MBA students write their own lessons
August 25, 2009 by Aaron Kremer · 3 Comments
Sometimes you just have to leap into the deep end.
As university students across the country go back to school, 43 MBA students at the University of Richmond’s Robins School of Business spent two weekends on lock-down — including a full weekend at the Jefferson Hotel — learning as much as they could about a local Fortune 500 company and writing up a case study.
One group recommended that locally based medical supplier Owens & Minor buy a smaller X-ray supply business in Michigan. That purchase should be paid for in five to seven years, the group said. And maybe Owens & Minor could outsource sales. Read more
58 laid off at Capital One
April 23, 2009 by Al Harris · 2 Comments
Capital One Financial Corporation is cutting 58 jobs from its US Card division. About 40 of the cuts are in the Richmond area, and the rest will be at the company’s headquarters in McLean. About 6,700 people work for Capital One in Richmond, not counting the recent layoffs. Read more
