McCombs Alumni Network News

From the University of Texas Development Office

Why do you solicit money every year?
Private support makes the difference between being average and being excellent. Annual gifts to the University strengthen academic programs, support new research, and enrich the educational experience for our students. Annual gifts also boost the University’s reputation: “U.S. News & World Report” considers [...]

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From the Austin Forum on Science and Technology for Society

Dr. Ray Orbach will be the inaugural speaker for the reintroduction of “The Austin Forum on Science and Technology for Society” on Tuesday, Oct. 6, at the AT&T Conference Center Auditorium.
This event is free and open to the public.
Orbach is the new director of The University [...]

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Jack R. Crosby, founder and chairman of The Rust Group, will be recognized by the Texas Exes at their Distinguished Alumnus Awards Friday, October 9, in Austin.  The award, created in 1958, recognizes annually up to six graduates or former students of The University of Texas at Austin who have distinguished themselves professionally and through [...]

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Emeritus professor and former dean of the Graduate School of International Politics, Economics and Business at Aoyama Gakuin University, Japan, Dr. Ishikawa, PhD ’72, has written six books published, or soon-to-be, by World Scientific. Click here and search “Akira Ishikawa” for a complete list of his books. Dr. Ishikawa is also a former professor of the Graduate School of [...]

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From McCombs Today
McCombs Dean Thomas Gilligan kicked off the 2009-2010 University Lecture Series with a classic economics lesson about global economic growth.
Speaking to a crowd of more than 1,000 students and other members of the university community at Bass Concert Hall in the Texas Performing Arts Center Monday evening, Gilligan explored trends in prosperity and [...]

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From McCombs Today
Edward Anderson Jr., associate professor in the Department of Information, Risk, and Operations Management (IROM), is one of the leaders in a research group that received more than $700,000 in federal stimulus money from the National Science Foundation to study how innovation unfolds in platforms such as the iPhone. Researchers from Tulane and [...]

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From Siddhartha Narayanan, MBA ’10

On behalf of Professor John Doggett and the faculty, administration and students of the McCombs School of Business, we are delighted to let you know that McCombs Global India is being planned for Spring 2010.  During this program we will be visiting the following cities:
 
Delhi (March 8-9)
Mumbai (11-12)
Mysore & Bangalore (14-16)
 

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From McCombs Today
Texas Executive Education hosted a group of Chinese Executive MBA students from Renmin University Sept. 7-11 for “Leading in a Global Environment,” a program created specifically for them in partnership with Renmin.
The students were presidents, chairmen, managers and senior officials of Chinese companies representing industries including furniture construction, technology and advertising.
“We really value this new partnership with Renmin [...]

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From McCombs Today
On Sept. 17 Texas Executive Education hosted a symposium on business growth and how to build brand share overseas. Dave Wenger, director of communications for the McCombs School, blogged from the event, which featured panel discussions from McCombs faculty and industry experts.

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From Advertising Age
It’s certainly not unusual that a stand up comedian like Tim Washer would be producing absurdist viral videos. What is surprising is that the IBM communications executive is doing so for his straight-laced corporate employer. He appeared at a Business Development Institute seminar on corporate social media practices last week. There, he championed [...]

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