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Entries from November 2009

3 Day Start Up

November 21st, 2009 · Filed under: Austin · Career · Events · Kalin McKenna, MBA '11 · Uncategorized

Posted by Kalin Mckenna

There is no doubt that one of the major selling points of the McCombs MBA is the location.  Many of my fellow bloggers have discussed the awesomeness that is Austin, TX and they are entirely right, Austin is a fantastic place to spend two years.  In addition to live music, great food, and gorgeous weather, [...]

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Careers in Energy

November 15th, 2009 · Filed under: Academics · Austin · Career · Internship · Leslie Phillips, MBA '11

Posted by Leslie Phillips

While we have a wide range of career interests represented on the blog, I wanted to speak to an area that hasn’t yet come up but is very prevalent at McCombs – energy finance and clean technology. The energy crew in particular includes some of the most active and passionate students in the program. For [...]

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Up for a Challenge?

November 3rd, 2009 · Filed under: Career · Dirk Hallen, MBA '11 · Kalin McKenna, MBA '11 · Kevin Burke, MBA '11 · Student Life · Uncategorized

Posted by Kevin Burke

A couple of weeks ago Deloitte Consulting came to campus for their annual Consulting Case Challenge- one of the most highly anticipated challenges of the year. Twenty teams battled for the top prize, setting a new record for participation in the process. In addition to the overwhelming turnout of first-year students, Deloitte added [...]

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Meet Bevo

November 3rd, 2009 · Filed under: Events · Liz Wetterhahn, MBA '10 · Student Life

Posted by Liz Wetterhahn

If you are a loyal reader of this blog (all three of you), you may remember how bitter I was when I couldn’t attend last year’s Red River Rivalry (Texas vs. Oklahoma in Dallas) because of first year midterms. When the second years came back and raved about how amazing the game and the corresponding [...]

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