The Millennials, or Generation Y, are the most connected generation in history, thanks to technology. They are globally aware, socially conscious, entrepreneurial and driven individuals. They want an interactive educational experience, not just textbook instruction. And they are our students.
In this issue of the Baylor Business Review, we focus on the very reason the Hankamer School of Business exists: our undergraduate students.
When Terry Maness, dean of the Hankamer School of Business, describes Baylor University’s latest active-learning offering – an alliance with SAP that familiarizes students with one of the business world’s most prevalent enterprise software systems – he uses a phrase that captures the value of the entire undergraduate Hankamer experience.
Just who are the students studying at Hankamer these days? The students profiled here are a small representation of the diverse student body that will impact the world in a variety of ways as they become future business leaders with integrity.
The Internet is the fastest-growing communications tool in history. It took radio 38 years to reach an audience of 50 million, television took 13 years, but the Internet took only four years.
Technology has changed the way we work, socialize and learn. The Hankamer School of Business has adapted to this technological revolution with the advent of three interactive learning classrooms: the Southwest Securities Financial Markets Center, the Curb Learning Lab for Music & Entertainment Marketing, and the CNL Real Estate Learning Lab.
Technology has changed the way we work, socialize and learn. The Hankamer School of Business has adapted to this technological revolution with the advent of three interactive learning classrooms: the Southwest Securities Financial Markets Center, the Curb Learning Lab for Music & Entertainment Marketing, and the CNL Real Estate Learning Lab.
It has been my experience that nothing goes according to plan. For example, I never planned to attend Baylor University. While it pains me to admit it, I planned to attend Texas A&M. I only ended up at Baylor after visiting a friend who was a student.
I had planned on being a physician and enrolled with Chemistry as my major. After a few classes, however, my plan went awry as it quickly became apparent that the only chemistry I was learning was with my future wife, Dana Tinkle, BA ’84. I met her by happenstance during Baylor’s Welcome Week.
Uproar Records grew out of the Baylor Recording Artist Network (BRAN), a Student Activities-sponsored organization that released CDs of Baylor artists. BRAN sought marketing advice from professor Kirk Wakefield, director of Baylor’s Music & Entertainment Marketing (M&E) program. Wakefield then recruited professor Charles Fifield, a former financial consultant for EMI Records, and students Ben Rodgers and Ryan Weaver. Their combined vision became Uproar Records, a partnership between the M&E program and Student Activities.
Before a student successfully finishes Business 1301, a foundations course for freshmen and transfer students, he or she will have recited a 17-word code of behavior more than 25 times. The student will have heard and read the code in almost two dozen different languages – including Amharic, Croatian and Vietnamese – to name just a few. He also would have seen the code on every test he took. And although he might not think his behavior changed as a result of repeating the words daily, the student will likely never forget them or their significance.
The student will have heard and read the code in almost two dozen different languages – including Amharic, Croatian and Vietnamese – to name just a few. He also would have seen the code on every test he took.
Many business professionals would pay a high price to get advice on everything from investing to the economy from one of the richest men in the world, Warren Buffett. For 26 Baylor students who had the opportunity this past February, it was priceless. The group of 11 undergraduate Management Information Systems (MIS) majors and 15 graduate students traveled to Buffett’s hometown of Omaha, Neb., for an exclusive question-and-answer session for college students.
In 2008, Nancy Richards, CEO and founder of First Preston Management, Inc. and Baylor University graduate, hosted a dinner in Hankamer’s Blume Conference Center for 400 students, faculty and community members, all who had a strong desire to begin a business organization for women.
“Each one of us should use whatever gift he has received to serve others, faithfully administering God’s grace in its various forms.” -1 Peter 4:10
Through a literal interpretation, Baylor Accounting students, along with faculty and supporters, brought this verse to life by traveling to Kampala, Uganda, for the department’s second annual mission trip.
Baylor business students participated in a unique research conference solely for undergraduates when they joined students from across the country for the fourth annual Economics Scholars Program (ESP) last March at the Federal Reserve Bank in Dallas.
The ESP conference, a collaborative effort between Austin College and the Federal Reserve Bank, is a one-day undergraduate research conference designed to provide students the opportunity to share and gain feedback on original research, giving a forum for students already researching and inspiration to those considering their own research agenda.
Celebrations are underway at Baylor’s Center for Professional Selling. Twenty-five years have passed since Hankamer’s School of Business opened the doors to the nation’s first sales center in January 1985. Since then, the Center continues to be a pioneer in Professional Sales and is home to more than 800 graduates.