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Dean Thomas Gilligan interviewed Michael Dell, CEO, founder and chairman of the board of Dell, Inc., Nov. 11 as part of the VIP Distinguished Speaker Series.
Dean Gilligan began by asking Dell about his first job, which Dell said was at a Chinese restaurant when he was 12 years [...]

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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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McCombs Finance Professor Lew Spellman recently presented a talk on the latest developments in U.S. economic policy. The entire series can be viewed at lewspellman.com. In the clip below, Spellman discusses the cognitive dissonance associated with rising unemployment figures along with statistics showing that the recession is over.

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Aneal Tenjarla, a finance senior, won the Tulane Energy Trading Competition Nov. 14 in New Orleans, triumphing over 28 students from six universities, many from MBA programs, in the competition’s final round. 
Tenjarla said the contest was a great opportunity to learn trading strategy from industry insiders in a realistic environment that felt like an energy trading [...]

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Former University of Texas at Austin President Larry Faulkner talked about leadership, decision-making and ethics with a group of students at the McCombs Leadership Forum on Oct. 29.
Faulkner believes leaders create “an environment of the possible” when they use effective decision-making skills. The ability to make quick and decisive [...]

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James Mulva, CEO and Chairman of ConocoPhillips, was the guest of former McCombs Dean George Gau at the McCombs Leadership Forum on Oct. 8. Mulva, BBA ‘68, MBA ‘69, spoke about his 36-year career in the energy industry and his passion for it. He stressed the importance of work [...]

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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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Last week President Powers sent an email to UT faculty and staff announcing Ideas of Texas, a Web site where faculty and staff can submit ideas for improving the university. As ideas are viewed, commented and voted on (Horns Up or Horns Down in this case) and rated by others, the university will look at [...]

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