McCombs TODAY

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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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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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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IROM lecturer Pat Arnold received the Excellence in Teaching Award for her work with UT’s Certificate in Financial Planning program at the annual Instructor’s Luncheon Nov. 12. Arnold has been teaching Insurance in the program, a part of UT’s Professional Development Center, since 2004. Pictured with her is Kenneth Price, the director of the program.

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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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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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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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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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By Dorothy Brady
Florence Atiase, a lecturer in the Department of Accounting, has received the Texas Society of CPAs’ (TSCPA) Outstanding Accounting Educator Award for 2009. The award honors those who have demonstrated excellence in teaching and have distinguished themselves through active service to the accounting profession.
Atiase fits the profile perfectly. Since joining the McCombs faculty [...]

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The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality highlighted research on healthcare quality from McCombs Ph.D. student Holly Lanham (left) and Professor Reuben McDaniel (far left) on its Patient Safety Network Web site. The Patient Safety Network is an online resource featuring the latest, high-quality research on patient safety.
Lanham and McDaniel found that the relationships between healthcare professionals are key [...]

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