McCombs Alumni Network News

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 Austin Business Journal and McCombs Today
“When Thomas Gilligan told his family he’d be going to graduate school, they were a bit incredulous. Gilligan, the new dean of the University of Texas’ McCombs School of Business, was the first in his family to attend college. And while his parents were proud when he brought home [...]

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The Austin Business Journal invited Lynn Slattery, assistant director of executive development programs for Texas Executive Education, to moderate a panel at its 14th annual Profiles in Power awards celebration July 24. The panel, titled “Women’s Leadership Institute, Education and Training,” included executive education alumna Dannielle O’Donnell, current student Hema Reddy and continuing education advocate [...]

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