John Hooper's path to a career in business

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4 major changes and t.u. law school  to a management degree and an MBA

When I was working on my MBA in 1981, the College of Business was still in Francis Hall.  I was in the Information Systems and Operations Management Department as a Teaching Assistant.  We didn’t have any study areas, so we studied in a large departmental storage area, fondly known as “the bat cave”.  We hung plastic bats, flying from the ceiling, and sat on cardboard boxes amidst file cabinets and other office supplies.  It was a great place to study!

ROBIN STARNES

Through the MBA program, I've met many new people: classmates, recruiters, industry professionals, etc.  However, the most charismatic person I've met so far has actually been from our very own MS Finance program.  I met this individual at an info session because they just randomly started talking to me.  He was able to build rapport with strangers immediately.  He has inspired me on my own journey in building charisma, which led to some self reflection and reading The Charisma Myth by Olivia Fox Cabane.  The three components to charisma are presence, warmth, and power. 

JUSTIN LII '19

I enrolled in Survey of Accounting Principles (ACCT 209) with Dr. Mary Stasny. It had been 4 years since I last took a university-level course, and I'd never taken a course as potentially complex as accounting. I attended her first set of office hours like I'd been told to do with all my professors. There was something different about Dr. Stasny. She wanted to know about me, and about how I was doing both in and out of the classroom. With a class size of 300 students, she certain ly didn't have to invest in us in this way. What's even more special is that she remembered the details of her student's lives.

JAMES ROBERT ROSS '20

My decision to join Maybs Business School was the result of relationships, not accomplishments. A&M was not really on my radar until I was accepted into the Business Honors Program. When I received my acceptance letter, I was shocked to find that the director of the program, Ms. Morley, had included personalized handwritten notes about my application. This was just the start of the personal relationships I would eventually begin to recognize as being unique to A&M, and more specifically, Mays.

PAIGE BROWNE