McCombs Alumni Network News

From McCombs Director of Communications David Wenger and ID University
Professor Herb Miller invited Eddie Lucio III to McCombs this week to talk to his Foundations of Marketing class, and students were treated to a slice of Texas politics, the realities of launching a new clothing line, and some straight talk on getting ahead in life. [...]

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From McCombs Today
The Wall Street Journal, October 20, 2009
A recent column in the Wall Street Journal, headlined “When Bad Luck is a Crime,” uses research coauthored by Andrew Henderson (right), associate professor of management.
Excerpt: When it comes to cheering CEOs, booing them or throwing them in jail, a consideration that ought to be nagging is whether we’re [...]

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The McCombs Alumni Network Dallas MBA Chapter invites Dallas BBA, MPA, MBA and Ph.D. alumni and guests to the Faculty Speakers Series featuring Dr. Ehud Ronn.
Dr. Ronn will provide an overview of the financial markets’ forward-looking metrics: what they are, how they are obtained and the message they are conveying by focusing his talk on:

Measuring [...]

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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 The New York Times
Cristen Chinea, a senior at M.I.T., made a confession in her blog on the college Web site.
“There’ve been several times when I felt like I didn’t really fit in at M.I.T.,” she wrote. “I nearly fell asleep during a Star Wars marathon. It wasn’t a result of sleep deprivation. I was [...]

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Visit the McCombs Job Board to search, post and apply for these and other jobs.

Real Estate/Financial Analyst, Thackeray Partners – Dallas, TX
Business Research Manager: Energy Efficiency, Energy Market Innovations (EMI) – Seattle, WA
Cost Accounting Manager, Energy Alloys – Houston, TX
Business Development Consultant, Gallup – Irvine, San Francisco, New York City, Washington DC, Omaha, Chicago 
General Manager, [...]

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Kevin R. Howell, a Mortgage Strategist at FTN Financial Capital Markets in Chicago, Illinois, has earned the prestigious CFA designation.
 
The CFA charter is a globally recognized credential for investment analysis and management. The CFA Program sets a globally recognized standard for measuring the competence and integrity of financial analysts, portfolio managers, and investment advisers. Currently, [...]

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Jack R. Crosby, founder and chairman of The Rust Group, will be recognized by the Texas Exes at their Distinguished Alumnus Awards Friday, October 9, in Austin.  The award, created in 1958, recognizes annually up to six graduates or former students of The University of Texas at Austin who have distinguished themselves professionally and through [...]

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Created by Erik Qualman, MBA ’99

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