{"id":629,"date":"2009-04-21T14:08:12","date_gmt":"2009-04-21T19:08:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/magazines\/vanderbilt-business\/?p=629"},"modified":"2015-07-07T20:19:09","modified_gmt":"2015-07-07T20:19:09","slug":"the-right-tools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.owen.vanderbilt.edu\/vanderbiltbusiness\/the-right-tools\/","title":{"rendered":"The Right Tools"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-631\" title=\"tanner\" src=\"https:\/\/magazine.owen.vanderbilt.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/legacy\/2009\/04\/tanner.jpg\" alt=\"Hugh Tanner\" width=\"300\" height=\"451\" \/><\/p>\n<\/dt>\n<dd class=\"wp-caption-dd\">Hugh Tanner<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<\/div>\n<p>Hugh Tanner, MBA\u201985, is Managing Director in the Fixed Income Banking Group at Morgan Keegan &amp; Co.\u00a0Inc. in Nashville. He credits Owen with teaching him how to think critically and creatively. Those skills led him to create the first publicly offered, privatized student housing project on a college campus.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cColleges know that students do better when they live on campus rather than in an apartment five miles away,\u201d Tanner says. \u201cI work with universities to develop financing plans for on-campus housing projects. Whether it\u2019s bond insurance, stand-alone financing or private placement, we find the avenue that makes the most sense for the school.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The economic downturn has affected Tanner\u2019s business, but housing projects are still moving forward. \u201cUniversity housing has an identifiable source of revenue, so they can use those revenues to finance the projects. It\u2019s not something you can really do with a chemistry building,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n<p>Tanner also owns Moody Packaging, which creates custom corrugated containers. \u201cWe do a lot of work with the local auto manufacturers and build containers to ship everything from engines to rear ends to transmissions,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n<p>Despite this full workload Tanner also finds time to serve on Owen\u2019s alumni board. \u201cI think it\u2019s important to give back,\u201d he says. \u201cVanderbilt and Owen are such integral parts of our community that you want to do everything you can to help them succeed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI always viewed an MBA as basically having the right tools in a tool box or arrows in a quiver. You take them out when you need them. I doubt I\u2019d be an investment banker today without my Vanderbilt MBA.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hugh Tanner Hugh Tanner, MBA\u201985, is Managing Director in the Fixed Income Banking Group at Morgan Keegan &amp; Co.\u00a0Inc. in Nashville. He credits Owen with teaching him how to think critically and creatively. Those skills led him to create the first publicly offered, privatized student housing project on a college campus. \u201cColleges know that students [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":341,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,66],"tags":[27],"class_list":["post-629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-class-acts","category-departments","tag-spring2009"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.owen.vanderbilt.edu\/vanderbiltbusiness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.owen.vanderbilt.edu\/vanderbiltbusiness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.owen.vanderbilt.edu\/vanderbiltbusiness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.owen.vanderbilt.edu\/vanderbiltbusiness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/341"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.owen.vanderbilt.edu\/vanderbiltbusiness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=629"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.owen.vanderbilt.edu\/vanderbiltbusiness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8945,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.owen.vanderbilt.edu\/vanderbiltbusiness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629\/revisions\/8945"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.owen.vanderbilt.edu\/vanderbiltbusiness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.owen.vanderbilt.edu\/vanderbiltbusiness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.owen.vanderbilt.edu\/vanderbiltbusiness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}