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MAYS BUSINESS SCHOOL | TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY FALL 2019 A MESSAGE FROM THE DEAN Howdy! Thank you for your continued support of Mays Business School. Partnering with us enables our college to attain the vision we cast in our 2017-2021 Strategic Plan — to advance the world’s prosperity by being a vibrant learning organization that creates impactful knowledge and develops transformational leaders. In this edition of @Mays, we highlight the impactful knowledge that we are creating and disseminating. Texas A&M is a Tier One research institution, which puts the university in the top-tier of all universities in the country. In fact, we are a member of the prestigious Association of American Universities (AAU) — one of 60 universities in the U.S. and two in Canada — producing innovative scholarship and solutions. These 60 universities award nearly one half of all U.S. doctoral degrees. Mays Business School is proud of its tradition of creating and disseminating impactful research across our academic disciplines — Accounting, Finance, Information and Operations Management, Supply Chain Management, Management and Marketing. In particular, we continue to pave new paths in the Grand Challenge areas of Entrepreneurship, Energy and Healthcare, and our research is highly- cited by other business researchers around the world. Type any name of our faculty in Google Scholar and see for yourself. What happens in research permeates every facet of business and society. This edition of @Mays will spotlight a few of our scholars addressing social impact using quantitative methods, such as data analytics. Research feeds our teaching mission. As Dr. Stephanie Bryant, my friend and colleague at AACSB International states, we are developing graduates who are fully prepared both technically and managerially to take on solving society’s grand challenges. Our goal is to make an indelible societal impact through business education. Gig ‘em! Eli Jones '82 mays.tamu.edu Dean and Professor of Marketing © Mays Business School 2019 dean's IN THIS ISSUE 01 message Mays in 03 the media strategic plan 05 update data analytics addressing 09 social impact dean's advisory 19 board former student 23 update faculty 25 recognition current student 26 recognition MAYS MARKETING COMMUNICATIONS TEAM CREATES @MAYS Blake Parrish, Director; Leon Contreras, Kiri Isaac, Brie Pampell, Shelby Schiller, and Daniel Singletary CONTRIBUTING WRITERS/EDITORS Kiri Isaac (Cover story); Stephanie Bryant, Wendy Castro, Stephanie Burns, Duane Ireland, Eli Jones, and Missy Lund | CONTRIBUTING PHOTOGRAPHERS/VISUALS Leon Contreras (Cover photo), Shelby Schiller (Layout); Chad Becker, Diana Cassetta-Perez, Butch Ireland, Michael Kellett, Brie Pampell, Corey Dean Stone, and Clay Taylor | SPECIAL THANK YOU Ray Jezisek and Joshua Ortiz of Ambrose Furniture, ambrosefurnitureworks.com (Cover photo living room) @MAYS MAGAZINE FALL 2019 2 MAYS IN THE MEDIA 1 2 Strategic Accounting Philanthropy class Professor Mike transforms the Shaub quoted in Brazos Valley the "Wall Street Journal" three Started in Spring '16, the times Strategic Philanthropy class gives students an opportunity to understand the ins and Mike Shaub, Clinical outs of philanthropy by Professor, Deloitte giving real money to real Professional Program non-profits in the Brazos Director, and Mays resident Valley. In Spring '19, the class ethics blogger saw some gave away $75,000 and saw major ink in the Wall Street ink in multiple publications. Journal. In September alone, That semester brought the Shaub was quoted in the WSJ 3 year total to 115 students at least three times for his enrolled, 37 local non-profits knowledge and thoughts on supported, and $500,000 business-world events. given to local charities. tx.ag/ShaubWSJ1 tx.ag/500kPhilanthropy tx.ag/ShaubWSJ2 tx.ag/ShaubWSJ3 3 @MAYS MAGAZINE FALL 2019 MAYS IN THE MEDIA 3 4 5 The 12th Man Mays Mays student Amazon turned 25: student receives live job Here’s a look back offer from Walmart at how it changed Braden White ’19, MGMT, CEO the world was named the 2019 12th Man. The announcement was made on August 20 and Lauren Edwards ‘20 received Amazon turned 25 years shortly after, in an interview a job offer in front of nearly old this year and Mays that day, White appeared 10,000 people when the CEO Professor and researcher, wearing his Mays nametag, of Walmart, Doug McMillon, Venky Shankar, penned an giving everyone a laugh. took to Instagram to invite article for The Conversation Lauren to join the company that started over 300 tx.ag/12thNameTag after graduating. Edwards conversations on where the had just completed a retail giant has been and summer internship with the how it changed the world. megastore. tx.ag/VenkyAmazon tx.ag/itsDoug @MAYS MAGAZINE FALL 2019 4 STRATEGIC PLAN UPDATE SOCIETAL IMPACT IN THE B-SCHOOL: Why it matters now more than ever An update from Stephanie M. Bryant, Ph.D. Chief Accreditation Officer AACSB International As Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of is a particularly rich tool for use within these types of Business (AACSB) International seeks to adopt new partnerships. All AACSB-accredited business schools business accreditation standards next year, we have are expected to have substantial expertise with been especially focused on promoting societal impact managing large amounts of data to make informed within the new standards. We did this through the decisions. Imagine the power, for example, of a data inclusion of an entirely new standard that requires our analytics expert partnering with a biomedical expert over 850 accredited business schools in 56 countries to gather data to identify the most needed medical and territories to demonstrate how they are making advances of the future. That’s transformational. a positive impact on society consistent with each Texas A&M is already ahead of the curve on this school’s mission, vision, and values. front. Last year I had the privilege of visiting with the This standard reinforces AACSB’s Collective Mays Dean’s Advisory Board and hearing from Dean Vision for Business Education (2016), which provides Eli Jones about the Combined Master of Engineering in thought leadership and an action plan for business Biomedical Engineering and MBA dual degree program schools around the world to be drivers of change, that brings together engineering and business. These thought leaders, more inventive, more daring, more students graduate with the skills of both a biomedical connected, more agile, and even more impactful than engineer and the business acumen of a manager, ever. That is an exciting and transformative vision including leadership, team building, communications, for AACSB business schools globally! It says that we, financial skills, strategy, and technology agility. business educators, can and should be enablers of This creates a graduate who is fully prepared both global prosperity. technically and managerially to take on solving the Why now, and how does an AACSB-accredited grand challenges of society. This is the future of school like Texas A&M demonstrate alignment with business schools. this standard? The truth is, our world is faced with Why now? Because we must. Society needs the skills daunting problems with geopolitical consequences. that business schools bring to the table. We simply Can business schools solve these problems alone? cannot afford to wait for others to show the way. Not likely. But, we can, through partnerships and AACSB-accredited schools have always been leaders, interdisciplinary teams both inside and outside and Texas A&M continues to demonstrate exactly academia, join forces to create cross-functional and the leadership and vision that embodies quality, cross-disciplinary approaches to solving climate engagement, innovation, vision, and meaningful change, healthcare, clean water, and a host of other positive impact on society. Mays shows the way. ♦ issues with which society is struggling. Data analytics 5 @MAYS MAGAZINE FALL 2019 STRATEGIC PLAN UPDATE As detailed in the strategic plan, an inclusive mindset allows leaders to value the unique contributions of diverse others. In this vein, Mays works to seek out opportunities where we can MAYS INCLUDES partner with other colleges to provide unique educational opportunities. ENGINEERS FOR One such opportunity is the Business Immersion for Engineers Program. BUSINESS IMMERSION The Reynolds and Reynolds Sales Leadership Institute at Mays partners with Dell Technologies to offer students from the College of Engineering a two- week summer program designed to immerse engineering students in business fundamentals and practices. Students of all classifications and specialties of engineering are able to apply. In the program, students learn the business disciplines of accounting, finance, management, marketing, and supply chain management and participants are given opportunities to learn and practice professional selling, interview techniques, dining etiquette, and presentation skills. They’re then given an opportunity to work in teams on an experiential project solving a real-world business problem. Dell Technologies not only sponsors the program, but their executives provide some of the instructions, attend networking dinners, and judge final presentations. Many of the students who participate will have the opportunity to work with Dell as interns or in post-graduation employment. The overarching goal is that this program will inspire students to seek further formal business training, such as in the MS Business, MS Finance, or MBA programs,