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Texas Executive Education a top program in Financial Times ranking

In the Financial Times’ latest ranking of executive education open enrollment programs, Texas Executive Education placed 3rd among U.S. public universities, and 13th in the nation overall. This ranking for McCombs School of Business becomes even more significant when one considers that a large majority of the programs in the survey are located outside the [...]

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Innovation becoming a stronger focus in McCombs disciplines

McCombs School of Business Associate Professor Ed Anderson teaches that “innovation” is more than just a stream of new ideas. Innovation is the result of a system of interactions and processes within an organization that creates new or better value for customers by solving problems or meeting needs.  With this mindset, innovation—or more specifically, innovative [...]

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Dallas executives credit their success to McCombs School

Two Dallas entrepreneurs, now CEOs of their own thriving companies, recently spoke to the Dallas Business Journal praising the career preparation and leadership skills they acquired while students at UT’s McCombs School of Business. Chris Scott, co-founder and CEO of Scott + Reid General Contractors, and Shawn Peterson, founder and CEO of United Graphics, told [...]

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McCombs makes Top 10 list of Entrepreneurship programs

The McCombs School of Business at The University of Texas at Austin has just been named one of the Top Schools for Entrepreneurship in Businessweek’s latest ranking of MBA programs, released this past Monday. Making the list at #10 world-wide, we join the ranks of other renowned business schools like Stanford, MIT, UC-Berkeley and Carnegie [...]

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Congratulations to National Oilwell Varco (NOV) for the Outstanding Executive Education Partner Award

Congratulations to McCombs 2012 Corporate Honorees and to National Oilwell Varco for the Outstanding Executive Education Partner award! Originally Posted on McCombs Today By Danielle Wells McCombs School of Business will recognize three corporations and one individual for their extraordinary contributions to and participation with the school at the 4th Annual Corporate Recognition Dinner on April 26, 2012. [...]

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German MBAs Learn About Business Strategy, BBQ

On Sept. 22-27, Texas Executive Education, in partnership with Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz, Germany, hosted a Leadership in a Global Environment program for Mainz executive MBA students. The students represented a wide variety of German and international firms, such as Accenture, Siemens, Capri Sun and BorgWarner. This year’s program focused on business strategy, leading-edge [...]

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