Where engineering and business merge: RichardHale plots his entrepreneurial journey For Richard Hale, whose career spans senior leadership positions at such industry giants as AT&T, NCR/Teradata and IBM, commitment to Auburn and the Harbert College of Business is truly a family affair. He met his wife, Melinda — also an Auburn grad — at Auburn. His two sons, Kyle and Brent, are Harbert grads as well — Kyle in Marketing and Brent in Supply Chain Management. In true Auburn fashion, Hale and his wife established the Richard and Melinda Hale Endowed Fund for Excellence for Business Analytics to further match Har- bert’s Business Analytics curriculum with the emerging needs of today’s data-rich business environment. The Harbert College of Business sat down with Richard as part of its Harbert Entrepreneur Spotlight initiative to hear how he sees the professional and entrepreneurial val- ue of business analytics evolving today and how Harbert is leading the way in the melding of Big Data Analytics and Business Intelligence.
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