McCombs TODAY

By Lamar Johnson, senior associate director of the Supply Chain Management Center of Excellence
Tight credit, global supplier risk, escalating energy costs, declining consumer confidence, unprecedented earnings pressure, high unemployment…oh my!
The result is a perfect storm for reducing the number of opportunities for college graduates in typical career paths. So this might be a time to consider a [...]

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The Chronicle of Higher Education, November 8, 2009
By Robert Prentice, professor of business law at the McCombs School of Business
Any sensible person would rather be happy than rich, although many people often confuse the two—business students among them. Those who choose to attend business school on the assumption that an M.B.A. will help them change [...]

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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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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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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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Internet gains vs. Wall Street Innovations
The Hindu, Sept. 9, 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 are contrasting value systems at play in the universally beneficial development of the world wide web and the skewed financial [...]

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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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Is our society overly competitive and adversarial? On his Macroeconomics Updates blog, McCombs economist Michael Brandl writes about the dangers of taking on an “Us vs. Them” mentality, whether in sports, business or politics:
We seem to have a growing intolerance of those we consider not to be “us.” And it seems who we define as [...]

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This week, McCombs Senior Finance Lecturer Sandy Leeds blogged about Friday’s job report, which he says showed significant improvement, but still reveals a terrible job market. He also predicts who will be “the next GM” and offers a discussion of the most recent insult to Citi–being removed from the Dow Jones Industrial Average.
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