Mays Impacts

Each Spring, Mays Business School celebrates its faculty and staff for superior accomplishments. This meeting is a time to look back on the past year and recognize those who have gone above and beyond in their service. This year, the Mays community gathered virtually to honor the following 2020-2021 achievements and welcome its newest members.

Faculty Emeriti

• James Benjamin, James Benjamin Department of Accounting – 46 years
• Julian Gaspar, Center for International Business Studies – 29 years of service
• Steve McDaniel, Department of Marketing – 40 years of service

Faculty Tenures & Promotions

• Lecturer to Senior Lecturer
  • Karen Farmer, James Benjamin Department of Accounting
• Clinical Assistant to Clinical Associate
  • Bilal Erturk, Department of Finance
  • Russ Peterson, Department of Finance
• Assistant to Associate
  • Marco Rossi, Department of Finance
  • Chris Yust, James Benjamin Department of Accounting
• Associate Professor to Full Professor
  • Yong Chen, Finance

Faculty Awards

• 2021 Distinguished Achievement Award (Teaching):
  • Gregory R. Heim, Professor, Department of Information and Operations Management
• Department of Information and Operations Management Teaching Awards:
  • Master’s, Management Information Systems – David Gomillion
  • Undergraduate, Management Information Systems – Aaron Becker
  • Undergraduate, Supply Chain – Tony Arreola-Risa
• Department of Management Teaching Awards
  • HR Division of the Academy of Management, Herbert Heneman Jr. Career Achievement Award – Murray R. Barrick
  • HR Division of the Academy of Management, Early Career Achievement Award – Joel Koopman
  • Best Editorial Board Reviewer for Journal of Applied Psychology – Joel Koopman
• Department of Marketing Teaching Awards
  • 2021 Herb Thompson Teaching Award – Lisa C. Troy
  • 2021 Herb Thompson Teaching Award – Akshaya Sreenivasan,

Honoring our Ph.D. Students 

• Outstanding Teaching Award
  • Stephen Stewart, James Benjamin Department of Accounting
  • Hai Pham, Department of Finance
  • Huseyn Abdulla, Department of Information and Operations Management
  • Melanie Prengler, Department of Management
  • Yuna Choe, Department of Marketing
• Outstanding Research Award
  • Rachel Flam, James Benjamin Department of Accounting
  • Dora Li Horstman, Department of Finance
  • Mayukh Majumdar, Department of Information and Operations Management
  • Seoin Yoon, Department of Management
  • Muzeeb Shaik, Department of Marketing
• Deloitte Foundation Doctoral Fellowship
  • Rachel Flam, James Benjamin Department of Accounting

Staff Star Performer Awards

• Taylor Bordelon, Program Coordinator, Center for Executive Development
• Lisa Burton, Director, MS Marketing Program
• Diana Cassetta-Perez, Administrative Associate IV, Department of Marketing
• Ashley Corn, Academic Advisor III, Undergraduate Advising
• Monica Espinoza, Administrative Associate II, Center for International Business Studies
• Brent Jankowiak, Business Coordinator, James Benjamin Department of Accounting
• Glynna Nickle, Program Coordinator I, Department of Marketing
• Kimberly Scherer, Administrative Coordinator II, Department of Management
• Donna L. Shumaker, Administrative Coordinator I, Department of Information and Operations Management
• Katie Stober, Assistant Director, MBA Admissions
• Business Honors Team:
  • Kris Morley, Director of Business Honors
  • Jeff Glenn, Program Coordinator, Student Transformation Center
  • Claire Raabe, Academic Advisor, Business Honors

Meeting our New Colleagues 

• Ben Welch, Clinical Professor and Assistant Dean for Executive Education, Center for Executive Development
• Alyssa Morgan, Program Manager – Client Engagement, Center for Executive Development
• Julie Chrisler, Development Assistant, Development
• Debbie Hesse, Director of Development, Development
• Mark Toler, Assistant Director of Development, Development
• LaRhesa Johnson, Assistant Director for Marketing and Communications, Graduate Programs
• Regan Metoyer Peterson, Program Coordinator, Recruiting & Admissions, CityCentre, Graduate Programs
• Jazmin Jones, Graduate Programs – Program Coordinator, Full-Time MBA Program
• Shayla Clifton, Program Coordinator II, Department of Marketing
• Kathy Miller, Business Coordinator II, Department of Marketing
• Rachel Racicot, Communications Specialist II, Department of Marketing
• Jess Junek, Business Coordinator II, McFerrin Center for Entrepreneurship

