Texas MBAs Talk

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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When I was applying to business school one of the most frequently referenced phenomena were “overnight case competitions”. Essentially students form groups of 4-5, receive a case at 7pm, work the case through the night, and then present a perfectly coherent presentation in front of faculty, recruiters, and other people who ask searing questions. All [...]

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This week marked the end of our first-year CORE accounting, finance, stats and microeconomics classes. With finals coming up next week it would have been nice to take a breather – instead our last week was one of the most intense ones, filled with quizzes (3), projects due (2) and homework. I must admit that [...]

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Very little about this football season has been surprising thus far. Even the Detroit Lions defeating my beloved Washington Redskins wasn’t all that surprising (demoralizing, yes; surprising, no). The Longhorns have been reliable in destroying the first three teams they’ve played thus far (even reaching a basketball-like score of 64-7 over UTEP last weekend).
This season [...]

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Things are heating up here at the McCombs School of Business.  Gone are the weeks of getting acquainted with going back to school.  Instead we find ourselves in a frenzy of quizzes, cases, projects, and exams.  That’s right, October officially marks the onset of first quarter finals and I can already see stress lines on [...]

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As first-years, so much of what we do is a new experience – attending the first career fair, working the first T-account problem, preparing for the first case interview. However our academic schedule this year isn’t just a new experience for the first-years; it’s a new experience for McCombs faculty and administration as well!
This year, [...]

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We’re a few weeks into classes, and I’m beginning to realize how fast this semester is going to go by. In addition to my normal class load, I’m a TA for Advanced Marketing Management for the Texas Evening MBA program and am running recruitment for the next class of CCIMS Marketing Fellows. Add in my [...]

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My summer was a complete whirlwind, and it’s hard to believe I’ve already finished the first year of school, completed my long-awaited summer internship, and come back for year 2…AND that a week of class has gone by. Sadly, I know the rest of my MBA will be over in a blink. I’m thinking denial [...]

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Despite the fact that I went to a D-3 University without a football team, I am a die-hard college sports fan. Whether it is a meaningless spring practice or the national championship game I am all in when it comes to athletics. However, there is one particular event that rises above the rest every year, [...]

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As someone who studied history and medicine as an undergrad and entered the workforce in the realm of campaign politics, I know I am not a traditional business student. Lucky for me, being a non-traditional student at McCombs is not a rarity. Most of my classmates were not business majors, which makes asking questions in [...]

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