This report focuses on how Vanderbilt University, with the help of Korn/Ferry International and PricewaterhouseCoopers, implemented a stronger, centralized finance function to support their ongoing effort to develop a “one university” culture that embraces a collaborative approach to executing its mission of being one of the greatest educational institutions in the world. This report discusses the value of this process and the three primary advantages that were implemented at a time when capital was hard to come by.