Spring 2017: A Generation of Change

Inventive, hard-working people surround me every day at work. In addition to the Hankamer School of Business faculty and staff, it’s a blessing to work in the midst of approximately 4,000 millennial students. It can be baffling to read and hear negative comments about the first digitally native generation—they’re “lazy,” “entitled,” “rude” or “disloyal.” Those […]

Three Improvements to Generational Analyses By Eric Krell Here’s a quick quiz to determine how you prefer to be managed; please select all statements that apply: In my business organization, I… Seek projects that offer meaningful work. Value a flexible work schedule. Prefer to be mentored than to take orders from a command-and-control manager. Want […]

A Not-So-Traditional Career Path By Becca Broaddus Growing up in the Gaston home, MENSA puzzles replaced coloring books on the coffee table. Kamille Gaston lauds her mother, who was widowed when Kamille was just 4 years old, as an incredibly strong woman who raised strong women, pushing her two daughters to be their best selves. […]

By Becca Broaddus Your smartphone buzzes on the table next to you, and you reach for it—wanting to know who texted, or emailed, or posted on your Facebook wall, or somehow virtually reached out to you. That little red bubble in the corner of the app taunts you. You can’t help it—you have to know. […]

A Realistic Dreamer: From the Stage to the Classroom By Becca Broaddus Brenna Haffey doesn’t know what she wants to be when she grows up. She has a lot of options: music, business, healthcare or maybe another industry she hasn’t thought of yet. “I like to consider myself a realistic dreamer, so I’m not going […]

A Cultural Shift: Paychecks to Purpose By Manny Fernandez Managing Partner KPMG, LLP Environment and experiences shape who we are and how we look at things including life and work. Each generation has its defining characteristics, and environmental factors have a lot to do with how people behave. Those generations who experienced World War I […]

An Industrious, Dapper Duo By Becca Broaddus When Jackson Wren was a junior at Baylor, he started a business. It was part of Accelerated Ventures, a two-semester course that enables students to create real companies, raise real funds, launch products and services, and generate sales. Jackson and two of his classmates, Claire Major and Hob […]

By Eleanor Hunt Compared to preceding generations, millennials, ages 19 to 35, have changed the way they access goods and services. Generally, they participate in the sharing economy, a term coined to illustrate the sharing of goods and services for compensation via mobile and online platforms. “Unlike baby boomers who want to own physical items, […]

Golden Years: A Homecoming 75 Years in the Making By Becca Broaddus In 1941, the attack on Pearl Harbor spurred the entry of the United States into World War II. Former Texas Governor Pat Neff was at the helm of Baylor University while the Student Union Building was being constructed, and business students attended classes […]

1940s Howard E. Butt, Jr., BBA ’47, the brother of H-E-B Chairman and chief executive officer Charles Butt and the oldest son of the grocery chain’s namesake founder Howard E. Butt, Sr., died in September. He was 89. Howard Butt, Jr., is best known to the public as the evangelistic member of the Butt family […]

Grad Students from Across Nation Vie in Robbins Case Competition for Healthcare Management Graduate students from across the nation gathered at Baylor University to compete in the 2nd Annual Robbins Case Competition in Healthcare Management. The event was held Oct. 19-21 and hosted by the Robbins Institute for Health Policy and Leadership at Baylor’s Hankamer […]

In fall 2015, with some nail biting and butterflies in our bellies, we unveiled a new, redesigned Baylor Business Review (BBR) magazine. We had asked for our readers’ suggestions in earnest, and we took it to heart—publishing a more streamlined alumni magazine. A year later, with our second annual readership survey results in, we can […]