McCombs Alumni Network News

From McCombs Director of Communications David Wenger and ID University
Are you willing to obsess over costs, eat Ramen for dinner, toil far from the PR limelight, and build the business one customer at a time?
I walked the path over to Chris Treadaway’s blog, The Common Sense Web…An Entrepreneurs’ Blog, and was immediately taken by his [...]

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Local Dallas entrepreneur and McCombs graduate Imran Karim, founder of Trophy Skin, has advanced to the online voting round of the Inc magazine/Alibaba.com business plan competition. Five finalists, chosen by the public via online voting, will go on to the final event in San Francisco on Nov. 18 as guests of Alibaba.com to compete for $100,000 in business grants.
Trophy Skin [...]

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From McCombs Today
McCombs Business Honors students Eric Sung and Jeffrey Siegel won third place in the Seventh Annual Eller Ethics Case Competition held Oct. 22-24.
The competition, hosted by the Eller College of Management at the University of Arizona, presents pairs of business students from around the world with a business ethics case that they could [...]

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From McCombs Today
Bayesian statistics is not, perhaps, the most accessible field of study, but Robert McCulloch, a professor of Information, Risk, and Operations Management at McCombs, opened up this important topic at a Faculty Research Presentation Oct. 20.
McCulloch, an internationally renowned statistician, illustrated how he uses BART (no relation to the Simpsons), a computer system that can [...]

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From Career Coach Neena Newberry, MBA ’92 
No matter what anyone says, change takes energy - whether it’s positive or negative change.  We may tell ourselves that we embrace change and thrive on it, but the reality is that it can be stressful.  Change often triggers fear, one of the biggest impediments to success.
So, what is fear [...]

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From McCombs Today
Lee Scott, chairman of the executive committee of the board of directors and former CEO of Wal-Mart, spoke with Dean Thomas Gilligan on campus Oct. 12 as part of the VIP Distinguished Speaker Series.
Dean Gilligan began by asking Scott about his very first job, which Scott said was scrubbing toilets at his dad’s [...]

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You’re Invited!
The Austin Forum on Science, Technology & Society and Dr. Gary Chapman, LBJ School, present: “The Internet and the Obama Administration - So Far.”
This event is free and open to the public.
Dr. Gary Chapman is a senior lecturer at the LBJ School at The University of Texas at Austin. He teaches classes and conducts [...]

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The McCombs Alumni Network Dallas MBA Chapter invites Dallas BBA, MPA, MBA and Ph.D. alumni and guests to the Faculty Speakers Series featuring Dr. Ehud Ronn.
Dr. Ronn will provide an overview of the financial markets’ forward-looking metrics: what they are, how they are obtained and the message they are conveying by focusing his talk on:

Measuring [...]

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From The CleanTech Group at the McCombs School of Business

This short film explores the economic opportunity for Central Texas to leverage and build off its foundation in clean energy and technologies (CleanTech). Austin, Texas - a world-leader in semiconductor manufacturing, battery technology, and home to some of the largest Texas wind energy companies – is [...]

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From McCombs Today
The McCombs School of Business has a commitment to honor and ethics. It is apparent to me, judging from comments and inquiries I have received recently, that our students, faculty, staff and alumni believe strongly in these principles as well.
We derive this high standard from the university of which we are a part. [...]

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