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Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt had a vision of a place that would ?contribute to strengthening the ties that should exist between all sections of our common country? when he gave a million dollars to create a university in 1873. Today, that vision has been realized in Vanderbilt, an internationally recognized research university in Nashville, Tennessee, with strong partnerships among its 10 schools, neighboring institutions and the community. An independent, privately supported university, Vanderbilt is the largest private employer in Middle Tennessee and the second largest private employer based in the state.
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2201 West End Avenue
Nashville, Tennessee 37235
(615) 322-7311
NAICS Code Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools: 611310
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Heard, Vanderbilt's fifth chancellor, dies at 92
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Brett Sweet appointed Vanderbilt's chief financial officer
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Transcard Appoints John Ainsworth As President
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. -- John Ainsworth has been appointed to President of Stored-Value Processor, Transcard. Prior to joining Transcard, John served as senior business leader with MasterCard Worldwide. His seasoned background includes over 15 years of executive sales and management experience with leading financial organizations such as SunTrust Bank, Visa International,...
Joseph C. Hough Jr, who helped to rescue New York's Union Theological Seminary from financial jeopardy during his eight years as president
Joseph C. Hough Jr., who helped to rescue New York's Union Theological Seminary from financial jeopardy during his eight years as president, announced April 24 that he will retire from the post in June 2008. Hough, 73, was lured out of a planned retirement in 1999 to lead the ecumenical...
Differential Cash Constraints, Financial Leverage and the Demand for Money by Firms
This paper revisits the issue of demand for money by firms theoretically and empirically. Our theory features differential cash constraints where firms' entire wage bills require cash in advance whereas a nontrivial fraction of investment purchases is financed by credits. In addition to conventional factors (sales, nominal interest rates and...
Emerging Financial Markets and Early U.S. Growth
This paper argues that the innovative and expanding financial system, by providing debt and equity financing to businesses and governments as new technologies emerged, was central to the nation's early growth and modernization. The analysis includes a set of multivariate time series models that relate measures of banking and equity...
Carolyn Yamasaki: trust her. (In Focus)
Carolyn Yamasaki TRUST HER Starting a trust company is not exactly the stuff of every young girl's dreams. But then again, Carolyn Yamasaki is not your typical businesswoman. She graduated summa cum laude in economics from Vanderbilt University in 1982 and spent the next six years...
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