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 [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Research'
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
Tags: · Andrew Henderson, McCombs management, Wall Street Journal
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 [...]
Tags: · BART, Bayesian Additive Regression Trees, bayesian analysis, McCombs research, regression, Robert McCulloch, statistics
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 [...]
Tags: · Ed Anderson, innovation research, iPhones, IROM, platforms
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 [...]
Tags: · Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, healthcare management, healthcare quality, Healthcare reform, healthcare research, Holly Lanham, Joint Commission Journal on Quality and Patient Safety, patient safety, Patient Safety Network, Reuben McDaniel
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 [...]
Tags: · Chevron, Jerry Malcolm, McCombs MIS, Sharon Dunn
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 [...]
Tags: · Robert Prentice
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 [...]
Tags: · flu research, IROM, Lauren Meyers, MIDAS project, Paul Damien
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 [...]
Tags: · amazon research, andrew whinston, Bin Gu, consumer behavior, internet research
How Smart are the Smart Guys? Griffin Finds Hedge Funds Often Outperformed By Mutual Funds
July 1st, 2009 · Filed under: McCombs in the Media · Research
Posted by Rob Meyer
Bloomberg, July 1, 2009
Commentary by David Reilly
Markets sank last year. So too did hedge-fund performance. Markets soared in the just-finished quarter. Hedge funds notched up big wins. Now remind me why they are called hedge funds.
Bull-market geniuses may be a better moniker. For all the talk of being able to make money whether stocks rise [...]
Tags: · finance, hedge funds, investing, John Griffin, McCombs School, mutual funds, stock picking, Texas
Forbes, New York Times Highlight Graebner Study on Corporate Acquisitions
June 30th, 2009 · Filed under: Faculty News · McCombs in the Media · Research
Posted by Tracy Mueller
July 22 update: Forbes adds to the media coverage of Graebner’s research.
The New York Times, June 24, 2009
Are sellers at a disadvantage in corporate acquisitions? New research from McCombs Assistant Professor of Management Melissa Graebner (left) shows sellers in corporate acquisitions are more trusting than buyers, and that buyers’ may use their lack of trust [...]
Tags: · Academy of Management, Caveat Venditor, corporate acquisitions, DealBook, deception, management research, Melissa Graebner, mergers, New York Times, trust between buyers and sellers

