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Tien Huynh’s mindset has driven him toward his desired destination throughout his young career, yet his determination yields unseen future potential. It has taken him from Vietnam to Ohio to Mason and beyond.

Jerry McGinn, executive director of the Center for Government Contracting at ����AV's School of Business, was named one of 2021’s Wash100 Winners of most influential leaders in the GovCon sector. McGinn is the only member of academia to receive this award.

Assistant Professor of Marketing Gautham Vadakkepatt, director of the Center for Retail Transformation at the ����AV School of Business, has been named a RETHINK Retail Top 100 Retail Influencer, an annual list featuring the world’s most instrumental influencers in retail.

A native of Northern Virginia, Yvonne Demory has long considered ����AV to be a beacon of impact to the region.

If you imagine that commercial real estate development would be a classic male-dominated profession, you’d be right. “When I started in commercial real estate in 2001, I worked a commercial brokerage firm,” says Kat Grimsley, PhD, former director of the Master of Science in Real Estate Development program at the ����AV School of Business.

Earlier this month, ten ����AV School of Business Finance students competed in the CFA Washington Ethics Challenge, with one team taking first prize.

Even among the most well-intentioned organizations, traditional assumptions about gender roles and personal choices tend to invade the rhetoric, and therefore attitudes and policies, surrounding compensation and benefits in the work environment.

Texas-born and raised Gabrielle Webster, BA Integrative Studies ’14, MS in Management ’16, first learned about ����AV through her high school debate team. Now, as a double alumna, Webster is equipped to forge her ascending career in management while also giving back to the School of Business through serving on alumni advisory boards.

If there’s one thing that stuck with Ola Sage, MS Technology Management ’99, from her time studying at the School of Business, it is the importance of preparation. Preparation is what her intensive workload came down to—preparation for her career, preparation for each class, preparation for any possible scenario. More than two decades later, she continues to prepare herself, her clients, and the next generation. As a business leader strongly invested in the community, Sage hopes that underrepresented demographics, especially African Americans and women, feel encouraged by seeing her as a role model and that they too prepare to prosper.