Baylor Business Review

Why Character Is Destiny for Business Schools - and the Mbas They Groom

To get a picture of what graduate business education of the future will resemble, it helps to look back 2,500 years or so. That's when Greek philosopher Heraclitus proclaimed that character is destiny. This ancient wisdom describes the way in which business schools currently strive to differentiate their cultural offering to prospective students in the midst of a global financial crisis that has forced university leadership to rethink the fundamental nature of graduate business education. Gra...

Bears of a Higher Degree

Baylor's Hankamer School of Business offers a variety of graduate degrees. The author has caught up with two of Baylor's alumni to see how their graduate degrees have served them within their careers. With the IT industry expanding, Adrian Gorena took advantage of the opportunity and became a member of one of the first Master of Science in Information Systems (MSIS) classes at Baylor. After earning his MSIS degree, he was hired by Compaq, which then merged with Hewlett-Packard (HP). He has be...

Keeping the Mba Relevant

The criticisms leveled at the MBA describe its recipients as out-of-touch managers by accident. They blame them for many of the problems of the last 30 years and list these weaknesses: 1. little or no work ethic and a sense of entitlement displayed by newly hired MBAs who do not appear to appreciate the challenges of their work, 2. lack of performance, and 3. ethical breaches. Baylor is constantly re-evaluating and changing, using a many-pronged approach to ensure a relevant MBA. Strategy for...

Graduate Accounting Internships Counting On a Transformation

In this economy, going into an interview without experience is like going into an interview wearing pajamas. In today's market, most permanent entry-level job offers in accounting are a result of a successful internship, so it's imperative that people do all they can to help their students obtain an internship, said Charles Davis, department chair of Accounting and Business Law. These graduate accounting students, now seniors, have already secured jobs after graduation through their internshi...

Business Rules Are Made to Be Broken

The economic crisis of the past couple of years has confused everyone. It had profound effects on not only those who've participated in stock markets, but also on workers and families and communities who've been dependent on companies for their well-being. And it's made most people who are interested stop and think about the rules of business today and whether they're responsible or even workable for society as a whole. But responsible leadership requires a lot more than just preventing a mel...

Introducing Hankamer's First Phd Program

As the need for qualified Information System (IS) professionals increases, so does the demand for IS education. Responding to that need, Baylor University's Hankamer School of Business created its first PhD program, the PhD in Information Systems. Baylor's PhD in Information Systems is training the next generation of IS researchers, scholars and teachers to analyze and understand the multi-faceted impact of information and communications technologies on individuals, organizations and society....

Technology Entrepreneurship Initiative Promotes Experiential Learning

The Technology Entrepreneurship Initiative seeks to make a campus-wide and global impact through an international, multi-disciplinary approach. This initiative will further experiential learning for Baylor undergraduate and graduate students by establishing partnerships among schools within Baylor, other universities, companies, and countries around the world. Baylor's Immersion Into International Interdisciplinary Innovation (i5) program is one aspect of the initiative that has already prove...

Emba Duo Creates Global Partnership

This article presents the Baylor EMBA experience of Jennifer Fox and James B. (Jay) Gambrell IV. Their Baylor EMBA experience connects the dots between their lives and work -- hotel/tourism and technology/finance -- and provided the means for them to get together in the first place. They met the first day of class, since they were asked to line up alphabetically and Jennifer was Fox, next to Jay's Gambrell, said Jay. Since the first week of induction was similar to a corporate team building, ...

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Earning an Mba

Only 24 hours had passed since they had first received the case. But now they were the experts -- or at least had to act like it. Before a panel of three judges, the four MBA students outlined their solution for a small defense firm considering a buy-out. This team of MBAs was just one of nine, all from different universities, that gathered at the Hankamer School of Business in November 2009 to participate in Baylor University's third annual National MBA Case Competition in Ethical Leadership...

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