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Owen is recognized worldwide for its finance faculty, who have received many awards for their research and teaching and also serve on prestigious editorial boards. Corporate recruiters know that Vanderbilt MBAs receive rigorous training that enables them to accept challenging assignments after graduation. As a result, the school traditionally turns out more finance graduates than any other single discipline.
Discover Your Career
Career Opportunities—Explore the wide variety of MBA finance careers on the Vanderbilt Finance Club website.
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Selected Companies that Hire from Owen—Finance
Companies that Hire from Owen
Click here to download the Vanderbilt MBA Employment Report
Create Your Curriculum
MBA Curriculum Options
Finance Concentration
Hours Required: 12
The most flexible option, with two required finance courses and a variety of electives, allowing you to customize your curriculum to your unique needs.
Corporate Finance Specialization
Hours Required: 20
To prepare for a career providing financial advice and/or facilitating a debt or equity issue, this intensive curriculum sequence of 10 finance courses is designed to provide defined career direction.
Investment Management Specialization
Hours Required: 20
To prepare for a career handling internal finance issues for a corporation, this intensive curriculum sequence of 10 finance courses is designed to provide defined career direction.
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Build Your Resume
The Vanderbilt Finance Club provides members with a range of robust learning and career development opportunities. Benefits include mentoring, resume reviews, mock interviews, modeling/valuation workshops with industry professionals, career panel discussions, alumni networking events, speakers and case studies.
More Resume-Building Activities
Financial Markets Research Center (FMRC)
Discover the latest research from our award-winning finance faculty.
Investment Banking Academy
Enroll in a rigorous preparation program to help you compete for the most sought-after finance jobs.
Max Adler Student Investment Fund
Try your hand at valuing and managing a real investment fund.
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New York Interview Day
Interview for New York City internships set up especially for Owen.
Training the Street
Get hands-on training in financial modeling and valuation.
TVA Investment Challenge
Help manage a portfolio of 20 to 30 stocks for the Tennessee Valley Authority
Wall Street Week
Travel to New York City to network with employees at the top firms on Wall Street.
Meet Your Faculty
Clifford Ball, Professor of Management
Nicolas Bollen, E Bronson Ingram Professor in Finance; Associate Professor of Management
William Christie, Frances Hampton Currey Professor of Management; Professor of Law
J. Dewey Daane, The Frank K. Houston Professor of Finance, Emeritus
Craig Lewis, CPA, Madison S. Wigginton Professor of Management, Professor of Management
Ronald Masulis, Frank K. Houston Professor of Management
Alexei Ovtchinnikov, Assistant Professor of Management (Finance)
David Parsley, Professor of Management
Jacob Sagi, Associate Professor of Management (Finance)
Hans Stoll, The Anne Marie and Thomas B. Walker Professor of Finance
Robert Whaley, Valere Blair Potter Professor of Management
Photo: Hans Stoll
Alumni & Students
Owen World Shapers
Read the stories of Owen alumni, faculty, students who are shaping their worlds, and our world, at this robust multimedia website.
Owen Bloggers
Get up close and personal with current Owen students at this student-run “unedited, uncensored view of life” at Owen.
Industry Insights
Earnings Management: Short Term Gains, Longer Term Costs (Summer 2008)
Using Corporate Governance to Shield Executives (Summer 2008)
Campaign Contributions Boost ROI (Spring 2008)
Routine Inflation of Hedge Fund Returns (Winter 2008)
The High Cost of Failing to Exercise Options (Summer/Fall 2007)
The Myths of Momentum Investing (Summer/Fall 2007)
Foreign Exchange Risk of Firms in Asia Pacific (Winter/Spring 2007)
Loyalty and Socially Responsible Investing (Winter/Spring 2007)
Political Connections and Corporate Bailouts (Winter/Spring 2007)
