Owen Graduate School of Management

Owen Graduate School of Management
Name	Owen Graduate School of Management
Established	1969
Type	Private graduate business school
Parent	Vanderbilt University
City	Nashville
State	Tennessee
Country	United States
Dean	A. Darryl Maynard

Owen Graduate School of Management is the graduate business school of Vanderbilt University located in Nashville, Tennessee. The school offers professional degrees and executive education with connections to Tennessee Valley Authority, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Gooch Hall, One Hundred Oaks Mall, and regional firms such as HCA Healthcare, Bridgestone Americas, Nissan North America, Southwest Airlines, and Dollar General. Owen's programs interact with networks including Harvard Business School, Stanford Graduate School of Business, Wharton School, Kellogg School of Management, and international partners like INSEAD, London Business School, HEC Paris, and IE Business School.

History

Owen traces origins to postgraduate commerce instruction at Vanderbilt University after World War II, evolving through leadership involving figures linked to Andrew Carnegie philanthropy, the Ford Foundation, and corporate boards such as National Life Insurance Company, First Tennessee Bank, Nashville Chamber of Commerce, American Express, and General Electric. The school was named after industrialist Owen Family (business) benefactors and developed through campus expansions influenced by trustees with ties to Rockefeller Foundation, Gulf Oil Corporation, Atlantic Richfield Company, and civic initiatives like Nashville Metropolitan Council. Over decades Owen has adapted to trends shaped by scholars who had associations with Milton Friedman, Paul Samuelson, John Kenneth Galbraith, Michael Porter, and practitioners from McKinsey & Company, Boston Consulting Group, Goldman Sachs, and Morgan Stanley.

Academic programs

Owen offers the Master of Business Administration in full-time, part-time, and executive formats, a Master of Science in finance alongside specialized tracks in Health Care Management and Operations Management, and doctoral studies with placement into faculties connected to American Accounting Association, Academy of Management, and Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences. Degree curricula incorporate case methods used at Harvard Business School and quantitative modules influenced by frameworks from Chicago Booth School of Business, MIT Sloan School of Management, Columbia Business School, and Yale School of Management. Global immersion and exchange options partner with institutions such as University of Oxford, University of Cambridge, National University of Singapore, Tsinghua University, and Peking University.

Faculty and research

Faculty at Owen have produced research cited in outlets like Journal of Finance, Management Science, The Accounting Review, Strategic Management Journal, and Journal of Marketing Research and include scholars with prior affiliations to Princeton University, University of Pennsylvania, University of Chicago, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Duke University, and Columbia University. Research centers collaborate with entities such as Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, National Institutes of Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and consultancies like McKinsey & Company and Bain & Company. Faculty expertise spans behavioral studies referencing Daniel Kahneman, Amos Tversky, and Richard Thaler; finance scholarship connecting to Eugene Fama and Robert Shiller; and strategy work building on Michael Porter and Jay Barney.

Campus and facilities

Owen is housed on the Vanderbilt University campus near landmarks including Kissam Quadrangle, Peabody College, Sarratt Student Center, Cumberland River, and Music Row. Facilities include modern classrooms, trading labs equipped with platforms used by Bloomberg L.P., Thomson Reuters, and FactSet Research Systems, executive education suites modeled after facilities at Stanford Graduate School of Business and Wharton School, and collaborative spaces adjacent to Vanderbilt Hall, Ingram Hall, and Alumni Hall. The campus setting provides proximity to cultural sites like Ryman Auditorium, Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum, and governmental offices at the Tennessee State Capitol.

Admissions and rankings

Admissions are competitive, drawing applicants with backgrounds from firms such as Deloitte, Ernst & Young, PricewaterhouseCoopers, KPMG, IBM, Amazon (company), Apple Inc., and Johnson & Johnson. Standard metrics referenced include inputs comparable to scores used by Graduate Management Admission Council, GMAT, and GRE benchmarks, while career placement aligns with recruiters from McKinsey & Company, Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan Chase, Amazon (company), and Google LLC. Rankings have placed the school within national and international lists compiled by publications like U.S. News & World Report, Financial Times, The Economist (newspaper), and Bloomberg Businessweek.

Student life and alumni

Student organizations include clubs that mirror professional networks such as Association of MBAs, Beta Gamma Sigma, Net Impact, and corporate-focused groups aligned with McKinsey & Company, Boston Consulting Group, Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, and Bain & Company. Alumni have gone on to leadership roles at HCA Healthcare, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Bridgestone Americas, Nissan North America, Tennessee Valley Authority, Dollar General, Caterpillar Inc., FedEx, and Southwest Airlines. The alumni network engages through chapters in cities like New York City, Chicago, Los Angeles, Houston, Atlanta, London, and Tokyo‎ and participates in mentoring programs connected to Kellogg School of Management and Wharton School alumni initiatives.

Category:Business schools in Tennessee