McCombs Alumni Network News

From Forbes.com
Forbes is on the hunt for tomorrow’s serious wealth creators.

Take their survey by June 30 and find out if you’re one of them.
Be sure to mark “McCombs” as the source that recommended the survey or email alumni@mccombs.utexas.edu to let us know you completed the survey.

How promising is your young business? The world wants to know.
That’s [...]

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From the Campaign for Texas
ConocoPhillips has contributed $1 million to support academic programs at UT.
The grant benefits undergraduates and graduate students in the University’s McCombs School of Business, Cockrell School of Engineering, Jackson School of Geosciences, and College of Natural Sciences. The largest component of the donation is $275,000 for the SPIRIT Scholars program. Now [...]

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From McCombs Today
This week, McCombs Senior Finance Lecturer Sandy Leeds blogged about problems with Social Security and Medicare, along with two posts about ratings agencies. One summarizes an academic article about the problems involved with rating structured finance products. The other article offers Leeds’ opinion concerning why the issuer shouldn’t pay the ratings agencies and [...]

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Dean Thomas Gilligan recently interviewed Red McCombs in San Antonio at an event entitled “Access McCombs” for young alumni. They discussed numerous topics including Red’s keys to success, leadership, the economy, the auto industry, work/life balance and philanthropy. Then Red turned the tables on Dean Gilligan and asked a few questions of his own. Look [...]

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From McCombs Today

AUSTIN, Texas— A company hoping to significantly slow the onset of antibiotic resistance has claimed the grand prize at the 26th annual Global Moot Corp Competition at the McCombs School of Business at The University of Texas at Austin.
Novophage Therapeutics from Boston University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology beat out 39 teams [...]

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Graduates from the class of 1959 returned to the McCombs School as part of their 50-Year Reunion April 29-May 1. They toured the business school and enjoyed a reception with Dean Thomas Gilligan as part of their University-wide reunion activities.
A lot has changed since their days on campus when Dwight Eisenhower was President of the [...]

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Laura Hill, BBA ’75, with Careers in Motion LLC recently hosted a 90 minute teleseminar about job search techniques. Listen to the audio and follow along with the presentation to learn:

How to ensure that your resume is effective and competitive in today’s challenging market
How to develop your elevator pitch and answer to “why should we hire [...]

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Appearing in the the 2009 edition of Exchange Magazine, Matt Knopf and Chris James, both MBA ’99, have been gaining national attention for their free iPhone app, SnapDat. Their most recent claim to fame: The New York Times’ App of the Week. 
From The New York Times 
One of the coolest features of the old Palm organizers was that you [...]

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From McCombs Today

The burnt-orange t-shirt seen occasionally around the McCombs School with the phrase “Texas Means Business” is becoming more true it seems with every passing day. In two recent business rankings from Fortune and Forbes, Texas has risen to the top, as the statistics suggest the Lone Star State is better positioned than others [...]

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