The big question for new graduates departing our sunny shores, so to speak, last weekend was, what’s next? Or, did you get a job? Turns out 100 percent - every single student - in the Owen Graduate School of Management’s Masters of Accountancy program left Vanderbilt employed. That’s right, one hundred percent found jobs before [...]
Most schools add one endowed chair at a time. Then, later, hire a new professor. Not the Owen Graduate School of Management. Those Type A folks this week announced five new endowed chairs and six new professors, ON THE SAME DAY. Looks like Owen is going to continue its upward trajectory. Is it all thanks [...]
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 [...]
Vanderbilt parents had a chance to see what their students have been learning for the past four or so years with special lectures planned just for them this Senior Day. Listen to political scientists John Geer and Roy Neel making bold predictions about who will win the 2008 presidential primaries, writer-in-residence Alice Randall discussing country [...]
Listen to Yunus’ Senior Class Day address May 10 at Vanderbilt.
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Vanderbilt alum Muhammad Yunus spent a few minutes this morning with members of the media discussing his path from Vanderbilt to Bangladesh, and answering questions about how winning the Nobel Peace Prize has impacted him and his work. Yunus said the widespread media coverage winning the prize received has brought unprecedented attention and [...]
Students applying to the Vanderbilt Accelerator program are in for a lot more than most summer school students. This group of talented undergraduates (and recent graduates) will take on an intensive 4-week course in all aspects of the business world. These students will work with companies like Whirlpool, FedEx, and others to learn [...]
Is the Millenial generation going to be the first that does not do better than their parents financially? The American Dream has always been to climb the economic ladder and become more financially successful than one’s parents, but today’s young people may not have that option. Rising college costs and massive credit card [...]
Vanderbilt economists Joni Hersch and Malcolm Getz have found that the pay gap between men and women is not going away. Even when the researchers took family-care choices and other factors into account, the differences are still huge. Female physicians, for example, earn roughly $69,000 per year while their male counterparts bring in [...]
