News


yunus-and-saggi Nobel Peace Prize Winner and alumnus Muhammad Yunus (on left with GPED Director Kamal Saggi) visited the Vanderbilt Campus during the GPED alumni reception on April 2, 2012.

-- Economists Santanu Roy, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, and Kamal Saggi, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, found that diverse parallel importing policies among countries today make it possible to analyze for the first time how competition between firms and allowing or banning parallel imports can influence competition in foreign and domestic markets. Click here to read the article.

-- Professor Kamal Saggi presented at the roundtable on "Brazil: Possibilities and Pitfalls for Business and Development" on April 12th, 2011. Please check here to view the flier.

-- Invited by USN, Professor Kamal Saggi discussed Globalization in Buhl Lecture. He explained the costs and benefits of globalization in the USN auditorium. Please click here to read more about the speech.

-- Kamal Saggi Joined the GPED as Director in August 2010. Click here to read more.

-- Kevin St. John was elected GPED Student Representative for 2010-2011.

-- Student Bradley Kemph has accepted a fast track position for top management with Ascension Health.

-- The Annual Steine Lecture, given by Professor Francois Bourguignon Drector of the Paris School of Economics and former Chief Economist for the World Bank... Read more.

GPED Calendar


-- Exams begin: Thursday, April 25, 2012

-- Friday May 4th, 5:00 p.m. GPED Annual Awards Reception and Dinner

-- Commencement May 11th, 2012:Opening Ceremony on Alumni Lawn:
        9:00 a.m. Graduate School Ceremony and         Reception: 10:30 a.m. on the Library Lawn