Business

Vanderbilt Law School maintained its No. 17 ranking in the nation for the fifth consecutive year, while Peabody College saw seven of its programs ranked in the top 10 by U.S. News & World Report in its annual ranking of the leading graduate and professional schools. Peabody‘s Special Education program was ranked first in the nation for the third straight year. Read More

Joe Blackburn, a leading researcher in operations management and longtime member of the Vanderbilt Owen Graduate School of Management faculty, has been named senior associate dean. Read More

James W. Bradford, a distinguished corporate executive turned educator, has been named dean of the Vanderbilt Owen Graduate School of Management and Ralph Owen Professor for the Practice of Management, announced Provost and Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs Nicholas Zeppos today. Bradford had served as acting dean of the Owen School since last June. Read More

Busy executives often put off professional development because schedules are already too tight or they can‘t afford to leave their jobs to go back to school full time. Read More

An information session on the Vanderbilt Summer Business Institute at the Owen Graduate School of Management will be held on Thursday, Feb. 17, at 5:30 p.m. in the school‘s Averbuch Auditorium. Undergraduate students from area colleges and universities and their parents are invited to learn more about Vanderbilt‘s new summer program at this one-hour event. Read More

The Vanderbilt Owen Graduate School of Management will expand its degree offerings to include a master‘s degree in finance beginning this fall. Read More

Vanderbilt‘s Owen Graduate School of Management was ranked the 31st best MBA program in the world and 21st among those in the United States in rankings of business schools by the Financial Times, one of the world‘s leading business publications. Read More

Busy executives often put off professional development because schedules are already too tight or they can‘t afford to leave their jobs to go back to school full time. Representatives of Vanderbilt University‘s executive programs office and local alumni will be in Nashville and seven other cities in the region in the next three months to explain how successful business people can grow professionally without disrupting their career paths. Read More

A new program at the Vanderbilt Owen Graduate School of Management will see to it that undergraduates who may be lacking a business degree aren't also lacking the business skills they need to succeed early in their careers. Read More

Conventional wisdom has held that companies in which governments reqlinquished some level of control through privatization would out-perform companies in which they retained a controlling interest or had substantial veto powers. However, a new study from the Owen Graduate School of Management finds that publicly traded companies remaining under government control actually do better in terms of performance and market value than companies that are more fully or completely privatized. Read More

Carole Brookins, the World Bank's executive director for the United States, will speak about "Tennessee and the World Bank: Partners in Development" at Vanderbilt University on Oct. 20. Read More

The Owen Graduate School of Management at Vanderbilt University has announced the promotion of three of its MBA program's senior management team members and the return of another to head its Executive MBA and other executive programs. Read More

The Owen Graduate School of Management at Vanderbilt University soared among programs its size in today's ranking of top business schools reported in The Wall Street Journal. The school placed No. 2 in North America among regional schools, those the paper says "tend to be smaller." Read More

Presidential elections, modern poetry and health care are among the wide-ranging non-credit classes available to the public during the fall term of Retirement Learning at Vanderbilt. Read More

If it were a reality TV show, it might have been called "Making the Brand." For the Owen Graduate School of Management at Vanderbilt University, it was a singular opportunity to engage students in a real-time, brand management case that would position the school for a new century and, in the process, give new meaning to the decades-old concept of "brand promise." Read More

Vanderbilt's Peabody College of Education and Human Development has again been ranked 4th in the nation among education schools by U.S. News and World Report in its annual ranking of the leading graduate and professional schools. The college's Special Education program was named No. 1 for the second year in a row. Read More

The marketing faculty of the Owen Graduate School of Management at Vanderbilt University has been ranked second in the nation for research citations by Academic Assessment Services (AAS). Read More

Six teams of MBA students from top business schools competed on Feb. 28 in the fifth annual Vanderbilt MBA eStrategy Contest at the Owen Graduate School of Management at Vanderbilt University. Students from McGill University in Montreal, Canada, took home the $15,000 prize from the contest, one of the largest case competitions of its kind. Read More

Vanderbilt's impact on the local economy totaled at least $3.7 billion last year, according to a recently completed analysis. The University's economic impact on the Middle Tennessee region in fiscal year 2003 is up from $3.4 billion in fiscal year 2002. Read More

A new chair at Vanderbilt University Law School advances the school's program in law and business and honors one of the school's former administrators and long-time supporters. The John S. Beasley II Chair in Law and Business was awarded to its first recipient, Professor Randall Thomas, in a ceremony on Feb. 18. Read More