How does a major American brand reposition itself in a changing global market? Pepsi Bottling Group president and chief executive officer Eric Foss talked about that challenge to Mays MBA students.
Mays Business School students are devoted to serving others all year round, not just at the holidays. Actively giving back is stressed both in the classroom and through student organizations, and each semester hundreds of students answer the call to action.
Mays Business School recently completed the accreditation maintenance process with AACSB International (The Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business), the premier accrediting agency and service organization for undergraduate and graduate business administration and accounting programs. After completing this review Mays and the Department of Accounting have been granted another five years of accreditation.
Two Mays Business School graduates have devised the perfect plan for investing. The formula is simple: buy what Warren Buffet buys.
The sight of dazzling emerald hills caressing the shoreline. The smell of salty waves. The rhythmic rocking of the boat. The sound of sea birds crying. The feel of fresh, cool, Alaskan air.
And the slick thud of fish after fish landing on the boat-bottom as Scott Lee and his sons pull them out of the net.
The spring semester will see a few changes in leadership at Mays Business School. David Blackwell, head of the Department of Finance and Republic Bank/James W. Aston Professor of Finance, will be stepping down as department head and taking on the roll of associate dean for graduate programs.
Texas A&M Distinguished Professors of Marketing Leonard L. Berry and Rajan Varadarajan have been selected as recipients of the 2008 Paul D. Converse Award. This honor from the American Marketing Association is bestowed once every four years to five scholars who have made a significant contribution to the science of marketing through their lifetime of research.
An article by Texas A&M Distinguished Professor Leonard Berry has recently been recognized by Business Horizons and Elsevier, the world’s largest publisher of medical and scientific literature, with their best paper of 2007 award.
At the end of the semester, students tend to relax when it comes to class attendance and note-taking. This was not the case, however, for the final meetings of the introduction to Business (BUSN 100) class, which featured Al Reese ’71 as a guest lecturer. Reese, who is the chief financial officer of ATP Oil & Gas Corporation, gave students practical advice for succeeding in the business world. He spoke to 150 students in two sections of the class.
The Society of Industrial and Office Realtors Foundation recently announced the winners of the annual Majestic Realty Co. Educational Scholarship program. Five $10,000 awards were presented to outstanding graduate students pursuing careers in commercial real estate. Jacob Milligan, a master of real estate student at Mays Business School at Texas A&M was one of the five recipients.
