Retailing Hall of Fame inducts first honorees

More than 350 people gathered in New York City in January to see five retailing visionaries inducted into the inaugural Retailing Hall of Fame, drawing together a crowd of the biggest names in the business at Cipriani's 42nd Street.
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Fourth-generation daughter

Jennifer Finch held up her hand until the speaker at her graduation got to "four." That's how many generations of female Texas A&M graduates she represented on the floor of Reed Arena in December 2004. The 22-year-old marketing graduate walked across the stage that day with honors, marking a momentous occasion that saw the first woman in her family cross A&M's graduation stage in 1964.
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Not your grandfather's job market: How to cope as a free-market employee

In the post-recession 2000s, new graduates and those already in the workforce are facing a shifting reality in the job market. While many companies have recovered enough economically to be in hire mode, the coppery taste of the dot-com bust has most employers hesitant to commence a hiring frenzy.
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Marvin J. Girouard

It seems stereotypical that you would see a high-ranking CEO cruising the streets of Dallas , looking like James Bond in his Aston Martin. But Mays graduate Marvin J. Girouard '61, a 2002 Distinguished Alumnus of Texas A&M and a 1995 Mays Outstanding Alumni Award recipient, is anything but the norm.
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