McCombs Alumni Network News

Loescher on Fox: Private Employers Paying Hourly Workers in Comp Time are Breaking Federal Law
Fox, Seven on Your Side, From McCombs Today
Kristie Loescher, McCombs management lecturer, provided analysis for Fox’s Seven on Your Side in a story about rules regarding employees being paid in comp time rather than in overtime.

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From The University of Texas President Bill Powers
Dear Friends,
Now that the 81st Legislative Session has adjourned, I want to share the outcomes of several issues important to UT Austin.
The Top 10% Law — Senate Bill 175, sponsored by Sen. Florence Shapiro and Rep. Dan Branch in the House, limited the number of top 10% Texas [...]

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From The Daily Texan, Hudson Lockett
Private universities and colleges in Texas are working to mitigate the recession’s effect on student enrollment, an effort that has succeeded so far according to survey results released this week by the National Association of Independent Colleges and Universities.
Responses from 284 private institutions throughout the nation projected a rise in [...]

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From the Securities and Exchange Commission
Washington, D.C., July 16, 2009 — The Securities and Exchange Commission’s Division of Corporation Finance today announced the selection of John R. Robinson as the Academic Accounting Fellow for a one-year term beginning next month.
“Each year, we look forward to the important contributions made by those participating in our Academic [...]

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From the Daily Texan, Yijiao Zhuang

UT is taking a step toward solving some of the most pressing energy-related issues with the formation of the Energy Institute, a new multi-disciplinary program that will pull some of the University’s top colleges together to achieve a sustainable future.
The Energy Institute, which will begin its groundwork this year, will [...]

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Fox, Good Day Austin from McCombs Today
Kristie Loescher, McCombs management lecturer, provided viewers of Good Day Austin an update on ongoing healthcare reform measures currently being debated in the U.S. Congress.

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From McCombs Today
Marketing Professor Eli Cox spoke at the Texas Exes Alumni College on whether America is in moral decline. The short answer? Yes.
In this clip, he explains the economic concept of marginal utility - that the satisfying effect of acquiring goods and money diminishes over time. But for some individuals, no amount of money [...]

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From McCombs Today
Sanford Leeds, senior finance lecturer at McCombs School of Business, reviews a myriad of entities who are to blame for the subprime crisis, among them - homebuyers, mortgage brokers, bankers, the Federal Reserve, U.S. Treasury and the Securities and Exchange Commission.

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By Joaquin M. Martinez, Texas MBA at Dallas/Fort Worth, Class of 2007
On Wednesday, June 10, my fellow coworkers within the finance organization at Sabre Holdings and I volunteered for an afternoon at the Battered Women’s Foundation (BWF). This was done as a part of my company’s 4th annual “Give Time Together” campaign.
“Sabre employees help the [...]

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From Adrian Matthys, BA in Anthropology ’97
Everyone knows that, in addition to hard work, your network is critical to helping you get ahead professionally. Some of the most important members of your network are often your fellow McCombs graduates, helping to keep you informed about potential opportunities or offering that bit of industry news on [...]

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