McCombs TODAY

On Oct. 19 it was announced that MagnaQuest, a Hyderabad, India, company had acquired eVapt, an Austin company which has its roots with the Texas Evening MBA program (TEMBA). Both companies are involved in providing cloud computing solutions.
Shortly after the acquistion, TEMBA Director Trent Thurman interviewed Ranjit Nayak, MBA ‘07, who founded the company along [...]

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Alice Schroeder, BBA ‘78, MBA ‘80, author of “The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life,” spoke on campus Oct. 28 as part of McCombs’ VIP Distinguished Speaker Series.
Schroeder began by explaining that she is not the type of person who was engineered for success.
“I came here not knowing what I wanted to do,” said Schroeder. [...]

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McCombs Business Honors students Eric Sung and Jeffrey Siegel won third place in the Seventh Annual Eller Ethics Case Competition held Oct. 22-24.
The competition, hosted by the Eller College of Management at the University of Arizona, presents pairs of business students from around the world with a business ethics case that they could face in [...]

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Lee Scott, chairman of the executive committee of the board of directors and former CEO of Wal-Mart, spoke with Dean Thomas Gilligan on campus Oct. 12 as part of the VIP Distinguished Speaker Series.
Dean Gilligan began by asking Scott about his very first job, which Scott said [...]

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Bayesian statistics is not, perhaps, the most accessible field of study, but Robert McCulloch, a professor of Information, Risk, and Operations Management at McCombs, opened up this important topic at a Faculty Research Presentation Oct. 20.
McCulloch, an internationally renowned statistician, illustrated how he uses BART (no relation to the Simpsons), a computer system that can analyze data [...]

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The McCombs School of Business has a commitment to honor and ethics. It is apparent to me, judging from comments and inquiries I have received recently, that our students, faculty, staff and alumni believe strongly in these principles as well.
We derive this high standard from the university of which we are a part. Our purpose [...]

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A team of McCombs undergraduate students were selected to be one of three finalists for the Net Impact Resource Challenge.
Bijal Mehta, Elaine Hsu and Zoe Gabbard were the only undergraduate students to enter, and they beat out more than 30 MBA teams for a spot in the finals. The Resource Challenge is a mini-case competition [...]

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On Oct. 13, the MPA Distinguished Speaker Lyceum hosted Tom Linsmeier (left), a member of the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB). Fifth-year MPA student Doug Bedell shared this dispatch from Linsmeier’s talk, which he says was “one of the most riveting” Lyceum talks yet:
Dr. Linsmeier’s speech passionately defended fair-value accounting, a subject that, as of late, has [...]

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Andrew Whinston (right), McCombs professor in the Department of Information, Risk, and Operations Management was named a Distinguished Fellow at the annual meeting of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS) Oct. 11-14 in San Diego. INFORMS is the largest professional society in the world for the field of operations research. Whinston [...]

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The Hindu, October 16, 2009
Prabhudev Konana is the William H. Seay Centennial Professor and Distinguished Teaching Professor at the McCombs School of Business at The University of Texas at Austin.
There is justified public outrage at the obscenely large executive compensation. Should the government regulate compensations in the private sector even when there is no government [...]

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