From NASA intern to investment banking to custom homebuilding. In this episode of SMU Stories, we interview Benjamin Lavine (BBA ’98, Cox School of Business), owner of Stone Acorn Builders, a Texas-based custom homebuilding firm. Lavine shares his path from finance major and NASA intern to management consulting and investment banking, and why he ultimately left the corporate sector to join his sister’s residential construction startup. He explains how financial modeling, cash flow disciplin...
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From NASA intern to investment banking to custom homebuilding. In this episode of SMU Stories, we interview Benjamin Lavine (BBA ’98, Cox School of Business), owner of Stone Acorn Builders, a Texas-based custom homebuilding firm. Lavine shares his path from finance major and NASA intern to management consulting and investment banking, and why he ultimately left the corporate sector to join his sister’s residential construction startup. He explains how financial modeling, cash flow disciplin...
This week on SMU Stories, we sat down with Nick Clark, SMU alumnus, founder of Common Desk, and now co-founder of Stonethrow, a first-of-its-kind families-only private club coming to East Dallas. Nick graduated from Southern Methodist University in 2005 with a degree in Real Estate Finance and began his career in commercial real estate, focusing on project leasing and management in the Dallas market. While at Pillar Commercial, he witnessed firsthand how the 2008–2009 recession reshaped the ...
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From NASA intern to investment banking to custom homebuilding. In this episode of SMU Stories, we interview Benjamin Lavine (BBA ’98, Cox School of Business), owner of Stone Acorn Builders, a Texas-based custom homebuilding firm. Lavine shares his path from finance major and NASA intern to management consulting and investment banking, and why he ultimately left the corporate sector to join his sister’s residential construction startup. He explains how financial modeling, cash flow disciplin...
