Students on Professor David Parsley’s DC Trek in April met with several notable economic figures in the nation’s capital, including Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen, who shared perspectives on leadership and monetary policy. The trek is open to students in Parsley’s Business and the World Economy and Seminar in Monetary and Fiscal Policy courses. The immersive experience also stopped by the World Bank to visit with William Mahoney, one of its top economists, as well as the International Monetary Fund, to meet with another leading economist, Prakash Loungani.
Category: Lasting Impression
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Lasting Impression
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Masters of marketing
Fourteen students embarked on Vanderbilt’s inaugural one-year Master of Marketing degree program this fall. Announced in November 2015, the program joins Owen’s one-year master’s programs in finance and accounting, all designed to give recent college graduates an edge in the business world. The Master of Marketing program equips students will skills in digital marketing, analytics, consumer insights, brand management and more. The program also includes two immersion-based independent study programs that help graduates achieve their career goals. Photo Credit: Daniel Dubois -
Whisked away by memory
Remember popping across the street from Management Hall to eat at IHOP, Wendy’s, Ken’s Sushi or Burger King? They’re gone now. You won’t believe how the oft-changing, scraggly row of restaurants, bars and retail has changed. Today, the construction of a new 17-story, 600,000-square-foot mixed-use complex looms over the corner of Broadway and 21st where the restaurants were. The IHOP has been gone for years, replaced by an electric vehicle charging station. A new pedestrian-friendly crosswalk features a much-needed traffic light and a giant whisk (it’s a bike rack). But all is not lost—Mellow Mushroom and SATCO remain in their usual places. Photo by Anne Rayner 
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Classmates that Adventure Together, Stay Together
Eleven incoming MBA students traveled to Costa Rica for an optional Vanderbilt pre-orientation trip in July. While getting to know each other, the intrepid adventurers sped along ziplines, visited local businesses, toured a coffee plantation, conquered white-water rafting, peered inside a volcano and encountered local wildlife, including crocodiles. Here the future classmates kayak on Lake Arenal.
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Lasting Impression: Heart of Finance
Twenty-four first-year MBA students enjoyed the energy and rapid pace of the Big Apple when they spent three packed days in New York during Vanderbilt’s Wall Street Week immersion trip. Part of the adventure was experiencing life like New Yorkers: walking for blocks, taking the subway or cabs, and never going against traffic. Here the group is leaving Goldman Sachs and walking to the charging bull statue at the intersection of Broadway and Morris St.
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Lasting Impression
No matter how many long hours you spent at the Owen School studying, working on projects, attending classes and—yes, socializing—you’ve never seen Management Hall like this. Vanderbilt photographer Daniel Dubois shot this aerial night view while hanging out of a helicopter.
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Lasting Impression
On a sultry day in 1966, U.S. officials visiting Spain were taken by their hosts to watch young bulls be tested for the ring. The Americans watched as a series of aggressive animals charged their trainers. Then the matador queried, “Is there no American brave enough to fight the bulls?”
Only one man responded: Dewey Daane.
Still attired his business suit and tie, Daane took on the bull. As with so many things in his long and distinguished career, Dewey Daane won.
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Lasting Impression
Is it something in the air at New Harmony, Ind.? Each new class of Executive MBA students starts out as strangers. Then a few days into their week-in-residence at the remote, unplugged and historic New Harmony community, they have bonded as colleagues, friends and C-teams. On a warm August evening, the incoming Class of 2015 toasted new friendships and surviving the day’s rigorous schedule. Clockwise, from left, are Kevin Cleveland, April Gardner, Braden Vague, Alice Little, Elizabeth Triggs, Mary Beth Taylor, Silvia Moyses, Rhea Heath and Enderson Miranda.
