McCombs Alumni Network News

In the coming weeks, McCombs will be hosting high school diversity recruiting receptions in cities throughout the state. Latino and/or African American McCombs alumni are invited to attend the event to say a few words about their experience and how it prepared them for life after college.
Please contact Charles Enriquez from the Undergraduate Programs Office if you are available [...]

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Internet gains vs. Wall Street Innovations
The Hindu, Sept. 9, 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 are contrasting value systems at play in the universally beneficial development of the world wide web and the skewed financial [...]

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From McCombs TODAY

Fresh from a 20-year appointment at the University of Southern California, Dean Thomas Gilligan dives into Texas during a semester marked by unprecedented economic events. His mission: learn fast, listen well and DREAM BIG.
Tom Gilligan must be taking his vitamins. His first semester as dean of the McCombs School of Business has seen [...]

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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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From McCombs Today
John Griffin, McCombs associate professor of finance, appeared Oct. 29 on CCTV, the English language station in Beijing, China, for a half-hour panel discussion on the role governments should play in worldwide economies.
“While the bailout makes sense in the short run there are negative consequences in terms of bailing out firms that have [...]

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From McCombs Today
A team of graduate students from The University of Texas at Austin defeated 19 top business schools to win the National Real Estate Challenge Nov. 13 at the McCombs School of Business. In its seventh year, this was the first time the host school had won the prestigious competition.
The team from McCombs consisted [...]

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From McCombs Today
The University of Texas at Austin is among the top three universities sending students abroad and the Top 10 universities educating international students, according to the new “Open Doors” report, published by the Institute of International Education (IIE). The top five destinations for students are the United Kingdom, Spain, Italy, China and France.
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