McCombs TODAY

In the 4th annual BusinessWeek survey of top undergraduate business programs released Feb. 26, the McCombs School of Business held steady at No. 10 nationally. McCombs is No. 4 among public schools and No. 1 among public four-year schools.
Complete tables can be found at: http://bwnt.businessweek.com/interactive_reports/undergrad_bschool_2009/
101 schools made the ranking this year (up from 96 last [...]

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By Jamey Smith
If you have the good fortune to meet William W. Cooper, a true gentleman if ever there was one, “prizefighter” is probably not the first word that will come to mind. Yet that word and many more — prodigious author, innovator, philanthropist — apply to this professor emeritus in the McCombs School of [...]

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Measuring and Motivating Quantity, Creativity or Both
Who: Michael Williamson, Professor of Accounting
What: Faculty Research Series
When: Thursday, March 5, 5- 6 p.m.
Where: UTC 1.102
Free pizza and drinks!
Professor Williamson examines how worker productivity differs when compensation is based on quantity, creativity, or the product of both measures.

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McCombs Accounting Professors Ross Jennings and Bill Kinney took part in a panel discussion Feb. 20 on the challenges facing corporations, governments and regulators in moving toward international standards in financial reporting. The event was sponsored by the Strauss Center at The University of Texas at Austin and it also featured Christopher Hossfeld, associate professor [...]

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On February 19, the Supply Chain Management Center of Excellence (SCMC) hosted a day of activities that enabled direct interaction between McCombs students and SCMC corporate sponsors, promoted the supply chain program at McCombs and honored SCMC’s Founding Sponsors and 2008-09 scholarship recipients.
The Supply Chain Management Student Organization (SCMSO) kicked off the day with the [...]

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The 18th season of the CBS reality TV show, “Survivor: Tocantins — The Brazilian Highlands,” features McCombs School of Business alumnus Joe Dowdle, BBA ‘04.  Dowdle is a real estate broker based in Austin.
CBS.com’s bio of the 26-year-old “southern gentleman and savvy businessman” states Dowdle excelled at The University of Texas at Austin and was [...]

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McCombs academic adviser Lovelys Powell was chosen by students to receive the Texas Exes James W. Vick Award for Academic Advising.
The award is given to five academic advisers across the university who have had an effective, positive influence on the educational experience of university students. The recipients will be honored at a ceremony to be [...]

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Austin American-Statesman, Feb. 23, 2009
What has changed at Phurnace Software since it was founded two years ago?
Not much. Only the product, the marketing strategy, the customers it wanted to target, its hiring plan and the amount of money it intended to raise. Also the sales strategy — three times.
“At one point, we stopped writing our [...]

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By Rob Adams
The Chinese might have been prescient about the current world situation when they coined the phrase “may you live in interesting times.” However, most entrepreneurs and business owners are finding these times a little too interesting for comfort, and they are looking for insight on how to manage their businesses through the choppy [...]

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FocalPop, a Web-based solution for finding quality stock photography, won the Texas round of the Moot Corp® competition, the new-venture competition hosted annually at the McCombs School of Business.
The win at the Feb. 18 competition earned FocalPop a berth in the Global Moot Corp competition, which will be held in Austin May 7-9. The Global [...]

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