McCombs TODAY

By Eli Cox, Chair, Department of Marketing
Ordinary Americans have a deepening mistrust of free-market capitalism as our nation has gone from Enron, WorldCom, Adelphia and Tyco to Bear Sterns, Freddie Mac, Fannie May and Lehman Brothers. Sadly, this mistrust is justified because too many corporate executives have adopted the creed of greed.

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The fundamental starting point for democratic government began with taxation, said David Cay Johnston, a Pulitzer Prize-winning author and former New York Times investigative journalist, during a speech to McCombs accounting students Sept. 24.
Johnston, who came to UT as part of the Lyceum Speaker Series, told students that the ideas about taxation and society that [...]

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A study authored by Patrick Brockett (IROM) and Linda Golden (Marketing) was named Most Outstanding Contribution to the Casualty Actuarial Society. Their paper, “Biological and Psychobehavioral Correlates of Credit Scores and Automobile Losses: Toward an Explication of Why Credit Scoring Works,” was published in 2007 in the Journal of Risk and Insurance.

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Ever thought of pursuing a Ph.D. in business? Find out more at an informal event for graduate and undergraduate students.
Ph.D. Open House
When: Friday, Oct. 3, 3-5 p.m.
Where: Legacy Events Room (CBA 3.202)
Refreshments will be served.
The event begins with a reception and program overview presentations from 3 p.m. to 4 p.m., followed by discipline-specific [...]

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IROM Professor Sridhar Seshadri won the 2008 INFORMS MSOM Best Paper Award. The paper is titled “Hedging Inventory Risk Through Market Instruments” and was chosen over 11 other nominated papers. Seshadri is a new faculty member who joins McCombs from New York University. He researches problems related to planning, coordination and optimization in supply chains; [...]

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The Austin American-Statesman sat down with McCombs Finance Lecturer Greg Hallman to get an explanation of the Wall Street meltdown. “The only way [the bailout] is going to cost us $700 billion is if the real estate that backs these bad mortgages goes to zero. So the odds that it will really cost us whatever [...]

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Congratulations to the Texas MBA team (Left to right, above: Brian Woods, Hassan Johnson and Jonathan Richard) for taking third place at the 2008 National Black MBA Association National Student Case Competition Sept. 19 in Washington, D.C. MBA candidates from 30 of the nation’s leading business schools competed at the conference. Florida A&M took first [...]

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My Story: Katie Jozwicki
Wednesday, Oct. 1
5:15-6:30 p.m.
Legacy Events Room
Katie Jozwicki, MBA ’07, was a full-time Texas MBA student when she was diagnosed with breast cancer. Hear how she channeled her energies to become cancer free, graduate, land a great job and become an ambassador for defeating her disease. Jozwicki has become a spokesperson for breast cancer [...]

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Finance Professor Ehud Ronn returned from the 2008 Financial Services Institute Symposium, held Sept. 12 at St. John’s University, with the Best Paper Award. The report he presented, “A Simple Model for Time-Varying Expected Returns on the S&P 500 Index,” was co-authored with James Doran of Florida State University and Robert Goldberg of Adelphi University.

The [...]

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The Daily Texan, Sept. 24, 2008
Bank of America’s Liam McGee said the current economic situation may one day be considered one of the 10 most important historical events in our country.
McGee, the bank’s president of global consumer and small business banking, met with UT students in the McCombs School of Business after he gave a [...]

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