McCombs Alumni Network News

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 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 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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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Nearly 200 alumni returned to Austin last weekend for their 5-, 10- and 15- year reunion. Events kicked off on Friday night with a reception at the AT&T Executive Education & Conference Center. On Saturday, the classes had the opportunity to explore the school through a tour led by Director of Alumni Relations & Annual Giving Sarah Dooley, [...]

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Did you know that 70% of all jobs are found through networking? (Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics)
Smart professionals know that networking is a proven way not only to find a job, but also to thrive in a job and bring in new business. Learn how to take the stress out of networking and get [...]

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From McCombs Director of Communications David Wenger and ID University
“There is nothing like Glasstire in Texas. There’s not anything like Glasstire in most of the country.”
With those words Rainey Knudson begins a video interview about Glasstire, her online journal of Texas art, recently recognized as a finalist for the National Arts Journalism Summit, the theme [...]

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Carol Ross is a certified career coach, social entrepreneur, and founder of My Alumni Link, a business that helps universities build vibrant alumni communities. A former Bell Labs engineer, she first learned the power of networking after being laid off in 1996. Within a month of her layoff, she had landed another job, with better [...]

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