McCombs Alumni Network News

From McCombs Today
Is our society overly competitive and adversarial? On his Macroeconomics Updates blog, McCombs economist Michael Brandl writes about the dangers of taking on an “Us vs. Them” mentality, whether in sports, business or politics:
We seem to have a growing intolerance of those we consider not to be “us.” And it seems who we [...]

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From McCombs Today and KEYE-TV, May 19, 2009
Landmark credit card legislation passed by the Senate 90 to 5 will alter the way the credit card industry does business. After President Obama signs the bill into law, which is expected before Memorial Day, the $960 billion industry will go through a restructuring phase that should have [...]

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From McCombs TODAY
Ten McCombs School faculty were honored by their peers at the McCombs Teaching and Research Awards ceremony May 4. Congratulations to these terrific faculty members on a job well done:
RESEARCH AWARDS
CBA Foundation Research Excellence Award for Assistant Professors
Alok Kumar, assistant professor, finance
For research excellence by an assistant professor in the McCombs School. Limited to tenure-track, [...]

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From McCombs TODAY
This past week the media has been full of stories about the swine flu outbreak. What might be the impact for the macroeconomy? McCombs economist Michael Brandl explains.

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From the 4th Annual Alumni Business Conference
Michael Brandl, McCombs finance department senior lecturer, gave an energetic presentation at the 4th Annual Alumni Business Conference. Following are five economic issues that make him mad.
1) The idea that capitalism is based on greed.
Adam Smith’s perspective on self-interest has been misinterpreted. Self interest is not greed. Greed goes [...]

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From McCombs TODAY
Austin welcomes visitors from around the world in the month of March, most visibly for the South by Southwest festival. Meanwhile, Texas Executive Education hosted its own international educational event this month with an international makeup that was just as impressive.
The ESCP-EAP European School of Management in France brought to Texas an executive [...]

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From McCombs TODAY
KXAN asked McCombs economist Michael Brandl to watch President Obama’s stimulus plan press conference and share his response.
“He was in many ways playing a dangerous game, in the sense of trying to create this sense of things are really bad, so we need this package,” Brandl told KXAN. “The problem in doing so, [...]

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Professor Michael Brandl launched his blog “Macroeconomic Updates” this month as a further continuation of his class discussions of economic issues.
Brandl has been continuing the intellectual dialogue among McCombs alumni and current students since 2003 when he began Macroeconomic Updates. On a regular basis Brandl highlights relevant happenings in the macro and global economy, offering [...]

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McCombs Today
McCombs School of Business Dean Tom Gilligan (left above) hosted a lively discussion on the current economic crisis threatening America’s financial stability as well as the global economy. Just as Congress moved to pass a $700 billion taxpayer-funded rescue bill, finance faculty Laura Starks (center), Stephen Magee, Sheridan Titman, Jay Hartzell, Michael Brandl (foreground) [...]

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