http://www.mccombs.utexas.edu/ Participants in the Halliburton Business Foundations Summer Institute reflect on the challenges and benefits of this intensive summer program.
Archives for February, 2012
From Classroom to Congress
http://www.mccombs.utexas.edu/ McCombs Accounting Professor William R. Kinney, Jr. serves as both a teaching professor and an independent voice in the formation of public policy.
Making the Switch
http://blogs.mccombs.utexas.edu/mpa-students/ McCombs student Natalie Jacobs discusses her experience in the MPA department and why she chose to switch her major to Accounting.
Recruiting Season
http://blogs.mccombs.utexas.edu/mpa-students/ MPA student Darrin Harvey reflects on recruiting season at the McCombs School of Business
A Whole New Life
http://blogs.mccombs.utexas.edu/mpa-students/ McCombs MPA student Bart Bradshaw discusses how movng to Austin and enrolling in the Master’s Program in Accounting has led him down a completely new path in life.
Hall of Fame 2009: Liz Yant
http://www.mccombs.utexas.edu/dean/halloffame/ Liz Yant is honored by his peers for the 2009 McCombs Hall of Fame.
Hall of Fame 2009: Joel Staff
http://www.mccombs.utexas.edu/dean/halloffame/ Joel Staff is honored by his peers for the 2009 McCombs Hall of Fame.
Hall of Fame 2009: James Huffines
http://blogs.mccombs.utexas.edu/av/category/hall-of-fame/ James Huffines is honored by his peers for the 2009 McCombs Hall of Fame.
LINGO: Moral Hazard
http://texasenterprise.org/series/lingo Economist and McCombs senior lecturer of finance Michael Brandl explains moral hazard, a phrase that google-trended into the stratosphere as the financial crisis unfolded.
Macro Update: Geithner and Humpty Dumpty
http://blogs.mccombs.utexas.edu/brandl/ Michael Brandl on Geithner
LINGO: Contagion
http://texasenterprise.org/series/lingo Economist and McCombs senior lecturer of finance Mike Brandl explains the concept of economic contagion, and how instability in one market can spread into a worldwide epidemic.
LINGO: Systemic Risk
http://texasenterprise.org/series/lingo Economist and McCombs senior lecturer of finance Michael Brandl explains the concept of systemic risk, and how it is used as justification in bailig out financial insitutions that are “too big to fail”

