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Dean Thomas Gilligan interviewed Michael Dell, CEO, founder and chairman of the board of Dell, Inc., Nov. 11 as part of the VIP Distinguished Speaker Series.
Dean Gilligan began by asking Dell about his first job, which Dell said was at a Chinese restaurant when he was 12 years [...]

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A team of McCombs undergraduate students won the grand prize in the 2009 Net Impact Re-Source Challenge. The team shared the win with an MBA team from Northwestern’s Kellogg School of Business.
Bijal Mehta, Elaine Hsu and Zoe Gabbard were the only undergraduate team to enter the competition and they beat out more than 30 MBA [...]

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The proliferation of internet survey tools is making it easier for researchers to gather data, but internet surveys also produce their own set of challenges. That was the message from Marketing Professor Linda Golden and IROM Professor Patrick Brockett at the Undergraduate Business Council’s Faculty Research Presentation Nov. 9.
Golden said that in the future, students will all [...]

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From TexasSports.com
MPA student Emily Anderson, a member of the Longhorn soccer team, team was named to the 2009 ESPN The Magazine Academic All-America Women’s Soccer First Team. Anderson is the first Longhorn in program history to earn Academic All-America honors twice in a career and the second to be tabbed as a First Team honoree. The defender earned [...]

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McCombs Finance Professor Lew Spellman recently presented a talk on the latest developments in U.S. economic policy. The entire series can be viewed at lewspellman.com. In the clip below, Spellman discusses the cognitive dissonance associated with rising unemployment figures along with statistics showing that the recession is over.

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Aneal Tenjarla, a finance senior, won the Tulane Energy Trading Competition Nov. 14 in New Orleans, triumphing over 28 students from six universities, many from MBA programs, in the competition’s final round. 
Tenjarla said the contest was a great opportunity to learn trading strategy from industry insiders in a realistic environment that felt like an energy trading [...]

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“Risk is real. The reason Michael Dell is worth $40 billion is there are 40 billion other people who wanted to do what he did and couldn’t.”
The conversation was lively and opinionated at last week’s Sports, Entertainment & Media Association (SEMA) Conference at the AT&T Executive Education and Conference Center. SEMA is an organization that [...]

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Skyler Kanegi, second-year MIS student at McCombs, started his first company at age 16 because he wasn’t satisfied with the editorial stance of his high school’s magazine. He launched an alternative magazine for people in the arts community and soon had submissions from around the world. “For the first issue we printed 60 copies of [...]

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Keith Brown, professor of finance at the McCombs School of Business, presented his research on the investment performance of mutual fund managers as part of the Faculty Research Series Sept. 22 at McCombs.
Brown and his research team found that while a mutual fund’s investment style (small cap vs. large [...]

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Former University of Texas at Austin President Larry Faulkner talked about leadership, decision-making and ethics with a group of students at the McCombs Leadership Forum on Oct. 29.
Faulkner believes leaders create “an environment of the possible” when they use effective decision-making skills. The ability to make quick and decisive [...]

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