It was a gala affair as 200 guests gathered in The Zone Club at Kyle Field on September 6th to applaud the achievements the 2007 Outstanding Alumni Award recipients, Charles L. Korbell, Jr. ’71, David R. Norcom ’73, and Willie T. Langston II ’81.
Mays MBA student Joan Morrison was interested in pioneering a new business frontier. She already had a master’s in mechanical engineering when she decided to return to school for an MBA with the goal of becoming a consultant in the field of renewable energy technologies. There was just one problem: She couldn’t get an internship.
Since it’s inception four years ago, the Regents’ Scholar program has opened doors of opportunity more than 2,000 first-generation college students at Texas A&M University. This year, Mays welcomed 52 new Regents’ Scholars. While the full-ride scholarship enables these learners to be in the classroom, Mays Business School has developed a special program to keep them there and ensure their success.
In addition to it’s unique menu of French-Asian-American cuisine and extensive collection of wines, Veritas Wine and Bistro, which opened in College Station in January of 2007, boasts a management staff that is entirely comprised of Aggies, including two Mays Business School graduates.
In business there are few better indicators of success than continuous growth. For the third year in a row, the Center for New Ventures and Entrepreneurship (CNVE) at Mays Business School at Texas A&M University, hosted the Aggie 100, an award ceremony recognizing the fastest growing 100 Aggie-owned and operated businesses. This year the top honor went to Hubert Glover ’92, CEO and president of ReDe, Inc.
Laura Fulton ’85 wears many hats: she’s a mom, a wife, a Sunday school teacher, and also the general auditor of one of the top three chemical companies in the nation. Fulton returned to her alma mater recently to talk with students at Texas A&M University’s Mays Business School about a career in accounting and about finding a work-life balance that makes that career worthwhile.
It was a sweet homecoming for three alumni that returned to campus on October 8 for the second annual Mays Business School Outstanding Doctoral Alumni ceremony, held in the Cocanougher Special Events Center.
“Public service is duty,” Chairman Donald E. Powell told a room full of Mays MBA students. “Lots of us talk about it, but few of us do it.”
KPMG LLP, the audit, tax, and advisory firm, has selected Texas A&M student Silvio Canto for its Future Diversity Leaders (FDL) program.
The Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals (CSCMP) has selected Chalam Narayanan to receive the 2007 Doctoral Dissertation Award. Narayanan is a 2006 graduate of Texas A&M University’s Mays Business School and is currently an assistant professor in the Department of Engineering Technology and Industrial Distribution at the Dwight Look College of Engineering at A&M.
