A group of five Mays students formed “Team Awesome” to participate in the annual xTax Competition, a national event hosted by accounting firm PricewaterhouseCoopers.
The Center for Retailing Studies at Mays Business School at Texas A&M University will host its annual Retailing Summit in Dallas, Texas, October 1-2. The event will be held at the newly remodeled Westin Galleria Hotel and is expected to draw 250 retailing executives from the nation’s largest chains, such as Ashley Furniture, Kroger, Walgreens, Harley-Davidson, Sewell Automotive and Zale Corporation.
What are you doing this summer? Working? Traveling? Going to school? Here’s a look at what a few Mays students are up to.
A great education can only get a young person so far, thought Lashanta Green ’09 after talking with her classmates at Texas A&M University’s Mays Business School. For an education to be valuable, coupled with all that knowledge must be direction, some plan for the facts to be applied. “A lot of college seniors don’t know what they want to do after graduation, and that’s disturbing to me,” Green said.
L.C. “Chaz” Neely ’62 credits his A&M education with much of his success over the past three decades. For that reason, Neely and his wife, Trisha, have continued their ongoing support to Mays Business School with a recent gift of $500,000, which will establish an endowed scholarship fund for Business Honors students.
Bill R. Brooks ’54 has recently given $50,000 to Mays Business School to establish the Mr. and Mrs. Bill R. Brooks ’54 Dean’s Endowed Scholarship.
What’s at the root of our country’s economic woes? A lack of integrity, says Michael C. Jensen, emeritus professor of business administration at Harvard University. Jensen recently presented his theories about integrity and finance to an audience of faculty and staff at Mays Business School.
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.
