Business

The Vanderbilt Owen Graduate School of Management has rewarded five talented and dedicated faculty members with endowed chairs. Read More

The Vanderbilt Owen Graduate School of Management is putting more intellectual power into its already outstanding faculty, by welcoming six new researchers and teachers to the school. Read More

The Supreme Court followed the advice of a Vanderbilt University professor and 25 other top antitrust economists and overturned the decision made by the Second Circuit Court of Appeals on the telecom antitrust lawsuit Bell Atlantic Corp. v. Twombly. Read More

An employee is fired for having a political bumper sticker on his car. Another is let go for complaining about co-workers on a MySpace page. A third person didn't receive a call-back on a prospective job because of the sermon he gave on his church's podcast. Are these violations of free speech? Are private companies breaking the law by firing or not hiring these people? Read More

Michael McSurdy, vice president of program services for the Oasis Center, which helps more than 3,000 young people and their families in the greater-Nashville area every year, is this year's recipient of a full tuition sponsorship to the Vanderbilt Owen Graduate School of Management Executive MBA program. The award is financed by Owen and a winner is chosen through a partnership with the Center for Nonprofit Management. Read More

Copyrights play an integral role for writers and artists. And in this day of Web sites and Internet downloading, copyright rules are evolving. The United States Register of Copyrights, Marybeth Peters, will lead a day-long discussion on the state of copyright law on Friday, April 20 at the Vanderbilt University First Amendment Center. Read More

Major companies across the country are turning to the Accelerator-Vanderbilt Summer Business Institute to get fresh ideas on how to raise their products and programs to a new level. Read More

What do you get when you put a group of creative and inspired Vanderbilt business students in with equally determined students from Vanderbilt's divinity school? How about divine inspiration on the future of business and how business can end poverty. Read More

Adjunct professor of health care innovation and entrepreneurship Michael Burcham is using his expertise as a teacher and a current CEO to lead a team of fellow professors, students and volunteers for this year's Accelerator-Vanderbilt Summer Business Institute. Read More

"It's time to regulate the airline industry; customers need a passengers' bill of rights." A recent massive snowstorm grounded and delayed hundreds of flights across the country. While many airlines found successful ways to handle the delays, some Jet Blue customers were trapped on planes for more than nine hours, with overflowing toilets. Other passengers were forced to camp out for days at airports, with no clear solution from Jet Blue. Airline expert Michael LaprÈ believes this latest evidence of "massive miscalculations from the airlines," shows that it is time for regulation. Read More

More than 4 billion people around the world are considered poor, earning an average of $2 a day. A highly motivated group of Vanderbilt students want to change that statistic and is inviting fellow students to come together to share ideas. Read More

Qubad Talabany, son of Iraqi President Jalal Talabani and representative to the United States for the Kurdistan Regional Government, will be available to answer media questions, Wednesday, March 14, at 3:15 p.m. prior to his lecture at Vanderbilt University. Read More

Vanderbilt professor says Wal-Mart case calls attention to employer‘s right to eavesdrop on employee calls: Bruce Barry, professor of management and sociology, is available to comment on recent case. Read More

Vanderbilt University and Laborers International Union of North America, Local 386, the union representing approximately 600 employees in the custodial, grounds, food service and skilled crafts categories have reached a tentative agreement on a new three-year contract. Read More

A new organization with a goal of making healthy food reliably available to all Middle Tennesseans will publicly launch Friday, Feb. 23 from 8 a.m. to 10 a.m. at the Country Music Hall of Fame in downtown Nashville. The event is free and open to the public. Read More

A group of graduates from the Vanderbilt Owen Graduate School of Management, who now work in the health care industry, has created an association to advance Owen‘s successful health care MBA program. Read More

Vanderbilt sophomores Henry Manice and Wil Keenan‘s two-month trip to Uganda last summer changed lives — theirs and the lives of many Ugandan artisans and children. Read More

Doing spiritually inspired work for the Lord usually begins with the tricky job of persuading someone to donate cold hard cash to the cause. Read More

Two business professionals are taking charge of essential parts of the Owen Graduate School of Management. John Roeder has been promoted to Owen‘s director of admissions and Joyce Rothenberg is now director of Owen‘s Career Management Center. Read More

"Airline consolidation is inevitable," says Michael Lapr√à, associate professor of management at Vanderbilt University‘s Owen School of Management and an expert on the airline industry. Media reports say UAL Corporation, the parent company of United Airlines, is in preliminary talks with Continental Airlines about a possible merger. Lapr√à says airline mergers are unavoidable and, "a sensible idea to pursue." Read More