{"id":665,"date":"2008-04-23T11:53:00","date_gmt":"2008-04-23T16:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ezing.me\/transfer\/?p=665"},"modified":"2014-09-23T09:24:33","modified_gmt":"2014-09-23T14:24:33","slug":"retired-head-of-houston-property-management-company-to-speak-april-24","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web20.olemiss.edu\/news\/wordpress\/retired-head-of-houston-property-management-company-to-speak-april-24\/","title":{"rendered":"Retired Head of Houston Property Management Company to Speak April 24"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\u00a0\n<\/p>\n<div style=\"border: 1px solid #000000; margin: 5px; width: 300px; float: left; background-color: #ffffff\" class=\"jce?caption\">\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ezing.me\/transfer\/wp-content\/uploads\/stories\/harris.jpg\" alt=\"harris.jpg\" style=\"margin: 0pt; float: left; width: 300px; height: 437px\" title=\"harris.jpg\" height=\"437\" width=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<div style=\"color: #000000; text-align: center; clear: both\" class=\"jce?caption?text\">\nLyttleton &#8220;Lyt&#8221; Harris\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><span>OXFORD, Miss. &#8211; Lyttleton &#8220;Lyt&#8221; Harris, retired president<br \/>\nand CEO of Southwest Management and Marketing Company of<br \/>\nHouston, is scheduled to speak Thursday (April 24) at the<br \/>\nUniversity of Mississippi.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\n\u00a0\n<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>\n<span>Harris addresses MBA students at 2 p.m. in Conner Hall,<br \/>\nRoom 110, on how the choices people make during college<br \/>\nyears and early in their business careers determine largely<br \/>\nhow well they do in the future. The presentation, part of<br \/>\nthe Otho Smith Lecture Series, is free and open to the<br \/>\npublic.<br \/>\n<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<span>During the late 1980s and 1990s, Harris and his wife,<br \/>\nstockbroker and PBS television host Venita VanCaspel, spent<br \/>\ntime on the lecture circuit presenting their popular<br \/>\nseminar &#8220;Winning the Money Game.&#8221;<br \/>\n<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<span>During his upcoming address, Harris said he plans to review<br \/>\nand recommend 10 choices he thinks students should consider<br \/>\nmaking now and after they graduate from college that should<br \/>\nhelp them become successful in life and business.<br \/>\n<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<span>&#8220;These are 10 choices that I made along the way that I feel<br \/>\ncontributed to my own success,&#8221; he said.<br \/>\n<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<span>John Holleman, director of the business school&#8217;s corporate<br \/>\nrelations and MBA services, said it is an honor to host<br \/>\nHarris and recognize him as an Otho Smith Fellow.<br \/>\n<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<span>&#8220;To ensure that our business education is the most relevant<br \/>\nfor today&#8217;s business environment, we are always seeking to<br \/>\nenhance the learning experience of our students by<br \/>\nbalancing theory and practice,&#8221; Holleman said. &#8220;The depth<br \/>\nand scope of Lyt Harris&#8217; experience in business truly<br \/>\nprovides our students with a wealth of insights for their<br \/>\ncareer development.&#8221;<br \/>\n<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<span>Harris graduated from Ole Miss in 1962 with a bachelor of<br \/>\nbusiness administration degree in marketing and sales<br \/>\nmanagement. He earned a master&#8217;s degree in marketing and<br \/>\neconomics from Louisiana State University in 1963. He<br \/>\nretired as head of the residential property management<br \/>\nconcern in 2004 and serves as managing partner of the<br \/>\nHarris Investment Partnership, specializing in stock and<br \/>\nventure capital investments. He also is vice chairman of<br \/>\nAnderson Trail Inc., an organic and natural foods<br \/>\nmanufacturer based in Texas.<br \/>\n<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<span>The Otho Smith Lecture Series, initiated in 1981 through a<br \/>\ngrant from the Phil B. Hardin Foundation, brings prominent<br \/>\nbusiness executives to the Oxford campus as guest speakers.<br \/>\nIt is named for the late Meridian businessman,<br \/>\nphilanthropist and former president of the UM Alumni<br \/>\nAssociation.<br \/>\n<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<span>For more information, contact the UM business school at<br \/>\n662-915-5820 or go to<br \/>\n<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.olemissbusiness.com\/\"><br \/>\nhttp:\/\/www.olemissbusiness.com<\/a>.<br \/>\n<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<span>For assistance related to a disability, call 662-915-5820.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 Lyttleton &#8220;Lyt&#8221; Harris OXFORD, Miss. &#8211; Lyttleton &#8220;Lyt&#8221; Harris, retired president and CEO of Southwest Management and Marketing Company of Houston, is scheduled to speak Thursday (April 24) at the University of Mississippi. \u00a0<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[222],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v15.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Retired Head of Houston Property Management Company to Speak April 24 - Ole Miss News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"http:\/\/news.olemiss.edu\/retired-head-of-houston-property-management-company-to-speak-april-24\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Retired Head of Houston Property Management Company to Speak April 24 - Ole Miss News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"\u00a0 Lyttleton &#8220;Lyt&#8221; 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