Executive MBA

Perspectives on life in the Vanderbilt Executive MBA Program

Why Owen for Engineers? Meet David Johnson.

Name: David Johnson Graduation Year: 2010 Track: Executive Edge Company: Nissan North America Title: Vice President, New Model Production Engineering and Quality David Johnson is a 2010 alumnus of the Vanderbilt Executive MBA program. An engineer by trade, David has devoted a large portion of his career to leading and streamlining operations at Nissan. After […]

Global Immersion Capstone Strategy Project Spotlight: Grupo ADO Transporte

An EMBA Global Immersion capstone team offers insights to their client company, Grupo Ado Transporte, on how to bring their internal transportation software to market in Latin America.   During the second year of the Vanderbilt Executive MBA program’s Global Immersion Track, students join an international cohort of about 60 students from the four prestigious business […]

Executive Edge Capstone Project Spotlight: Hattie B’s Hot Chicken

An EMBA team proposes an operating model and new locations to help the fast-casual restaurant concept continue its rapid growth.     In the Executive Edge track of the Vanderbilt Executive MBA program, students are assigned to a cross-function C-Team, designed to emulate a C-suite of executives. During their final spring semester, each C-Team completes a capstone strategy project, […]

Executive Edge Capstone Project Spotlight: Advancing Practitioners

An EMBA team offers suggestions to help their client company, Advancing Practitioners, expand from peri-operative care into the post-acute space.         In the Executive Edge track of the Vanderbilt Executive MBA program, students are assigned to a cross-function C-Team, designed to emulate a C-suite of executives. During their final spring semester, each C-Team completes […]

Why Owen for Attorneys? Meet Judd Peak.

Name: Judd Peak Graduation Year: 2015 Track: Executive Edge Company: Frost-Arnett Company Title: Chief Compliance Officer and General Counsel   Judd Peak is a 2015 alumnus of the Vanderbilt Executive MBA program. After spending a large portion of his career as an attorney at a variety of high profile law firms, Judd wanted to broaden […]

Why Owen for Consultants? Meet Kevin Cowherd.

Name: Kevin Cowherd Graduation Year: 2010 Track: Executive Edge Company: Ankura Title: Senior Managing Director     Kevin Cowherd is a 2010 alumnus of the Vanderbilt Executive MBA program. After spending a large portion of his career in the HR/Talent Management field, Kevin wanted to broaden his perspective while continuing to leverage his experience in […]

Why Owen for Sales Professionals? Meet Erin Tomlinson.

Name: Erin Tomlinson Graduation Year: 2011 Track: Executive Edge Company: Eventbrite Title: Nashville Site GM and Global Head of Revenue Enablement     Erin Tomlinson is a 2011 alumnus of the Vanderbilt Executive MBA program. After spending a large portion of her career in Sales for the technology industry, Erin wanted to deepen her financial […]

Global Immersion Capstone Project Spotlight: Des-Case

For Vanderbilt Executive MBA graduate, Jon Haworth, the Global Immersion Capstone Project experience came with a certain amount of pressure. His client on the project, Brian Gleason, is not only a Vanderbilt Executive MBA graduate (class of 1997), but also his boss. Gleason is the President and CEO of Des-Case, a manufacturing company specializing in contamination control […]

Executive MBA Alumni Help Chart the Future of Telemedicine

The Paths of Lanson Hyde, Sanat Dixit, and Rob Moskowitz converge at Satchel Health In 2011, Sanat Dixit (EMBA’12) connected with a prospective Executive MBA student at a Starbucks in Nashville’s Green Hills neighborhood. The neurosurgeon was completely unaware that seated behind him was fellow EMBA alum and physician Rob Moskowitz (EMBA’08), until the emergency […]

Brock Lodge (EMBA’07) Blends Art and Science at Vulcan Materials Company

When the subprime mortgage “bubble” burst in 2007, setting off a chain of events that led to an international banking crisis in 2008 and the Great Recession, few areas of the economy were left unscathed. The construction industry felt the pain almost immediately; home building stopped, as did public investment in infrastructure projects. For suppliers […]