By Breagan Adams, Texas A&M University Mays Business School The light at the end of the tunnel is finally within sight for the Dec. 15 graduates of Mays Business School. Each student’s experience at Mays has been unique, each path afterward just as varied. A committed commute Some students are…
3D printers have been set up in Startup Aggieland. By Breagan Adams, Texas A&M University Mays Business School The world of 3D printing is no longer an unattainable dream; 3D printers have been set up in Startup Aggieland, a facility operated by the McFerrin Center for Entrepreneurship at…
In-person shopping remains popular. (Jeff Chiu/AP) Kelli Hollinger, Center for Retailing Studies director and marketing lecturer, Texas A&M University, for The Conversation It surprises most millennials to learn that only about 10 percent of all retail purchases are actually made online. Each semester, when I ask hundreds of undergraduate business students…
Left to right: NAFTA lead negotiator and U.S. trade representative Carla Hills and Texas A&M University President Michael K. Young discussed the future of the trade agreement during the “NAFTA 2.017: Strengths, Weaknesses and Ways Forward” panel discussion. By Sam Peshek, Texas A&M University Marketing and Communications With North…
Leslie Bonorden (right) pictured with Texas A&M marketing professor Cheryl Holland-Bridges was selected to compete for a National Merit Scholarship after winning a $5,000 Fashion Scholarship Fund (FSF). By Breagan Adams, Texas A&M University Mays Business School Mays Business School senior Leslie Bonorden was selected to compete for a National Merit…
Through a $10 million gift made by the late Artie McFerrin (left) and his wife Dorothy (right), the Center for New Ventures and Entrepreneurship in Mays Business School will be renamed in his honor. By Kelli Reynolds, Mays Business School The McFerrin Center for Entrepreneurship at Texas A&M University’s…
Purdue team members Hongxia Shi, Shenyang Yang, and Xiangyi Che won first place. They are flanked by Arvind Mahajan of Mays Business School, left, and Vipin Gopal of Humana, right. By Diane McDonald, Texas A&M University Mays Business School A student team from Purdue University won the $6,000 first-place…
By Venky Shankar, Texas A&M University Mays Business School Editor’s note: Venky Shankar is the Coleman Chair Professor in Marketing at Mays Business School as well as director of research at Texas A&M University’s Center for Retailing Studies. His areas of specialization include digital business, marketing strategy, innovation,…
Alan Mitchell ’85 recently visited with Mays Business Honors students as part of the Mays 2017 Transformational Leader Speaker Series. By Jamison Moore, Texas A&M University Mays Business School A firm believer in giving back, Alan Mitchell ’85 recently visited with Mays Business Honors students as part of the Mays…
Christmas shoppers look in to decorated store windows. (Dan Kitwood/Getty Images) By Kelli Hollinger, Texas A&M University Center for Retailing Studies Overall spending Early predictions from Deloitte indicate spending will be up in 2017. Sales increased by 3.6 percent in both 2015 and 2016. With a strong economy,…