Celebrating Staff Promotions

• Mike Alexander, Assistant Dean for Graduate Programs
• Joanne Byrne, Program Coordinator II, Grad Programs, Scholarships, and Financial Aid
• Hannah Cole, Academic Advisor IV, Department of Marketing
• De’Ambra Harmon, Administrative Associate V, Department of Marketing
• Alyssa Hartmann, Academic Advisor II, Undergraduate Advising Office
• Karen Hentschel, Executive Assistant I, Department of Finance
• Ashley Hilgemeier, Director, Client Engagement, Center for Executive Development
• Rebecca Itz, Academic Advisor IV, Department of Finance
• Sarah Jaks, Associate Director, Full-Time MBA Program
• Deborah Mann, Associate Director, Professional MBA Program
• Tom Marrs, Associate Director, Client Engagement, Center for Executive Development
• Deborah McHaney, Associate Director, MBA Recruiting and Admissions
• Brittany Schultz, Academic Advisor II, Undergraduate Advising Office
• Catherine Young, Academic Advisor II, Undergraduate Advising Office

Honoring our Retirees

• Kim Austin, Director of Career Management Center, MBA Programs – 6 years of service
• Paul S. Busch, Texas A&M University System Regents Professor, Department of Marketing – 35 years of service
• Katherine Jackson, Business Administrator, Department of Marketing – 27 years of service
• Richard “Dick” H. Lester, Clinical Professor, Department of Management – 15 years of service
• Marty Loudder, Presidential Professor for Teaching Excellence and PricewaterhouseCooper Teaching Excellence Professor of Accounting, James Benjamin Department of Accounting – 32 years of service
• Brian Molhusen, Executive Professor, Department of Marketing – 6 years of service
• Nancy Simpson, Clinical Professor, Undergraduate Special Programs – 32 years of service
• Chris Wolfe, Deborah D. Shelton Accounting Systems Professor, James Benjamin Department of Accounting – 36 years of service

Company Makes Joint Investment to Texas McCombs and Texas A&M’s Mays Business School

The University of Texas/Texas A&M Investment Management Company (UTIMCO) has agreed to invest $7.5 million to the Texas McCombs Longhorn Fund, now called Texas McCombs Investment Advisers LLC, and $7.5 million to The Reveille Fund at Texas A&M Mays Business School. The funds are actively managed domestic equity funds benchmarked to the S&P 500. Operated by business students, the funds enable the business schools to provide unique experiential learning opportunities, continued investment education, financial research, and practice for their students.

Created in 1996, UTIMCO is the first external investment corporation formed by a public university system and manages investments for The University of Texas and Texas A&M Systems.

“UTIMCO is excited to support the student investment funds at the McCombs and Mays business schools and help give top students the opportunity to learn in a controlled and mentor-led setting and to receive exposure to real-world investment management processes,” says Britt Harris, UTIMCO president and CEO.

In addition to the financial investment, UTIMCO plans to strengthen its active involvement with both schools. Its leadership team will meet regularly with students to review portfolios, discuss performance, and comment on market conditions. UTIMCO will also facilitate meetings with the top external investment managers in the country.

“It is exciting that the discussions that President Jay Hartzell initiated more than one year ago have been fruitful,” says Clemens Siam, professor of finance and director of the AIM Investment Center at McCombs. “This collaboration with UTIMCO will ensure that this path-breaking program that was founded by Keith Brown and George Gau more than 25 years ago will continue to enhance the educational experience of our MBA students.”

