McCombs Alumni Network News

From @Texas
The Texas Exes Board of Directors has elected Rudy Garza (MBA ’91) of Austin to fill the unexpired term of President-elect Ron Kirk, who has accepted an appointment in the Barack Obama administration. Garza is the founder and managing partner of seed stage venture capital firm G-51 Capital. He will assume the position immediately [...]

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From McCombs TODAY

Theories on how to play the stock market abound. Buy low, buy companies whose leadership you admire, invest in organizations that reflect your personal values. And don’t count out the ever-popular strategy of throwing darts at the newspaper’s financial pages.
Every investor hopes he or she has figured out how to beat the system [...]

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Did you know that the University of Texas at Austin ranked eighth among large universities in producing Peace Corps volunteers in 2008?
Last year there were at total of 84 alumni serving in the Peace Corps from the University of Texas at Austin. Over 1,562 Texas alumni have joined the organization since its creation almost 48 [...]

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From McCombs TODAY and the Austin American-Statesman
Walking through the small house near the University of Texas campus that Leon Chen, BBA ‘01, and Tiffany Taylor, owners of Tiff’s Treats, have turned into a cookie factory, it feels like you’re swimming through a warm pool of vanilla and sugar.
For 10 years, Tiff’s Treats has been bringing the [...]

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From McCombs TODAY
The Tower of The University of Texas at Austin glowed bright orange Tuesday, Jan. 27, in honor of the recipients of some of the most prestigious awards given by the university. The honorees included McCombs faculty member William W. Cooper and Sara Martinez Tucker, MBA ’79, who each received the prestigious Presidential Citation. President William Powers [...]

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Professor Michael Brandl launched his blog “Macroeconomic Updates” this month as a further continuation of his class discussions of economic issues.
Brandl has been continuing the intellectual dialogue among McCombs alumni and current students since 2003 when he began Macroeconomic Updates. On a regular basis Brandl highlights relevant happenings in the macro and global economy, offering [...]

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From Yahoo!
Recent unemployment rates have been getting plenty of media attention, but HotJobs notes that many top employers are still hiring. The monthly unemployment rate distills data from many sources, and some industries (such as health care) and job categories (such as sales or accounting) have jobless rates below the national average. The same holds [...]

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Join the Austin MBA Alumni Book Club for its next meeting on Tuesday, Feb. 17 at 7 p.m.

They have chosen the No. 1 New York Times best seller “The Snowball: Warren Buffet and the Business of Life” by Alice Schroeder, BBA ‘78, MBA ‘80. 
Please RSVP to Cheryl Niehaus to receive location details.
Can’t attend?
Read the article, [...]

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Are you wishing you could go on a Texas MBA Global Trip for Spring Break? You can! Right here in Austin, the MBA Alumni Chapter is offering “Global Trip Southeast Asia.”
Join us for a cooking class of Thai favorites and a lecture from Dr. Doug Dierking, leader of the Global Southeast Asia trip.

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From McCombs TODAY and Texas magazine
THE STRANGE POLITICS OF THE FINANCIAL BAILOUT
by David B. Spence, professor of business law
The political process that led ultimately to the passage of the Troubled Asset Relief Program Act of 2008—better known as the “Wall Street bailout”—was a strange one. By the time the mortgage crisis was fully understood, enormous [...]

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