McCombs TODAY

On Sept. 17, Texas Executive Education hosted a faculty panel addressing Strategies for Growth in Trying Times. We captured a few of the highlights on video:
What country is poised to be the next global economic powerhouse?
Senior Lecturer of Management John Doggett spoke about the future of the global marketplace. “We in this country right now [...]

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Darth Vader? Mr. Burns? Your boss? Just who is the worst boss ever? We hit campus to uncover stories of terrible bosses- both real and imagined. And you thought you had it bad.

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Read the Texas magazine story “Missing Voices” to learn how managers and employees can have a relationship that benefits everyone, including the company.

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Marketing Professor Eli Cox spoke at the Texas Exes Alumni College on whether America is in moral decline. The short answer? Yes.
In this clip, he explains the economic concept of marginal utility - that the satisfying effect of acquiring goods and money diminishes over time. But for some individuals, no amount of money is enough, [...]

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Sanford Leeds, senior finance lecturer at the McCombs School of Business, spoke at the Texas Exes Alumni College. He reviewed a myriad of entities who are to blame for the subprime crisis, among them - homebuyers, mortgage brokers, bankers, the Federal Reserve, U.S. Treasury and the Securities and Exchange Commission.

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Recently, McCombs Marketing Professor Vijay Mahajan sat down with Nick Binedell, director of the Gordon Institute of Business Science in South Africa, to discuss the business potential in Africa, home to 900 million consumers. “The market opportunities are not any less than what India and China have to offer,” Mahajan said. Mahajan’s most recent book, Africa Rising, extensively [...]

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The Executive MBA program’s Class of 1999 held their 10-year reunion on Saturday, June 13 at Perry’s Steakhouse in downtown Austin. Court Huber, the former director of the program, came back to catch up with alumni, and current director, John Burrows, gave an update on the program.
The alumni shared stories about their time in Option [...]

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In this Google Tech Talks video, “How to Slice the Pie? Optimal Share Structure Design in Internet Advertising Auctions,” IROM Professor and Director of the Center for Research in Electronic Commerce Andrew B. Whinston explores the share auction model that Google uses to allocate its internet advertising resources.
In the Google model, the highest advertiser gets [...]

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On May 22, 2009, the McCombs School of Business welcomed its new alumni at celebrations across campus. The MPA commencement at Gregory Gym awarded degrees to 162 graduates and featured speaker Will O’Hara (transcript of speech), lecturer at the McCombs School. The entire commencement ceremony can be viewed below. Congratulations to all of our graduates!
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On May 22, 2009, the McCombs School of Business welcomed its new alumni at celebrations across campus. The MBA commencement at Gregory Gym featured speaker Kenneth Jastrow (transcript of speech), non-executive chairman of Guaranty Financial Services and Forestar Group Inc. Jastrow previously was CEO of Temple-Inland Inc. and is a McCombs Distinguished Alumnus. The entire [...]

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The Moot Corp competition is the oldest and most prestigious business-plan competition in the country.
Recently, a panel of former Moot Corp participants gathered to share insights on topics such as raising venture capital, hiring the right team and how to learn from mistakes along the way. Taking part in the panel hosted by Moot Corp Director Rob [...]

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