McCombs TODAY

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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