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Category Archives: Industry Insights
Owen Reading List Series: Brian McCann
The first in our series of professor reading lists comes from Brian McCann, who handles our core strategy class and our corporate strategy elective. We asked him to suggest some books and blogs for current and prospective students, and this is the list he came up with. (Editor’s note: The list Professor McCann provided was rather exhaustive, so I pared it down to only the non-fiction books and blogs. However, I’m sure Professor McCann would want you to know his interests are broader and more eclectic than what is represented below.)
Books:
The Power of Intuition – Gary Klein
Judgment in Managerial Decision Making – Max Bazerman and Don Moore
Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion – Robert Cialdini
Predictably Irrational – Dan Ariely
The Upside of Irrationality – Dan Ariely
*The Halo Effect – Phil Rosenzweig
*Fooled by Randomness – Nassim Nicholas Taleb
*The Black Swan – Nassim Nicholas Taleb
*The Strategy Paradox – Michael Raynor
When Genius Failed – Roger Lowenstein
Posted in Graduate Life, Industry Insights, Uncategorized
Tagged Blogs, Books, Brian McCann, Reading List
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Innovation + Entrepreneurs @Owen
A few weeks ago I received a meeting invite from one of my favorite Owen Professors: David Owens. He’s our resident innovation guru and soon to be published author. He had invited a small group of students to meet with two representatives from the Financial Services Forum to discuss innovation and entrepreneurship. Plus, he was offering free lunch; so obviously I went.
I did a little research prior to the meeting to answer some questions like: What is the Financial Services Forum? What do they do? Why would they be interested in talking to me?
According to their website: “The Financial Services Forum is a non-partisan financial and economic policy organization comprising the CEOs of 20 of the largest and most diversified financial services institutions doing business in the United States. The purpose of the Forum is to pursue policies that encourage savings and investment, promote an open and competitive global marketplace, and ensure the opportunity of people everywhere to participate fully and productively in the 21st-century global economy.”
Basically, they were asking us for our ideas on how public policy can help promote small business creation in the U.S.
Posted in Hannah Johnson '12, Industry Insights, Uncategorized
Tagged entrepreneurship, government, innovation, small businesses
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P&G CEO Bob McDonald on Values-Based Leadership
P&G CEO Bob McDonald
Last week Owen students had the privilege of meeting Procter & Gamble CEO Bob McDonald at a speaking even on campus. The subject of his talk was values-based leadership in what he calls an increasingly VUCA world. (VUCA = volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous)
Along with giving out his email address, he provided his ten rules of successful leadership:
- Living a life driven by purpose is more meaningful and rewarding than meandering through life without direction. “Choose the harder right instead of the easier wrong.” – From the West Point Cadet Prayer
- Companies must do well to do good, and must do good to do well. P&G was the first company in the world to hire women in Saudi Arabia, and currently have 35 female employees. Due to the still constrained gender issues, the company had to install conference rooms with glass barriers that separates the men from the women. Additionally, because women in Saudi Arabia do not have the right to drive, P&G must hire male drivers to take the female employees around for work. It is inspiring and refreshing to hear about a company leading human rights issues around the globe and having a whatever-it-takes attitude to do what is right.
Posted in Blake Knight '12, Industry Insights, Job Search
Tagged bob mcdonald, procter & gamble, values based leadership
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Owen Podcast Series: Larry Van Horn, Health Affairs
This episode of the Owen Podcast Series welcomes professor Larry Van Horn, who runs the Healthcare MBA Program at Vanderbilt’s Owen School of Management. He shares his always colorful insights on the need for business schools to produce educated health professionals, what gives Owen a strategic advantage in the healthcare industry, and why we can expect things to get worse before they get better from a policy standpoint.
Switching Careers to Real Estate?
For some of us, business school is an opportunity not only to learn new skills but also to re-direct our professional tracks. I came to Owen to switch career paths from consulting engineering to real estate development, a change which seems well within my reach after just one year at Owen.
Pinnacle Building
My first step was to join the Owen Real Estate Club, an organization comprised of students whose exposure to real estate varied from zero to extensive. The Club brings in professionals from around the country to talk about their experiences, provides networking events, coordinates critical skill building seminars and training sessions, and organizes outings around town to check out real estate development in action. For example, early last fall, the club organized a property tour of the newest office tower in downtown Nashville, the Pinnacle Building. After touring the property, we listened to a presentation that detailed the lease negotiations between the developer and anchor tenant.
Contacts I made through the club helped me secure a year-long internship with a local real estate investment and development firm. The job is part-time during the school year and full-time during the summer, and has been a valuable learning opportunity for someone without a professional background in real estate.
Posted in Graduate Life, Guest & Alumni Bloggers, Industry Insights, Why Owen?
Tagged career switch, real estate mba
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