“I am thrilled that UTIMCO offered this opportunity to Mays Business School last year, and I am really grateful to Sorin Sorescu, our Interim Executive Associate Dean, for working tirelessly (with input and help from many people) to make this a reality,” says Christa Bouwman, associate professor and acting head of the Department of Finance at Mays Business School. “We already offer a high-impact Aggies on Wall Street program focusing on investment banking. We can now give our students a top-notch Reveille Investment Management Program as well. The Reveille Fund is currently run by my colleagues Hagen Kim and Jene Tebeaux, and we’re delighted to have Brent (B.R.) Adams join as Program Director, bringing over 30 years of hedge fund experience to guide our students.”

Texas McCombs Investment Advisers LLC will initially manage $7.5 million in its Longhorn Portfolio and $7.0 million in its Endowment Portfolio. The Endowment Portfolio manages assets for the AIM Investment Center, the Business School Foundation, and several scholarships.

The Reveille Fund at Texas A&M University will complement The Tanner Fund, which started in 2000 with a $250,000 gift from Jamey and Richard Tanner, ’53. The fund has grown over the past two decades and currently has around $920,000 in portfolio. It has been a student-run portfolio under Jene Tebeaux’ leadership for the entire duration.

About the McCombs School of Business at The University of Texas at Austin

Texas McCombs is a premier business school at a world-class public research university. We are a community that fosters lifelong engagement with our students and alumni. We cultivate principled leaders and develop ideas that will advance our economy, improve lives, strengthen our communities, and create new knowledge for future generations. Through high-quality instruction, experiential learning, and the pursuit of relevant, groundbreaking research, we are shaping those who will shape tomorrow and solve our most challenging problems.

About Mays Business School at Texas A&M University

At Mays Business School, our vision is to advance the world’s prosperity. Our mission is to be a vibrant learning organization that creates impactful knowledge and develops transformational leaders. Mays Business School educates more than 6,400 undergraduate, masters, and doctoral students in accounting, finance, management, management information systems, marketing, and supply chain management. Mays consistently ranks among the top public business schools for its programs and faculty research.

Mays MBA Student Leads Aggie Team That Earns 3rd Place in International Case Competition Focused on Addressing International Food Production Problems

A Texas A&M University interdisciplinary team led by Mays Business School Full-Time MBA student Ryan Staples ’22 earned third place in the 2021 Norwegian Business School Global Case Competition. The Aggie team–which included Danette Philpot, Garrett Brogan, and Meikah Dado, who are graduate students from the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences’ Department of Agriculture Leadership, Education and Communications—earned this international recognition by proposing an innovative use of technology to improve food production in Uganda by empowering women.

The Mays-sponsored group competed against 85 teams from 60 top-tier universities to generate game-changing solutions to food production issues involving obesity, malnutrition, and climate change. These topics will be discussed at the United Nations Food Systems Summit in Fall 2021.

Uganda

Once the case problem was released, Texas A&M’s team decided to focus on Uganda, which Brogan had visited through his studies. That focus was important because more than one of every three Ugandans suffer from chronic malnutrition.

This issue is compounded because the nation has a significant gender inequality issue in its food production system. Eighty percent of the food consumed by the nation’s residents is produced by women. However, for every one pound of food produced by a woman in Uganda, a man can produce three. “Our whole idea is how can we bridge this knowledge and gender gap between men and women so that the country of Uganda can produce more food,” Staples said. “With 80% of the food producers only one-third as productive as their counterparts, there is a huge area of opportunity. “

Tech Solution

The team proposed providing the women farmers with electronic tablets filled with agricultural knowledge so they can become empowered. Using technology allows the nation’s women farmers–who often do not attend extension programs because they are doing the farm work and caring for the children and elderly—to have ready access to extension resources, such as videos. “This is supplying them with knowledge so they can help themselves,” Dado said. “It is a bottom-up approach.”

The team projects that if this initiative is implemented over a 10-year period, 3 million women would be empowered. This would lead to a 30% increase in overall agriculture productivity and a $450 million boost to Uganda’s GDP.

