McCombs Alumni Network News

From McCombs TODAY
The rigor of a Ph.D. program at a top business school demands tenacity and a well-developed sense of preparedness, in addition to strong academic skills. Doctoral students may pick up these attributes in industry or academia, but for second-year McCombs School of Business finance student Nick Crain, they came by way of a [...]

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From McCombs Today
AUSTIN, Texas — Wishful bettors, those who make overly optimistic investments, will ultimately harm themselves financially, but they can harm entire markets as well, new research shows.
In the paper, “Contagion of Wishful Thinking in Markets,” researchers from The University of Texas at Austin and Cornell University demonstrate how wishful betting can contaminate beliefs [...]

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From Ramsey Jankowski, BBA ’97
National Volunteer Week is April 19 - April 25.  The Houston Chapter of the McCombs BBA/MPA Alumni is organizing a group to volunteer at the Houston Food Bank on Tuesday, April 21 from 5:30pm to 8:30pm.  If you are interested in participating in this community service project, please email RamseyJankowski@yahoo.com, Community [...]

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From statesman.com
A marketing specialist studying at the McCombs School of Business who has done projects for IC2 and C3 Presents, Cameron Houser is looking at job opportunities at SXSW Interactive. He’s done some work with Amplifier, an Austin start-up the does e-commerce and fulfillment work for Web companies. He graduates in spring 2010.
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From MBACareers.com and the Texas Evening MBA Gazette, March 6, 2009
You hear a lot about networking and making connections, whether it be in person, at job fairs and mixers or online using popular sites like LinkedIn, Plaxo, Facebook and MySpace. In these online forums it is still very important to make a positive first impression. Some [...]

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For a future story the editors of Texas, the McCombs alumni magazine, want to hear from alumni about your greatest business failure–and, more importanly–what happened next. What is the value of failing, and how did you learn from it? Would your successful venture have happened without the mistakes made before it?
If you’re a McCombs undergraduate [...]

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From McCombs Today, By Sandy Leeds, senior finance lecturer at McCombs
A Backrub is Different From a Stress Test. The government has started stress testing the large banks. Unfortunately, the stress tests probably do not apply enough stress. The government is testing the largest banks using the assumption that the economy will shrink 3.3% this year, [...]

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From McCombs Today
McCombs Marketing Professor Vijay Mahajan spoke to the BBC’s “African Perspective” news program on March 7 to highlight African Economy Week. The segment was broadcast to more than four million listeners across Africa.
Mahajan, author of “Africa Rising: How 900 Million African Consumers Offer More Than You Think,” spoke about the often overlooked market [...]

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Please join us in congratulating Amy Robinson, MBA ’96. She is the CEO of Robinson Value Management, Ltd., which recently received the following recognition:

#1 Market Opportunity Composite among U.S. Blend Stock managers, Pensions & Investments
#3 overall among U.S. Stock managers for 2008 performance in Morningstar’s separate account/collective investment trust fund database, Pensions & Investments
#2 Large [...]

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From the Lake Travis View
Describing the current world economic climate as “the worst since the Great Depression,” Tom Gilligan, Dean of the McCombs School of Business at the University of Texas, spoke to the Men’s Breakfast Club March 4 at the Lakeway Activity Center.
His speech chronicled the meltdowns as well as subsequent governmental bailouts, but [...]

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