Giving back to Texas A&M University has been a priority for Mikal Harn ’88 for many years but, on a recent campus visit, he gave students something more valuable than endowment dollars: he shared his wisdom, acquired through twenty years of corporate experience.
A recent PhD graduate and three professors from Mays Business School at Texas A&M University have been recognized for a paper they presented at the Babson College Entrepreneurship Research Conference (BCERC) in Madrid, Spain, June 7-9, 2007.
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.
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.
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.
Former President Bush will present the 2007 McLane Leadership in Business Award to businessman-philanthropist Lowry Mays on Oct. 30 during a special dinner.
“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, [...]