Interdisciplinary Aggies

The Aggie team, which was the top-performing team among North American and South American colleges and universities, benefitted from the support by Mays Business School faculty members Dr. Daniel Usera and Dr. Mary Lea McAnally and College of Agriculture and Life Sciences’ Dr. Jack Elliott, a professor and senior scientist at the university’s renowned Norman Borlaug Institute for International Agriculture. These faculty members were able to provide feedback before the team moved into the semifinal round of the case competition.

Staples believes that the team’s interdisciplinary representation was critical to the Aggies’ third place finish. “Our success was truly a testament to the power of synergistic team effort,” he said. “The true kudos go to my three new friends in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences who shared this case competition journey with me.”

His counterparts agreed and appreciated Staples’ openness to learning about agriculture and his facilitation and leadership skills. “Ryan had knowledge in so many different ways that we didn’t have, but we had that knowledge of the agriculture aspect,” Dado said. “We were able to come together, and I do not think we would have been as successful if we hadn’t been interdisciplinary.”

Go to Market Plans

The Aggies are now seeking ways to bring their idea to the marketplace. They have presented to the Borlaug Institute’s director and senior faculty, who have offered positive feedback and are considering including the project in future grant proposals. In addition, Staples is using Mays’ contacts to pitch to Fortune 500 companies about corporate funding. The team also may receive an invitation to present at the United Nations Food Systems Summit.

These types of high-impact learning experiences that challenge Mays students to solve real-world problems are aligned with Mays’ vision to advance the world’s prosperity. “Case competitions offer students the opportunity to practice being transformational leaders through combining theory, research, and practical application while working in a team,” said Mays Associate Dean for Graduate Programs Arvind Mahajan. “We feel so strongly about the power of these learning experiences that Mays collaborates annually with Humana Inc. to host the Humana-Mays Healthcare Analytics Case Competition, which challenges 1,300 U.S. masters-level students to analyze the company’s data to identify innovative healthcare solutions.”

Ultimately, Staples credits Mays Full-Time MBA program for helping to polish his leadership skills to be able to successfully focus the team’s efforts. “The program helped me first to identify my leadership strengths, and then taught me how to leverage them. Apart from that, I have had the opportunity to lead team projects among my peers since last July,” Staples said. “The combination of understanding the unique skills I possess and the practical opportunity to practice those skills has been invaluable to my development as a leader.”

Study of 9,000 Texas public schools shows districts should keep investing in internet-access spending to improve academic outcomes

Internet access has been a critical resource for public schools during the COVID-19 pandemic. It has enabled teachers to reach out and educate students remotely. As things go back to normal, investments in internet access will need to continue according to a study of 9,000 schools conducted by a research team from Texas A&M University, University of Notre Dame, and Rice University.

Do students benefit from increased internet access in public schools? This has been an open policy question. Advocates of internet-based learning argue it improves student access, engagement, and personalized learning. Its detractors cite children’s access to obscene or harmful content and disciplinary problems.

To address these policy questions, the research team created the largest and most comprehensive dataset to date. The dataset of 1,243 school districts represents more than 9,000 Texas public schools from 2000 to 2014. The team measured internet-access spending along with indicators of academic performance indicators and disciplinary problems. It used statistical techniques to isolate the effect of internet-access spending on academic performance and disciplinary problems.  Of note, this dataset examines the effect of internet access spending in a pre-COVID era.

Even when schools are fully physical, increased school district internet spending is strongly associated with improved academic outcomes. In addition to improved graduation rates, increased internet spending was also associated with improvement in commended performance in math, reading, writing, and social studies. Districts with increased internet access spending also showed a higher number of students meeting SAT/ACT criteria and completing advanced courses. These improvements, according to the research study, were stronger for students who lived in counties with greater internet access (as measured by the number of broadband providers). It seems that increased internet access at home and at school has a symbiotic benefit for students.

“Texas public schools have provided important insights for education policy,” said study co-author Shrihari Sridhar, a professor of marketing at Texas A&M’s Mays Business School. “Many public schools ramped up internet access spending during the COVID-19 pandemic. As we move past COVID-19 to a more physical-based learning environment internet access spending needs to be maintained at previous levels or even increased. This is a worthwhile investment with very high returns—academic performance and financial gains.”

