Business

The Vanderbilt Owen Graduate School of Management has established a committee of accounting industry leaders to serve as advisers for its new master of accountancy (MAcc) degree program. Read More

Two Vanderbilt University professors are taking on some country music celebrities in a debate over media ownership. Both sides will testify at a Federal Communications Commission public hearing Dec. 11 at Belmont University. Read More

Programs promoting home ownership and bilingual skills within the Middle Tennessee Hispanic community will be recognized Dec. 4 during Conexi√õn Am√àricas‘ "Celebration of Achievements" at Vanderbilt University. The event, which is sponsored by Vanderbilt‘s Center for the Americas, will be from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. at the university‘s Alumni Hall. Read More

A team of students from the Vanderbilt Owen Graduate School of Management won first place at the 11th annual International Case Competition Nov. 10-11 at Carnegie Mellon University‘s Tepper School of Business. Read More

The Vanderbilt Owen Graduate School of Management has established a Board of Visitors, an advisory group of leading corporate executives, to further strengthen its connection and ensure relevance to the national and international business communities, Dean Jim Bradford announced. Read More

Vanderbilt Owen Graduate School of Management and the Center for Nonprofit Management will hold an information session Thursday, Nov. 9, from 5 to 6:30 p.m. regarding how to apply for an annual tuition sponsorship of an area nonprofit executive to attend the Vanderbilt Executive MBA (EMBA) program. Read More

Vanderbilt Owen Graduate School of Management will expand its degree offerings to include a master‘s degree in accountancy beginning in fall 2007.The 10-month program is intended for non-accounting undergraduates who aspire to launch their careers with one of the top five global accounting firms — Deloitte & Touche, Ernst & Young, Grant Thornton, KPMG and PricewaterhouseCoopers. Read More

One of the biggest stories in global financial markets this summer was China‘s switch from pegging its currency to the dollar, to tying the yuan to a basket of currencies. The switch also revalued the yuan by 2.1 percent in relation to the dollar. Read More

Muhammad Yunus, who earned a Ph.D. in economics at Vanderbilt University in 1971, won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for his work combating poverty through a bank that gives small loans to poor people. Read More

The Vanderbilt Owen Graduate School of Management has announced four new faculty members to join the full-time teaching staff this fall. Read More

Internationally renowned derivative securities expert Robert E. Whaley has been named the Valere Blair Potter Professor of Management at the Vanderbilt Owen Graduate School of Management. Whaley, who began his academic career at the Owen School 28 years ago, most recently was the T. Austin Finch Foundation Professor of Business Administration at the Fuqua School of Business at Duke University, where he had been on faculty since 1986. Read More

Robyn Minton, director of the YWCA's Domestic Violence Services program, has been named the first recipient of tuition sponsorship to the Vanderbilt Owen Graduate School of Management Executive MBA (EMBA) program under the school's partnership with the Center for Nonprofit Management. The sponsorship, which will pay Minton's tuition for the 21-month program, is valued at about $73,000. Read More

A new university-wide initiative is urging tourists and Middle Tennessee residents alike to Visit Vanderbilt. Read More

Henry Petroski, the Aleksandar S. Vesic Professor of Civil Engineering and a professor of history at Duke University, will speak on "The Paradox of Design: Success through Failure" on Wednesday, April 12, at Vanderbilt University in the final presentation of the 2005-06 Chancellor's Lecture Series. Read More

Donna L. Hoffman and Thomas P. Novak, professors of marketing at the Vanderbilt Owen Graduate School of Management, have won the 2005 Sheth Foundation/Journal of Marketing award presented by the American Marketing Association Foundation. Read More

While Super Bowl ads often beat the game itself for entertainment value, they wouldn't be effective any other day of the year, says Jennifer Escalas, associate professor at the Vanderbilt Owen Graduate School of Management and an expert on consumer research and advertising. Read More

Beginning next fall, the Vanderbilt Owen Graduate School of Management and the Center for Nonprofit Management will offer an annual tuition sponsorship to an area nonprofit executive to attend the Owen School's Executive MBA (EMBA) program. Each sponsorship is valued at approximately $70,000. Read More

Vanderbilt experts are available to provide insight on 2005's top stories, including the ongoing trial of Saddam Hussein, Hurricane Katrina, President George W. Bush's appointments to the Supreme Court, the bankruptcy of two major airlines and more. Read More

In a display of innovative thinking and competitive spirit, teams of MBA students from the Vanderbilt Owen Graduate School of Management emerged victorious at three of the nation's premier case competitions last month. In addition, Owen MBAs were finalists in two other recent case contests specifically for minority students. Read More

Managers who use the Internet to sell products and services and to provide customers information can now take advantage of the latest academic research on online retailing. Read More