion trick water-skier, charcuterie, screenwriter, barkeep (and builder) and owner of a multi million-dollar company. They shine in the classroom—why not out of it? Meet five professors who […]
