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University of Kentucky MBA alumni from Valvoline, Alltech, UK Healthcare and AMR Management Services will be featured at the Gatton College of Business and Economics on Thursday, February 7th. These speakers are hosted by the Gatton College's One Year MBA program, as part of their One Year MBA Open House event which is open to all students, majors, young professionals and recent graduates.
The MBA program at the University of Kentucky's Gatton College of Business is excited to announce that candidates can now apply for consideration into the incoming 2019 class, which include the One Year MBA, Professional MBA, Professional MBA (For Leaders in Healthcare) and Dual Degree programs.
Check out what's going on as we start the new academic year, with Simon J. Sheather, the new dean of the Gatton College of Business and Economics.
See footage from the Gatton Welcome, where the college welcomed 784 incoming first-year undergraduates from 33 states and 10 countries, who are part of a record-breaking more than 4,000 future business leaders studying at the Gatton College this year.
Keep an eye out for these updates once a month, where Dean Sheather will share the latest and greatest things going on at Gatton!
Gatton College of Business and Economics Social Enterprise Scholars Jenna Hazelbaker, Kristen McLaughlin, Megan Van Son and Taylor Wurth were recently rewarded for their success and achievement at the Global Social Innovation Challenge at the University of San Diego.
Since graduating from the Gatton College, Chinaecherem and Chisom Omenyinma have been traveling, starting new jobs and earning graduate degrees.
University of Kentucky Provost David Blackwell on Wednesday announced that Simon J. Sheather has been selected as the next dean of UK’s Gatton College of Business and Economics, pending approval by the UK Board of Trustees.
Sheather currently is professor and interim director of Texas A&M University’s Institute of Data Science, as well as academic director of MS (Analytics) and Online Programs in the Department of Statistics. Texas A&M, like UK, is a member of the Southeastern Conference.
At the first Gatton Honors Day Celebration on April 6, 2019, students, student organizations, faculty, and staff were recognized for their outstanding achievements.
Remember a few years ago when airline ticket fares increased dramatically due to surcharges which were added quickly in response to sharply rising fuel costs? Even though fuel prices have moderated substantially, many, if not most, of the higher fares are here to stay. And yet such pricing practices, dubbed “asymmetric pricing” by academics, seem to be less prevalent in other parts of the world. For example, similar fuel surcharges were revoked in Japan and the Philippines.
Gatton College of Business and Economics senior finance majors Tyler May, Joseph Back and Joy Gilfillan brought home the grand prize at this year’s national stock pitch competition hosted recently by the Terry College of Business at the University of Georgia. The competition brings students together with leaders from the investment community to showcase their skills in equity research and fundamental analysis, and to pitch stocks and get industry pros to evaluate them and give feedback on their work.
University of Kentucky's Gatton College of Business and Economics presented the fourth annual Commonwealth Supply Chain Innovation Award, sponsored by SAS, to John Lindsey, supply chain manager for R.J. Corman Material Sales in Nicholasville, Kentucky. The presentation ceremony was held during Thursday’s eighth annual Supply Chain Forum, held in the Woodford Reserve Club at Kroger Field.