One alumnus is CFO of the major airline he joined right out of Owen. Another’s focus on toys has taken him to Europe and back. Vanderbilt alumni share their personal leadership paths.
We asked five alumni one question: What did you learn about leadership at Owen? That was all it took to spark an hour-long roundtable discussion.
From “136 Words to Live By,” the anthem of Owen Graduate School of Management at Vanderbilt University
Every leader has an executive and an elephant inside them, says Dick Daft. Successful leaders must recognize both sides of themselves and use them to be effective.
Alumni-owned OverDog has recruited hundreds of professional athletes to play the video world’s most popular multiplayer games, including Call of Duty, Madden NFL, FIFA and NBA2K, with fans via the OverDog mobile application.
Already, Owen’s one-year master’s program graduates are demonstrating that they have the skills needed to make a difference in the workplace.
Great minds, stretching from Aristotle to Steve Jobs, have come up with a variety of different ways to define the essence of leadership. How does Vanderbilt set about teaching leadership, a topic that has so many different meanings for so many different people? It comes down to three important pillars.
Francis Guess has been a problem solver in business, government, community and nonprofit arenas ever since he returned from Vietnam and picked Vanderbilt’s new graduate management school instead of law school.
Eric Johnson, Owen’s new dean, is a leader, researcher, teacher, administrator and trailblazer. Discover why he came back to the school where he began his teaching career and why he expects big things and breakthroughs.
Owen and Vanderbilt’s health care community are taking care of business—together.
After being injured in the Boston Marathon bombings, an Owen alumnus takes stock.
Lessons professor David Owens learned teaching an online course to thousands help Vanderbilt students in the clasroom.
The new Americas MBA for Executives program opens global doors for students throughout the hemisphere.
Only months after graduating its first class, the industry-driven Master of Accountancy Valuation program is a hit with accounting firms, recent undergraduates and Owen.
With close ties to the medical community, it’s not surprising that Owen faculty to do innovative research into the business of health care.