Original Story: Vanderbilt Law School Link: https://law.vanderbilt.edu/news/nat-robinson-18-mba07/ Nat Robinson’s sense of humor is reflected on the front of his 2016 book, Creating a Cash Cow in Kenya, in which he relates his seven-year experience of starting and running a micro lending company in Nairobi. The cover features a Kenyan man transporting a cow on a motorbike. Robinson
Climbing the Social (Impact) Ladder: Summer Fellows Use Internships to Switch Career Paths
Original story: Owen Graduate School of Management Link: https://business.vanderbilt.edu/news/2017/08/29/climbing-social-impact-ladder-summer-fellows-use-internships-switch-career-paths/ Kayla Armgardt and Mike Woodnorth (MBA’18) use their Turner Family Center summer fellowships to support an art collective and break into social impact investing Most MBA summer interns don’t work out of a converted bowling alley that looks like a psychedelic art installation met a futuristic
Have Fellowship, Will Travel: Team Leaf Visits Six Countries
Turner Family Center summer fellows Connor Echols and Alejandro Sabillon (MBA ’18) seek to provide secure mobile banking for refugees Original story: Owen Graduate School of Management Link: https://business.vanderbilt.edu/news/2017/08/22/fellowship-will-travel-team-leaf-visits-six-countries/ What if your MBA summer internship required traveling around the world? It may sound far-fetched, but for Connor Echols and Alejandro Sabillon (both MBA ’18), this unusual
LaunchTN Announces 2016-2017 University Venture Challenge Partners
Nashville, Tenn., November 28, 2016 – Launch Tennessee (LaunchTN) announced today the second annual Statewide University Venture Challenge (UVC). Following a submission process, LaunchTN has selected 20 entrepreneurial focused competitions that are being hosted across 13 Tennessee-based universities. The UVC launched in 2016 to create a more connected entrepreneurial community by engaging existing university programs
Four VLS students selected for 2017 Hult Prize competition
Four Vanderbilt law students will compete on Vanderbilt University teams in a global competition for social entrepreneurs sponsored by the Hult Prize Foundation. Nat Robinson ’18 (MBA ’07) and Yalda Godusi ’18 will travel to Dubai with their team, which also includes Owen Graduate School of Management students Kayla Armgardt ’18 and Tori Samples ’18,
Scaling Up in Ghana
Grameen Foundation – Bankers without Borders While we continue to appreciate our BwB volunteers throughout Pro Bono Week, I wanted to highlight a recent engagement we had involving university students. In the spring of 2016, Bankers without Borders deployed 4 graduate students from Vanderbilt University (Kevin Kelly, Eileen Remley, Emily K. Sheldon, and Sid Raghuraman)