McCombs TODAY

“The Snowball” (Bantam, 2008), by Alice Schroeder, BBA ‘78, MBA ‘80 is an in-depth portrait of renowned investor Warren Buffett. It currently sits at #1 on the New York Times bestseller list for hardcover nonfiction.
Schroeder first met Warren Buffett when she published research on Berkshire Hathaway; her grasp of the subject and insight so impressed [...]

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Our apologies for misspelling “Barack”. Unfortunately we can’t edit it now that the poll is open.

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Friday, Oct. 24, 2008, was a historic day at the McCombs School of Business. In the evening, the school inducted three prominent business leaders into its Hall of Fame (pictured above left to right with Dean Thomas Gilligan on far left): John D. McStay, McHenry T. Tichenor, Jr., and Louis M. Pearce, Jr. Leading up to the Hall of Fame ceremony, [...]

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Students, faculty and staff are invited to register for the Green Means Go 5K Fun Run/Walk on Nov. 16 on the UT campus. Proceeds from the race will go towards sustainability efforts at McCombs, and many aspects of the race are green, including organic t-shirts for participants, limited electricity use and even recycled bib numbers [...]

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Contrary to the popular belief that online investment communities represent a melting-pot of ideas, where people come together to trade stock tips, share opinions and attempt to influence others, individuals using financial message boards seek out and interact with those who share the same opinions, according to new research from McCombs School of Business faculty [...]

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Finance and Business Honors senior Todd Bondy was awarded the prestigious Texas Parents Outstanding Student Award, which each year recognizes one male and one female student for outstanding leadership on campus.
Bondy, a former member of the Longhorn Football team, has held various other roles for McCombs and UT. Bondy was promotions chair for the BHP’s [...]

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Fox News Austin, October 21, 2008
A lot of people are starting to feel the effects of the economic downturn, and that includes business school students facing a changing job market. Austin Fox news affiliate visited the McComb School of Business to see how the school is helping students and graduates. Watch story.

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Cynthia Cooper, best known as the internal auditor who exposed a massive accounting fraud at WorldCom, spoke about ethics to students at the VIP Distinguished Speaker Series Oct. 16.
Cooper suggested that a lot of people think ethics are too complicated. She said the Golden Rule is a good starting point. “There is a true north, [...]

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Austin American-Statesman, Oct. 19
“Of course, we want to continue to be recognized among the best business schools in the world,” says Tom Gilligan, dean of the McCombs School. “We are already; we just want to solidify that position. But what we really need to do is work on the issue of what makes McCombs distinctive. [...]

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A panel of career services experts from the McCombs School of Business came together Oct. 17 to advise students on how to best manage uncertain career opportunities during the current job market. The panel stressed that students should take advantage of the extensive resources available to them at McCombs, and that, as graduates of a [...]

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