McCombs TODAY

Austin American-Statesman, Feb. 23, 2009
What has changed at Phurnace Software since it was founded two years ago?
Not much. Only the product, the marketing strategy, the customers it wanted to target, its hiring plan and the amount of money it intended to raise. Also the sales strategy — three times.
“At one point, we stopped writing our [...]

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Austin American-Statesman, Jan. 28, 2009
Walking through the small house near the University of Texas campus that Leon Chen (BBA ‘01) and Tiffany Taylor, owners of Tiff’s Treats, have turned into a cookie factory, it feels like you’re swimming through a warm pool of vanilla and sugar.
For 10 years, Tiff’s Treats has been bringing the smell [...]

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Austin American-Statesman, Oct. 19
“Of course, we want to continue to be recognized among the best business schools in the world,” says Tom Gilligan, dean of the McCombs School. “We are already; we just want to solidify that position. But what we really need to do is work on the issue of what makes McCombs distinctive. [...]

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Austin American-Statesman, Oct. 2
In the face of the ongoing financial sector meltdown, massive banks — and many of the jobs they provided — are evaporating into the Wall Street ether. And that ongoing consolidation of investment and retail banks, whether forced by regulators or market conditions, has left thousands of people scrambling for work.
In response, [...]

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