McCombs TODAY

Thomas W. Gilligan has been appointed dean of the McCombs School starting Sept. 1, 2008. Congratulations to Dr. Gilligan!
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Finance Professor Ehud Ronn was recently interviewed by News 8 Austin about where your money goes when you pay at the pump. It is more complicated than simply blaming the oil companies, Ronn said. “They are benefiting from prices being high but they have no ability to affect those prices,” he said.
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“Wise women keep on learning,” said Dr. Barbara Day, president of Delta Kappa Gamma (DKG) Society International, speaking to the graduating class of Texas Executive Education’s Leadership Management Seminar. DKG is a professional honorary society of women educators, and this year marked their 6th biennial visit to McCombs. Thirty students participated in the two-week Leadership [...]

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Marketing Professor Linda Golden appeared on the Fox Business channel recently to discuss how big box stores such as Wal-Mart market to shoppers. In difficult economic times, Golden said, “It’s increasingly important for consumers to be able to buy everything they need [in one stop].”
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Michael Brandl, senior finance lecturer, recently analyzed the current crisis unfolding in the banking industry with KUT radio and on his video version of his Macro Economic Update series.
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Jim Franklin is the new director of the Texas Master in Professional Accounting Program (MPA). Franklin, who started at McCombs June 23, earned a degree in economics from the Wharton School, and is a 1993 Texas MPA graduate…Sunhee Kim, MPA ’08, has been appointed by the International Accounting Standards Board (IASB) as a technical associate. [...]

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Students in the inaugural Halliburton Business Foundations Summer Institute took part in a leadership competition June 25 that simulated the treacherous climb to Mt. Everest. The task was to work together while managing medical, weather, and oxygen challenges (the simulation recreates an actual climb attempted in 1996). The winning team is pictured with Kristie Loescher, [...]

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Thomas Sager, IROM professor, and his co-author won the Geneva Association/International Insurance Society Shin Research Award for Excellence for the paper, “Mortgage Backed Securities and Capital of Life Insurers: Was the Industry prepared for the Credit Crunch of 2007-08?” The paper’s findings indicate that life insurers were unprepared for problems with mortgage-backed securities. [...]

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The economic pundits are filling the airways with stories of how high energy prices are going spell doom for the U.S. economy. In Washington and across the country politicians seem to tripping over themselves trying to find “someone to blame” for raising gasoline prices. In his latest video Macro Update, senior finance lecturer Michael [...]

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Executive MBA students from ESADE Business School in Madrid, Spain spent June 2-6 at McCombs, participating in Texas Executive Education’s “Leading in a Changing Environment” program. The 42 executives, representing leading Spanish and international companies, visited Dell and National Instruments in Austin, and HEB/Central Market in [...]

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