Warm Welcomes Cheryl Chunn has been named Associate Dean of Development and Alumni Relations. She previously worked as Director of Development, Departmental Programs, for Vanderbilt University Medical Center. Mark Cohen, Professor of Management and Law, has rejoined the Owen School … Continued
Mary Schapiro, Chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission, named Owen professor Craig Lewis the SEC’s new Chief Economist and Director of the Division of Risk, Strategy and Financial Innovation (Risk Fin) this past May. Lewis, the Madison S. Wigginton … Continued
Team Places Third in Health Service Competition A team of students from the Owen School placed third in an inaugural health service case competition held at Northwestern University April 29–30. The 2011 Health Service Case Competition was the first of … Continued
Q&A with Patrick Slay of the Career Management Center Patrick Slay, Senior Associate Director and Director of Coaching, has enjoyed two stints at the Owen School’s Career Management Center (CMC), first in 1999 and then again starting in 2008. A … Continued
ob Whaley, the Valere Blair Potter Professor of Management, and Jacob Sagi, the Vanderbilt Financial Markets Research Center Associate Professor of Finance, rang the NASDAQ OMX opening bell in New York April 19 to celebrate the start of options trading … Continued
The Owen School has launched a new Master of Accountancy program that focuses on preparing students for highly sought-after careers in valuation services for international public accounting firms. The MAcc Valuation program is currently recruiting students to join the first … Continued
This past summer marketing professionals and academics gathered at Owen for the 2010 Advertising and Consumer Psychology Conference, titled “Cracking the Code: How Managers Can Drive Profits by Leveraging Principles of Consumer Psychology.” The conference attendees heard presentations on state-of-the-art … Continued
Read McNamara, MA’76, a seasoned executive who has held senior positions with such Fortune 500 companies as Gillette, Pillsbury, ConAgra, Revlon and Bausch & Lomb, has been appointed Executive Director of the Career Management Center for the Owen School. McNamara … Continued
Advanced Accounting, 4th ed., New York: Wiley & Sons, 2009. By Debra Jeter, Associate Professor of Accounting, and Paul Chaney, the E. Bronson Ingram Professor of Accounting Managing Projects: A Team-Based Approach, Boston: McGraw-Hill Irwin, 2010. By Nancy Lea Hyer, … Continued
The Owen School held its first-ever Welcome Owen Well (W.O.W.) event during new student orientation in August. The event, which was held in the lobby of Management Hall, welcomed members of the Class of 2012, who entered the building and … Continued
A team of students from the Owen School came in first place at the 2009 National MBA Human Capital Case Competition, hosted by Vanderbilt last fall. The competition included teams from 10 of the top graduate schools nationwide. The winning … Continued
Bruce Cooil, Dean Samuel B. and Evelyn R. Richmond Professor of Management, co-authored a paper that won the Best Practitioner Presentation Award at the 2009 Frontiers in Service Conference held in Honolulu last fall. Cooil was part of a research … Continued
Last fall the Owen School and Korn/Ferry International announced a partnership to provide Vanderbilt MBA students access to the same rigorous leadership assessment and ongoing professional-development training Korn/Ferry provides to C-suite executives of the world’s top organizations. The alliance—the first … Continued
A team from the Owen School captured first place and the grand prize of $5,000 on March 19 in the Rolanette and Berdon Lawrence Finance Case Competition at Tulane’s Freeman School of Business. This is the third time a team … Continued
Jim Bradford was reappointed Dean of Vanderbilt Owen Graduate School of Management in December for a five-year term, effective July 1, 2010. “Jim has worked tirelessly over the past five years to promote the Owen School to a variety of … Continued