McCombs TODAY

July 22 update: Forbes adds to the media coverage of Graebner’s research.
The New York Times, June 24, 2009
Are sellers at a disadvantage in corporate acquisitions? New research from McCombs Assistant Professor of Management Melissa Graebner (left) shows sellers in corporate acquisitions are more trusting than buyers, and that buyers’ may use their lack of trust [...]

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The McCombs undergraduate course Business Communication: Written & Oral (BA 324) was named one of four finalists for The University of Texas System Library Directors’ Award for Excellence in Library Resource Integration May 21, 2009. Chosen from among nominations received across The University of Texas System, the winner and finalists were recognized for integrating library [...]

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Recently, McCombs Marketing Professor Vijay Mahajan sat down with Nick Binedell, director of the Gordon Institute of Business Science in South Africa, to discuss the business potential in Africa, home to 900 million consumers. “The market opportunities are not any less than what India and China have to offer,” Mahajan said. Mahajan’s most recent book, Africa Rising, extensively [...]

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Is our society overly competitive and adversarial? On his Macroeconomics Updates blog, McCombs economist Michael Brandl writes about the dangers of taking on an “Us vs. Them” mentality, whether in sports, business or politics:
We seem to have a growing intolerance of those we consider not to be “us.” And it seems who we define as [...]

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The Executive MBA program’s Class of 1999 held their 10-year reunion on Saturday, June 13 at Perry’s Steakhouse in downtown Austin. Court Huber, the former director of the program, came back to catch up with alumni, and current director, John Burrows, gave an update on the program.
The alumni shared stories about their time in Option [...]

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This Tuesday, Professor of Finance Lewis Spellman presents the second lecture of his four-part series on the economy, titled “The Economy and Financial Markets: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow.”
Each lecture is 7:30-9 p.m. at the AT&T Executive Conference Center on the UT Campus, and is open to the public.
Tuesday, June 16
Why Economists Missed the Biggest Economic [...]

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In this Google Tech Talks video, “How to Slice the Pie? Optimal Share Structure Design in Internet Advertising Auctions,” IROM Professor and Director of the Center for Research in Electronic Commerce Andrew B. Whinston explores the share auction model that Google uses to allocate its internet advertising resources.
In the Google model, the highest advertiser gets [...]

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Twenty executive MBA students from Finland’s Turku School of Economics spent May 11-15 with Texas Executive Education getting an in-depth look at U.S. business practices. This year’s program celebrated the ninth anniversary of a successful partnership between the schools.
The program, titled “Competing and Leading in a Changing Business Environment,” focused on strategy, marketing, negotiations, talent [...]

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Professor Sirkka Jarvenpaa returned to her native Finland to receive an honorary doctorate from the University of Jyvaskyla May 23, 2009. “As a researcher of electronic commerce, virtual organizations, and team work, in particular, she represents the absolute peak of international academic research,” the citation read. The Conferment of Degrees Ceremony is a three-day event [...]

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This week, McCombs Senior Finance Lecturer Sandy Leeds blogged about Friday’s job report, which he says showed significant improvement, but still reveals a terrible job market. He also predicts who will be “the next GM” and offers a discussion of the most recent insult to Citi–being removed from the Dow Jones Industrial Average.
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