A team of Prairie View A&M University students who took part in a semester-long program culminating in a case study competition took home fifth place and $155,000 in grants from Goldman Sachs, the New York City-based investment banking, securities and investment management firm.
To be fair, LaTrinidy Mike hated her career in banking. The day she got laid off was a shockingly good one. More than a year later, Mike recognizes that it was pivotal: Losing the security of a job gave her the freedom to follow through on a longtime goal of completing her undergraduate degree. “It [...]
December 6, 2020, will always be a day I will remember. It was the day that would change my life forever. I was laid off from my job of six years. I wasn’t devastated because, to me, it was the break I needed to finish what I started in August 2006, which was my bachelor’s [...]
Growing up in Bastrop, Cheryl Lee never thought she’d serve on the City Council. But the fourth generation Bastropian will become the city’s first African American female council member when she is sworn in to office in May.
A cross-disciplinary team of business and engineering students from Prairie View A&M University recently traveled to Houston to attend the inaugural HBCU Bain & Company Case Clash at Bain & Company’s Houston office. The visit included a full day of programming, starting with a networking breakfast with employees (Bainies) of the global management consulting firm, [...]
Kishwar Joonas, Ph.D., associate professor of marketing in the College of Business at Prairie View A&M University, delivered the keynote address at the inaugural ceremony of the Association of Indian Management Scholars International Conference on Management in Indore, India.
Nearly 84 percent of all US certified public accountants are caucasian and just 2 percent are Black, according to a report published in 2019 by the Association of International Certified Public Accountants. In an effort to encourage a more racially diverse accounting ecosystem, Prairie View A&M University (PVAMU) has recently announced its collaboration with the Deloitte [...]
As the world approaches the two-year mark of the start of the pandemic, more and more opportunities to return to pre-pandemic activities are becoming available. Prairie View A&M University student Kendall Brown, a finance major, has just returned from his study abroad trip to Spain. Brown was the first PVAMU student to travel internationally for study since [...]
Born in Drolshagen, Germany, Felicitas Loske is not your typical Prairie View A&M University MBA graduate. As the mother of three young children, she enters the next stage of life with three degrees in hand and a Gib niemals auf (never give up) spirit to inspire others. She came to the U.S. as an exchange high school [...]
Prairie View A&M University students recently squared off against Texas Southern University students for the annual Black Employee Network Phillips 66 Business and Engineering Diversity Case Competition. The competition returned in 2021 after a one-year hiatus due to the pandemic. Six students from PVAMU combined to take first and second place in the event.
