Business

The global financial system and the world economy are now recovering from a credit crisis which began in the spring of 2007 and continues to this day. The sources of the crisis are many. Now governments are debating how to change the financial system to prevent this from happening again. Read More

Vanderbilt Peabody College of education and human development was ranked as the best graduate school of education in the nation by U.S. News & World Report for the second consecutive year. Read More

A lecture about Google’s effect on culture, commerce and community set for April 15 at Vanderbilt University has been canceled. Read More

A professor at the Owen Graduate School of Management believes that the practice of "poaching" other companies' employees should be accepted or even encouraged in the business world. Tim Gardner is the co-author of the paper "The Ethics of Lateral Hiring," which is being published in Business Ethics Quarterly. Read More

Sen. Bob Corker, a member of the Senate Banking Committee who has played a role in helping craft the Senate's version of regulatory reform legislation, is coming to the Vanderbilt Owen Graduate School of Management to hold a discussion on regulatory reform with academic experts, banking leaders and finance graduate students. Read More

Should states “take back” some of the power to regulate land use from local governments to help facilitate more environmentally sustainable building? That's the question that will be debated during a panel discussion on the role of local and state land use regulation in fostering green building design. Read More

Problems of extreme poverty – from affordable housing to health care delivery to nutrition – will be the focus of efforts by a large number of students traveling this spring to Guatemala, where Vanderbilt already leads numerous sustained studies and initiatives. Read More

According to a just-released, large-sample study, the extent to which medical residents are involved in reporting safety incidents is limited, indicating a need for more institutional focus about how, when, why and where incidents should be reported. Read More

It‘s generally accepted among business leaders that "poaching" or hiring a competitor‘s employees violates an unwritten rule of business and may be unethical. A new research paper concludes that as long as their actions are not deceptive or illegal, companies that intentionally identify, contact and offer employment to a rival firm‘s employees are within the bounds of ethical behavior. Read More

Ken Feinberg, better known as President Obama‘s executive pay czar, will deliver the keynote speech for a daylong executive pay conference Feb. 26 at the Vanderbilt Law School. The lecture, scheduled for noon in Flynn Auditorium, is free and open to the public. Read More

An article by Vanderbilt‘s Robert Whaley explaining the Chicago Board Options Exchange‘s volatility index received the Best Article award as voted by subscribers of Institutional Investor Inc.‘s The Journal of Portfolio Management. Read More

Two Vanderbilt professors have issued the fourth edition of their iconic textbook, Advanced Accounting (John Wiley and Sons). The authors, Debra Jeter and Paul Chaney, say each new edition adapts to changes in accounting standards and laws. Read More

An article by Vanderbilt's Robert Whaley explaining the Chicago Board Options Exchange's volatility index was among the leading global financial articles of 2009 in Institutional Investor Journals. Read More

Americans value preventing deaths from terrorist attacks almost twice as much as they value preventing deaths from natural disasters, according to a study by Vanderbilt economist W. Kip Viscusi. Read More

A workshop on transformational leadership will be held Jan. 16 at Vanderbilt University. The public is invited to the 9 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. event in the reading room of Vanderbilt Divinity School, 411 21st Ave. S. Read More

Vanderbilt University faculty are available to offer perspective on business issues and other current topics for the year 2010. Read More

A team of MBA students from Vanderbilt's Owen Graduate School of Management took second place in a prestigious MBA case competition, the University of Texas at Austin National Real Estate Challenge. Read More

Luke Froeb, a Vanderbilt University business professor and former Chief Economist at the FTC said he sees very little horizontal overlap in the NBC/Comcast merger. But that wouldn't necessarily stop the Federal Communications Commission from asking for relief to assuage competitive and diversity concerns, said Froeb. Read More

Jim Bradford has been re-appointed dean of Vanderbilt's Owen Graduate School of Management for a five-year term, effective July 1. The announcement was made by Richard McCarty, vice chancellor for academic affairs and provost. Read More

Woodrow "Woody" Lucas, a doctoral student at Vanderbilt University's Owen Graduate School of Management, was one of only two recipients of a Ph.D. Trailblazer Award for 2009 from the National Black MBA Association at the annual meeting in New Orleans. Read More