In a culture that lauds the beautiful, wealthy, and entertaining, the work of scholars and educators often goes unnoticed. To give honor where honor is due, Mays Business School presented their Outstanding Doctoral Alumni award to three individuals whose work has had a significant impact on thousands of students, as well as the marketplace.
In a culture that lauds the beautiful, wealthy, and entertaining, the work of scholars and educators often goes unnoticed. To give honor where honor is due, Mays Business School at Texas A&M University will present their Outstanding Doctoral Alumni award to three individuals whose work has had a significant impact on thousands of students as well as the marketplace.
With all the festivity of a royal celebration, three Mays Business School graduates were recognized recently as outstanding alumni for their careers of merit and lives of service. Robert D. Starnes ’72, David W. Williams ’79 and Stephen B. Solcher ’83 were feted at a banquet Sept. 24 at Miramont Country Club in Bryan, where the escorts were the elite Ross Volunteers and the opening music was provided by the Singing Cadets
A program is only as good as its faculty. That’s why hiring and retaining the very best faculty members is a primary goal at Mays Business School. For the 2009-2010 school year, ten full-time tenure/tenure-track faculty members have been added to the roster from a variety of locations and a wide range of research interests. What they all have in common is a dedication to their profession that distinguishes them from their peers.
A new adventure is at hand for veterans disabled in the line of service since 9/11 as they have the chance to go through a different kind of bootcamp—one focused on entrepreneurship. Mays is again offering the national program Entrepreneurship Bootcamp for Veterans, an intense program that teaches disabled American soldiers how to start up and operate a small business.
Screams of joy echoed through the dimly lit, wood-floored building, as the students of Kemp Elementary talked about their plans for summer. “Walking on Sunshine” played faintly in the background as children laughed and students from Mays passed out packages to 450 students in need to culminate the third annual Project Mays event, hosted by the Business Student Council (BSC).
To kick off their studies for the spring 2009 semester, 27 MBA students from Mays Business School traveled to Omaha, Nebraska to visit the headquarters of Berkshire-Hathaway and more importantly, spend a day with financial expert Warren Buffett. As the students prepared to meet Buffett, they decided on the perfect thank you gift—a personalized ukulele.
In an era where every major purchase begins with the consumer checking prices and availability on the Internet, traditional retailers are examining the impact of the networked retail environment to create a new framework for the way they will do business in the future. That evolution was the focus of the first Thought Leadership Conference hosted by the Center for Retailing Studies at Mays Business School in January.
In the summer of 2008, Michael Kurt ‘09, an accounting student in the Professional Program at Mays Business School, spent four weeks doing humanitarian work in the poorest regions of Central America before flying to England for a course at the London School of Economics. Both experiences have changed the way Kurt sees the world, himself, and the future.
A think tank comprised of faculty members from Mays Business School recently addressed a gathering of 160 Houston-area business people on the current economic crisis. “This is the first of what I hope will be many venues we will use to bring our faculty and their expertise to touch our former students,” said Dean Jerry Strawser. The panel featured eight speakers with different areas of financial expertise addressing the causes of the crisis, its scope, and potential solutions.
