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The Right Tools

From the Spring 2009 edition of Vanderbilt Business

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Hugh Tanner Hugh Tanner, MBA’85, is Managing Director in the Fixed Income Banking Group at Morgan Keegan & Co. Inc. in Nashville. He credits Owen with teaching him how to think critically and creatively. Those skills led him to create the … Continued

From a Smile to a Grin

From the Spring 2009 edition of Vanderbilt Business

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Polo Romero If anyone understands the changing face of America, it’s Polo Romero, MBA’02. In the decade since studying at Owen, the Mexico native has witnessed not only a boom in the Hispanic population of the United States but also … Continued

Watershed Moment

From the Spring 2009 edition of Vanderbilt Business

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Jeff Recker Jeff Recker, MBA’08, can point to the moment when environmental issues became personal to him. It was Labor Day weekend,and the creek that runs through his backyard in West Nashville suddenly began filling up with dead fish. As … Continued

The Picture of Health

From the Spring 2009 edition of Vanderbilt Business

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According to a recent survey by the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press, roughly 60 percent of Americans think that health care reform is a top priority for the country. While it may not rank as high … Continued

Lies of the Land

From the Spring 2009 edition of Vanderbilt Business

By | Business Roundtable, Departments

On January 23 the Vanderbilt Executive MBA program sponsored a staged reading from Tennessee Repertory Theatre’s production of Glengarry Glen Ross, the Pulitzer Prize-winning play by David Mamet. The play tells the story of four desperate Chicago real estate agents who are willing to engage in any number of unethical activities to sell undesirable real estate to unsuspecting buyers. The title of the play comes from the names of two of the real estate developments being sold by the agents: Glengarry Highlands and Glen Ross Farms.