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Recap: KTG Webinar with Sandy Leeds

In this webinar, Sandy brings listeners up-to-speed on current events in the markets. He covers the economy, the stock market, interest rates, the labor market, the Fed, and fiscal policy. Watch the recording!

Sandy Leeds is a distinguished senior lecturer in the Finance Department at McCombs and recently finished a thirteen year term as president of The MBA Investment Fund, L.L.C. He teaches both graduate and undergraduate level courses, including Corporate Finance, Advanced Corporate Finance, Public Policy (Long-Term Issues in the Markets), Investments, Portfolio Management / Security Analysis, Money and Capital Markets, and Macroeconomics.

Please note: Alumni Network webinars must be viewed live to receive CPE credit. Watching the recording does not qualify for CPE credit.

Webinar Recap: “50 Shades of Green: Sustainability and Sustainable Finance” with Meeta Kothare

On Feb. 25, Meeta Kothare hosted the KTG Webinar “50 Shades of Green: Sustainability and Sustainable Finance.” The webinar covered sustainability and the impact syndrome, 21st century trends, and how to manage, measure, and report sustainability. Watch it here!

Meeta Kothare is adjunct professor in the McCombs School of Business, where she is the inaugural Managing Director of the Social Innovation Initiative. Kothare also holds a faculty appointment at the LBJ School of Public Affairs. She teaches popular classes in Financial Innovation for Social Impact, Impact Investing, and Social Entrepreneurship and Innovation. Previously she founded Neeva Solutions, a management consulting firm assisting nonprofits and for-profit organizations dedicated to social impact.

Kothare has over 25 years of academic, business, and social sector experience. She began her career in sales and marketing before pursuing graduate studies in business. After completing her doctorate, she joined the finance faculty at the McCombs School of Business at the University of Texas at Austin, where she has taught in the MBA, Business Honors and Executive Education programs. Her research on corporate finance, corporate governance, and securities markets has appeared in leading academic finance journals.

Kothare’s current interests include social innovation and the use of financial tools for social impact and sustainability. Her areas of expertise include: impact and sustainable investing, impact measurement, social entrepreneurship and innovation. She is also actively engaged in community service, philanthropy and impact investing, and mentoring social changemakers on campus and beyond.

Kothare holds a Ph.D. in Finance and an M.S. in Applied Economics from the University of Rochester, and an MBA from the University of Georgia, where she was the class valedictorian.

Recap: KTG Webinar: “Does Marketing Matter?” with Leigh McAlister

Leigh’s webinar focused on the question “Does marketing matter?” Responses to this question range from a strong conviction that marketing drives firm growth to strong conviction that marketing does little more than create brochures for the sales organization. This all depends on the firm. In some firms marketing is central; in others it is peripheral. Leigh explained this variability by considering the firm’s source of competitive advantage and by the role assigned to the marketing function. Differentiating firms for which marketing is a line in function grow faster and are more valuable than other firms. Further, CEOs of such firms have broader visions for growth, are more satisfied with firm performance and see more promise for future performance. Cost leader firms in which marketing is a staff function are the slowest growing and least valuable. Watch here!

Leigh McAlister is the Ed and Molly Smith Chair in Business Administration at the McCombs School of Business, The University of Texas at Austin. She received her PhD from Stanford University and she served on the faculties of University of Washington and MIT before joining The University of Texas at Austin. She has won many teaching awards and research awards including JMR’s O’Dell Award, JR’s Davidson Award.  In 2014, she received the Mahajan Award for Lifetime Achievements in Strategy Research, was named the AMA/Irwin/McGraw-Hill Distinguished Marketing Educator and was a member of the Inaugural Class of Fellows of the American Marketing Association. In 2018, she was named a Fellow of INFORMS Marketing Science. Long associated with the Marketing Science Institute, she served there as Executive Director from 2003-2005. Currently her research focuses on determinants of firm value and implications of web communications. She serves as Area Editor at Journal of Marketing and Journal of Consumer Research. 

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