The Business Honors program at Mays Business School celebrated 21 years of excellence on January 31st. The festive gathering was a time to celebrate a milestone in the life of the program, as well as an opportunity to introduce prospective students to what Business Honors has to offer.
What do Chicago-style pizza, a nine-iron, and a prison inmate have in common?
No, this isn’t the opening of a joke. All of these are elements in the education of Business Honors students at Mays Business School. This highly selective group (only 30% of applicants are accepted each year) is getting out of the classroom and into the real world for hands-on educational experiences that they aren’t likely to forget.
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.
