McCombs Alumni Network News

The McCombs School of Business inducted three alumni into the Hall of Fame on Friday, Nov. 6: James R. Huffines, BBA ’73 (below left), Joel V. Staff, BBA ’67 (below middle) and Elizabeth Henke Yant, BBA ’77, MPA ’78 (below right). The highest honor bestowed by the school, the Hall of Fame Award recognizes individuals who [...]

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Leaders from the Texas Medical Center’s University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHSC-H) will hold a panel discussion covering U.S. healthcare reform issues, particularly from a “real world,” patient care perspective. A broad political spectrum of reformers’ views will be presented, and debated.
The discussion will be moderated by UTHSC-H’s Executive Vice President and [...]

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Dan Robinson, MBA ’88, lives in Houston and is a partner at Ernst & Young, where he has worked since graduating with his MBA. Robinson started at Ernst & Young when the company was still known as Arthur Young. He left when the company was sold to Capgemini in 2000, but several years later Robinson [...]

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Christina Clayton, BBA ’02, is the 2009 Rising Star award recipient and will be honored at the McCombs Hall of Fame reception in November. After working on Capitol Hill as a legislative and policy assistant for Texas Congresswoman Kay Granger, she earned her MBA from the University of Oxford Said Business School. Clayton is now [...]

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From McCombs Today
Gary E. Hoover, founder of Bookstop and the company that later became Hoover’s Inc., has been named entrepreneur-in-residence in the Herb Kelleher Center for Entrepreneurship at the McCombs School of Business of The University of Texas at Austin.
“Our school’s role as a world-renowned driver of innovation and creativity got another boost when Gary [...]

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From McCombs Today

Left to right: Chevron’s Jim Green with Jerry Malcolm, Sharon Dunn, Douglas Morrice and Edward Doan of the McCombs School’s IROM Department.
AUSTIN, Texas — The Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) and the McCombs School of Business at The University of Texas at Austin today received gifts totaling $230,000 from Chevron Corporation to train [...]

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From McCombs Today
U.S News and World Report ranked the McCombs School of Business the sixth best business program in its 2010 survey of undergraduate programs. McCombs is tied for third among public schools, and this marks the 11th year in a row for McCombs to place seventh or higher in the U.S. News rankings.
The accounting [...]

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From Thomas W. Gilligan
Dean and Centennial Chair in Business Education Leadership
I am pleased to share the final version of the McCombs Strategic Plan Outline. This outline is the result of a collaborative process involving hundreds of hours of careful deliberation by faculty, staff, students, alumni and advisory board members of the McCombs School of Business. [...]

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McCombs Investors Ensure “Texas Is Everywhere“
From Thomas W. Gilligan
Dean and Centennial Chair in Business Education Leadership
Over the past year the McCombs community has experienced many successes. The AT&T Executive Education and Conference Center was completed in August 2008, the McCombs Alumni Network expanded to connect more than 64,000 BBA alumni to McCombs and each other, [...]

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From the Daily Texan, Yijiao Zhuang

UT is taking a step toward solving some of the most pressing energy-related issues with the formation of the Energy Institute, a new multi-disciplinary program that will pull some of the University’s top colleges together to achieve a sustainable future.
The Energy Institute, which will begin its groundwork this year, will [...]

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