McCombs TODAY

Ben Bentzin, marketing lecturer at McCombs and a former Dell executive, spoke with McCombs Communications Director David Wenger about changes in marketing approaches, Dell’s new focus on innovation to draw in customers and why he thinks you shouldn’t outsource your social media efforts.
David posted the full interview, along with audio clips, on his ID University [...]

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Assistant IROM Professor Rafael Mendoza-Arriaga received the 2009 Nemhauser Doctoral Dissertation Prize for his paper “Unified Credit-Equity Modeling.” The award is given to the best doctoral dissertation in Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences (IEMS) at Northwestern University.
“Being recognized with an award named after Professor Nemhauser is a great honor that carries with it the great responsibility [...]

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The Wall Street Journal, October 20, 2009
A recent column in the Wall Street Journal, headlined “When Bad Luck is a Crime,” uses research coauthored by Andrew Henderson (right), associate professor of management.
Excerpt: When it comes to cheering CEOs, booing them or throwing them in jail, a consideration that ought to be nagging is whether we’re reacting to [...]

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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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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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John Sibley Butler, McCombs management professor, director of the Herb Kelleher Center for Entrepreneurship and director of the IC2 Institute, recently received the Special Achievement Award at the 2009 Tech Innovation Awards, sponsored by the Austin Business Journal.
In honoring Butler, the Austin Business Journal described his journey: “Butler returned from Vietnam with medals and memories, [...]

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On Sept. 17, Texas Executive Education hosted a faculty panel addressing Strategies for Growth in Trying Times. We captured a few of the highlights on video:
What country is poised to be the next global economic powerhouse?
Senior Lecturer of Management John Doggett spoke about the future of the global marketplace. “We in this country right now [...]

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The Princeton Review’s latest edition of their annual guide to business schools hit bookstores yesterday. “The Best 301 Business Schools: 2010 Edition” gives McCombs high marks in admissions selectivity, career rating and overall academic experience, but we particularly excel in the student-led rankings, where we ranked no. 8 out of 301 schools in the “Best [...]

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McCombs Dean Thomas Gilligan kicked off the 2009-2010 University Lecture Series with a classic economics lesson about global economic growth.
Speaking to a crowd of more than 1,000 students and other members of the university community at Bass Concert Hall in the Texas Performing Arts Center Monday evening, Gilligan explored trends in prosperity and poverty around [...]

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Edward Anderson Jr., associate professor in the Department of Information, Risk, and Operations Management (IROM), is one of the leaders in a research group that received more than $700,000 in federal stimulus money from the National Science Foundation to study how innovation unfolds in platforms such as the iPhone. Researchers from Tulane and Boston University [...]

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