“We caution that the clear and meaningful academic benefits from increased internet access can also increase disciplinary issues such as cyberbullying. Therefore, schools will do well to create and implement policies to address them,” continued Sridhar.

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The paper, “Investigating the Academic Performance and Disciplinary Consequences of School District Internet Access Spending,” which appeared in the February issue of the Journal of Marketing Research, was co-authored by professors Yixing Chen of Notre Dame, Vikas Mittal of Rice University, and Shrihari Sridhar of Texas A&M. It can be downloaded at: https://doi.org/10.1177/0022243720964130

The McFerrin Center for Entrepreneurship has released the finalists for the 2021 Texas High School Ideas Challenge. This inaugural competition is the only state-wide entrepreneurial contest offered exclusively to High School students across Texas. Teams from every region of Texas applied for this year’s competition but only 30 ideas were selected to compete. This year’s competition will award over $10,000 in prize money.

Public viewing of the competition is not available. The winners of the 2021 Texas High School Ideas Challenge will be announced via live stream on Friday, April 30 at 3:30 PM. Those interested in viewing the Awards Presentation can do so at tx.ag/TXHSIdeasAwardsCeremony.

Listing of Finalists

The finalist teams and their respective High Schools and cities are included below.

• Allowance – Vista Ride High School, Cedar Park
• Bible Land – McNeil High School, Austin
• Chance Tickets – Centennial High School, Frisco
• CollegeHype – Clint ISD Early College Academy, Clint
• Connect Link to Creativity – Clements High School, Sugarland
• DropaBall – Champion High School, Boerne
• Entity – Centennial High School, Frisco
• Environmate – Centennial High School, Frisco
• Farmer Adam – A&M Consolidated, College Station
• Florescents – Elkins High School, Missouri City
• Go!Board – The Woodlands College Park High School, The Woodlands
• How to Reduce Food Waste in Schools Using Emerging Technology – Cypress Woods High School, Cypress
• Indus Naturals – Vandegrift High School, Austin
• Industrifilm – Dulles High School, Sugarland
• Memory Packages – Liberal Arts and Science Academy, Austin
• New Experience for Online Job Search – Centennial High School, Frisco
• Panacea Therapeutic Socks – William B. Travis High School, Richmond
• PRACTICE PALS – Klein Cain High School, Klein
• Pure Bliss Water Production System – The Woodlands Christian Academy, The Woodlands
• Rentek – Liberal Arts and Science Academy, Austin
• A.P.P.E. by MC – Frisco High School, Frisco
• Shuttle – Memorial High School, Houston
• Sole Cold – Boerne Champion High School, Boerne
• Student Power – The Village School, Houston
• Teen Jobs App – Del Valle High School, Del Valle
• TowerApp – MacArthur High School, Irving
• Track&Charge – LASA High School, Austin
• UnDistract – James Bowie High School, Austin
• Vitally Green – La Vega High School, Waco
• WalkThru – Vista Ridge High School, Cedar Park

About Texas High School Ideas Challenge

The Texas High School Ideas Challenge motivates high school students to explore entrepreneurship and discover the benefit of an entrepreneurial mindset. There is no business plan or product development required for the Texas High School Ideas Challenge. Students must prepare and submit a compelling application that illustrated the creative, careful, and methodical planning that has gone into their idea.

About McFerrin Center for Entrepreneurship

The McFerrin Center for Entrepreneurship provides experiential programs, events, and education for entrepreneurs at Texas A&M University and across the state of opportunities for entrepreneurial students at Texas A&M University. We are committed to the success of entrepreneurs and believe that they are the cornerstone of a robust economy and nation.

Academic research experts and industry professionals will gather to discuss the latest trends and insights in marketing and retailing on April 23 via Zoom.

Hosted by the Center for Retailing Studies (CRS), this virtual event will include featured topics such as: healthcare, mobile app technology, online purchasing, emerging research issues in retailing, and state of the industry post-pandemic.

