Landon Foster, a former college football player, is now a Master of Science in Finance student at Vanderbilt Owen. Courtesy photo
News from Vanderbilt University Owen Graduate School of Management
“If there is one thing Landon Foster has always been sure of, it is his identity as an athlete. The Nashville native has been playing soccer for as long as he can remember and took up football in high school. His father, a former safety for the University of Tennessee, instilled a love of SEC football in his son.
“’When I wasn’t on the field playing soccer every Saturday … I would be at a sports bar watching college football, and so it was always a dream (to play in the SEC),’ Foster said. ‘I put that on a pedestal — playing in front of 100,000 people — it’s tough to get a better experience in college than that.’
“In full pursuit of his goals, Foster attended boot camps across the nation the summer before his senior year in hopes of being recruited as a punter/kicker. He ultimately accepted an offer to play for the University of Kentucky Wildcats, accomplishing his dream of playing SEC football. However, off the field, Foster was beginning to grapple with another part of his identity, and it took a national chain of events during his college years for him to discover exactly what that was.”
Texas McCombs Introduces New Blockchain/FinTech Track to Master’s in Technology Commercialization
News from University of Texas at Austin McCombs School of Business
“The McCombs School of Business at The University of Texas at Austin has added a new Blockchain and FinTech track to its 10-month program. The new 12-credit-hour track allows students interested in blockchain to take coursework that emphasizes the application of the technology in financial services, including the development of smart contracts and applications in supply chains. With blockchain’s potential to solve many age-old business problems, this track will give MSITM students significant hands-on experience in developing business solutions and analyzing the strategic implications that this transformational new technology makes possible.”
London Business School
When Crowdfunding Met Crypto
News from London Business School
“The technology sector bubbles with activity. Scarcely a week goes by without a clutch of takeovers being announced. Start-ups are gobbled up by their larger peers. Companies that have already proved their worth merge or are acquired.
“The high-profile, big ticket examples are well known: in a handful of cases, seriously large sums are paid for tech companies that the largest players want to dovetail with their existing operations. Think of YouTube, launched in 2005 and bought the following year by Google for $1.65bn; Instagram, launched in 2010 and swept up by Facebook for $1bn in 2012; WhatsApp, launched in 2009 and bought by Facebook in 2014 for $19.3bn.”
Yevgenia Nayberg
Organizational Change Is Often A Tough Sell, But Encouraging Peer Interactions Can Help
News from Northwestern University Kellogg School of Management
“Most of us can recall learning math by memorizing multiplication tables. The same goes for today’s math teachers, who likely learned like this. Yet many of those teachers are now being asked to teach math in a very different way. This new method focuses on concepts and principles in addition to computation, using drawings or blocks, say, to get the ideas across.
“But getting teachers to adopt this new curriculum and reform-oriented way of thinking and teaching is no small feat. And it is a challenge that likely sounds familiar to anyone who has tried to bring about a change in thinking and practice inside a large organization.”
The new courses provide students with a detailed view of how businesses can work with governments, NGOs, investors, and consumers to make the world a better place. Tuck photo
Tuck Rolls Out New Courses On Social Entrepreneurship & Impact Investing
News from Dartmouth College Tuck School of Business
“For the past few years, clinical professor Curt Welling D’71, T’77 has been teaching a popular course at Tuck called Business and Society.
“Behind that rather simple name is a tectonic shift in the business landscape that is causing firms of all sizes to ask existential questions about the impact of their operations on people and the environment. Should soft drink companies, for example, bear some responsibility for increased rates of obesity and type-2 diabetes? Should manufacturers be expected to ensure their products don’t end up in a landfill? Should firms pay for the greenhouse gasses they emit into the atmosphere? More broadly, the course explores how companies’ implicit license to operate is under scrutiny in this changing social dynamic. ‘I teach that course twice a year and it’s always well subscribed,’ says Welling, who, prior to returning to Tuck, was a managing director at Credit Suisse and Bear Sterns, and the president and CEO of the AmeriCares Foundation. ‘We’ve seen a steady increase in the interest of students to study these issues.’”
UC-Berkeley
What is UC Berkeley? 8 times when UC Berkeley was an answer on ‘Jeopardy!’
News from UC-Berkeley Haas School of Business
“’Jeopardy!’ is the premier puzzle quiz show on television, a haven for trivia buffs, know-it-alls, and those looking to show off their niche interests. UC-Berkeley has strong roots in the ‘Jeopardy!’ universe, both in terms of contestants appearing on the show (including alumna Niki Peters, who competed on the ‘Jeopardy! College Championship’ in 2016 as a student) and as part of the questions. Here are eight examples of times Alex Trebek has posed questions to contestants in which the correct answer was our good old campus.
A brief disclaimer: Though Berkeley as a city has often been used as a ‘Jeopardy!’ answer, this list is limited to times when ‘UC Berkeley’ or ‘Berkeley’ in relation to campus would be considered correct. This list was also compiled using Jeopardy! data from the J! Archive online database.”
MBA students snap a photo before they begin shadowing in the hospital. Owen photo
‘The Perfect Foundation’: Healthcare Immersion Introduces Students To The Industry
News from Vanderbilt Owen
“Over fall break at Owen, students donned scrubs and observed operating rooms and emergency departments. No, they weren’t physicians-in-training — they’re MBA students interested in the healthcare concentration at Vanderbilt Business.
“Since healthcare is such a complex industry, every fall the school puts on a week-long boot camp designed to get the MBAs up to speed and give them a taste of the industry. Throughout the week, students shadow doctors and nurses, visit healthcare facilities and companies, and listen to leaders from healthcare organizations large and small. Below are three MBAs’ reflections on the experience.”
LBS
Staying On Top Of The Workplace Revolution
News from LBS
“The future of work feels closer than ever before. Technology, longer lives and individual expectations are tearing at the seams of conventional office life. The revolution is happening before our eyes.
“The rise of self-employment, portfolio careers, the home office, the shared office all respond to the uncertainty of contemporary employment and answer a mood of self-determination in society as a whole; to be your own boss and chase your dreams. It is work not just as remuneration but as a component of identity and a path to self-fulfillment.”
Charlie Hyman/Daily Texan
Invest Today To Save For Tomorrow
News from Texas McCombs
“As college students, we’re told to save and spend smart. While these are definitely wise things for students to do during college, money management should also focus on our future. To aim for long-term financial success, students should start investing their money.
“The first step in this process is implementing smart saving tactics with any money you currently have.
“’Before investing, students should set aside an emergency fund in a bank account or a safe place of about $1,000,’ said Terri Holbrook, a senior lecturer in the accounting department at the McCombs School of Business. ‘That might sound like a lot, but you should have enough money to cover unseen expenses like car repairs, medical emergencies or family emergencies without borrowing money or using a credit card.’”
Kai Nip
Cabinet Mixed On School Of Global Affairs
News from Yale SOM
“As the University begins to solicit feedback from students and faculty members on the potential transformation of the Jackson Institute of Global Affairs into a degree-granting school, members of the University cabinet — a key advisory body for University President Peter Salovey — diverged as to whether Yale should convert the institute into a new school of global affairs.
“Last month, University Provost Ben Polak’s Advisory Committee on the Future of the Jackson Institute released a report calling for “an intentionally small school [of Global Affairs], with a focused mission and close interaction among faculty, fellows, and students.” In an interview with the News at the time, Polak said the University will decide on whether to follow the committee’s recommendation this academic year after hosting town hall meetings with faculty members next spring.”
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