McCombs Alumni Network News

From McCombs TODAY
Austin welcomes visitors from around the world in the month of March, most visibly for the South by Southwest festival. Meanwhile, Texas Executive Education hosted its own international educational event this month with an international makeup that was just as impressive.
The ESCP-EAP European School of Management in France brought to Texas an executive [...]

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From McCombs Today

Assistant Professor Carlos Carvalho (right) of the University of Chicago Booth School of Business will join the McCombs School’s Department of Information, Risk, and Operations Management (IROM) as a visiting scholar in the coming academic year under the prestigious Donald D. Harrington Fellows Program.”
“Professor Carvalho is an outstanding young researcher in econometrics and [...]

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Dean Thomas Gillian (right) recently visited alumni in Paris, Texas. He is pictured with Mike Rishell, Executive Director of Development and External Relations.

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From Neena Newberry, MBA  ’92 
Nobody really enjoys job hunting – especially in this economy. It may require some soul searching to figure out what you want to do next and working on your resume can be quite an undertaking. We all know that this is just the beginning. The good news is that we’ve all [...]

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In this free 90-minute teleseminar with Laura Hill, BBA ’75, you will learn:

How to ensure that your resume is effective and competitive in today’s challenging market
How to develop your elevator pitch and answer to “why should we hire you?”
The power of examples and how to use them to ace your interviews
Basic principles of salary negotiation and [...]

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From McCombs TODAY
By Sandy Leeds, senior finance lecturer at McCombs
FHA – Future Chaos. The FHA does not lend money directly to homebuyers. It provides insurance. The FHA’s share of the mortgage market was 2% three years ago. Now, it’s almost a third of all mortgages. The FHA has become the only option for homebuyers who [...]

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From Eric Fortenberry
BBA ‘06
My name is Eric Fortenberry and I graduated from McCombs in May 2006. At McCombs, I studied finance and accounting and landed a great job following graduation at MHT Partners, a boutique investment bank. While my career as an investment banker offered the potential for upward mobility and a bright future, I [...]

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From McCombs TODAY
Four McCombs School of Business students were among 22 UT graduate and undergraduate students whose yearlong research findings into renewable energy use was presented at the Steps Toward a Sustainable Austin Energy Symposium at the UT School of Law March 10.
The research project and public panel discussion was sponsored by Austin Energy and [...]

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From Diversity Careers Magazine
March 17, 2009
Ravi Sankaran: Wind Energy Development at Shell Oil
Ravi Sankaran is a business development manager at Shell Wind Energy, a subsidiary of Shell Oil Co. (Houston, TX). His company, he notes, understands the need to look beyond fossil fuels for future energy needs.
Sankaran is responsible for development activities related to Shell’s [...]

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From Laura Ehrenberg-Chesler, BBA ’83, and Marilou Moursund Long, MBA ’83
We wanted to share some exciting news with you.
We’ve just been named “Top Guns” by Informa Investment Solutions (IIS) PSN database in both the Domestic All Cap Growth Equity Universe in the 1 Star category and the Domestic Municipals Fixed Income Universe in the 3 [...]

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