“The Retail Research Leadership Forum is a signature event of the Center for Retailing Studies, Mays Business School. It showcases leading-edge research on retailing from world-class researchers and thought leadership lessons from influential practitioners. It is a trend-setter for future directions in retailing,” said CRS Director of Research Venky Shankar.

Speakers and panelists include:
Venky Shankar, Coleman Chair Professor of Marketing at Mays Business School
Leonard Berry, University Distinguished Professor at Mays Business School
Unnati Narang, Assistant Professor at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Jack Boyle, Global Co-President Direct to Consumer at Fanatics, Inc.
Bill Stinneford, Senior Vice President at Buxton
Rebecca Wooters, Chief Digital Officer at Signet Jewelers

Registration information and full agenda can accessed at: tx.ag/RetailForum

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The Center for Retailing Studies offers collaboration opportunities with world-class researchers and thought leadership that advances knowledge about the consumer and retailing industry as a whole.

Media contact: Andrew Vernon, Center for Retailing Studies, avernon@mays.tamu.edu

Written by Meredith White ’21

Every once in a while, a new invention is created that makes consumers and investors pause and wonder at the genius in its simplicity. Around seven years ago, Dr. Albert Huang was removing part of a diseased colon from a patient’s body when he struggled to find and avoid cutting the patient’s ureter. This is a common occurrence with pelvic surgeries and even the most experienced surgeons struggle to identify and avoid the small muscle hidden under multiple layers of tissue. By the end of the procedure, Dr. Huang found himself thinking up new ideas that would make locating the ureter much faster and safer. His ideas began to solidify during a quiet moment in front of his computer. The next thing he knew he was building a prototype and scouring eBay and Radio Shack looking for spare parts. He was making progress towards solving this monumental problem, but he was going to need to make some tough decisions in order to go from Frankenstein prototype to full-blown startup. Dr. Huang resolved to leave active practice in order to pursue his idea, a daunting task considering the lifetime of training it took to become a surgeon. He knew the rare opportunity that he had to make an impact and save lives.

Dr. Huang came to view the pause in his surgical career “[…] as an opportunity rather than a sacrifice.” His unique background as a practicing surgeon has proven invaluable in the development of his company, Allotrope Medical. He knows the atmosphere of the operating room and he understands the needs of the doctors, assistants, and most importantly the patients. Dr. Huang is also keenly aware of the standards medical professionals have for new technology. He used all of this information, in addition to his expertise in human anatomy, to create StimSite.

StimSite simply but elegantly helps surgeons identify and safely work around the ureter during pelvic surgeries and procedures. The ureter is a smooth muscle structure that can blend into the surrounding tissue making it difficult to see. Each year, 1% or more of procedures result in accidental harm to the patient’s ureter. Dr. Huang concluded that by generating an electrical signal, similar to that created by the brain of a conscious patient, he could make the ureter move on demand and become distinguishable among the pelvic tissue. This small movement would make it easier to locate the ureter, decreasing the time surgeons spend trying to identify and avoid the ureter and also significantly decreasing the risk of accidentally injuring this small but vital structure.

After much trial-and-error, StimSite was finally ready and it was time for Allotrope Medical to seek outside investment. “Taking and sharing your vision is always hard to do,” commented Dr. Huang, “How do you [take] what’s in your brain and share that passion?” Dr. Huang’s idea is obviously good, but his mindset is even better. He has the drive and creativity to support his ambitions and the charisma required to make others believe in his company as well. It should come as no surprise that Allotrope Medical and StimSite quickly caught the eye of investors, in particular the Aggie Angel Network. In June 2020 Dr. Huang competed in the virtual Texas A&M New Ventures Competition (TNVC) during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic and won first place and $50,000. In addition to the first-place winnings, Allotrope Medical received the Aggie Angel Network Special Investment Prize.

The TNVC prize money combined with other investments meant that Dr. Huang had finally secured the funding he needed to move forward with manufacturing StimSite. Dr. Huang was notified in November 2020 that StimSite was awarded FDA clearance making Allotrope Medical one of the few MedTech companies within the Texas Medical Center to receive clearance to bring their technology through hospital doors. After his positive interaction with Aggie Angel Network (AAN), Dr. Huang approached the angel investment group and offered an additional investment opportunity for AAN members as Allotrope began to close on their Series A. AAN members have a keen sense for a good opportunity and invested an additional $300,000 in Dr. Huang’s startup in early 2021.

