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Triumphs, Trials and Tribulations of Internet Survey Research

November 20th, 2009 · Filed under: Events · Research

Posted by Gayle Hight

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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Video: Brown Says Investment Style, Consistency Matter for Mutual Fund Performance

November 17th, 2009 · Filed under: Events · Research · video

Posted by Gayle Hight

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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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Wall Street Journal Highlights Henderson’s Research: Role of Luck in Company Performance

November 2nd, 2009 · Filed under: Faculty News · McCombs in the Media · Research · Top Stories

Posted by Rob Meyer

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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McCulloch Illustrates BART Method of Data Analysis

October 27th, 2009 · Filed under: Faculty News · Research · Top Stories

Posted by Amber Walkowiak

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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Anderson Earns NSF Grant to Study Innovation in Platforms Such as iPhone, Xbox, Wii

September 22nd, 2009 · Filed under: Faculty News · McCombs in the Media · Research · Top Stories

Posted by Rob Meyer

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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McDaniel, Lanham Research on Improving Healthcare Highlighted by Federal Healthcare Quality Agency

September 17th, 2009 · Filed under: Faculty News · Honors & Awards · Research · Top Stories

Posted by Tracy Mueller

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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McCombs, TACC Receive Gifts from Chevron to Educate the Next Generation of Scientists

September 4th, 2009 · Filed under: Research · Top Stories

Posted by Rob Meyer

AUSTIN, Texas — The Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) and the McCombs School of Business at The University of Texas at Austin today received gifts totaling $230,000 from Chevron Corporation to train the next generation of scientists and researchers in using advanced computing technologies and state-of-the-art laboratories for breakthrough science.
“Energy companies need highly skilled employees [...]

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Prentice Wins Prestigious Research Award

September 1st, 2009 · Filed under: Faculty News · Honors & Awards · Research

Posted by Rob Meyer

Robert Prentice, Ed and Molly Smith Centennial Professor in Business Law in the IROM Department, was given the Ralph C. Hoeber Award at the annual convention of the Academy of Legal Studies in Business (ALSB) in Denver August 4-8. The award honors the best article published in the ALSB’s flagship journal, the American Business Law [...]

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Damien’s Flu Research Highlights Cross-Disciplinary Nature of a Modern Business Professor

August 3rd, 2009 · Filed under: Faculty News · McCombs in the Media · Research · Top Stories

Posted by Rob Meyer

Researchers from The University of Texas at Austin will participate in a $3 million, five-year grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to fight influenza and other diseases by creating models that simulate the complex interplay between human behavior and the spread of disease.
 
The grant is part of the Models of Infectious Disease Agent [...]

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Gu, Whinston Research: “Herding” is Internet’s Surprising Phenomenon

July 9th, 2009 · Filed under: Research

Posted by Rob Meyer

Recent research from Bin Gu, assistant professor in the IROM Department, and Andrew Whinston, professor in the IROM department (along with Wenjing Duan of George Washington University), demonstrates that the internet seems to create herding behavior, rather than bringing about a diversity in online choices as many thought would happen. The research was recently published [...]

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