McCombs Alumni Network News

When Amanda Yates, MBA ‘07, wrote her essay for admission to McCombs, she discussed the opportunity to solve the world’s health problems of malnutrition and obesity through new and better food products. Yates grew up on a pecan farm in New Mexico, loved to cook and had a habit of roaming the aisles of grocery [...]

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Some people balk at the size of UT’s undergraduate population, but for Kurt Leedy, BBA ‘02, it’s exactly what drew him to McCombs. After two years of attending TCU, a much smaller school, Leedy realized he longed to be part of a larger community.
“The great thing about McCombs is that there are so many incredibly [...]

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Darrell W. Gurney, BBA ’84, came to McCombs as the first in his family to go to college, looking to succeed and make something big happen in his life. “I felt sort of like George Bailey in ‘It’s a Wonderful Life,’ when he said ‘I’m gonna shake the dust of this small town and see [...]

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Maria Pineda, BBA ’08, graduated 30 years after she first set foot in a University of Texas at Austin classroom. She and her husband came to the university, sight unseen, in 1978, after earning associate’s degrees from a Laredo junior college. They were both majoring in business and were eager to start classes.
Plans soon changed, [...]

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By Tracy Mueller, McCombs School of Business“Working in New York City is intense, and I want people to have a group they can turn to when they need help,” says Jenn McClain, MBA ’05 and co-president of the New York Chapter of the McCombs MBA Alumni (MMA) Network. Whether that’s help finding an apartment or, [...]

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By Tracy Mueller, McCombs School of Business
As a student at McCombs, Ben Rodgers, MBA ’08, benefitted first-hand from alumni who decided to remain connected to the school. “I really appreciated the involvement of alumni when I was a student, and so I feel I need to do the same,” says Rodgers, who is the new [...]

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“It is important to me that I give back to a school that has provided me with so much,” says Melissa Tucker, BBA ’04. Tucker, a systems analyst at Hewitt Associates, is a member of the Houston Chapter Steering Committee for the newly-formed McCombs BBA Alumni (MBBA) Network. She is also chair of the chapter’s [...]

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Norman Caldera, BBA ’70, parlayed his marketing degree into a career as a diplomat, presidential adviser and international economic consultant and writer. His circle includes with dignitaries such as Vicente Fox and Felipe Calderón of Mexico, and in his role as foreign minister and trade minister for Nicaragua, has met President George W. Bush, President [...]

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Meredith (BBA ’01) and Langston (MBA ’01) Turner always had a goal of giving back to the McCombs School. After all they are both alumni, and it’s where they first met and began dating. (Langston actually interviewed with Meredith’s father shortly before they met. “I told Langston it’s a good thing he chose a different [...]

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