McCombs Alumni Network News

From ABC News
In response to families across the country searching for ways to reduce expenses, ABC News provides “10 Ways to Go Away Without Going Broke.” One of these ways highlights a venture by McCombs Enterprises, Smarty Pig.
Be Social: Want to make it easy for Grandma and Uncle John to contribute to your vacation [...]

[Read more →]

This guest article was written by Adrienne Carlson, who regularly writes on the topic of online executive mba programs. Adrienne welcomes your comments and questions.
It’s no exaggeration when I say that nine out of ten people are nostalgic about the time they spent in school and/or college. They tend to call them “the best days [...]

[Read more →]

From McCombs Today
On Oct. 19 it was announced that MagnaQuest, a Hyderabad, India, company had acquired eVapt, an Austin company which has its roots with the Texas Evening MBA program (TEMBA). Both companies are involved in providing cloud computing solutions.
Shortly after the acquistion, TEMBA Director Trent Thurman interviewed Ranjit Nayak, MBA ‘07, who founded the [...]

[Read more →]

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 [...]

[Read more →]

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 [...]

[Read more →]

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 [...]

[Read more →]

From The Austin American-Statesman
Pricing for plane tickets, car rentals and hotels is constantly changing. Why not for sporting events, too?
That’s what Barry Kahn wondered three years ago, when he was a University of Texas doctoral degree candidate in economics.
Convinced there was a business there, he teamed with UT MBA student Jiten Dalvi in 2007 to [...]

[Read more →]

The Texas Executive MBA program (EMBA) in Austin ranks no. 55 globally in the Financial Times’ 2009 rankings. For the second year in a row, McCombs EMBA ranks no. 19 for U.S. schools and no. 3 in Texas (slightly behind Rice and UT Dallas).
The 2009 ranking is based on survey responses from alumni in the Class of [...]

[Read more →]

Many gauges of the Great Recession continue to reach high water marks, and traditional monetary, fiscal and exchange rate policy used to contain the economic downturn have hit a dead end and can be of little or no further benefit. Indeed, to continue to push theses policies further adds to the related mega risks known [...]

[Read more →]

From McCombs Today
After earning her MBA from McCombs in 1997, Rainey Knudson founded Glasstire, a non-profit online journal about the Texas visual arts scene. Not exactly the traditional MBA career path, but Knudson says her decision to follow her passions of art and writing is what has made her a successful entrepreneur.
McCombs Communications Director Dave Wenger [...]

[Read more →]