McCombs TODAY

The 2009 Global Moot Corp Champion Novophage opened the NASDAQ market in New York City, July 31, 2009. To see pictures and watch a video of Rob Adams, director of the Moot Corp program, give a speech before the opening, visit the NASDAQ site.

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Fox, Seven on Your Side, July 27, 2009
Kristie Loescher, McCombs management lecturer, provided analysis for Fox’s Seven on Your Side in a story about rules regarding employees being paid in comp time rather than in overtime.

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UPDATE: This workshop was originally scheduled for Sept. 1, but the date has been changed to Oct. 2. We apologize in advance for any inconvenience caused by this date change. If you’ve already signed up, you will be contacted regarding your ability to attend on the new date.      
Texas Executive Education hosts the Disney Institute’s “Disney Keys [...]

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Darth Vader? Mr. Burns? Your boss? Just who is the worst boss ever? We hit campus to uncover stories of terrible bosses- both real and imagined. And you thought you had it bad.

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Read the Texas magazine story “Missing Voices” to learn how managers and employees can have a relationship that benefits everyone, including the company.

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Hot off the presses, (so to speak) it’s the Spring/Summer 2009 issue of Texas, the McCombs School magazine.
That’s Assistant Professor of Management Ethan Burris on the cover. In the story “Missing Voices,” you’ll read about his research on employee voice and learn why people are afraid to speak up at work and how bosses can [...]

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Fox, Good Day Austin, July 20, 2009
Kristie Loescher, McCombs management lecturer, provided viewers of Good Day Austin an update on ongoing healthcare reform measures currently being debated in the U.S. Congress.

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Marketing Professor Eli Cox spoke at the Texas Exes Alumni College on whether America is in moral decline. The short answer? Yes.
In this clip, he explains the economic concept of marginal utility - that the satisfying effect of acquiring goods and money diminishes over time. But for some individuals, no amount of money is enough, [...]

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Sanford Leeds, senior finance lecturer at the McCombs School of Business, spoke at the Texas Exes Alumni College. He reviewed a myriad of entities who are to blame for the subprime crisis, among them - homebuyers, mortgage brokers, bankers, the Federal Reserve, U.S. Treasury and the Securities and Exchange Commission.

View his full lecture.

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John Robinson has been selected as the Academic Accounting Fellow at the Securities and Exchange Commission’s Division of Corporation Finance, the regulatory agency announced July 16.
“It is a great professional opportunity,” said Robinson, the C. Aubrey Smith Professor in Accounting. “Obviously, there is a lot of regulatory activity right now, especially in the areas where [...]

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FInd MBA Blog, July 11, 2009
“In my view, the financial downturn has actually made teaching finance a little easier,” said Greg Hallman, McCombs finance lecturer. “At its core, finance is the study of risk and return. The past couple of years in the market have given students a perfect illustration of risk and the downside [...]

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