McCombs TODAY

McCombs Dean Tom Gilligan shared his thoughts on the economic meltdown earlier this month at the Men’s Breakfast Club at the Lakeway Activity Center. The Lake Travis View reported on the talk.
“In a very significant way, today’s financial crisis is directly connected to the enormous savings of countries in Asia and the Middle East during [...]

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What: The Texas Lyceum 2009 Public Conference “The 2009 Stimulus Package: What’s in it (or not) for Texas?”
Where: AT&T Conference Center, 1900 University Avenue
When: April 3, 2009
The Texas Lyceum 24th Annual Public Conference is focusing on the 2009 federal stimulus package and how it affects Texas. The Lyceum has extended a special invitation to McCombs [...]

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The Austin American-Statesman, March 31, 2009
There’s one word that University of Texas graduate business students Brittany Braden and Kullen Kifer used to describe what it’s like to be faced with the prospect of managing $11 million in real money during what may be the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression: humbling.
“There is a lot [...]

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Austin welcomes visitors from around the world in the month of March, most visibly for the South by Southwest festival. Meanwhile, Texas Executive Education hosted its own international educational event this month with an international makeup that was just as impressive.
The ESCP-EAP European School of Management in France brought to Texas an executive MBA group [...]

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Assistant Professor Carlos Carvalho (right) of the University of Chicago Booth School of Business will join the McCombs School’s Department of Information, Risk, and Operations Management (IROM) as a visiting scholar in the coming academic year under the prestigious Donald D. Harrington Fellows Program.”
“Professor Carvalho is an outstanding young researcher in econometrics and statistics,” said [...]

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Eight McCombs School faculty members who received the highest scores on the Course Instructor Surveys completed by students at the end of last semester were honored by Dean Thomas Gilligan at an hour-long reception March 23.
The biannual Faculty Honor Roll is sponsored by the Undergraduate Business Council and Undergraduate Programs Office and included about 30 [...]

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The New Ventures and Leadership in Virtual Worlds conference is a free interdisciplinary event focusing on the scope and quality of research and education in virtual environments characterized by real-time interaction among avatars and virtual economies.
Virtual worlds are common in multiplayer online games (such as Citypixel), virtual environments (such as Second Life) and role-playing games [...]

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By Sandy Leeds, senior finance lecturer at McCombs
FHA – Future Chaos. The FHA does not lend money directly to homebuyers. It provides insurance. The FHA’s share of the mortgage market was 2% three years ago. Now, it’s almost a third of all mortgages. The FHA has become the only option for homebuyers who don’t have [...]

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Four McCombs School of Business students were among 22 UT graduate and undergraduate students whose yearlong research findings into renewable energy use were presented at the Steps Toward a Sustainable Austin Energy Symposium at the UT School of Law March 10.
The research project and public panel discussion was sponsored by Austin Energy and Solar Austin [...]

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The rigor of a PhD program at a top business school demands tenacity and a well-developed sense of preparedness, in addition to strong academic skills. Doctoral students may pick up these attributes in industry or academia, but for second-year McCombs School of Business finance student Nick Crain, they came by way of a fast attack [...]

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