McCombs Alumni Network News

From Fort Worth Basin Oil & Gas Magazine
A middle-of-the-night phone call was a rude awakening for Brenda Pirozzolo that alerted her to a situation that just couldn’t be allowed to happen.
Pirozzolo, then an international project manager for Dallas-based Triton Energy Corporation, recalls working for then-senior vice president of exploration, Nick De’Ath. With a board meeting [...]

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Read our sneak preview of the upcoming Texas magazine story, “Ask the Expert,” with a profile of Joe Dowdle, BBA ’04, who offers tips on surviving the Brazilian highlands. Keep an eye on your mailbox for the 2009 Spring/Summer issue of Texas, where you’ll hear from more alumni experts.
Photo courtesy 2008 CBS Broadcasting Inc. 

Joe Dowdle, [...]

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Read our sneak preview of the upcoming Texas magazine story, “Ask the Expert,” with a profiles of Suzanne Mahoney, MBA ’99, who shares her experience working with the Presidential inauguration, and Tim Washer, MBA ’96, who gives tips for making Power Point presentations “less boring.”. Keep an eye on your mailbox for the 2009 Spring/Summer issue of [...]

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A unique combination of undergraduate drama, BBA and MPA degrees lends an aura of yin and yang to Mae Shen Tan’s successful accounting career.  As vice president with the Private Bank in JPMorgan’s Singapore office, it’s evident in how she processes recent dramatic events in the financial sector.
“My MPA enables me to delve quickly into [...]

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Join the McCombs Alumni Network Houston Chapter as we celebrate summer with Rudy’s BBQ in Memorial Park! The food will be served around 5:30 and all McCombs alumni, interns, friends and families are welcome.
Date: Sunday, July 12, 2009
Time: 5:00 PM - 8:00 PM
RSVP by: Thursday, July 9, 2009
Map of Memorial Park
If desired, also bring: 

Beverage of choice. [...]

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The McCombs School of Business is excited to announce the launch of RECONNECT!, its first official update campaign. The goal of the campaign, spanning from July 1 to August 31, is to obtain up-to-date and accurate contact information from the majority of all 82,000 McCombs alumni.  By providing information such as email, title, company, address [...]

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From Yasmin Lalani, International Executive Service Corps
IESC is in the process of expanding its Skills Bank database of expert consultants and volunteers and we are looking for enthusiastic and experienced people to register with us.
IESC utilizes the skills of industry-experts on both a paid and volunteer basis to promote economic growth around the world.  We [...]

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From McCombs Today
UT President William Powers appointed McCombs Management Lecturer Kristie Loescher to the Texas Student Media (TSM) Board of Operating Trustees. It’s Loescher’s second appointment to the board, which she’s been a member of since August 2007.
Loescher’s role is to help TSM maintain fiscally responsible operations. Past efforts include guiding staff in creating a [...]

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From McCombs Today
The Alcalde, July/August 2009
Hiring is down. Anxiety is up. Tom Gilligan is calm.
When economic conditions plunge, a university’s business school feels the nausea most. UT’s McCombs School has been led by a newcomer to Texas this past year. If a mid-crisis transition like that sounds like it could be rough, realize Dean Gilligan’s [...]

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From McCombs Today
Bloomberg, July 1, 2009
Commentary by David Reilly
Markets sank last year. So too did hedge-fund performance. Markets soared in the just-finished quarter. Hedge funds notched up big wins. Now remind me why they are called hedge funds.
Bull-market geniuses may be a better moniker. For all the talk of being able to make money whether [...]

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