Lipscomb grad wins top graduate school honor
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John Owens, a 1994 Lipscomb University accounting graduate, has won the Graduate Business Foundation Student Leadership Award for 2004. The award, presented to Owens during the foundation’s recent annual conference in Ann Arbor, Mich., recognizes the graduate business student who best exemplifies the Graduate Business Foundation’s ideals of leadership and innovation. “Lipscomb set the stage for me to become the leader I am today,” said Owens, who is in his final year of MBA studies at Vanderbilt University’s Owen Graduate School of Management. Before enrolling in the Owen School, he was an associate in equity capital markets for RBC Dain Rauscher and a corporate finance business analyst at J.C. Bradford, now part of UBS. He has held an internship for the last year with Detwiler, Mitchell & Co., a Boston-based broker-dealer firm. He plans to pursue a career in investment banking recruiting after he graduates in May. While pursuing his MBA, Owens established the Owen 2x1 campaign, a student-run, student-led internship and career placement program, and created Student Career Profiles, an online tool that captures each Owen School student’s career preferences. He is vice president of the Owen School Student Government Association and serves on the Student Advisory Committee for the school’s Career Management Center. “Vanderbilt University has provided me with the opportunity to work with some enormously talented people from my classmates to faculty, staff and administrators over the last two years. This is a tribute to all of them as I share this honor with them,” Owens said. Owens is the second Owen School student to receive the award in its 14-year history. In 1996, Jody Handler was named the winner for creating 100% Owen, a year-round volunteer program at the school that thrives today. The annual conference and nominations for the award are limited to representatives of the top 30 U.S. business schools and top 10 international business schools as ranked by Business Week, previous host schools and the 17 Community of European Management Schools. It is the premier MBA student leadership event, bringing together student presidents and other select leaders from these leading schools.