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Category Archives: Clark Bosslet ’12
On Grades
It is a common trope here at business school that grades don’t matter.
Judging from the amount of hours that most students put in at the library, one might assume that this maxim is some sort of game theory-driven bluff to fool the meek and gullible away from the battlefield. For those of us who have spent a lifetime in a system that rewards only grades as a gauge of learning, in some cases fostering the perverse incentive to take easier and less challenging courses, it can be hard to break old habits.
But in business school, grades should not drive your course selection. Don’t opt out of Corporate Valuation or Derivatives if you’re concerned it will hurt your GPA, even if you consider yourself more of a “soft skills” person. This is your chance to learn this material from industry experts. For most of us, business school is an educational safety net in addition to a career reset button. It serves as a last chance to learn dense academic material in a “safe” setting. After this, almost all of our learning is “on the job,” meaning the ramifications of mistakes are a lot more dire than a poor grade.
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Owen Podcast Series: Emma Email Marketing
This edition of the Owen Podcast Series welcomes Emma co-founder/CEO and Vanderbilt alum Clint Smith. Clint has been working with web-based products and communities for over 15 years and has overseen significant growth at Emma. He shares his thoughts on what makes the company unique, where it’s heading with future offerings, and how to craft the perfect email.
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Posted in Blake Knight '12, Clark Bosslet '12, Industry Insights, Nashville Tagged emma, marketing, nashville, owen podcast series Leave a comment
This I Know: Alumni Insights from Ann Dominick ’82
Ann Dominick is an Owen alumnus from the Class of ’82. Her professional roles have included CFO and Vice President of Finance in small and large companies, domestic and international. She has consulted in government and industry. Ann spent ten years at MCI and started her career with PriceWaterhouse. Her MBA from Owen was in Finance and Accounting. She is a CPA, licensed in Virginia and originally in Louisiana. Her Bachelors in Economics was conferred by Smith College, Northampton Massachusetts.
Last week I attended an alumni meet and greet for prospective Owen students in Washington D.C. There was a ton of energy in the room as our alums spoke excitedly about their current endeavors. I came away with the desire to share some of the thoughts and experiences in the time since I graduated from Owen. My 30th reunion is this spring and since we’ll all be gathering soon, I’ve invited my fellow alumni to share their own insights in a new series of posts on OwenBloggers.
Taking a famous line from someone else, “This I know”:
Posted in Alumni Insights, Clark Bosslet '12, Job Search, Lifestyle Tagged alumni, wisdom 2 Comments
#OwenBowl 2012
Owen had its first ever Super Bowl Twitter Party on Sunday night, using the to collect our various musings on the best and worst of the night. It was a fun exercise and collected a nice diversity of thought. For example, after Doug opined that the Cars.com “creepy second head representing the buyer’s confidence” commercial did not exactly warm his heart to the brand, I shared my differing opinion.
While exchanges like this happened all night, they were noteworthy not so much for the quality of their content (in something as subjective as this, we are all amateurs and our opinions are valued as such) but more for the fact that these exchanges were happening at all. And they were, all over the internet. According to Peter Kafka at All Things D, there were somewhere between 11 and 16 million social media comments during the game. While the increasing number of platforms make such estimates increasingly difficult to gauge, all estimates point to a substantial uptick year-over-year. , the final three minutes of the game saw an average of 10,000 tweets per second, peaking at 12,233 and setting a new record for the site.
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