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From McCombs Today
A team of graduate students from The University of Texas at Austin defeated 19 top business schools to win the National Real Estate Challenge Nov. 13 at the McCombs School of Business. In its seventh year, this was the first time the host school had won the prestigious competition.
The team from McCombs consisted [...]

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From McCombs Today
How did Wal-Mart successfully penetrate the Mexican market? How does Mexico’s concrete behemoth CEMEX tailor its offerings to reach, and help, the less fortunate? And how do two of the world’s leading business schools strengthen and build on their decades-long partnership? These and many other questions were on the table as 13 McCombs [...]

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From McCombs Today
The University of Texas at Austin is among the top three universities sending students abroad and the Top 10 universities educating international students, according to the new “Open Doors” report, published by the Institute of International Education (IIE). The top five destinations for students are the United Kingdom, Spain, Italy, China and France.
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From McCombs Today
After welcoming the most diverse incoming MBA class of recent years this past August, McCombs gears up to host the 7th Annual Explore McCombs – Diversity Weekend for prospective MBA students, Nov. 20-22. This is the premier recruiting event for the diversity recruiting efforts of the full-time Texas MBA program, and this year [...]

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Austin American Statesman
Will and Beverly O’Hara have pledged $16 million to the University of Texas McCombs School of Business, the largest individual gift to the school since Red McCombs donated his name and $50 million eight years ago. 
“We have a favorite quote,” said Will O’Hara, who graduated from the business school in 1968, became an [...]

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McCombs BBA and MBA alumna Alice Schroeder’s book “The Snowball,” is No. 1 on the New York Times Bestsellers Non-Fiction List.
Biography from publisher, Random House: Author Alice Schroeder is a noted insurance industry analyst and writer who was a managing director at Morgan Stanley. She first met Warren Buffett when she published research on Berkshire [...]

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From McCombs Today
The Wall Street Journal published its inaugural ranking of Executive MBA programs Sept. 30, but the McCombs School of Business was nowhere to be found on the list. But not to fear, it turns out there was an error in the data analysis that mistakenly put McCombs in the “considered, but not ranked” [...]

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Congratulations to the Texas MBA team (Left to right: Brian Woods, Hassan Johnson and Jonathan Richard) for taking third place at the 2008 National Black MBA Association National Student Case Competition Sept. 19 in Washington, D.C. MBA candidates from 30 of the nation’s leading business schools competed at the conference. Florida A&M took first place, [...]

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The McCombs School included two McCombs alumni among the 3 honorees inducted into the Hall of Fame on Friday, Oct. 24. The black-tie ceremony was held at the new AT&T Executive Education and Conference Center and featured a video commemorating the lifetime achievement of each inductee.

John D. McStay, BBA ’65, MBA ’66
McStay is the managing [...]

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Trent Thurman received his degree in 1994 from the Full-Time MBA Program and is currently the Director of the Texas Evening MBA Program. He writes a blog entitled “Running Commentary” for current students on a variety of issues. Recently, he offered a few career tips. Read Trent’s blog.

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