{"id":3147,"date":"2010-03-12T13:00:49","date_gmt":"2010-03-12T18:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/baylorproud.wpengine.com\/?p=3147"},"modified":"2010-03-12T13:00:49","modified_gmt":"2010-03-12T18:00:49","slug":"business-students-participate-in-qa-with-billionaire-buffett","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/2010\/03\/business-students-participate-in-qa-with-billionaire-buffett\/","title":{"rendered":"Business students participate in Q&A with billionaire Buffett"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Warren<\/p>\n

It’s not every day you get to meet one of the world’s most successful businessmen, so Baylor students soaked in the experience during a recent trip to Omaha, Neb., where they joined several other college groups in meeting with multibillionaire investor Warren Buffett<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Buffett — recently recognized as the world’s third-richest man<\/a> by Forbes<\/em>, behind only Mexico’s Carlos Slim Helu and Microsoft’s Bill Gates — welcomed the group for lunch and an exclusive Q&A session in which students peppered their host with inquiries<\/a> about his philosophy on life and business. Afterwards, Buffett took time to pose for individual photos with his guests.<\/p>\n

The opportunity to meet with Buffett is a distinction schools across the globe apply for, so being selected was an honor for Baylor and reflects well on the university’s Hankamer School of Business<\/a>. Five other universities — Ohio State, Duke, Texas, Creighton and Western Ontario — also participated in the event, but only Baylor elected to recognize undergraduate students by including them on the trip alongside MBA candidates.<\/p>\n

Sic \u2019em, Baylor business students!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s not every day you get to meet one of the world’s most successful businessmen, so Baylor students soaked in the experience during a recent trip to Omaha, Neb., where they joined several other college groups in meeting with multibillionaire investor Warren Buffett. Buffett — recently recognized as the world’s third-richest man by Forbes, behind […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academics","category-student-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3147","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3147"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3147\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}