Business

The Net Impact group at the Vanderbilt Owen Graduate School of Management is hosting a day-long symposium on profitable environmentally and socially conscious careers and the new sustainable economy. Read More

The Vanderbilt Owen Graduate School of Management will host a free workshop for Nashville-area companies to learn how to get the ideal intern for their business. The workshop will be held at the Owen School, Room 218, on Jan. 16 at 8 a.m. Registration starts at 7:30 a.m. The event is free and open to the public. Read More

The fast-growing number of withdrawal restrictions being imposed by hedge funds to curtail capital drain during the financial market crisis comes with a hefty price tag for fund investors, says a new study from the Vanderbilt Owen Graduate School of Management. The research comes as investors seek desperately to exit hedge funds to avoid further declines and the possibility of fund failure, yet face a suspension of redemptions by fund managers. Read More

At Vanderbilt University, college students – the group most targeted by the recording industry for prosecution for illegal downloading – are proposing solutions instead of complaining. Read More

First-year students in the "Stealing in Music City" seminar at Vanderbilt University must devise a workable system for distributing music that delivers content for a reasonable price and allows songwriters, artists and other stakeholders to get paid. Read More

New Vanderbilt research finds that states can save a substantial amount of money if they use a shared system of both privately and publicly managed prisons. The savings don't come from the use of private prisons alone, but Read More

Vanderbilt University has launched a new e-commerce Web site that allows users to purchase innovative software, courseware and other digital products over the Internet. Read More

Expanding on her exceptional career as a researcher, educator and administrator, Dawn Iacobucci has been promoted to the post of associate dean for faculty development at the Vanderbilt Owen Graduate School of Management. Read More

Watch video of Bill Frist speaking at the inaugural Health Care Business Alliance hosted by the Vanderbilt Owen Graduate School of Management. Read More

Research conducted by professors Ray Friedman and Neta Moye finds that the perceived mistreatment of potential employees during the recruitment process has a significant and lasting impact on workers' long-term relationships with employers. Read More

Watch video of Robert Merton, John and Nancy Arthur University Professor at Harvard Business School, speaking at the Conference on Financial Innovation. Read More

Watch video of a talk by Leo Melamed, chairman emeritus of the CME Group (Chicago Mercantile Exchange) and the founder of the first futures market Read More

The Health Care Business Alliance will bring together leaders from a diverse group of local and national health care companies with health care MBA and MHA students to discuss the latest challenges and future innovations of this vital industry. Read More

Former United States Senate Majority Leader and transplant surgeon Bill Frist, M.D., is returning to Vanderbilt to lead a first-of-its-kind academic experience at the Vanderbilt Owen Graduate School of Management. Read More

When young people are released from juvenile detention, jail or prison, one of the biggest concerns for society is how to prevent that offender from repeating those bad actions. A new study led by Mark Cohen, an economist and professor at the Vanderbilt Owen Graduate School of Management, found that the re-entry program for youth offenders called YouthBuild reduced criminal activity, raised graduation rates and created a substantial cost-benefit for taxpayers. Read More

William Spitz, former treasurer of Vanderbilt University, has been named the 2008 Lifetime Achievement Winner by Foundation & Endowment Money Management. Spitz retired from Vanderbilt last year. Read More

Vanderbilt's Justin Potter Professor of American Competitive Enterprise and professor of law Mark Cohen is taking on a new role as vice president of research for Research for Resources for the Future (RFF). RFF is an independent, non-partisan research organization dedicated to improving environmental, energy and natural resource policymaking worldwide through social science research of the highest caliber. Read More

College students and recent graduates from across the country have converged on the Vanderbilt Owen Graduate School of Management for an intensive month-long business boot camp. The goal of the Accelerator Summer Business Institute, which began June 6 and ends July 3, is to offer an action-packed immersion into all areas of business, such as marketing, finance, real estate and corporate strategy. Read More

There\'s more to great health care than medicine. While physicians, nurses and hospital administrators are experts at patient care, they often lack the business skills needed to be effective managers. The new Vanderbilt Master of Management in Health Care is a one-year degree program designed to arm clinical professionals with the business fundamentals and decision-making skills needed to successfully manage people, programs and processes. Read More

Vanderbilt\'s Accelerator program offers undergraduates and recent graduates an intensive immersion in the world of business. Accelerator participants are assigned to competitive teams and are expected to provide solutions to problems and opportunities presented by real corporations. Read More