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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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Skyler Kanegi, second-year MIS student at McCombs, started his first company at age 16 because he wasn’t satisfied with the editorial stance of his high school’s magazine. He launched an alternative magazine for people in the arts community and soon had submissions from around the world. “For the first issue we printed 60 copies of [...]

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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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Ever thought of pursuing a Ph.D. in Business? Find out more at an informal event for both graduate and undergraduate students.
Ph.D. Open House
Day: Friday, Oct. 2, 2009
Time: 3–5 p.m.
Where: Legacy Events Room (CBA 3.202), McCombs Scho ol of Business
Learn about the McCombs Ph.D. programs—the exciting research opportunities, generous funding and promising career prospects. You’ll also [...]

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The University Investors Association (UIA) and the Texas Analyst Association’s (TAA) are hosting a Financial Modeling Workshop Tuesday, Sept. 29. This is the first in a series of workshops to be offered throughout the semester. It will cover cash flow projections and a simple DCF valuation model, coupled with tips and shortcuts for Excel.
Seating is limited, [...]

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Who: Stacy Smith, CFO, Intel
Host:  Eric Hirst, associate dean, MBA Program
When: Tuesday, Sept. 29, 2009  5:30-6:30 p.m.
Where: Will C. Hogg 1.120
Stacy J. Smith is vice president of finance and enterprise services and the chief financial officer (CFO) for Intel Corporation. In this role, he is responsible for leading the worldwide finance organization and overseeing operational finance, [...]

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With the fall semester underway and flu season quickly approaching, we know a lot of you have concerns, particularly about the H1N1 strain. We want to do everything possible to maintain a healthy and safe community for McCombs students, faculty and staff.
“I’m a mother, so I know there are a lot of parents who are [...]

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Maybe we’re working you too hard here at McCombs if skydiving is how you gear up for the semester… 
From Rohit Bhatia, MBA Class of 2010:
Recently 11 McCombs MBAs decided to jump out of a plane flying at 10,000 feet. All of us had wanted to do it at some point in our lives, so we [...]

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