Dr. Huang commented that StimSite is already having an impact on the medical field. Doctors he has never met in cities he has never been to are using his technology on patients he’s never seen. Some surgeons filmed themselves using StimSite and presented the recordings at classes and symposiums. This enthusiastic adoption from the medical community further validates the major need that StimSite is filling for surgeons across the United State and soon, around the world.

Dr. Albert Huang grew up asking questions and with a desire to understand how the world around him works. He restored vintage cars and motorcycles during his years in medical school. He has always been looking behind the curtain, trying to learn how things work and can be made even better. He worked hard to become a doctor to help other people, but when he found another way to assist mankind, he was willing to focus everything he had on an innocuous thought that grew into something more. His advice to other entrepreneurs is to tell them it’s doable. That dream you’ve had since you were a kid, that passing idea that you came up with during lunch, it’s all doable. And there are people out there who are willing to help you. There are people out there that want to make the world better and will listen to you as long as you, too, are asking questions. If you too are also pulling back the curtain and looking at the world around you with a perceptive eye. To those who are ready to follow in the steps of Dr. Albert Huang, it may be time to take that leap of faith.

2022 RANKINGS HIGHLIGHT MAYS BUSINESS SCHOOL’S MBA EMPLOYMENT SUCCESS

COLLEGE STATION, TX, March 30, 2021 – Texas A&M’s Full-Time MBA (FTMBA) program has been named a top 20 U.S. Public program, according to the 2022 rankings released by U.S. News & World Report. Offered through Mays Business School, the FTMBA program ranks as the #16 public program in the U.S. and #38 overall, an improvement of four and six spots, respectively. The FTMBA also ranked #4 among U.S. Public programs in terms of the employment rate three months after graduation, a testament to the quality of the Aggie Network. The School’s Professional MBA (PMBA) program – offered from the Houston CityCentre campus – was also ranked with positions of #23 for public programs in the U.S. and #39 overall.

Detailed descriptions of the methodology used to determine the rankings are available at U.S. News and World Report’s site. The methodology includes criteria such as peer school assessment score (25%), mean GMAT and GRE scores (16.25%), recruiter assessment score (15%), mean starting salary and bonus (14%), employment rate three months after graduation (14%), and other factors.

“The entire MBA Programs office is geared toward preparing our students for success,” shared Arvind Mahajan, Ph.D., Associate Dean for Graduate Programs for Mays Business School. “From full-circle leadership development to high-impact opportunities in our MBA Venture Challenge, to students hosting and running the Humana-Mays Healthcare Data Analytics Case Competition – faculty, staff, and administration lead the way to develop students who will advance the world’s prosperity, our vision at Mays Business School. Students receiving benefit and returning the favor to the Aggie Network makes it worth the intensive effort.”

“Please allow me to express very sincere congratulations to students, faculty, staff, and the entire Mays leadership team regarding these prestigious outcomes for our MBA programs,” shared Duane Ireland, Ph.D., Acting Dean for Mays Business School. “These rankings demonstrate that Mays Business School is achieving success with efforts to achieve its mission of being a vibrant learning organization that creates impactful knowledge and develops transformational leaders.”

Applications for Texas A&M’s MBA programs are being accepted now for the class of 2023. For more information, visit: mba.tamu.edu

By Blake Parrish, Mays Business School Marketing, Communications, and Public Relations

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About Mays Business School

At Mays Business School, our vision is to advance the world’s prosperity. Our mission is to be a vibrant learning organization that creates impactful knowledge and develops transformational leaders. Mays Business School educates more than 6,400 undergraduate, masters, and doctoral students in accounting, finance, management, management information systems, marketing, and supply chain management. Mays consistently ranks among the top public business schools for its programs and faculty research.

Media contact: Blake Parrish, Mays Business School Marketing, Communications, and Public Relations, bparrish@mays.tamu.edu.