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From McCombs Today
Ben Bentzin, marketing lecturer at McCombs and a former Dell executive, spoke with McCombs Communications Director David Wenger about changes in marketing approaches, Dell’s new focus on innovation to draw in customers and why he thinks you shouldn’t outsource your social media efforts.
David posted the full interview, along with audio clips, on his [...]

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From McCombs Today
Assistant IROM Professor Rafael Mendoza-Arriaga received the 2009 Nemhauser Doctoral Dissertation Prize for his paper “Unified Credit-Equity Modeling.” The award is given to the best doctoral dissertation in Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences (IEMS) at Northwestern University.
“Being recognized with an award named after Professor Nemhauser is a great honor that carries with it the [...]

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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 McCombs Today
Andrew Whinston (right), McCombs professor in the Department of Information, Risk, and Operations Management was named a Distinguished Fellow at the annual meeting of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS) Oct. 11-14 in San Diego. INFORMS is the largest professional society in the world for the field of operations [...]

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From McCombs Today
The Hindu, October 16, 2009
Prabhudev Konana is the William H. Seay Centennial Professor and Distinguished Teaching Professor at the McCombs School of Business at The University of Texas at Austin.
There is justified public outrage at the obscenely large executive compensation. Should the government regulate compensations in the private sector even when there is [...]

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From McCombs Today
John Sibley Butler, McCombs management professor, director of the Herb Kelleher Center for Entrepreneurship and director of the IC2 Institute, recently received the Special Achievement Award at the 2009 Tech Innovation Awards, sponsored by the Austin Business Journal.
In honoring Butler, the Austin Business Journal described his journey: “Butler returned from Vietnam with medals [...]

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From McCombs Today
On Sept. 17, Texas Executive Education hosted a faculty panel addressing Strategies for Growth in Trying Times. We captured a few of the highlights on video:
What country is poised to be the next global economic powerhouse?
Senior Lecturer of Management John Doggett spoke about the future of the global marketplace. “We in this country [...]

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By Dorothy Brady
Florence Atiase, a lecturer in the Department of Accounting, has received the Texas Society of CPAs’ (TSCPA) Outstanding Accounting Educator Award for 2009. The award honors those who have demonstrated excellence in teaching and have distinguished themselves through active service to the accounting profession.
Atiase fits the profile perfectly. Since joining the [...]

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From McCombs Today
The Princeton Review’s latest edition of their annual guide to business schools hit bookstores yesterday. “The Best 301 Business Schools: 2010 Edition” gives McCombs high marks in admissions selectivity, career rating and overall academic experience, but we particularly excel in the student-led rankings, where we ranked no. 8 out of 301 schools in [...]

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