McCombs TODAY

Theories on how to play the stock market abound. Buy low, buy companies whose leadership you admire, invest in organizations that reflect your personal values. And don’t count out the ever-popular strategy of throwing darts at the newspaper’s financial pages.
Every investor hopes he or she has figured out how to beat the system and turn [...]

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Thinking of starting a venture? The Texas Moot Corp Competition shows you how new companies raise venture capital. Come hear the latest venture ideas coming out of UT Austin at the Texas Moot Corp Semifinals on Wednesday, Feb. 4, 4-6 p.m. in CBA 3.202 and GSB 5.142. Seven teams will compete in two divisions, with [...]

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The Tower of The University of Texas at Austin glowed bright orange Tuesday, Jan. 27, in honor of the recipients of some of the most prestigious awards given by the university. The honorees included McCombs faculty member William W. Cooper and Sara Martinez Tucker, MBA ’79, who each received the prestigious Presidential Citation. President William Powers Jr. hosted the [...]

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Austin American-Statesman, Jan. 28, 2009
Walking through the small house near the University of Texas campus that Leon Chen (BBA ‘01) and Tiffany Taylor, owners of Tiff’s Treats, have turned into a cookie factory, it feels like you’re swimming through a warm pool of vanilla and sugar.
For 10 years, Tiff’s Treats has been bringing the smell [...]

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THE STRANGE POLITICS OF THE FINANCIAL BAILOUT
by David B. Spence, professor of business law
The political process that led ultimately to the passage of the Troubled Asset Relief Program Act of 2008—better known as the “Wall Street bailout”—was a strange one. By the time the mortgage crisis was fully understood, enormous amounts of bad debt had [...]

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The Financial Times, Jan. 26, 2009
The Financial Times released its annual ranking of the top 100 global MBA programs, and Texas has moved up significantly from last year. The 2009 ranking has the full-time Texas MBA at 49, up 27 spots from last year’s rank of 76. In the United States, FT ranks Texas at 23, a climb of 20 spots from 43 in 2008. [...]

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Forbes.com, Jan. 20, 2009
How gloomy are entrepreneurs?
Check out the latest results of a survey of 805 small-business owners by the National Federation of Independent Businesses, a Washington, D.C.-based lobbying group. In the last 420 months that the NFIB has taken that monthly pulse of small-business owners–on everything from profits and inventories to hiring and capital [...]

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Hundreds of business leaders and students are expected to attend the second annual UT Sustainable Business Summit at the McCombs School of Business Jan. 29-30, 2009 to learn about innovative sustainable business strategies. With the current global economic recession, organizers say it is especially important this year to understand and utilize green business practices to [...]

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From ShelfLife@Texas
For Thomas Gilligan, recently appointed dean of the McCombs School of Business, reading is like breathing.
“I’m not sure I can think of myself as existing apart from reading—it’s an integral part of life,” Gilligan says. “Reading was a big salvation for me when I went into military service right out of high school. It’s [...]

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The following is an excerpt from BusinessWeek’s “MBA Journal,” written by McCombs first-year MBA student Kathleen Voboril.
BusinessWeek, Jan. 19, 2009
I was floating on a tube on the Colorado River, basking in the sun and laughing with smart, interesting McCombs first-year MBAs when I thought, Life doesn’t get any better. Orientation was winding down and I [...]

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