“He was a fervent Aggie,” said David Donnelly, partner in the accounting firm of Gainer, Donnelly & Desroches (GD&D), of his long-time friend and business partner Sam Svoboda, a 1982 graduate of Texas A&M. Svoboda had worked with the firm since 1993 and passed away unexpectedly in May of 2007. His legacy lives on, however, [...]
Longtime friends and classmates Doris and Charles Brown ’61, and Barbara and Julian “Barry” Coon ’61 have teamed up to create a $250,000 endowment with the Texas A&M Foundation. Their gift, in the form of real estate, will establish scholarships at Texas A&M University in both the Mays Business School Department of Accounting and the [...]
James M. Stark ’84, vice president of CB Richard Ellis, lives and works in Houston, but he finds himself regularly visiting College Station. “What Texas A&M did for me—I just don’t think my life would’ve been as great without it,” he said.
Stark recently pledged $105,000 to Mays Business School in the form of an estate [...]
Accounting leader Ernst & Young has had a strong relationship with Mays Business School at Texas A&M University for more than 30 years. They’ve cemented that bond with a recent gift of $500,000, which will be used to establish the Ernst & Young Professional Program Learning Endowment. This generous gift will be used to support [...]
Joseph Hughes, Jr. ’75 recently met with a group of business honors students to discuss the ins and outs of the business world.Joseph Hughes, Jr. ’75 recently gave back to his alma mater in an important way: he came to campus to meet with students and gave them advice from his own experience. Hughes spoke [...]
Texas A&M University is the top-ranked institution in The Washington Monthly’s new “College Guide,” which its editors say focuses on “tangible contributions to the public interest.”
The publication, based in Washington, D. C., has consistently ranked Texas A&M among the top five institutions in its annual rankings, but this year’s guide is the first to rank [...]
In recent rankings released by the Wall Street Journal, the Mays MBA program made a significant jump in regional rankings to 11th among public schools (23rd overall) from 16th public (31st overall.) The rankings are based on recruitment activity by major corporations.
The Society of Industrial and Office Realtors (SIOR) Foundation and its Houston Gulf Coast Chapter recently chose four graduate students at Mays Business School at Texas A&M Univeristy to receive $14,000 in scholarships.
Real estate students James Harris, Gregory Collins, and Kristen Parker and MBA student Jesse Durden, were selected on a basis of their academic [...]
A few short weeks ago, many freshmen made an important decision: they picked their major. Regardless of the initial decision, many students will have a change of heart or spark different interests before leaving college.
For engineers who experience that change of heart, there’s a great option: the Business Leadership Management Certificate Program for Engineering Students. [...]
What leads to international diversification? Is globalization good for both small and big firms?These were the complex questions that brought Michael Hitt, Laszlo Tihanyi, Toyah Miller, and Brian Connelly together. The quartet researched together for two years and wrote International Diversification: Antecedents, Outcomes, and Moderators, which recently received the Journal of Management 2006 Best Paper [...]
