McCombs Alumni Network News

Arnon Dinur, MBA ’99, spoke to McCombs about his post graduate experiences and how he manages to stay connected to McCombs from his home in Israel. He is a partner at Greylock Partners, a venture capital firm that specializes in early-stage investments and is a member of the planning committee for the upcoming MBA Class [...]

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How did your educational experience change you?
I never had to study in high school, but that changed in college. The students around me were very bright, and I definitely had to study and be competitive. I think that changed my outlook on the future and gave me a stronger work ethic.
Out of the classroom, being [...]

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By Pam Losefsky for Texas Magazine
Many states could do a lot worse than follow Virginia’s example. With a AAA bond rating from all three national rating agencies and a reputation as one of the best financially managed state governments, Virginia enjoys low borrowing costs and doesn’t run a deficit. The Old Dominion State balances its [...]

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Read our sneak preview of the upcoming Texas magazine story, “Ask the Expert,” with a profiles of Suzanne Mahoney, MBA ’99, who shares her experience working with the Presidential inauguration, and Tim Washer, MBA ’96, who gives tips for making Power Point presentations “less boring.”. Keep an eye on your mailbox for the 2009 Spring/Summer issue of [...]

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Ryan Childs, MBA ’09, is chair of the 2009 MBA Legacy Campaign. The campaign set a goal of 100 percent participation, and so far 98 percent of students have contributed. “From the outset, we knew that getting every student to contribute and pledge money would say a tremendous amount about how students feel about McCombs, [...]

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Melissa Evers-Hood, MBA ’03, lives in Portland and works at Intel, specializing in financial strategic management and people development. She says having a child shortly after earning her MBA shifted her career ambitions and has given her a strong perspective on career and personal life balance.
Evers-Hood is president of the McCombs alumni chapter in Portland. [...]

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Bill Pierce, MBA ’62, recently led an effort to honor America’s war veterans through the purchase and installation of 120 engraved brick pavers at the Veterans’ Walk of Honor at the National Museum of the Pacific War in Fredericksburg, Texas. Pierce earned a BBA from the University of Houston and received his ROTC commission in [...]

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When Amanda Yates, MBA ‘07, wrote her essay for admission to McCombs, she discussed the opportunity to solve the world’s health problems of malnutrition and obesity through new and better food products. Yates grew up on a pecan farm in New Mexico, loved to cook and had a habit of roaming the aisles of grocery [...]

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Statistics say one in eight women will be diagnosed with breast cancer during her lifetime. But at age 31, Katie Jozwicki, MBA ’07, did not expect to be one of them. And yet, in the midst of mid-terms during her second year at McCombs, she learned she had stage-two breast cancer.
“When my doctor said it [...]

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Amy (Sherrill) Wittmayer, MBA ’04, chose to pursue an MBA in order to advance her career at Dell, but she ended up choosing an entirely different path as a result of her education.
In addition to her work in finance and audit while at Dell, Wittmayer often ran women’s mentorship panels, and was active in interviewing [...]

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